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Newest postings (February 23, 2011): Clinical Services Librarian-Revised, University of Southern California (USC) Norris Medical Library, Los Angeles; Library Account Manager, Kager Publishers, Farmington, Connecticut. The MLANET job page is updated weekly on Wednesdays. Jobs appear chronologically, with the most recent postings at the top of the page, and then alphabetically by state. (Source: Medical Library Association News)

This Spotlight! session presented by John Bramble, will cover three of the National Library of Medicine’s drug related tools: Pillbox; DailyMed; and the beta version of MyMedicationList.

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This Spotlight! session presented by John Bramble, will cover three of the National Library of Medicine’s drug related tools: Pillbox; DailyMed; and the beta version of MyMedicationList.

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Is trying to keep up with information about electronic health records (EHRs) turning everything into a blur? Do you know your HITECH from your HIPAA without screaming “HIE!”? Just how can librarians be a part of the latest way that health information is being used and managed by both clinicians and patients?
Join Nikki Dettmar, Education and Assessment Coordinator, for Making Connections: Electronic Health Records and Librarians, a free online class between February 28 – March 18, 2011 that provides an introduction to electronic health records and the conjunction of health information technology (health IT), information professionals, and patients accessing information through EHRs. The course has been submitted for 3 continuing educ…

Newest posting (February 3, 2011): Associate, AcademyHealth, District of Columbia; Director of Libraries, Georgia Health Sciences University, Georgia. The MLANET job page is updated weekly on Wednesdays. Jobs appear chronologically, with the most recent postings at the top of the page, and then alphabetically by state. (Source: Medical Library Association News)

On November 18th, NLM marked the 50th anniversary of MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) with a talk by Robert Braude, PhD entitled MeSH at 50 – 50th Anniversary of Medical Subject Headings. An archive of this videocast is available at: http://videocast.nih.gov/Summary.asp?File=16292
MeSH was first published in 1960. The seeds of MeSH were planted in December 1947. The Army Medical Library, the NLM predecessor, sponsored a Symposium on Medical Subject Headings in 1947. Participants, who included Seymour Taine, Thelma Charen, and Eugene Garfield, considered the challenges of the bibliographical control of publications. It was noted that the increasing complexity of scientific literature necessitated increasingly sophisticated approaches to organization and access. The participants reco…