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Wednesday, August 19th, 2009
MAR is pleased to announce four new funding opportunities:
Leadership Institute Planning and Implementation Award
http://nnlm.gov/mar/funding/leadership.html
MAR is accepting letters of interest from Full and Affiliate Network members to plan and implement a MAR Leadership Institute. One award up to $65,000 will allow a member to develop a program to teach business, management, and leadership skills, which will help librarians advocate for themselves and their libraries with their institution’s administrators, other funding agencies, government bodies, and user groups. The Strategic Plan includes a Library Improvement objective to “broaden training opportunities with emphasis on management, advocacy, and leadership skills through Web opportunities for training in a ‘MAR Leadership Institute.’” The Leadership Institute is intended to be broad enough in scope to appeal to librarians with a range of experience, working in different types of institutions, and located throughout the region. Deadline for letters of interest is September 30, 2009.
Outreach Training
http://nnlm.gov/mar/funding/outreachtraining.html
This award for Full and Affiliate Network members it intended to support training for and promote awareness of the products and services of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and NN/LM. Two awards up to $10,000 each are available. Deadline for applications is October 2, 2009.
Health Literacy Awards (New Projects)
http://nnlm.gov/mar/funding/healthlitnew.html
These awards are designed to support and encourage Full and Affiliate Network members to create or develop new health literacy projects within their library or organization or by partnering with other libraries or organizations. Health literacy projects should address issues of the target population’s ability to read, listen, analyze, and make decisions, and the ability to apply these skills to health situations. Two awards up to $30,000 each are available. Deadline for applications is October 9, 2009.
Technology/Library Improvement Awards
http://nnlm.gov/mar/funding/technology.html
These awards are designed to support and encourage Full and Affiliate Network members to upgrade or purchase new technology. Eleven awards up to $7500 each are available. Deadline for applications and all supporting materials is October 2, 2009.
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Tuesday, August 4th, 2009
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:
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Monday, May 4th, 2009
Check out the May issue of NIH News in Health, the monthly newsletter bringing you practical health news and tips based on the latest NIH research. And consider becoming a fan on Facebook, where you can write on our wall to suggest topics you’d like us to cover, or start a discussion about how you use the newsletter. In this month’s edition:
No More Butts
Snuff Out That Cigarette for Good
If you’re a smoker, chances are you’ve already tried to quit. So you know from experience that it’s not easy. But many do succeed in the end. The health benefits you’d gain make quitting worth the effort.
full story
A Window to Your Health
Your Eyes Reveal a Bigger Picture
Your vision seems great. Your eyes feel completely fine. But if you haven’t seen your eye care professional in a while, you might have an eye problem that you don’t know about.
full story
Health Capsules:
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Friday, April 17th, 2009
Check out the April issue of NIH News in Health, the monthly newsletter bringing you practical health news and tips based on the latest NIH research. And consider joining us on Facebook, where you can write on our wall to suggest topics you’d like us to cover, or start a discussion about how you use the newsletter. Go to http://www.facebook.com/pages/NIH-News-in-Health/45385547967 and become a fan.
In this edition:
Get Moving and Stay Healthy Make Physical Activity Part of Your Life
People from all walks of life find it difficult to get enough exercise. But research shows that all Americans need physical activity for good health. New government guidelines can help you get started and stay active.
Remember To Take Your Pills? Jog Your Memory of What To Take and When
We forget things every day-people’s names, our keys or whether we locked the front door. But when it comes to taking your medicines, don’t let your memory fail you.
Health Capsules:
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Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
Increasingly health sciences librarians are finding a need to move outside the library to provide small group instruction. Technology facilitates the process and in 2009 the cost of outfitting the mobile classroom has been reduced significantly. In a hospital setting providing instruction in the patient care setting ensures that your customers, hospital staff and physicians, are familiar with the extensive array of online medical resources that you work hard to create and for which you dedicate a considerable amount of funds. By bringing instruction to the point of need there is a greater likelihood that hospital staff will learn how to use the library’s online resources and will actually use the tools.
GETTING STARTED
If your hospital is wired to the Internet the first and most important step has been completed. If the hospital is not yet wired this is an essential component to tackle and the best way to begin the process is to get to know the head of information technology (IT) at your institution. However, let’s assume that the hospital is fully hardwired.
Wireless Connectivity:
The next step would be to investigate installation of wireless Internet access. At Kaleida Health in Buffalo, New York, the four hospital libraries (Buffalo General Hospital, Millard Fillmore Gates Circle, Millard Fillmore Suburban Hospital, and Women & Children’s Hospital of Buffalo) were among the first departments to provide wireless access to the Internet. We achieved this milestone with a grant from MAR in 2005. We partnered with the health system’s IT department who supported the additional related costs because they wanted to test the use of wireless Internet connectivity and saw the libraries as a good test bed. Having wireless access in the library gave the staff the ability to move around the library to provide instruction, one-on-one, to library users at their individual laptop computers. Since 2005 wireless access to the Internet has been installed in many areas of our hospitals. The expanded wireless access provides an opportunity to move instructional activities from the library to other areas of the hospital.
RESOURCES FOR THE MOBILE CLASSROOM
In late 2008 we received a new laptop computer, a gift from a hospital physician. A second grant from MAR in 2008 was used to purchase a Digital Light Processing (DLP) projector. The laptop computer coupled with the DLP projector were the resources needed to roll-out our mobile classroom. Because we wanted a full compliment of hospital software programs on the laptop the cost was approximately $1,000, which is a bit higher than standard retail cost. We sought funds from MAR to cover the cost of the DLP projector and a replacement bulb, which came to just under $1,000. Thus with $2,000 the Kaleida Health Library’s mobile classroom became a reality.
Using the Mobile Classroom
We have used the mobile classroom to train undergraduate college students serving as interns in an area public school to use MedlinePlus to access authoritative, understandable, reliable health information. The interns are working with elementary school teachers in a train the trainer model to instruct the teachers how to use MedlinePlus and other NLM and NIH health information resources to teach school children about living a healthy lifestyle. Many of the students are refugees from third world countries such as Somalia and Myanamar. This project is a follow-up to the Somali-Bantu health education project completed in late 2008.
Currently planning is underway to offer an in-service health information training program for Buffalo city public school nurses. The training session is planned for early May. Many Buffalo City school nurses are Kaleida Health employees and we have a commitment to ensure that the nurses have access to the full spectrum of library services and resources as staff located in one of our hospitals. Thus, we are working with the lead school nurse for Kaleida Health and the Director of Health Services for Buffalo City schools to offer the in-service program. The program’s focus will include use of MedlinePlus to educate students about healthy lifestyle issues such as nutrition, infections, immunizations, safety and the like. We will use both the DLP projector and the laptop to instruct the school nurses, thus taking full advantage of our mobile classroom. We hope that this will be the first in a series of training programs for the school nurses.
By using the mobile classroom we will bring knowledge and information to an important new group of library users. Without the technological resources described above this training program would not have become a reality. It is our expectation that by introducing the school nurses to the myriad of resources available via MedlinePlus, and services available from Kaleida Health Libraries that the nurses will be empowered to use both more effectively and more frequently. We also hope that the school nurses will view the libraries as a resource available to support their professional information needs.
Diane G. Schwartz, MLS, AHIP, FMLA
Director of Libraries
Kaleida Health
100 High Street
Buffalo, NY 14203
Email: Dschwartz@kaleidahealth.org
Website: http://library.kaleidahealth.org
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Thursday, March 19th, 2009
Medical Words: A Tutorial from the National Library of Medicine
This tutorial teaches you about medical words. You’ll learn about how to put together parts of medical words. You’ll also find quizzes to see what you’ve learned.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/medicalwords.html
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Wednesday, March 4th, 2009
The Literacy Volunteers of New Jersey (http://lvnj.homestead.com/) announce New Jersey’s first statewide health literacy summit. The summit is scheduled for April 3 at the Enterprise Center, Mount Laurel, NJ. An agenda and a registration form are available here.
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Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009
NIH News in Health, the monthly newsletter bringing you practical health news and tips based on the latest NIH research, is now on Facebook! Please join us there and post comments on our wall or start a discussion. Share your ideas about how you use the newsletter and suggest topics you’d like us to cover. Go to http://www.facebook.com/pages/NIH-News-in-Health/45385547967 and become a fan.
The March issue of NIH News in Health is now online. In this edition:
A Loved One’s Substance Abuse Problem
What You Can Do
Your brother has been irritable, angry and anxious. Sometimes he acts depressed. You start to suspect he may be on drugs. What can you do?
full story
Too Hot to Handle?
Facts About Fevers
You’re achy and run down. Something’s not quite right. When you finally reach for the thermometer, you find that your temperature’s above normal. You have a fever-a sign that something is out of balance in your body.
full story
Health Capsules:
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Tuesday, November 11th, 2008
Intel is ready to begin trials of their new platform for remote patient care with Aetna and others. Their platform encompasses a touchscreen unit, the Health Guide PHS6000, that has a touchscreen, built in webcam and licensed content from the Mayo clinic and others.
Read more about Intel’s endeavor.
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Friday, October 31st, 2008
A new version of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) Drug Information Portal was released in October. The portal now covers over 16,000 drugs.
http://druginfo.nlm.nih.gov
The update includes:
- Direct searching of drug categories, which are derived from the Medical Subject Heading (MeSH®) Pharmacological Action field
- Name and category suggestions, to eliminate common spelling errors.
- Phrase parser that assists users in finding drug names within phrases
- The addition of the MeSH notes, when available, to spell checker results to make selection of a possible answer easier
- Searches retrieving multiple results now sorted by frequency of citation in PubMed®, from highest to lowest. This tends to show the most commonly used drugs first.
The Drug Information Portal is a free Web resource from the NLM that provides an informative, user friendly entry-way to current drug information for over 16,000 drugs. Links to sources span the breadth of NLM, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and other government agencies. Current information regarding consumer health, clinical trials, AIDS–related drug information, MeSH pharmacological actions, PubMed biomedical literature, and physical properties and structure is easily retrieved by searching on a drug name. A varied selection of focused topics in medicine and drug–related information is also available from displayed subject headings.
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