The NN/LM MAR has made available recordings for the following online classes. Recordings include the online class in its entirety with audio and a visual slide presentation. Simply click on the recorded session link to begin the recording for the class. MAR will continue to add recordings for future online classes, look for the link from the class descriptions on the MAR web site,
http://nnlm.gov/mar/training/classes.html .

DOCLINE SERHOLD: Searching, Updating, and Reporting
This course will focus on the SERHOLD feature of DOCLINE.  Attendees will learn how to add new titles and formats to their library’s record, search SERHOLD for other library’s holdings, and utilize the SERHOLD reporting functions to make the most of this unique tool in DOCLINE.  
The class presentation is available in PDF.
A previously recorded session is available for viewing online .

Free Productivity Tools
Library’s budgets are always pinched for one thing or another. Did you know that there are a multitude of free software packages out there that do just about everything that commercial software packages can do? In this one hour class we’ll take a look at some of these software packages, their usefulness, their limitations and things to think about if you decide to go the free software route.
Productivity tools resource page
A previously recorded session is available for viewing at anytime.

Valuing Library Services and Cost Benefit/ROI Calculators
On April 22, 2009, MAR hosted an online class to enable health sciences librarians to determine the return on investment and cost benefit of their libraries and services. The instructors discussed and demonstrated two tools to show the value a library brings to its institution:

1. The Retail Value Calculator, adapted from one originally provided by the Massachusetts Library Association, and then adapted for the web by Chelmsford Public Library, helps to determine the library’s worth to the institution, and how much would it cost to replace library services on the retail market;
2. The CBA and ROI Calculator helps to determine a library’s contribution to the institutional bottom line, and how much benefit the institution receives for every dollar spent by the library.

Guest Speakers/Instructors: Betsy Kelly, Assessment and Evaluation Liaison (NN/LM MCR) & Barb Jones, Advocacy Liaison (NN/LM MCR)
This free, online class for MAR network members was conducted using Adobe Connect. The recording provides the session in its entirety with audio and the PowerPoint presentation. The recording runs for approximately 1 hour and 20 minutes.
View the recorded session.
Class notes are available in PDF.

On August 19, 2009 NNLM MAR announced four new funding opportunities for its member libraries.  A few weeks ago we announced 2009 funding for three other awards: Small Project, Exhibit and Professional Presentation/Development.  Some of you have already applied and been funded for these, and there are more awards still available.  Detailed information on these and how to apply can be found under the “Funding” tab on the MAR website (http://nnlm.gov/mar/funding/).

In September and October we anticipate posting “Calls for Applications” for several more funding opportunities. These include: an Outreach and Evaluation Conference (1 award @ $30,000), Outreach to Unaffiliated Health Professionals (3 awards at $30,000 each),  a Technology Awareness Conference (1 award @ $15,000), a Bioinformatics Training Award (1 award @ $4700), and two Emergency Preparedness Conference awards funded at $7500 each.  We will be funding a GoLocal project this year, as well, and encourage a consortium approach.

In all, the NNLM MAR will offer 14 kinds of award opportunities this year and anticipates funding more than 50 projects: seven at $25,000 and above, and 43 for under $15,000.  For those of you who would like to plan a little in advance of the “calls” this fall, award applications share many common elements such as describing your project goals, methods and developing an evaluation plan.  Reviewing application forms for the funding opportunities already posted will offer some information for planning.

Funding priorities reflect the MAR Strategic Plan (http://nnlm.gov/mar/about/plansreports.html ) which was developed based on member needs and are consistent with the NNLM mission to enhance medicine and the public’s health through access to health information. Brief descriptions of the awards to be offered this fall are given below:

Outreach to Unaffiliated Health Professionals Awards

These awards will encourage development of local programs linking targeted unaffiliated health professional groups to health information. The Strategic Plan identifies targeted unaffiliated health professionals as nursing/long term care professionals, private practice physicians, nurse practitioners, public health departments, and Federally Qualified Health Centers (health clinics for the underserved).

Outreach and Evaluation Conference

This award, as outlined in the Strategic Plan, is intended for a network member to organize a conference on outreach projects and evaluation methods and present lessons learned. The awardee shall share conclusions beyond the conference through the MAR Website and other mechanisms.

Technology Awareness Conference

This award will fund a conference in technology and policy awareness to be organized by a partnership of a Resource Library with either a Historically Black College and University (HBCU) or a Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI).

Bioinformatics Training Award

This award will be offered to an institution to allow travel expenses and honoraria (if applicable) for two bioinformatics instructors to teach classes in New York, NY and Rochester, NY on NCBI molecular biology information resources. Molecular biology and genetics are fast-growing areas of scientific knowledge, and this award will build capacity within the region of librarians who can assist clinicians and researchers.

Emergency Preparedness Conference Awards

This award will be offered to a partnership of network members (e.g. a regional consortium or Library Resource Council, regional association) to hold a working meeting on emergency preparedness. The intent is for group members to gather together to draft emergency preparedness documents for their individual libraries.

Creating a Health Information Community

Serving Delaware, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania

Kathleen Burr Oliver, Associate Director; National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Middle Atlantic Region, New York University Langone Medical Center, 423 East 23rd Street, Floor 15 South (23rd & First Avenue), New York, NY 10010; 212 263 4197 (voice); 212 263 4258 (fax); kate.oliver@med.nyu.edu

General Phone: 212-263-2030; Toll-Free-Phone within DE, NJ, NY, PA: 800-338-7657; FAX: 212-263-4258: http/nnlm.gov/mar

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.

On Behalf of Joanne Muellenbach:

Dear Colleagues,

I am very pleased to announce that the Medical Library at The Commonwealth Medical College (TCMC), in Scranton, Pennsylvania, is officially open for business. TCMC’s inaugural class of 65 medical students began class at 8:00am this morning. Another 30 students will begin class next week for the master’s in biomedical sciences program.  TCMC marks the first opening of a medical degree-granting school in the state since 1962.  It is the first M.D. school not associated with a larger university to open nationwide in at least 35 years.

Last Sunday, our medical students began a full week of orientation, which included 2 full days, and 1 night, of outdoor activities at Camp LaDore, just 1 hour east of Scranton in beautiful northeastern Pennsylvania.  At camp, students, faculty and staff participated in team building and new skills training, taught by faculty & staff.  Skills activities included fly-fishing, kayaking, canoeing, yoga, salsa dance, bocce ball and quilt making.  My hope is to have a TCMC Charter Class quilt to adorn the Medical Library in the near future!

As construction progresses on our new 120 million Medical Sciences Building, which is scheduled to open in 2011, students are attending classes just a few blocks away, at Lackawanna College.  Lackawanna College is also the temporary home of the Medical Library, our Gross Anatomy Lab, the Clinical Skills & Simulation Center, Student Affairs and other departments with an academic focus.  The Medical Library reports to the Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and comprises 2 professional librarians, including myself, and three support staff.  A third librarian will be recruited in 2010 and a fourth librarian will be recruited in 2011.  The Office of Academic Informatics works closely with the Medical Library to provide students, faculty & staff with instruction and training in the areas of information management and retrieval, literature searching and evidence based medicine.

The TCMC Medical Library is 95% electronic and all of our students are provided with laptops, portable printers and wireless cards.  The Medical Library provides access to over 13,000 e-journals, 1,400 e-books and 50 biomedical databases. Our print collections consist of 125 reserve titles, 200 core biomedical titles, as well as reference and leisure reading collections.

The TCMC Medical Library website may be accessed at: http://tinyurl.com/ncsbcu. This will take you to the TCMC’s Community tab.  From this page, click on the link to TCMC Medical Library, under: TCMC Library Services.

The Medical Library is a member of DOCLINE, so feel free to add us to an appropriate cell.

Finally, I want to extend special thanks to Barbara Shearer, who worked as a Library Consultant for TCMC during the early days of TCMC’s development and who continues to provide me with her invaluable assistance and expertise. I also appreciate the support that I receive from my AAHSL colleagues, whose wisdom and generosity has been a tremendous help in getting the Medical Library to where we are today.

Thank you, all!

Joanne

Joanne M. Muellenbach, MLS, AHIP

Director, Medical Library

The Commonwealth Medical College

501 Vine Street, Ground Floor

Scranton, Pennsylvania 18509

T: 570.504.9627

F: 570.504.9618

E: jmuellenbach@tcmedc.org

W: www.thecommonwealthmedical.com

NNLM MAR is very pleased to announce that Southeastern NY Library Resources Council (SENYLRC) has been selected for the NNLM MAR Technology Immersion Award.  Tessa Killian, Manager of Technology and Administrative Services, and Patricia Carroll-Mathes, Manager, Hospital Library Services Program will serve as co-project directors.

The Southeastern NY Library Resources Council (SENYLRC), a multi-type library consortium which includes hospitals and special libraries, is well positioned to provide web discovery portals and offer enhanced catalog tools  to health sciences libraries which do not have the technical infrastructure, money or expertise to create their own.  Building upon 10 years of development and service delivery experience, SENYLRC will demonstrate the use of open source software applications to improve upon existing web-based services and deliver a next-generation searching and retrieval capability to member libraries in the SENYLRC region.

Two RML member libraries will work with SENYLRC staff and contracted programmers to provide additional functionality , test and evaluate Koha integrated library system software, and create new individual library website templates using the Drupal content management system.  The project will result in separate instances of a discovery platform for each library, allowing them to better target and serve the needs of their unique user community.

Through this pilot project, SENYLRC staff will acquire the necessary experience with open source software (Koha and Drupal),  and develop a  new Drupal module - an electronic resource management system to enable SENYLRC staff to more easily administer shared electronic resources links on the SENYLRC-hosted multiple library websites. After development, these applications of open source software will be made freely available to the  medical library community for other consortia and/or multi- institutions to adopt or adapt to meet their own service needs.

The pilot health science libraries will be Vassar Brother Medical Center (VBMC) in Poughkeepsie, New York, and Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research (NKI) in Orangeburg, New York. Upon successful completion of the development and pilot implementation phase, SENYLRC will migrate other hospital libraries to the new services and offer them to other special libraries.

Please join us in congratulating SENYLRC, Tessa and Patricia on their achievement and thanking our Technology Committee for their efforts in the selection process.  We would also like to thank all the applicants for their commitment to advancing medicine and the public’s health through improved access to health information.

On behalf of Valerie Florance, NLM Extramural Programs:

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

The National Network of Libraries of Medicine MAR Offices will be closed on Friday, July 3, 2009 to observe the 4th of July holiday. We will reopen at 9 am on Monday, July 6, 2009. The National Library of Medicine will also be closed on the 3rd of July.

HHS” Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) is seeking comments on the preliminary definition of “Meaningful Use” of electronic health records as presented to the HIT Policy Committee on June 16. Comments on the draft description of “Meaningful Use” are due by Friday, June 26, 5 p.m., EDT, and should be no more than 2,000 words in length. Select to access instructions for submitting comments.

Posters from the poster sessions at the Medical Library Association conference held in Hawaii are available for viewing online!

Trapeze Media Solutions has partnered with MLA to digitize the posters and put them online. The posters are even searchable!

If you’d like to see what posters librarians in our region have done, please take a look at the list below:

New Jersey

Informatics Infusion to Enhance Day-to-day Reference Work
Nancy Calabretta, Reference Librarian, Camden Campus Library, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-Camden; Janette Pierce, Public Services Librarian, Health Sciences Library at Stratford, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-Stratford; Marie K. Saimbert, Information and Education Librarian, George F. Smith Library, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-Newark; Yingting Zhang, Information and Education Librarian, Robert Wood Johnson Library, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-New Brunswick

“COOL” Libraries Use of Web 2.0 Tools
Elaine G. Powers, Director, Library Services, VCOM Library, Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine-Blacksburg; Janice Skica, Campus Library Director; Janette Pierce, Cataloging Librarian; Library, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-Stratford; Lisa Travis, Medical Librarian, Lon and Elizabeth Parr Reed Medical and Allied Health Library, Lincoln Memorial University, Harrogate, TN

Market Your Medical Library to Support Information Systems/Project Lifecycles toward Improved Patient Safety

Janette Pierce, Public Services Librarian, Health Sciences Library at Stratford, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-Stratford; Marie K. Saimbert, Information and Education Librarian, George F. Smith Library, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-Newark; Yingting Zhang, Information and Education Librarian, Robert Wood Johnson Library, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-New Brunswick; Peter Cole, Library Director, Aquinas Medical Library, St. Michael’s Medical Center, Newark, NJ; Erica S. Moncrief, AHIP, Director, Library Services, Health Science Library, Capital Health System at Mercer, Trenton, NJ; Keydi Boss, AHIP, Medical Librarian, Medical Staff Library and School of Nursing Library, Holy Name Hospital, Teaneck, NJ

New York

Creating a Network of Digital Displays
Michael J. Purcell, Web Librarian; Alena Ptak-Danchak, Web Librarian; Health Sciences Library, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY

Sharing for Distance Learning from the D. Samuel Gottesman Library
Nancy R. Glassman, AHIP, Systems Librarian; Racheline G. Habousha, Head, Public Access Services; Aurelia Minuti, Head, Reference and Educational Services; Rachel Schwartz, Reference Librarian; Karen Sorensen, Reference Librarian; D. Samuel Gottesman Library, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY

iNeeds: A Needs and Assets Assessment of the Health Information Literacy of Master’s of Public Health Students
Joey Nicholson, Database Trainer/Online Analyst, National Training Center and Clearinghouse, New York Academy of Medicine-New York

SCISSORS: The Cutting Edge of Library Services
Diana Delgado, AHIP, Acting Associate Director, Public Services, and Head, Information Access Services; Judy C. Stribling, Special Assistant to the Library Director; Weill Cornell Medical Library, Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY

Disaster Information Specialist: An Emerging Subject Specialty for Informationists?
Cynthia B. Love, Technical Information Specialist, Disaster Information Management Research Center, Specialized Information Services Division, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD; Colleen Cuddy, AHIP, Deputy Director, Ehrman Medical Library, New York University School of Medicine-New York; Tahirih Fusscas, Reference Librarian, E. R. Stitt Library, National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, MD; Alicia A. Livinski, Biomedical Librarian, NIH Library, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD; Patricia Reynolds, Director, Bishopric Medical Library, Sarasota Memorial Hospital, Sarasota, FL; Brittany Rice, Director, Medical Library, Suburban Hospital, Bethesda, MD; Alison E. Rollins, Reference and Instructional Librarian; Linda M. Spitzer, Head, Reference and Interlibrary Loan; James A. Zimble Learning Resource Center, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD

Comparison of Librarian and Advanced Practice Nurse Ratings of Depression Websites Using an Adapted Health Information Website Evaluation Tool
Konstantina Matsoukas, Head, Reference, and Education Coordinator, Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library; Sookyung Hyun, Associate Research Scientist; Myra P. Joyce, Programmer, School of Nursing; John T. Oliver, Reference and Instruction Librarian, Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library; Sapana R. Patel, Assistant Professor, Clinical Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons; Leanne M. Currie, Assistant Professor, School of Nursing; Columbia University, New York, NY

Disaster Preparedness Informationist: A Team Approach
Colleen Cuddy, AHIP, Deputy Director; Karen Brewer, AHIP, FMLA, Director; NYU Health Sciences Libraries; Miguel Figueroa, Network Services Coordinator, National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Middle Atlantic Region; Emily Molanphy, Web Services Librarian; Stuart Spore, Associate Director, Library Systems; Richard McGowan, Research Librarian; Carol Swain, Disaster Informationist Intern; NYU Health Sciences Libraries; New York University Langone Medical Center-New York

Symbolizing the Library’s Value: Designing a Logo for an Academic Medical Library
Emily Molanphy, Web Services Librarian; Colleen Cuddy, AHIP, Deputy Director; NYU Health Sciences Libraries, New York University-New York

What Is “Quality?”: A Systematic Review of Criteria from Existing Resource-evaluation Instruments
John T. Oliver, Reference and Instruction Librarian; Konstantina Matsoukas, Head, Reference, and Education Coordinator; Health Sciences Library; Sookyung Hyun, Associate Research Scientist; Myra P. Joyce, Database Manager, School of Nursing; Sapana R. Patel, Assistant Professor, Clinical Psychology, Department of Psychiatry; Olivia Velez, Programmer/Analyst; Po-Yin Yen, Student; Leanne M. Currie, Assistant Professor, School of Nursing; Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY

Another On-ramp to the Digital Information Highway: Implementing WiFi in an Academic Medical Center Hospital Library
Kaura Gale, Medical Librarian, Seymour J. Phillips Health Sciences Library, Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, NY

Pennsylvania

Future Impact: Conversion to a Near-total Electronic Library
Virginia A. Lingle, AHIP, Librarian, Collection Access and Development; Cynthia K. Robinson, AHIP, Director; Seamus Carmichael, Library Staff; Leona Charles, Library Staff; Sharon Daugherty, Library Staff; Elaine Julian, Library Staff; Patricia Kline, Library Staff; Robin Long,  Library Staff; Virginia Miller, Library Staff; Mae Risser, Library Staff; Harrell Library - H127,  Penn State University College of Medicine, Hershey, PA

Red, Yellow, Green: A Simple System for Collaborative Weeding of a Reference Collection
Theresa S. Arndt, Associate Director, Research and Instructional Services; Maureen O. Dermott, Assistant Director, Access Services; Amelia Brunskill, Liaison Librarian, Sciences; Waidner-Spahr Library, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA

An Innovative Clinical Information Portal
Barbara A. Epstein, AHIP, Director; Nancy H. Tannery, Associate Director, User Services; Charles B. Wessel, Head, Hospital Services; Frances Yarger, Assistant Director, Computer Services; John LaDue, Knowledge Integration Librarian; Health Sciences Library System, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

Solo Librarian and Outreach to Hospital Staff Using Web 2.0 Technologies
Rebecca Landau, Librarian, Health Sciences Library, Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA

To IRB or Not to IRB: Librarian Perceptions and the Realities of Involvement with Institutional Review Boards
Carlos I. Rodriguez, Medical School Liaison, Biomedical Library, University of Pennsylvania- Philadelphia

Outreach to an Undergraduate Health Studies Program
Theresa S. Arndt, Associate Director, Research and Instructional Services, Waidner-Spahr Library, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA

The Validity and Utility of a Tool for Evaluating Web Pages Presenting Health Content
Elizabeth La Rue, AHIP, Assistant Professor and Academic Coordinator, Nursing Informatics; Susan Sereika, Associate Professor; School of Nursing, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

Do We Really Need an Electronic Resources Management System? Evaluating a Subscription Agent’s Resource Management Tool
C. Steven Douglas, Acquisitions Librarian, Collections Management; Robin Klein, Digital Resources Librarian, Collections Management; Health Sciences and Human Services Library, University of Maryland-Baltimore; Eric Rector, Head, Electronic Resources, Medical Library, Commonwealth Medical College, Scranton, PA

Primary Care Physicians’ Consumer Health Information-seeking Behaviors: A Model for Working with Elderly Depressed Patients and Their Caregivers
Mary Jo Dorsey, AHIP, Faculty Librarian, Health Sciences Library System; Ellen G. Detlefsen, Associate Professor, School of Information Sciences; University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

Our Next Generation of Library Professionals: A Medical Library Internship Program for Library and Information Science Graduate Students
Robert T. Neumeyer, Coordinator, The Brady Library of the Health Sciences, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Mercy Health System, Pittsburgh, PA

Eastern University’s Warner Memorial Library was the recipient of a Small Projects Award to develop the Basic Research for Nursing Students (BRNS): A bi-lingual E-learning Website.  The goal was to create an instrument to enrich the learning and research experience of nursing students in our traditional BSN program and in the Korean Nursing Program, which is specialized ESL course.

With the funds we created a tool incorporating a wide variety of Web 2.0 technologies.  These technologies included Youtube video sharing, SlideShare presentation sharing, Twitter microblogging, Facebook social networking, Second Life virtual social worlds, RSS feeds and instant messaging via Meebo.  The funding provided the opportunity to explore these technologies for library use.  With tools from the project we have had the opportunity to promote and explore Library resources and the resources offered through the NNLM.  The results have been promising.

Thus far two nursing Informatics classes have been officially assigned to use the BRNS site.  This represents about 32 students.  The respondents for testing and evaluation of the course material found on the website have been small in number.  All the responses have been positive.  Nursing faculty has been supportive of our efforts and the majority of the respondents to the evaluation survey rated the elements of the site to be “helpful” to “very helpful”.  We are encouraged to do more.

In the coming months, we will continue to develop the site incorporating more language tools for our international students.  In addition to the Korean language aids we have created, the site will soon host Mandarin versions of the materials.  We are anticipating Spanish translations in the Fall 2009.

Without the funding from the MAR/NNLM we might not have attempted this project.  The Small Project Award was a positive incentive to move forward.  We also received encouragement and support from James Sauer, Director of the Library, Mary Anne Peters, Director of the Deparmtent of Nursing, Professor Mary Boylston, Department of Nursing and the Librarians and Staff at Warner Memorial Library and the Nursing Students of Eastern University.

Mark Puterbaugh- Warner Memorial Library, St. David’s, Pa.