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

The new issue of the Plains to Peaks Post, newsletter of the NN/LM MidContinental Region has been published and is available at: http://nnlm.gov/mcr/services/comm/newsletter/PTPP_July_2009.pdf

In This Issue:

• Emergency Planning Opportunities in the MCR
• Whooo Says
• Creating Partners in Health Information
• High Altitudes, New Attitudes on Library Marketing and Promotion
• Get Plugged In To Education!
• NN/LM MidContinental Region Year 4 Objectives
• Knowledge Sharing in Hospitals - The Workshop
• Crossing the Religious Divide
• If you missed the Medical Library Association 2009

The MCR administration office at the University of Utah will be closed this Friday, July 24, in observence of Pioneer Day - a Utah state holiday.

Liaisons in our other states will be available to assist you.

The Technology Liaisons presented at this July’s Breezing Along with the RML. Rebecca Brown, MCR’s Kansas and Technology Liaison, demonstrated several tips to make working with Word and PowerPoint 2007, plus Gmail more efficient (and exciting). Sharon Dennis, MCR’s Technology Coordinator, discussed three new search engines: Wolfram/Alpha, Bing, and Google Squared. She also gave a heads-up about a new Google tool coming out later this year, Google Wave. You can view the archived recording of this session at: https://webmeeting.nih.gov/p33896738/

Click here for the step-by-step instructions for Rebecca’s presentation.

Click here to view Rebecca’s PowerPoint presentation.

This year’s symposium is scheduled for July 15, 16, & 17 in Laramie, Wyoming at the Coe Library on the University of Wyoming campus. In keeping with the slogan “Plowing Through Pandemonium: Proactive Librarians” the NN/LM staff and others will be presenting topics on emergency preparedness.

Joe Moore, Director of Wyoming Dept. of Homeland Security, will be the special speaker at this event. Librarians and representatives of community-based organizations will also be brainstorming how to partner for emergencies.

For more information and registration please visit the webpage: http://nnlm.gov/mcr/states/wyoming_symposiumJuly2009.html or contact Jim Honour jhonour@uwyo.edu

Join us for our next Breezing with the RML on Wednesday, June 17th at 10 am MT/11 am CT. Follow this URL to join the meeting: https://webmeeting.nih.gov/mcr All you’ll need is your Internet connection and your phone. Sign as a guest with your first and last names. This month’s topics are:

The Alphabet Soup of STDs: Facts and Resources on HIV/AIDS and STDs
Siobhan Champ-Blackwell, Community Outreach Liaison, will cover some basic facts on HIV/AIDs and STDs in the United States and will explore NLM and other online resources to provide the librarian a toolbox to use when discussing these intimate and private topics.

The Value of Health Science Libraries in the MCR
Libraries have been submitting their value calculations using the Retail Value Calculator (http://nnlm.gov/mcr/evaluation/calculator.html). Betsy Kelly, Assessment & Evaluation Liaison, will share the results of data collected from libraries across the country. Join the discussion about your library’s value and how you are using this knowledge in your own institution.

The Medical Library Association (MLA), in partnership and with funding from the U.S. National Library of Medicine, undertook a Health Information Literacy Research Project to study, among other issues, the librarian’s role as a health literacy educator for both health care providers and consumers. Through the results of a survey of health care providers and hospital administrators, and the development, presentation, and evaluation of a health information literacy curriculum for health care providers based in part on the survey results, MLA concluded that librarians were perceived by hospital-based providers and administrators to play a critical role in the provision of health information literacy (HIL) education.

Also, the study demonstrated that HIL training increased health care providers’ knowledge of health literacy and its impact on patient care and made them more likely to seek assistance from their librarians and use librarian-supported health information literacy services.

Come hear more about the results of this important research project including reports from two of the nine pilot site librarians who helped to test the developed curriculum with health care providers. Panel speakers include:

• Jean P. Shipman, Co-principal investigator and Director, Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library, University of Utah
• Andrea Harrow, Good Samaritan Hospital Health Sciences Library
• Holly Kimborowicz, Lake Hospital System Medical Library

Date/Time/Location: Tuesday, May 19, 7:30 - 8:30 AM, Room 304AB, Convention Center

Questions, email Jean Shipman at jean.shipman@utah.ed

Oops, we forgot to let you know that the recorded version of the March Breezing Along with the RML is available. Two great topics were featured in this session: 1)” Highlighting Library and Archival information in the NLM MidContinental Region”, featured a panel of representatives from different library/archival collections in the region: Dawn McInnis - University of Kansas, Clendening History of Medicine Library; Marysue Schaffer, Becker Library at Washington University; Emily Epstein, University of Colorado; and John Schleicher, University of Nebraska - McGoogan Library of Medicine - Special Collections. 2) Barb Jones offered an update on major library advocacy programs going on in the region. Click here to watch the archived session: https://webmeeting.nih.gov/p17552847/

The April 2009 edition of the Plains to Peaks Post Newsletter is now available at: http://nnlm.gov/mcr/services/comm/newsletter/PTPP_April_2009.pdf

In This Issue:
Three Projects Awarded!
Whooo Says
Orienting Nursing Students to the Medical Library
Easily Publish RSS News Feeds on Your Web Page with Grazr
NN/LM MCR at MLA
Offer a Health Information Literacy Session
Upcoming Online Events
Wyoming Symposium
Historical Collections

Check out the training and workshops by the The Homeland Defense Journal Training Workshops

For details on these and all training and workshops, visit www.HomelandDefenseJournal.net

Upcoming Emergency Management Workshops for June and July 2009

Incident Management for First Responders in Different Cultures - A two day workshop on implementing Cultural Competence in Dangerous Situations Jun 16-17, 2009 | Arlington, VA
Exercise Design and Evaluation Workshop Jun 17-18, 2009 Arlington, VA
Emergency Capability Analysis Workshop Jun 19, 2009 | Arlington, VA
Emergency Preparedness for Libraries Jun 18-19, 2009 | Arlington, VA
All-Hazards Regional Evacuation Plans - An Interactive Two-Day Workshop on Developing an All-Hazards Regional Evacuation Plan Jun 23-24, 2009 | Arlington, VA
How to Develop a Business Continuity Plan/Continuity of Operations Plan That Really Works Workshop Jul 14, 2009 | Arlington, VA
Best Practices for Disaster Communications Jul 15, 2009 | Arlington, VA
Search and Rescue Certification Standards Jul 16, 2009 | Arlington, VA