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This Spotlight! session focusing on National Library of Medicine Diabetes Resources, will be presented by Marty Magee. 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 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 provided. Questions to mmagee@unmc.edu. (mm) (Source: Midcontinental Region News)

Call for MLA ‘13, ICML, ICAHIS, and ICLC Continuing Education Course and Symposia Ideas: Submit ideas for thought-provoking and innovative courses and symposia to offer at the federated and international meeting in 2013. Ideas are due December 16. (Source: Medical Library Association News)

My wife, Elizabeth Brice, who has died of multiple sclerosis aged 54, fought a long campaign for the medical use of cannabis, based on her experience of the drug’s alleviation of her MS symptoms. Thanks to her dedication, the cannabis-based drug Sativex is now available on prescription for MS sufferers across Europe and in north America.Elizabeth was born in Didsbury, Manchester. She went to Loreto grammar school, Manchester, studied classics at Oxford University and went to Yorkshire Television in 1981. She worked on Where There’s Life with Miriam Stoppard and became a producer at the age of 25. She filmed around the world and then, at 26, was diagnosed with MS.This was not just a disease, but also a challenge: “Disabled people have exactly the same reasons for wanting children as anyo…

This post is to say goodbye and thanks for your friendship and support during my 3+ years with NN/LM PNR. This is my last week in the office. I have accepted a position as Clinical Informationist at The Ohio State University, Prior Health Sciences Library, and will begin work there in mid-October. I look forward to exciting new professional challenges and being closer to family.
It’s been quite an adventure! Three months after starting here, I found myself on a cattle ranch outside of Butte, Montana with Laurel Egan and Gail Kouame. They don’t prepare you for that in library school. Big Sky Country is an amazing place where, as I learned, deer and antelope actually do play. It is also home to champion tennis ball-chasing dogs:

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On March 11, 2011 at 14:46 (Friday), a massive magnitude-9.0 earthquake attacked large areas of northeastern Japan, including Sendai City. The huge earthquake generated catastrophic tsunamis, leading to unprecedented disasters in the seacoast areas of the … (Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated))

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Newest postings (September 7, 2011): Medical Librarian Consultant, American Urological Association, Maryland; Liaison Services LibrarianClinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI), Edward G. Miner Library, University of Rochester Medical Center, New York; Director of Learning Commons, Kettering College, Ohio. 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)

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Newest postings (August 31, 2011): Education Librarian, The University of Arizona College of MedicinePhoenix; SSD Informatics Terminology Specialist, Kaiser Permanente, San Diego, California; The Woodruff Health Sciences Center (WHSC) Library, Emory University, Georgia; GMR Network Services Coordinator, The National Network of Libraries of Medicine Greater Midwest Region, University of IllinoisChicago. 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)