Kathryn Carpenter, Director, University of Illinois at Chicago Library of the Health Sciences, the Regional Medical Library for the GMR, has turned her Spring 2009 blog message into a podcast. The audio file is 5:03 minutes long and is an MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3 file, commonly referred to as mp3. Here is a chance to hear Kate in a new format: (.mp3 file). The text of this message is available in pdf: A Message from the RML Director Spring 2009 .

The podcast was recorded using the free software Audacity and then encoded to an mp3, playable on a variety of media players including an iPod, with such software as QuickTime, iTunes or Media Player. Listen to this podcast and use the Comments section let us know your thoughts on what you hear.

If you would like to learn how to make your own podcast, consider taking the podcasting class taught by GMR Technology Coordinator, Max Anderson. To find out more about this class, see: Can You Hear Me Now? How to Make a Podcast.

Go Local North Dakota has posted pertinent flood information sites on its home page. Take a look: http://www.medlineplus.gov/golocalnd.

Several Network members are in or near the Red River flood zone. The GMR will post information regarding any closings or other pertinent information related to rising river levels. For local river reports, please see The Fargo Flood Homepage: http://www.ndsu.nodak.edu/fargoflood/, provided by North Dakota State University in Fargo, ND, and NOAA’s National Weather Service: http://www.weather.gov/.

For GMR Emergency Preparedness information, please see: NN/LM Emergency Preparedness and Response: http://nnlm.gov/gmr/member/emprep/index.html. Regional coordinator for ND is Ann Pederson and for MN, Paul Dahl.

Network members are encouraged to utilize the Comments section on the GMR blog to report relevant information.

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GMR Emergency Preparedness Coordinator for North Dakota, Ann Pederson, suggests the City of Fargo’s webpage as another source of information: http://www.cityoffargo.com/Flood09/.

–The Editor

Have you done a search on YouTube lately? I recently did a search for the word “aneurysm” on the site and the image below shows my search results.

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Congratulations to the Library Journal Movers & Shakers for 2009! We are fortunate to have a few GMR members (and perhaps future GMR members?) among the bunch this year.
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The  GMR–as in Greater Midwest Region–is an acronym we use everyday in the GMR. Sometimes “GMR” refers to the region itself, and sometimes it refers to the GMR office. On the other hand, “GMR” might refer to the GMR staff. And some network members might refer to the GMR as the RML.

The GMR–as in GMR office–shares physical space with the University of Illinois at Chicago Library of the Health Sciences (UIC LHS). Technically, UIC LHS is the Regional Medical Library (RML) for the Greater Midwest Region. (more…)

Brenda Fay
Lead Librarian
Aurora Libraries-Aurora Sinai Medical Center
Milwaukee, WI

60^th Annual Wisconsin Student Nurses’ Association Conference, Wisconsin Dells

The Wisconsin Health Sciences Library Association (WHSLA) once again exhibited at the annual Wisconsin Student Nurses’ Association (WSNA) Annual Convention on February 14, 2009, at Kalahari Resort and Convention Center in Wisconsin Dells, WI. Over 200 nursing students, faculty, and nursing leaders from across Wisconsin attended the meeting. (more…)

2009 marks 100 years the ALA has been located in Chicago.   I was reading in the American Library Association’s American Libraries Direct today about this in a blog post called 100 Years of ALA in Chicago.   Even though ALA takes place in Chicago on a regularly rotating basis, it’s particularly nice to have it be here on this auspicious anniversary.  After 2009, it returns in 2013.  You can see all upcoming conferences here.

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Anna Ercoli Schnitzer
InfoPoint Librarian
Health Sciences Libraries
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI

The Give Kids a Smile free annual dental care event, held at the University of Michigan (U of M) School of Dentistry on February 7, 2009, was extremely well attended. Members of the Health Sciences Libraries contacted schools, PTO, and an online paper to help publicize the event.

A lengthy line of parents and children aged 5 through 12 were already waiting at the door of the building by 8:30 am. The many pre-dental and dental students, volunteering dentists, and all their assistants were very welcoming,  kind and friendly. Several dental students walked around to demonstrate how to brush one’s teeth using a huge toothbrush and employing a stuffed animal’s mouth. (more…)

Fran E. Kovach, MLIS, AHIP
Reference and Education Librarian
Southern Illinois University School of Medicine Library

Five years ago, Southern Illinois University (SIU) School of Medicine Library was asked to participate in a project to document African American contributions in Medicine and Biomedical Research for the History of Medicine Resource Guide to Library and Archival Collections. The National Library of Medicine published this guide on the website March, 2005. The guide is a useful resource for scholars and researchers and can be found at the following URL: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/afroguide/. (more…)