Using Technology in Library Training
Here’s a class that looks interesting: “Using Technology in Library Training” taught by Paul Signorelli and offered through the American Library Association. It’s online, hands-on and will help you incorporate YouTube, GoogleDocs, LinkedIn and other tools in your instructional design. The class is divided into two sessions. There’s a discount, if you take both. The sessions are on Thursdays 12:30 MT, 1:30 CT. The first session is on September 16 and the second is on September 23. Check out the web site to see what is covered when, how to register, and how to pay. http://link.ixs1.n...
Source:
Midcontinental Region News - September 2, 2010 Author: liaison Tags: Classes and Training Technology
Transition from Print to Electronic: Ebooks on the Same Path as EJournals
Yesterday I posted about ebooks and what some of the librarians attending the Springer LibraryZone Virtual eBook webinar discussed. Today I saw a post on liblicense from Scott Plutchak comparing the transition and the situation to what librarians experienced when journals transitioned from print to electronic.
Interesting. I have to admit that just never occurred to me. But Scott brought up some excellent points saying just like now with ebooks, librarians were very frustrated and up in arms when journals started becoming much more electronic. Just think, the official version of BMJ isn’t the print a...
Source:
The Krafty Librarian - September 2, 2010 Author: KraftyLibrarian Tags: Uncategorized
Playing Hard to Get: Purchasing and Reading E-Books
Last week I sat in on the Springer LibraryZone Virtual eBook webinar and it was a very interesting discussion. Many libraries (especially academic) are investigating and collecting e-books in lieu of some printed text. How much they are collecting and the nature by which they to the selection process seems to vary according each library, their type, size, consortia involvement, usage data, etc.
The reasons why and how much they bought all varied but the frustrations, questions, and concerns the faced were very similar and seemed on the minds of every librarian regardless of their library, type, size, consortia...
Source:
The Krafty Librarian - September 1, 2010 Author: KraftyLibrarian Tags: Electronic Access Journals and Books
Health Literacy Missouri Announces Health Literacy Tribute Awards
Arthur Culbert, President of Health Literacy Missouri, has announced Dr. James R. Kimmey, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Missouri Foundation for Health will receive the first annual Cecilia and Leonard Doak Health Literacy Champion Award. The presentation will take place on Wednesday, October 6 from 11:30 to 1:30 at The Palladium inSt. Louis, MO. For further information on this celebration, go to http://www.healthliteracymissouri.org/focus-on-missouri/health-literacy-tribute-awards/. (bbj)
Source:
Midcontinental Region News - September 1, 2010 Author: liaison Tags: Advocacy Community Health Consumer Health Events Hospital Libraries Uncategorized
Sparks! Ignition Grants for Libraries and Museums
The Sparks! Ignition Grant is a new funding opportunity developed by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to expand and test the boundaries of library, archive, and museum services and practices. These grants are meant to support the testing of specific innovations and foster broad sharing of information about what works and what does not. An individual library and library consortia are eligible to apply. The grant amount is $25,000. Deadline for applications is November 15, 2010. http://www.imls.gov/applicants/grants/SparksIgnition.shtm /ch
Source:
Midcontinental Region News - August 31, 2010 Author: liaison Tags: Grants and Funding
Health Sciences Libraries are Eligible for Walmart Grant
This is an alert that Walmart will be awarding grants to 501C3 organizations for $25,000 and up in the following categories: Health grants strive to improve access to healthcare and promote healthy lifestyles. Education grants support programs that address the educational needs of underserved young people, ages 12-30. Job Skills Training grants promote professional training, counseling, and support services to help people improve their work-related skills. Environmental Sustainability grants support programs that are designed to help people become more sustainable as well as programs that enhance the environment. Dea...
Source:
Midcontinental Region News - August 31, 2010 Author: liaison Tags: Grants and Funding
EDUCATION: Podcasting for Advocacy Online Class
Join us for the online class, “Podcasting for Advocacy.” The class will be taught in two parts: a 1.5 hour session on Thursday, September 16 from 1 – 2:30 p.m. Mountain Time (2 – 3:30 p.m. Central Time) and then a half hour session on Tuesday, September 28 from 1 – 1:30 p.m. Mountain Time (2 – 2:30 p.m. Central Time).
“Podcasting for Advocacy” was originally developed by Maryanne Blake and Alison Aldrich from the Pacific Northwest Region. It’s a hands-on class designed to provide a fun yet informative introduction to podcasting.
The class will be taught ...
Source:
Midcontinental Region News - August 30, 2010 Author: liaison Tags: Education Technology
Funding Opportunities from NIH
Funding Opportunities 2011 NIH Director’s Award Programs:
Transformative Research Projects, Pioneer, and New Innovator Awards
NIH Director’s Transformative Research Projects Award Program
Announcing funding for Transformative Research Projects (T-R01) Award Program:
Exceptionally innovative, high risk, original and/or unconventional research
Clinical, basic, and/or behavioral/social science research projects
Up to $25 million total costs per year for a single project
One-third of total funding budget geared to projects with more than $1 Million in direct costs.
The deadline for submitting Transformat...
Source:
Dragonfly - August 30, 2010 Author: Catherine Burroughs Tags: Funding National News
A Progress Report On Electronic Health Records In U.S. Hospitals
New study published in the August, 2010 issue of Health Affairs reports on the adoption of the electronic health records by U.S. hospitals. To view the abstract, go to http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/abstract/hlthaff.2010.0502 (bbj)
Source:
Midcontinental Region News - August 30, 2010 Author: liaison Tags: Advocacy Hospital Libraries Informatics Technology
EDUCATION: Spotlight! on NLM Resources – My NCBI – Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Tune in at 12:00 pm Mountain Time/1:00 pm Central Time. **Note the starting time! My NCBI will be the subject presented by Dana Abbey.
The session will contain hands-on exercises to help better acquaint you with the multiple options to save your searches and data.
Taking the one-hour class and completing the exercises and class evaluation makes you eligible to receive 1 Medical Library Association Continuing Education credit. This online training is FREE. Register online at http://tinyurl.com/mcrclasses (registration is not required but is appreciated).
URL: https://webmeeting.nih.gov/mcr/, Equipment: connection to the...
Source:
Midcontinental Region News - August 30, 2010 Author: liaison Tags: Classes and Training Education
EDUCATION: Breezing Along with the RML -Wed. September 15, 10:00 Mountain Time, 11:00 Central Time
Mark your calendar for our next Breezing session featuring MCR liaisons, Dana Abbey and Sharon Dennis.
No registration.
URL: https://webmeeting.nih.gov/mcr/. Equipment: connection to the Internet and a phone. Login: as a guest with your first and last name. Instructions to connect to the audio will show up once you’ve logged in. Captioning will be available. (mm)
Source:
Midcontinental Region News - August 30, 2010 Author: liaison Tags: Classes and Training Education
AWARDS AND EDUCATION: We have funding – do you have an idea of something you’d like to learn?
With today’s shrinking travel budgets, and realizing that professional development is an essential part a librarian’s continuing education, the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, MidContinental Region will be awarding approximately 25 Professional Development subsidies (up to $1,500 each) to support health science or hospital librarians who wish to attend a conference, or take a training or workshop of their choice by the end of April 2011. Priority will be given to professional development in the areas of emergency preparedness, personal and electronic health records, health information literacy, o...
Source:
Midcontinental Region News - August 30, 2010 Author: liaison Tags: Classes and Training Education Grants and Funding
Electronic Health Records & Consumer Health Information
The NN/LM – MidContinental Region would like to identify Network members whose hospitals have plans to link their electronic health record systems to consumer health information, or are planning to do so. We’d like to form a group to discuss issues relating to this.
If you can help us, please send an email to the Kansas Liaison, Rebecca Brown rbrown3@kumc.edu, with the following information:
1) Name
2) LIBID
3) Email address
4) Phone
5) EHR system
6) Brief description of what’s going on or is being planned in your institution.
[rb]
Source:
Midcontinental Region News - August 30, 2010 Author: liaison Tags: Informatics
Links for 2010-08-28 [del.icio.us]
Silly Saturday [32] Do You Know Who’s Watching You? « Laika's MedLibLog
Silly Saturday [32] Do You Know Who's Watching You?: http://t.co/I2qKnVE
Source:
DigiCMB - August 29, 2010 Author: Guus van den Brekel
Links for 2010-08-22 [del.icio.us]
Twitpic - Share photos on Twitter
CochonBlue at Noorderzon, Grunn
http://twitpic.com/2h7a4m
Open Access Journals Bibliography
Version one of the Open Access Journals Bibliography is now
available at Digital Scholarship.
http://digital-scholarship.org/oajb/oajb.html
Bibliovirtual en FaceBook
RT @bibliovirtual: Buenos días, hoy hay post en el blog: Bibliovirtual en FaceBook http://nblo.gs/76erz
Source:
DigiCMB - August 29, 2010 Author: Guus van den Brekel
Links for 2010-08-24 [del.icio.us]
DigiCMB: Making Library Slidecasts in Slideshare : Opening EAHIL2009
Making Library Slidecasts in Slideshare : Opening EAHIL2009 First Three Parts: http://bit.ly/9fPdoS #eahil #eahil2009
Twitpic - Share photos on Twitter
@brinxmat 3g. See screenshot. How should it look? I updated iphone software yesterday
http://twitpic.com/2hqrie
Source:
DigiCMB - August 29, 2010 Author: Guus van den Brekel
Links for 2010-08-26 [del.icio.us]
EAHIL-European Association for Health Information and Libraries
August Issue of Journal of EAHIL is out! See: http://bit.ly/9BEL07 for the PDF. #li
Opening Ceremony EAHIL2009 (part 2)
Check out this SlideShare webinar : Opening Ceremony EAHIL2009 (part 2) http://slidesha.re/9xJ4ji
What is Second Life?
Medicine in Second Life, http://bit.ly/bk9KFW #education #simulation #training #teaching #roleplay #visualization
Netvibes
@digicmb use the url http://ow.ly/2v0JV then http://www.netvibes.com/?reset=1 and let me know :) !
– netvibes (netvibes) http://twitter.com/netvibes/statuses/22161693995
Netvibes - Dashboard Everyth...
Source:
DigiCMB - August 29, 2010 Author: Guus van den Brekel
Links for 2010-08-25 [del.icio.us]
Web 2.0: Easy Tools for Busy Clinicians. [J Midwifery Womens Health. 2010 September - October] - PubMed result
RT @Berci: Web 2.0: Easy Tools for Busy Clinicians. [J Midwifery Womens Health. 2010 September - October] http://ff.im/-pHz1Z
Source:
DigiCMB - August 29, 2010 Author: Guus van den Brekel
Links for 2010-08-23 [del.icio.us]
Nederlandse Experts Site (www.onderzoekinformatie.nl)
Dutch experts site contains now 14.500 scientists, http://bit.ly/bebOj1 Info also included in NARCIS Science Portal http://bit.ly/54M3Hy
Webicina Presents: PeRSSonalized Medical Librarianship: Selected Blogs, News, Journals and More « Laika's MedLibLog
RT @Berci: Webicina Presents: PeRSSonalized Medical Librarianship: Selected Blogs, News, Journals and More (via @laikas) http://ff.im/-pwqDs
Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust Library and Information Service
Great Netvibes Pubic Page! Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust Library and Infor...
Source:
DigiCMB - August 29, 2010 Author: Guus van den Brekel
Links for 2010-08-27 [del.icio.us]
The SEMANTIC web : A n e w f o r m o f Web c ontent t h a t i s m ea n i n g f u l to c omp u ter s
w i l l u n l ea s h a r e v o l u t i o n o f n e w p o s s i b i l i t i e s
24 SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN SPECIAL ONLINE ISSUE APRIL 2002
COPYRIGHT 2002 SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, INC.
The entertainment system was
belting out the Beatles’ “We Can Work It
Out” when the phone rang. When Pete
answered, his phone turned the sound
down by sending a message to all the other
local devices that had a volume control.
His sister, Lucy, was on the line from the
doctor’s office: “Mom needs to see a specialist
and then has to have a ...
Source:
DigiCMB - August 29, 2010 Author: Guus van den Brekel
Friday Fun: Map of the Social Networking World
I ran across this map of the Social Networking World while looking for something else and I thought I would share it with you. I am not sure what I would use it for other than for fun, conversation, and a possible PowerPoint slide. In other words perfect for a Friday post.
2010 Social Network Map by Flowtown
The map was created by Flowtown as an updated tribute to XKCD’s ‘Map of Online Communities.’ The size of the countries/continents reflect the millions of users, for each service (as shown by the scale at the bottom of the image).
It is kind of fun to look through and laugh over a few things like the ...
Source:
The Krafty Librarian - August 27, 2010 Author: KraftyLibrarian Tags: Friday Fun Social Media
NIMH Seeks Proposals for its Outreach Partnership Program
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) invites applicants to submit proposals to become an NIMH Outreach Partner from the District of Columbia and the following Greater Midwestern Region states: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan and South Dakota. Organizations selected as an NIMH Outreach Partner will receive an annual award of $7,500 for a total of [...]
Source:
The Cornflower - August 27, 2010 Author: Jacqueline Leskovec Tags: Consumer Health Funding News from NIH/NLM
CollegeOnly, a Social Network Just for College Students
Facebook began as a defacto college-only site, but morphed into a site where folks over 2o something frequent as well. Read about a new player called CollegeOnly that will be introduced at 7 colleges on August 26th. http://tinyurl.com/3x89dzj
[rb]
Source:
Midcontinental Region News - August 26, 2010 Author: liaison Tags: Uncategorized
Gmail Update Integrates Google Voice for Free Phone Calls
Google rolled out a new service on August 25th that allows you to make free phone calls from your computer to a land line or cell phone (within U.S. and Canada). The person you are calling does not have to have a Google account. Low rates for long distance are also available. Follow this link to read the whole story http://tinyurl.com/2uvo762
[rb]
Source:
Midcontinental Region News - August 26, 2010 Author: liaison Tags: Technology
Updates Pages on the MCR Website
Take a look at the Health Information Section of the MCR website http://nnlm.gov/mcr/resources/ New items have been added to the following pages:
Minority Health Concerns http://nnlm.gov/mcr/resources/community/minority.html
Health Concerns Around Low Income Issues http://nnlm.gov/mcr/resources/community/inner.html
Cultural Competency Resources http://nnlm.gov/mcr/resources/community/competency.html[scb]
Source:
Midcontinental Region News - August 25, 2010 Author: liaison Tags: Uncategorized
100 Free Kaplan E-Books Through Apple Bookstore
According to iMedicalApps.com Kaplan is offering 100 free e-books through the Apple Bookstore for a limited time. There are 19 medically related books available including USMLE books, MCAT, and CCRN books.
Unfortunately this free book detail is only available to iPad and iPhone users (because the deal is only available at the Apple Bookstore) until August 30, 2010.
Check out iMedicalApps.com for more information and some good screen shots of what the books look like on the iPad (they state it is “significantly easier” to read the books on the iPad).
Tweet This Post
Source:
The Krafty Librarian - August 25, 2010 Author: KraftyLibrarian Tags: Apps Electronic Access iPad iPhone
Taxpayers and Peer Review
One
of the most effective soundbites in the public access debates around FRPAA is
that taxpayers ought to have ready, easy and immediate access to the results of
the research that they’ve paid for. Seems to be obviously true.
It
quickly gets muddy, however, because most people who follow the OA orthodoxy intend it
to mean that taxpayers ought to have ready, easy and immediate access to the
peer-reviewed articles reporting the results of that research. After all, the argument goes, they’ve already paid for it, and
the subscription system forces them to pay twice!
When
publishers object that what...
Source:
T. Scott - August 25, 2010 Author: T Scott
Finding Past Tweets
Twitter is a nice conversation tool for quickly asking questions among friends/colleagues, sharing quick bits of information and news stories, and is also especially popular among conference goers. But what happens when you want to refer back to an old tweet? Is it easy to find? Well if the person used a hashtag (a hashtag is a word with the number sign in front of it, like #mla) then you can search specifically for that hashtag. But that can be complicated after a while because tweets seem to fall off the face of the Twittersphere after a few weeks. Not all search engines are created equal especially when it...
Source:
The Krafty Librarian - August 24, 2010 Author: KraftyLibrarian Tags: Uncategorized
WOW! Thanks! Customer Service in a Technology Driven World
WOW! Thanks! Customer Service in a Technology Driven World was a five-hour seminar funded through a Professional Instruction Award from NN/LM GMR.
Source:
The Cornflower - August 24, 2010 Author: Jacqueline Leskovec Tags: General News from the Region
Missouri Health Literacy Classes: Sign Up Now!
These workshops are designed to raise awareness about health literacy and to provide an open discussion of its impact on individuals, organizations and society. Sessions will focus on the concept of health literacy, the emergence of health literacy as a significant social issue, and utilize interactive discussions to explore how communication impacts individuals’ understanding and behavior.
Participants will gain useful techniques for understanding and addressing communication, relationships between health professionals and patients, economic implications for society, exchange of health information messages and p...
Source:
Midcontinental Region News - August 24, 2010 Author: liaison Tags: Uncategorized
