**National Library of Medicine Funds Seven New Disaster Health Information Outreach and Collaboration Projects**

For the second year, NLM is funding seven projects for partnerships between libraries and organizations that have disaster-related responsibilities. The partnerships will work together to improve use of disaster medicine and public health information by librarians, health professionals, first responders, emergency planners and others responsible for disaster preparedness, response and recovery. Projects will increase the use of high-quality online resources on disaster topics including those from the National Library of Medicine.

The 2012 projects are:

• Arkansas Department of Health (Little Rock, AR)) in partnership with the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Library

• University of Miami, Louis Calder Memorial Library (Miami, FL) with the University of Miami, The William Lehman Research Center for the Department of Surgery

• Southeastern Regional Medical Center (Lumberton, NC) with the Robeson County Department of Public Health, Robeson County Emergency Management, and Lumberton Emergency Management

• Western Maryland Area Health Education Center Learning Resource Center (Cumberland, MD) with the Allegany College of Maryland Health Continuing Education Department, Allegany County Health Department, Emergency Preparedness Caucus, Frostburg State University Pre-Medical Society, Garrett County Health Department, Meritus Health Medical Library and Education Department, Social Work Caucus- Allegany/Garrett Counties, Social Work Caucus – Washington County, Washington County Health Department, and the Western Maryland Health System Parish Nurse and Health Minister Program

• MESH – Managed Emergency Surge for Healthcare, Inc. (Indianapolis, IN) with the Central Indiana Health Sciences Libraries Consortium

• Pacific College of Oriental Medicine (San Diego, CA) with the Public Health Services, Health and Human Services, County of San Diego

• Georgia Health Sciences University, Robert B. Greenblatt, MD Library (Augusta, GA) with the Georgia East Central Health District

For further information, please refer to http://disasterinfo.nlm.nih.gov/dimrc/2012disasteroutreachawards.html.  For summaries of projects funded in 2011 visit http://disasterinfo.nlm.nih.gov/dimrc/2011disasteroutreachawards.html.

The National Library of Medicine (http://www.nlm.nih.gov)  is the world’s largest biomedical library and provides extensive online health information resources. Visit the NLM Disaster Information Management Research Center site (http://disasterinfo.nlm.nih.gov)  to learn more about disaster-related health information from WISER (hazardous materials information for emergency responders), REMM-Radiation Emergency Medical Management, CHEMM-Chemical Hazards Emergency Medical Management, and other resources.

Elizabeth Norton, MLS, MPH, MBA

Librarian

Disaster Information Management Research Center

Specialized Information Services Division

National Library of Medicine

National Institutes of Health

6707 Democracy Blvd., Suite 510

Bethesda, MD 20892-5467

301-443-9420

nortone@nlm.nih.gov

Issue 2 of the Journal of eScience Librarianship is now available at http://escholarship.umassmed.edu/jeslib/vol1/iss2/

Table of Contents

Editorial

JESLIB: Evolution of eScience Librarianship in the New England Region and Beyond
Elaine R. Martin

Full Length Papers

Prepared to Plan? A Snapshot of Researcher Readiness to Address Data Management Planning Requirements

Gail Steinhart, Eric Chen, Florio Arguillas, Dianne Dietrich, and Stefan Kramer

Training Researchers on Data Management: A Scalable, Cross-Disciplinary Approach
Lisa Johnston, Meghan Lafferty, and Beth Petsan

EScience in Action

A Sample of Research Data Curation and Management Courses
Andrew T. Creamer, Myrna E. Morales, Donna Kafel, Javier Crespo, and Elaine R. Martin

Discussing “eScience and the Evolution of Library Services”

Claire Hamasu, Barb Jones, and Betsy Kelly

Understanding eScience: Reflections on a Houston Symposium

Joanne V. Romano, Allen Lopez, and Maianh Phi

A Collaborative Framework for Data Management Services: The Experience of the University of California

Joan Starr, Perry Willett, Lisa Federer, Claudia Horning, and Mary Linn Bergstrom

Submit an article to JeSLIB! See Guidelines for Authors

Sincerely,
Elaine R. Martin, Editor

A new report from a consortium representing six Gulf States lays out how to make health information exchange among states part of disaster preparedness and response.

The effort, begun in late 2010 and supported by the Office of the National Coordinator for HIT, included representatives from Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas. Recommendations in the report pertain to other states, as well. A major goal of the initiative is to incorporate disaster planning earlier in health information exchange projects, according to a new ONC blog posting.

Recommendations include:

• Review state disaster response and governance policies, as they may not address the sharing of health information during a disaster.
• Develop standard procedures to share electronic health information across state lines before a disaster occurs.
• Establish a waiver of liability for release of records and to default state privacy and security rules to existing HIPAA standards in a disaster.
• Engage local HIEs, and private and public health information networks such as delivery systems, insurers, and electronic health records vendors, to increase sources from which health information may be exchanged. “Health information sharing during a disaster should not rely solely on the State HIE, but on a more effective network of health information-sharing networks.”
• Consider a phased approach to building interstate HIE capabilities. The report includes a three-phased approach as a roadmap for state HIEs to consider.

The report is available here.

The National Training Center is offering the “Teaching with Technology” online Moodle class (asynchronous) from Oct. 8 – Nov. 9, 2012 (8 MLA CE credits).  Registration is limited to 60.

Their blog announcement and link to registration is here:

http://nnlm.gov/ntc/2012/09/10/fall-session-of-online-class-teaching-with-technology-available-for-registration/

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Job opportunities at NLM, NIH
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/about/jobs/jobs.html

2013 Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) Now Available

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so12/so12_2013_mesh_avail.html

A New System of Registry Number Identifiers for Chemicals in the MeSH Database

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ja12/ja12_fda_unii.html

Future Plans of the 2011-2012 NLM Associate Fellows

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/news/associates_2011_2012_plans.html

MEDLINE/PubMed Year-End Processing Activities

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so12/so12_yep.html

New App is Authoritative Guide to NLM Mobile Resources

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/news/mobile_gallery.html

New Style and New Content for ClinicalTrials.gov

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ja12/ja12_clinicaltrials.html

NISO Publishes Journal Article Tag Suite (JATS) Standard

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/news/jats-niso.html

NLM Announces “Pick Your Poison: Intoxicating Pleasures and Medical Prescriptions,” on Display through April 12, 2013

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/news/hmd_pick_your_poison.html

NLM Launches GeneEd, Genetics Education Resource for Grades 9-12

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/news/geneed.html

NLM Library Operations Division Announces Two Appointments

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/news/appointments_lo.html

Retrieving History of Medicine Citations in MEDLINE/PubMed

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ja12/ja12_pm_history.html

What’s New in PMC: Another Facelift

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ja12/ja12_pmc_redesign.html

ALSO NEW FROM SIS

WISER for iOS 3.0, a universal app for Apple iOS devices, is now available. This new release adds native support for the iPad.  Search WISER’s full set of known substances, employ WISER’s popular Help Identify Chemical capability, and leverage WISER’s protective distance mapping feature with an interface customized for your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch. WISER for iOS 3.0 can be downloaded and installed directly from the Apple App Store:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wiser-for-ios/id375185381?mt=8.

More at: http://wiser.nlm.nih.gov/whats_new_iOS_3_0.html.

The History of Medicine Division of the National Library of Medicine is planning a major update of its IndexCat database, the online version of the Index Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General’s Office.

We invite you to take part in a brief survey so we may better understand your current use of IndexCat and what new features you would wish this resource to offer in the future. Our apologies in advance if you receive duplicate invitations to participate.

The survey can be found at: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/IndexCat

If you are not familiar with IndexCat, please take a moment to explore it. IndexCat contains over 4.5 million references to over 3.7 million bibliographic items dating from over five centuries and covering subjects of the basic sciences, scientific research, civilian and military medicine, public health, and hospital administration. A wide range of materials can be discovered through IndexCat, including books, journal articles, dissertations, pamphlets, reports, newspaper clippings, case studies, obituary notices, letters, portraits, as well as rare books and manuscripts. Recently, two new collections, involving medieval scientific English and Latin texts, were made available through IndexCat. Opening a new frontier in historical research, these additional collections encompass over 42,000 records of incipits, or the beginning words of a medieval manuscript or early printed book. IndexCat users can search incipit data by manuscript, library, author/translator, title, subject, date and other information.

The IndexCat user survey we are undertaking has been approved by the National Library of Medicine’s Survey Review process and responses will be anonymous. This survey will remain open until October 15, 2012.

For direct access to IndexCat, please visit: http://indexcat.nlm.nih.gov/

For more information about IndexCat, including its contents and development, please visit: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/indexcat/aboutic.html/

Thank you for your participation.

Stephen J. Greenberg, MSLS, PhD
Coordinator of Public Services
History of Medicine Division
National Library of Medicine
National Institutes of Health
Department of Health and Human Services
Bethesda, MD

October is National Medical Librarians Month–Share Your Story and Win a Trip to MLA 2013 in Boston!

MAR would like to celebrate medical librarians in our region.  National Medical Librarians Month gives information professionals an opportunity to market their services and highlight their contributions to research, education and improved patient outcomes.  Are you doing something to celebrate Medical Librarians Month?  If so, share your story by sending to nnlmmar@pitt.edu.  If applicable, also share a photo depicting your activities/events.

MAR will be collecting your stories and highlighting them in our blog and weekly postings throughout October.  All those that submit a story before Oct. 31^st will be entered into a random drawing to receive an award to cover registration and airfare to MLA 2013.  Please, only one entry per library.

Be sure to check out MLA’s promotional items and resources to market library services and value at:
http://www.mlanet.org/resources/nml-month/

Location:  Free, Online:  http://nnlm.gov/mar/ (the URL is posted the morning of each session)

Date:  September 27, 2012

Awardee:  Kristina Flathers, Alfred I. DuPont Hospital for Children of The Nemours Foundation
Project:  iRound:  Bringing EBM to Family Centered Clinical Teaching Rounds
Description:  The project outfitted three General Pediatrics Residency teams with iPads; one each will be distributed to the senior resident, the attending physician, the librarian and the nurse. Each team member was given the capability to access electronic medical records (EMRs) through the iPad on the Nemours secure network and perform their own searches within the library portal for access to electronic EBM and library resources.

Awardee:  Bruce Johnston, Robert Morris University
Project: Advancing Technology in Nursing Education: Integrating iPads into Clinical Practice and Patient Education
Description: Robert Morris Library and the School of Nursing and Health Sciences, along with UPMC Passavant, used state-of-the-art technology to augment and improve nursing education as well as patient education activities. By adding iPad2 devices and relevant apps, this project improved the technology mix for accessing health information. Nursing students were the target audience, along with clinical instructors working with the student nurses on patient care units, as well as the RMU Clinical Faculty Instructor and Health Sciences Librarian.

Awardee:  Joey Nicholson, New York University School of Medicine
Project:  Pilot Project using Anatomy Apps and Mobile Resources to Improve Learning in the Anatomy Lab
Description:  NYU purchased an iPad for the Education and Curriculum Librarian to support and demonstrate new anatomy teaching technology, as well as 30 copies of the Netter’s Anatomy Atlas iPad application and Grant’s Dissector through Inkling to be used on 30 NYU School of Medicine iPads supplied to the anatomy lab. At the beginning of their anatomy course, students received a demonstration from the Librarian of how to access and use the iPads that included an overview of what is in each of the apps and how they can be used to support anatomy education. Students were able to go back and forth between the 3D visualization and the reference applications in real time as they dissected cadavers to support their learning and retention.

Awardee:  Cristina Pope, Upstate University Health System, Health Sciences Library
Project:  Emergency Preparedness: Enhancing Communication and Access to Health Information Resources
Description:  The pilot project’s primary objective was to determine whether the incorporation of an iPad loaded with emergency preparedness resources and an online synchronous communication application would enhance the Emergency Preparedness Regional Partnership’s ability to prepare for catastrophic events through planning; provide a forum to strengthen collaboration among emergency preparedness partners throughout the healthcare system; facilitate the development of exercises and evaluations; facilitate the delivery of emergency preparedness training and education; provide information sharing and communication between preparedness partners and build emergency response capability.

Government Health IT reported that HHS said Friday that that MappyHealth won a Twitter developers’ challenge and will be “a new Web-based application tool available to public health officials.”  The competition, “Now Trending: #Health in My Community,” was sponsored by HHS’ Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response.  Government Health IT adds, “Currently, the top diseases being tracked by MappyHealth are the common cold, STIs, mosquito borne disease, pertussis, tuberculosis, influenza and gastroenteritis. Moreover, the top five locations for these disease-tracking tweets are São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Orlando, Chicago and Los Angeles.”

MAR announced the inaugural issue of our quarterly newsletter–The MAReport.

Our goal is…

• to spotlight various aspects of our services and NLM resources
• to highlight a Network member
• to announce classes and training for the next quarter, and
• to touch on any number of possible topics in future issues

Make sure to sign-up to receive future issues using the Subscribe feature. Also, please share the newsletter with colleagues and friends:  http://nnlm.gov/mar/newsletter/.