Last Chance Newsletter Naming Contest
Hurry and submit your entry! Contest closes EOB tomorrow – April 12th!
Go to http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/3456507/Newsletter-Contest to submit your entry! You can enter as many times as you’d like.
The Plains to Peaks Post is 15 years old and it’s time for a change!
Help us find a new name for our newsletter.
Win a cool prize! This beautiful Elizabeth Blackwell “A Curious Herbal” throw blanket will go to the winner!
The RML Staff will choose three (3) finalists from all qualified entries.
From April 18-24, you’ll have a chance to vote on the finalists to choose the winner!
The winne...
Source: MCR News - April 11, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: liaison Tags: All Members Source Type: news
Accepting Applications: Professional Development Award
MCR is now accepting applications for the Professional Development Award. Each awardee receives up to $1,500 to cover registration and/or travel expenses. For more information about eligibility and application requirements, visit: https://nnlm.gov/mcr/funding/professional-development-funding
If you have any questions, please contact Christian Minter at christian.minter@unmc.edu or 402-559-7226.
(Source: MCR News)
Source: MCR News - April 10, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: liaison Tags: Community College/Academic Libraries Health Sciences Source Type: news
Accepting Applications: CHIS Certificate Funding
MCR is now accepting applications for the Consumer Health Information Specialization (CHIS) Certification Funding. Each awardee receives funding to cover the cost of applying for the CHIS certificate (up to $75). Priority is given to first time applicants. For more information about eligibility and application requirements, visit: https://nnlm.gov/mcr/funding/consumer-health-information-specialization-chis-certification-funding
If you have any questions, please contact Christian Minter at christian.minter@unmc.edu or 402-559-7226. (Source: MCR News)
Source: MCR News - April 10, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: liaison Tags: Community College/Academic Libraries Funding Health Sciences K-12 Public Libraries Source Type: news
Immersive Workshop Funding Now Accepting Applications!
The MidContinental Region is now accepting applications for the “Immersive Workshop Funding.” This funding opportunity seeks to support a library in developing and hosting a multi-day professional development event that trains participants to improve health information access. The event must be interprofessional and include librarians as one of the professions. The workshop activities should achieve the following:
Increase the awareness of how different professionals can contribute to addressing a health information access challenge.
Increase knowledge and skills in a significant area of health information acc...
Source: MCR News - April 6, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: liaison Tags: Community College/Academic Libraries Funding Health Sciences Source Type: news
Immersive Workshop Funding Now Accepting Applications!
The MidContinental Region is now accepting applications for the “Immersive Workshop Funding.” This funding opportunity seeks to support multi-day professional development events that train participants to improve health information access. The event must be interprofessional and include librarians as one of the professions. The workshop activities should achieve the following:
Increase the awareness of how different professionals can contribute to addressing a health information access challenge.
Increase knowledge and skills in a significant area of health information access.
Enable workshop participants to i...
Source: MCR News - April 6, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: liaison Tags: Community College/Academic Libraries Funding Health Sciences Source Type: news
Newsletter Naming Contest
The Plains to Peaks Post is 15 years old and it’s time for a change!
Help us find a new name for our newsletter.
Win a cool prize! This beautiful Elizabeth Blackwell “A Curious Herbal” throw blanket will go to the winner!
We’re accepting entries through Wednesday, April 12th. Go to http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/3456507/Newsletter-Contest to submit your entry! You can enter as many times as you’d like.
The RML Staff will choose three (3) finalists from all qualified entries.
From April 18-24, you’ll have a chance to vote on the finalists to choose the winner!
The winner will be announc...
Source: MCR News - April 4, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: liaison Tags: All Members Source Type: news
MCR Voices: New Podcasts Released
MCR Voices podcast interviews with Deb Ward, Director of the J. Otto Lottes Health Sciences Library at the University of Missouri, and Jameson Watkins, Director of the Archie Dykes Library at the University of Kansas Medical Center are now available. You can view them through the following links:
Deb Ward – https://youtu.be/ReJxG6qxjWg
Jameson Watkins – https://youtu.be/f-sPc58wilk
Be sure to give us a “thumbs up” if you learn or hear something valuable in these interviews. (bbj) (Source: MCR News)
Source: MCR News - April 4, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: liaison Tags: All Members Health Sciences Source Type: news
Barb Jones comments on value of librarians to patients
Barb Jones was contacted by the editor of The EngagingPatients blog and asked to comment on the value of librarians to patients. You can read her post at http://www.engagingpatients.org/information-resources/medical-librarians-helping-patients-engage-with-information/ (bbj) (Source: MCR News)
Source: MCR News - March 31, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: liaison Tags: All Members Health Sciences Public Libraries Source Type: news
Job Opening: NNLM Middle Atlantic Region Health Professions Coordinator
The University of Pittsburgh Health Sciences Library System (HSLS) invites applications for the position of Health Professions Coordinator for the Middle Atlantic Region of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NNLM MAR). We are looking for an energetic, creative, innovative, and service-oriented individual interested in being part of a collaborative team that works together to improve access to and sharing of biomedical and health information resources, with an emphasis on resources produced by the National Library of Medicine. The Health Professions Coordinator has primary responsibility for designing and evalua...
Source: MCR News - March 30, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: liaison Tags: Health Sciences Source Type: news
Newsletter Naming Contest
The Plains to Peaks Post is 15 years old and it’s time for a change!
Help us find a new name for our newsletter. We’re accepting entries now through Wednesday, April 12th. Go to http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/3456507/Newsletter-Contest to submit your entry! You can enter as many times as you’d like.
The RML Staff will choose three (3) finalists from all qualified entries.
From April 18-24, you’ll have a chance to vote on the finalists to choose the winner!
The winner will be announced in the RML News on Tuesday April 25.
There will be a cool prize for the winner, so hurry and get your entry in.
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Source: MCR News - March 28, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: liaison Tags: All Members Source Type: news
New Full Text Access Feature in PubMed
With LinkOut you can now add an icon for full-text articles deposited at your institutional repository (IR). Libraries can promote their IR content and the research publications of their institutions by participating. An icon will appear for publications that are not available free from the journal or Pubmed Central (PMC). This should increase the number of citations with links to free full-text. For details on how the IR LinkOut works and how to add your IR content see the NLM Technical Bulletin Mar-April 2017 issue.
Current participants include: Cornell University – Hathi Trust, University of California, Univer...
Source: MCR News - March 23, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: liaison Tags: All Members Source Type: news
Needed: C-suite leaders needed to advance cost impact of the librarian study
Please recruit your C-Suite (CFO/CEO/CMO/CIO/COO) hospital leaders for a 30 minute (max) interview with our health economist, Kari Jones PhD. The conversations with these leaders are crucial in carrying out this cost impact study.
Dr. Jones wants to talk to a chief … about the feasibility of the methodology she has developed and how it may be implemented in the hospital environment from the hospital leadership perspective. She respects the challenging schedules of these individuals and will be very efficient in carrying out the interview. In the phone conversation she will:
describe the study
solicit level of interest i...
Source: MCR News - March 21, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: liaison Tags: Health Sciences Source Type: news
