MCMLA Library Advocacy Task Force is sponsoring a contest for “High Altitudes and New Attitudes on Library Marketing and Promotion!”

Here is your chance to show off your marketing project or promotional activities that you have used to improve or expand services in your library or for your users. MCR members are encouraged to submit materials to Marketing and Promotion Categories: you may enter one or both categories.

Prizes for the best entry scoring above 80 points will be awarded. Entries will be evaluated on Design, Presentation and Evaluation Criteria. Categories for entry are Hospital Libraries, Academic Libraries and Other Libraries. Entries should be submitted to Barb Jones (jonesbarb@health.missouri.edu) by September 1, 2009. Judges for the contest will be members of the MCMLA Library Advocacy Task Force. All entries are encouraged to display their projects and promotional materials at the Marketing Booth at MCMLA. The winners will be announced at MCMLA 2009 in Breckenridge, Colorado. (bbj)

PHPartners is the product of a collaboration of U.S. government agencies, public health organizations and health sciences libraries.

The Wednesday, August 26 webinar class will cover the web site, which will include information on current topics such as Bioterrorism, ongoing projects such as Healthy People 2010, and public health resources including promotions and statistics.

Tune in on Wednesday, Aug. 26 at 1:00MT, 2:00CT for the MLA CE class PHPartners presented by Marty Magee.

This online training is FREE, and requires no registration. All you need is a computer with Internet access and a phone. You’ll sign in as a guest, enter your phone number when prompted and the system will call you! Access it by going to: https://webmeeting.nih.gov/mcr.

Last week there was a item from Valerie Florance on libraries having a role in projects funded by NIH. <http://nnlm.gov/mcr/news_blog/?p=3125 >. This week she provides an example of a grant announcement for such a project. /ch

Finding patient education materials in diverse languages and staying up to date with cultural competency tools and training are important goals for health care providers. Help the providers you serve by sharing these resources with them!

• How to Order National Institutes of Health Publications In Non-English Language http://nnlm.gov/mcr/resources/community/multilingualNIH.html
• Consumer Health Information in Many Languages http://nnlm.gov/outreach/consumer/multi.html
• Cultural Competency Resources http://nnlm.gov/mcr/resources/community/competency.html

The NLM Online Users’ Meeting at the 2009 MLA annual meeting provided a preview of the upcoming PubMed redesign. David Gillikin, Chief of NLM’s Bibliographic Services reprised this preview on August 11, 2009 for the MidContinental, Pacific Northwest and Pacific Southwest Regions of the NN/LM.

To view the recording and a transcript of the questions asked and the answers from David Gilliken go to http://nnlm.gov/pnr/dragonfly/2009/08/12/pubmedqa/. /ch

The National Library of Medicine online exhibit of modern Chinese Anti-malaria Posters is available at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/chineseantimalaria/index.html
The anti-malaria posters in this online exhibit present both modern and traditional methods of prevention and treatment of malaria that China used from the 1950s through the 1970s. In disseminating health information, the posters also captured the social and political lives of China in those decades. For instance, Mao Zedong’s writing on people’s health became the trademark of the posters produced in the Cultural Revolution era. Posters produced in the peaceful early 1960s portrayed a harmonious happy society. [scb]

The MCR has announced the availability of funding through its Continuity of Health Information Award. http://nnlm.gov/mcr/funding/ If you’ve started writing your proposal or are considering writing a proposal, attend a technical session to gain clarification of what is expected and consults on your project ideas. Claire Hamasu will review the request for proposal (RFP) explaining the different sections. You’ll then have the opportunity to describe your project to a liaison and receive feedback on what you should emphasize and other issues you may need to consider, and get advice on how to make your proposal fundable.

No registration is required. To attend you’ll need an Internet connection and a telephone. Sessions will be held at https://webmeeting.nih.gov/nnlmmcr. Sign in as a guest with your first and last name. Instructions will then follow about the phone connection. /ch

Tuesday, August 25, 2009 - 1:30 pm MT, 2:30 pm CT

Friday, August 28, 2009 - 1:30 pm MT, 2:30 pm CT

How to Get From Planning to Doing
http://kuahec.kumc.edu/docs/HospitalEmergencyPreparednessFINALFORWEB.pdf
This program is for all hospital emergency response personnel and community health agencies that may need to interact with hospitals during an emergency.
Emergency management plans are meant to be living documents - and good emergency management plans make good business sense. Whether a facility is accredited by The Joint Commission or not, many of the standards will likely become national standards. This program is designed to help demystify Joint Commission standards and assist participants in identifying and overcoming barriers to implementation of a successful emergency plan within their facility.

Tuesday, October 20, 2009:
- Overland Park, Kansas (speaker site)
University of Kansas Edwards Campus, 12600 Quivira Rd., Regnier Hall Auditorium - Room 164

This program will be broadcast via interactive televideoconferencing (ITV) to the following sites:
- Pittsburg, Kansas
PSU Kansas Technology Center, Ford and Rouse Streets, Room S110
Visitor parking permits available at registration
- Garden City, Kansas
St. Catherine Hospital, 401 East Spruce, Classroom 1
Parking lot is on the east side of the hospital on the corner of Spruce and 4th
- Hays, Kansas
Fort Hays State University, Stouffer Lounge, Memorial Union, College Drive
Parking is in Lots A1 and A2 only - across from Memorial Union
Wednesday, October 21, 2009:
- Wichita, Kansas
Hyatt Regency Wichita, 400 West Waterman, Redbud Ballroom

Questions?
Call KUMC AHEC Northwest (785) 628-6128
http://kuahec.kumc.edu/conferences.html [scb]

September is National Preparedness Month. In preparation, this month’s Breezing Along with the RML will focus on Emergency Preparedness. Jim Honour will be reviewing the programming for emergency preparedness in the Midcontinental Region with his presentation: Pandemonium? : Programming the Prescription. He’ll point out some emergency planning programming this past year, including a meeting to explore partnering community based organizations with librarians and culminating with Dan Wilson and the MCR staff presenting the Ten Step Emergency Plan workshop at the Midcontinental Medical Library Association meeting in Breckenridge in the fall. Dana Abbey and guest presenters Sandy Decker from Missouri Baptist Medical Center and Deborah Weaver from The Children’s Hospital in Colorado, will recount their experiences at the Hospital Librarians Summit that was held in Chicago on April 21, 2009.

When: Wednesday, August 19, 2009. 10am MT, 11am CT

Where: http://webmeeting.nih.gov/mcr/. Enter as a guest. Sign in with your first and last names.

Follow the instructions in the meeting room to have the Adobe Acrobat Connect system call you on your telephone. /ch

From NLM:
Dear Colleagues, I’m writing to provide you with a reminder that NIH continues to issue new grant solicitations that could be the basis of fruitful collaborations between libraries and researchers or community-based organizations interested in biomedical research. While these grant programs are seldom aimed specifically at libraries, they offer opportunities for collaboration with research groups and for new partnerships within your community that could bring new funds and new activities to you. For example, NIH funding opportunity announcements will be coming in the next few months for grants to support building infrastructure for community research and to promote research on behavioral and social aspects of health and illness. If you have not already registered for delivery of the weekly NIH Guide to Grants and Contracts that is sent by email each Friday, you sign up at http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/listserv.htm. Also, new funding opportunities that will be published in the NIH Guide are posted on the Guide website as soon as they are ready, in the New Announcements this Week section at http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/guide/WeeklyIndex.cfm. This can give you a head start of a few days on the Friday mailing.
Valerie Florance, Ph.D.
Acting Associate Director, NLM Extramural Programs
Rockledge 1, Suite 301
6705 Rockledge Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892
phone: 301.496-4621 fax: 301.402.2952
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/ep NLM/NIH/DHHS