PubMed Redesign Presentation

Wednesday, August 26, 2009, 2:00 pm

NN/LM Middle Atlantic Region, New England Region, and Southeastern/Atlantic Region present a live webinar on the upcoming National Library of Medicine PubMed page redesign. David Gillikin, Chief of NLM’s Bibliographic Services, will review the draft design for the new search results page and abstract view in PubMed. This webinar is a repeat of the presentation at the NLM Online Users’ Meeting at the Medical Library Association’s annual conference in May.

IMPORTANT: This webinar is free and open to NN/LM members in MAR, NER, and SE/A.

***No pre-registration is required. Participation will be open on a first come, first served basis. Because the webinar system limits the number of call-ins, we ask that you do NOT forward or re-post this message to individuals outside the MAR, NER, and SE/A areas. This webinar will be offered separately in other regions.***

For log-in information, send a message to Arpita Bose, MAR Outreach and Communications Coordinator, before August 25: arpita.bose(at)med.nyu.edu

NN/LM MAR is pleased to announce the first three of a number of award categories for 2009-2010:  Small Project, Exhibit and Presentation/Professional Development.  Funding is available for up to 20 Small Project Awards of $1000 each, three Exhibit Awards of $1500 each, and two Professional Presentation/Professional Development Awards of $2500 each. Awards will be funded on a cost reimbursement basis. Applications will be considered as long as funding is available. More information and an application form can be found on the MAR website. Specifically, the

• Small Projects Award can be found at http://nnlm.gov/mar/funding/microawards.html
• Exhibit Award can be found at http://nnlm.gov/mar/funding/exhibit.html
• Presentation/Professional Development award can be found at http://nnlm.gov/mar/funding/profdev.html

Your projects, exhibits, and professional development enhance access to health information. Let us help you fund those efforts.

Look for more announcements on 2009-2010 award categories in August, September and October.

The National Library of Medicine would like to publicize your upcoming noteworthy projects for National Medical Librarians Month in October.

Submissions are due Thursday, September 10, 2009. Please submit by email to rml(at)library.med.nyu.edu:

Name of the institution (you may include your library logo)

Title of project

Brief summary of the project

Name of project director

Key staff

Notable projects from 2008 are here: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/lo/profiles08/

Check out the August issue of NIH News in Health, the monthly newsletter bringing you practical health news and tips based on the latest NIH research.  In this edition:

Concerned About Coffee?
It May Actually Be Good for You
Because it tastes so good, you may assume coffee is bad for you. But researchers are finding that coffee poses little to no health risk for most people. It may even have some health benefits.
full story

You’ve Got Rhythm
Your Internal Clock Affects Your Health
While you struggle to stay on time for your daily activities, your body has its own internal clock. Every day, this clock helps you feel alert at work, hungry at mealtime and drowsy at night. When you fight against your biological clock, your health can suffer.
full story

Health Capsules:

• Questions Raised About “Depression Gene”
• Tasty Recipes for People with Diabetes
• Featured Web Site: NIH Education and Awareness Campaigns

Click here to download a PDF version for printing.

Visit our Facebook wall to suggest topics you’d like us to cover, or start a discussion about how you use the newsletter. We want to hear what you think! Also check out the NIH Health & Science Gifts and send some to your Facebook friends.

Please pass the word on to your colleagues about NIH News in Health.

National Library of Medicine Trains for You Locally!

PubMed® in and around New York City!

Do you live in Queens, the Bronx, Westchester County, or New Jersey? Tired of coming into Manhattan for training? The National Training Center and Clearinghouse (NTCC) is offering FREE hands-on PubMed® classes at six different New York area locations in the upcoming months!

Anyone who has used PubMed regularly has noticed some of the many recent changes and more major changes are expected in the upcoming months. This PubMed® class is of particular interest to those who want a review of recent changes to the system, including medical librarians, researchers, medical editors, and anyone who searches for biomedical journal article citations.

This full-day class is designed to teach students how to use PubMed® which includes MEDLINE citations. The class also includes an overview of the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH®) and its importance as a tool to both searchers and indexers. Registration for all local classes can be done using the following link:

http://nnlm.gov/ntcc/classes/regions.html#Middle%20Atlantic

The following PubMed® (7.5 MLA CE Hours) classes will be taught by the staff of the NTCC:

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

The New York Academy of Medicine Library

New York, NY

8:30am to 5:00pm

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

New York Medical College, Health Sciences Library

Valhalla, NY

8:30am to 5:00pm

Wednesday, October 28 and Thursday, October 29, 2009

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Princeton, NJ

8:30am to 5:00pm

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Albert Einstein College of Medicine, D. Samuel Gottesman Library

Bronx, NY

8:30am to 5:00pm

Friday, December 11, 2009

Queens College, CUNY, Graduate School of Library and Information Science

Queens, NY

8:30am to 5:00pm

Monday, January 25, 2010

New York University, Frederick Ehrman Medical Library

New York, NY

8:30am to 5:00pm

All the training sessions are FREE and intended for health sciences library staff, public librarians, health professionals, and anyone interested in using these free National Library of Medicine (NLM) databases.

To REGISTER for any or all of these classes, or to look for other class locations, simply click on this registration form link (http://nnlm.gov/ntcc/classes/register.html).

We hope to see you there.

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For further information about our classes, please go to: http://nnlm.gov/ntcc/

The inaugural class of Fellows in the Association of Health Care Journalists-National Library of Medicine (AHCJ-NLM) Fellowships was recently announced by AHCJ.

The Fellows, health journalists selected by AHCJ from dozens of qualified applicants, will receive training about NLM’s services and meet with physicians and researchers at NLM and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) during a weeklong visit to the NIH campus in Bethesda, Maryland, September 13-17, 2009.
The journalists chosen to take part this year are:

• John Fauber, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
• Lynya Floyd, Essence Magazine
• Jeff Hansel, Rochester, Minn. Post-Bulletin
• Douglas Podolsky, Consumer Reports
• Shari Rudavsky, The Indianapolis Star
• Heidi Splete, Global Medical News Network

The Fellows will receive hands-on training on how to use and get the most from NLM’s databases, such as Pub Med, MedlinePlus, ClinicalTrials.gov, ToxNet and the Household Products Database. They will also meet with senior NLM and NIH researchers and officials for exclusive informational sessions on such topics as diabetes, infectious disease, health disparities, and personalized medicine.
“The Fellowship is designed to help health journalists obtain new stories, improve their reporting and be more resourceful,” said Robert A. Logan, PhD, NLM senior staff, who helped coordinate the program with AHCJ. “The bonus for the Fellows is better stories,” added Len Bruzzese, Executive Director of AHCJ.

“NLM welcomes the inaugural class and is pleased that the Fellows represent a wide spectrum of news organizations,” said Donald A.B. Lindberg, MD, Director of NLM.

For more information about the AHCJ-NLM fellows program, please contact Dr. Robert A. Logan at rlogan(at)nlm.nih.gov and 301.496.1936.

The Medical Library of the Northport VA Medical Center has always been the “go to” place for medical information. Now, thanks in part to a grant from NN/LM MAR it is now a “go to” place for small group learning.

Library Chief Mary Lou Glazer used the funds she was awarded to purchase a large screen flat-panel T.V./monitor.   With support from the Northport VA’s facilities and IT departments, the bookshelves that were no longer necessary to house print journals were removed.  In their place are now two conference tables, chairs, two computers/desks, a teleconferencing phone, and the flat-panel T.V./monitor on the wall.

The space is already popular and has been used for Online Ethics Journal Club meetings, Podiatry department lectures and seminars, new employee orientation, patient education programs, and a variety of large group meetings such as nurse training and telecommunications planning.  Mini-med school, a popular health education program, is a monthly series of classes provided by clinical staff to the veterans/patients on a variety of health related topics.  It is scheduled to now take place this coming year in our new conference area.  The addition of the large screen flat-panel T.V./monitor allows for our attendees to comfortably view the presenters and their enhancements (PowerPoint presentations, slides, photos).

This reconfigured area allows the Northport VA Medical Library to enhance their educational services with this award.  The records clearly indicate the increase in traffic in the library and bookings for educational use of the new space.

Thank you MM/LM Middle Atlantic Region for the opportunity to move the Medical Library into the  future by creating a better learning envirornment!

Members of HILNNEP (Health Information Library Network of Northeastern Pennsylvania) have been struggling to develop innovative ways to offer health information to the local general public, as well as to their own constituencies, with little or no money or staffing.  Currently there are three hospitals that offer consumer health information, but only one has staff dedicated to that purpose.  The HILNNEP group thought that Web 2.0 technologies might provide some avenues for all members to work together in a joint project to develop a web presence to benefit the local communities. Some members had taken the MLA Web 2.0 courses, but the majority had not.  The group decided to sponsor a CE course that would acquaint everyone with the tools that might be needed in accomplishing the joint project.

HILNNEP received a MAR NN/LM Small Project Grant to help defray some of the costs of a CE Double Header event.  Instructors for “eXtreme Searching: Getting the Most from PubMed and Google” were Karen Heskett and Arpita Bose.  Gregg Headrick taught “Geeks Bearing Gifts: Unwrapping New Technology Trends.”  There were sixteen attendees, including ten from HILNNEP, one from Central Pennsylvania Health Sciences Library Association, and five from local college libraries.

It was determined in advance that the success of the activity would be measured by whether or not individual HILNNEP members actually used any of the new technologies to offer services to their own Library users, and if HILNNEP members eventually developed a plan to offer health information to the general public and to specific targeted populations using Web 2.0 tools.

At the June 18 HILNNEP meeting, members were polled to determine whether or not any of the tools had been put into practice.  A surprising number of tools had been utilized by the majority of attendees either within the library, in the performance of other organizational responsibilities, or for extracurricular activities.  Among the tools employed were blogs, Twitter, Facebook, Meebo, Library Thing, Tiny URL, and Google Alert.   One member of HILNNEP has become an instructor to others in her organization on the use of Google Docs.

During the meeting, HILNNEP members held a planning session to outline the beginnings of a consortium website for the local population.  One member volunteered to research the prevalent DRGs in the community to give a focus to the project.  The group was excited about the possibilities of using Google Sites to create the website.  The Go Local model will be investigated and the group will be searching for local health agency websites, free clinics, clinical trials, and health issues and opportunities with a focus on prevention for the local Northeastern Pennsylvania population.  The Hispanic population has grown tremendously in NEPA and information for this sector of the population will be added after the project is operational

The grant monies awarded was used to purchase two new public use computers for our medical library.  The computers that the library had previously were over 10 years old and could not handle some of the newer programs that the residents and staff use.  It is also anticipated that newer computers will attract more patients and their family members to the library for consumer health information.

The announcement of the grant award will go into the monthly in-house publication “News and Notes” which should help get the word out that the library has updated technology that is free to all hospital employees and visitors.  The Forbes Regional Campus library does not have a blog to put this information on.

The Touro-Harlem Medical Library received a Tech Grant Award in the spring of 2008 to increase our instructional capacity by purchasing a notebook computer, high intensity portable projector, and a wheeled case to hold both items. We originally visualized primarily using the equipment offsite to deliver instruction as part of the Colleges’ community outreach programs, but rapidly found more uses for the technology. Since we had full administrative rights to the notebook it was much easier to configure it and use it within the library for instruction than one of the public access desktop computers which needed IT staff to make changes in the setup (though I should say our IT staff is very cooperative and usually makes requested changes in a timely manner).
While we regularly provide faculty orientations in the library, we’re occasionally asked to come to a Dean’s or faculty member’s office to show them how to access some resource or make a mini-presentation on using a resource. Bringing the pre-configured computer has made such sessions easier, since we can show how to setup or use the resource while the faculty member clicks along. Having the notebook was particularly handy when we were asked to a dean’s office to show a hospital administrators the resources our students would have available while on rotation at their institution. I was able to set up the machine at the conference table and, after a brief demo and introduction, have the administrator test drive some of the databases.
Library staff has used the computer alone and/or the computer and projector to make presentations on PubMed and other library resources on and off-site at faculty meetings, faculty development sessions, student workshops and training sessions and for community outreach. Members of Be One, Teach One, a student community health literacy outreach group, has used the equipment in presenting to middle school students, using in part material developed by library staff.
In addition to a wired network with 28 public access PCs and 6 public access Macs, our library has a wireless network which can be used to print to the library’s printers. The bulk of our students bring their own notebook which need to be configured to use the printers. Having the notebook makes it much easier to test drive and demonstrate installation instructions. It also makes it possible for us to demonstrate how to login to the wireless network and to test wireless access to our resources, as well as showing students how to create a bookmark to the PubMed URL that provides on and off campus access to a login that indicates our holdings.
In short we’ve found that the grant allowed us to purchase equipment that has helped increase our instructional capacity in both anticipated and unanticipated ways and are pleased that NLM/MAR choose the Touro-Harlem Medical Library as a grant recipient.
Shelly Warwick, M.L.S., Ph.D. Director, Touro-Harlem Medical Library