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NN/LM GMR network member Karen Anderson was recently featured in an article in the Minot Daily News, entitled Faster access: More resources make medical information readily available. Karen is director of the Angus Cameron Medical Library at Trinity Health in Minot, North Dakota, and is the University of North Dakota Northwest Clinic Campus Librarian.
Karen discusses [...] (Source: The Cornflower)

A recent report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project found that 61% of American adults are e-patients, meaning they look online for health information. Ina presentation for the Medical Library Association Tri-Chapter Conferenceearlier this month, Lee Rainie, Director of the Pew Internet Project,reported on whatsurvey data indicated about questions like these:

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Join your colleagues on Wednesday, November 18 from 11am-1pm (Pacific time) for the Medical Library Association (MLA) webcast Cut the Cord: Connecting to our Mobile Users. The Pacific Northwest Region (PNR) will host the webcast at the University of Washington Health Sciences Library, Lab B. Please register at http://tinyurl.com/PNRWebcastReg if you are able to join us. There will be no RML Rendezvous this month due to the MLA webcast and holiday timing.
In Idaho, the webcast will be presented at Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center (conference room 5, in Boise by Sandy Hight. Please reserve your spot by emailing her at sandhigh@sarmc.org and she will provide more details regarding meeting early and parking. Refreshments will be provided and participants are welcome to bring or purc…

It’s the next Spotlight! on National Library of Medicine Resources session. The Wednesday, October 28 one-hour webinar class will cover Genetics Home Reference, My Family Health History and Information RX as presented by Wyoming Liaison, Jim Honour.
Tune in on Wednesday, October 28 at 1:00MT/2:00CT. Taking the class and completing the exercises makes you eligible to receive 1 Medical Library Association Continuing Education credit. This online training is FREE, and requires no registration. All you need is a computer with Internet access and a phone. You’ll sign in as a guest, enter your phone number when prompted and the system will call you! Access it by going to: https://webmeeting.nih.gov/mcr. (mm) (Source: Midcontinental Region News)

It’s the next Spotlight! on National Library of Medicine Resources session. The Wednesday, October 28 one-hour webinar class will cover Genetics Home Reference, My Family Health History and Information RX as presented by Wyoming Liaison, Jim Honour.
Tune in on Wednesday, October 28 at 1:00MT/2:00CT. Taking the class and completing the exercises makes you eligible to receive 1 Medical Library Association Continuing Education credit. This online training is FREE, and requires no registration. All you need is a computer with Internet access and a phone. You’ll sign in as a guest, enter your phone number when prompted and the system will call you! Access it by going to: https://webmeeting.nih.gov/mcr. (mm) (Source: Midcontinental Region News)

The MDMLG directory for 2009-2010 is now available on the members only portion of the website. Please contact me at abondar1@hfhs.org if you have any questions. Thank you. –AudreyAudrey BondarMembership Services (Source: MDMLG / Metropolitan Detroit Medical Library Group)

October is an important month! Medical Librarians Month is during October, and National Physician Assistant Week is October 6-12. Librarians and Physician Assistants (PAs) are natural partners to address patient education and health information literacy.
Health information literacy is an important component of patient care. Included as an objective in the Healthy People 2010 report, “Understanding and Improving Health”, it has been shown to be a strong influence in health outcomes. As health care becomes more expensive, poor health information literacy can increase heath care costs even further as people with low health information literacy are more at risk.
Physician Assistants, licensed to practice medicine in partnership with a physician, are also patient educators and often…

The latest issue of the MDMLG News is now available online. Click here to access the PDF. The issue is also available from the Current MDMLG News link this page: http://www.mdmlg.org/news.htm.If you have any article suggestions or news items for future issues, please send them to jkrzemi1@hfhs.org.Thank you,JoAnn KrzeminskiMDMLG News Editor (Source: MDMLG / Metropolitan Detroit Medical Library Group)

It’s the next Spotlight! on National Library of Medicine Resources session. The Wednesday, October 28 one-hour webinar class will cover Genetics Home Reference, My Family Health History and Information RX as presented by Wyoming Liaison, Jim Honour.
Tune in on Wednesday, October 28 at 1:00MT/2:00CT. Taking the class and completing the exercises makes you eligible to receive 1 Medical Library Association Continuing Education credit. This online training is FREE, and requires no registration. All you need is a computer with Internet access and a phone. You’ll sign in as a guest, enter your phone number when prompted and the system will call you! Access it by going to: https://webmeeting.nih.gov/mcr. (mm) (Source: Midcontinental Region News)

1980 In library school I thought: Why do I have to take a class in computing? I am going to be working with people, not machines.
1982 As a trainee at the VA Medical Center in Washington DC learning to search MEDLINE was challenging, and FUN. The Texas Instruments Silent 700 with built in acoustic coupler printed the results on a roll of thermal paper while ripping along at 300 baud. No more searching through multiple volumes of Index Medicus.
Texas Instruments Silent 700 with Acoustic Coupler*
1983-4 I remember ELHILL. So many databases, so little time: MEDLINE, AVLINE, BIOETHICSLINE, POPLINE, CATLINE, SERLINE
1985 Moved to Seattle at the same time as NLMs automated interlibrary loan request and referral system, DOCLINE, came into existence. Hurray – no m…