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This Spotlight! session, Toxicology Resources, will be presented by Dana Abbey.
Are you exploring ways your library can become an active participant in emergency preparedness planning, response and recovery? In this interactive session, learn about National Library of Medicine toxicology resources you can bring to the community of planners, responders, health care professionals, and stakeholders. Discover free, authoritative tools for crisis response, rapid decision making, and consequence management.
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 appr…

The NN/LM Professional Development Libraryis a small collection of materials for professional development opportunities for NN/LM PNR Network members. Read on to see recent additions to our collection.To borrow, please send email to nnlm@u.washington.edu.

Shifting Skills to Navigate the Changing Horizon: Finding Our Way in New Biomedical Research and Health Care Environments. Medical Library Association, April 20, 2011.This webcast introduces information professionals to emerging trends in biomedical research and health care environments that present new opportunities for partnership, collaboration, and support.

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This Spotlight! session, Toxicology Resources, will be presented by Dana Abbey. Are you exploring ways your library can become an active participant in emergency preparedness planning, response and recovery? In this interactive session, learn about National Library of Medicine toxicology resources you can bring to the community of planners, responders, health care professionals, and stakeholders. Discover free, authoritative tools for crisis response, rapid decision making, and consequence management.
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 apprecia…

Two topics:
1) What we learned from the Medical Library Association annual conference – RML staff
2) On April 29, 2011 the University of Utah was awarded the contract to become the NN/LM National Library of Medicine , National Training Center. Join us as Sharon Dennis, formerly Technology Coordinator for the MCR, now Assistant Director the NTC, presents. She will discuss plans for in-person classes, distance education, and e-learning objects related to NLM products. She will also ask participants for feedback and suggestions as we plan the next five years.
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….

The annual DOCLINE Update was conducted by Maria Collins at the 2011 Medical Library Association Meeting. The most immediate announcement affecting libraries concerned the national maximum cost. Starting May 1, 2011, Resource Libraries are no longer limited by the national maximum of $11. They may now charge based on their cost recovery needs. The removal of the nation maximum was implemented due to the large number of requests received by NLM from Resource Libraries to increase the maximum.
For more information on the DOCLINE Update, read the MLA blog posting by Katie Zybeck. Slides from the DOCLINE update will be posted on the NLM website in the near future. (Source: Network News)

This Spotlight! session, Birds Do It, Bees Do It: Sexual Health Resources, will be presented by Siobhan Champ-Blackwell. This presentation offers reliable resources on sexual health, tips on handling the reference interview, and includes sections on resources for teens, GLBT community members, adults, and older adults.
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 aud…

The NLM theater presentations featured at the exhibit booth at the Annual Meeting of the Medical Library Association meeting will bring you up-to-date on several NLM products and servces. (Source: NLM Technical Bulletin)

News of the devastating floods that have impacted portions of the country can serve as a reminder of the importance of setting up library salvage plans in the event of a water emergency. The National Library of Medicine (NLM), the world’s largest medical library, has recently introduced a new site, Emergency Preparedness and Response: How to Safely Stabilize Library Collections in the Event of a Water Emergency.
The website, a collaborative effort by NLM staff from the History of Medicine Division, Preservation and Collection Management Section, National Network Office, Office of Computer and Communications Systems, and the Office of High Performance Computing and Communications Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, contains links to short instructional video…

The National Library of Medicine, the world’s largest medical library and a component of the National Institutes of Health, recently conducted a video contest in which the public was invited to create original short videos, promoting awareness of NLM products and services. (Source: NLM Technical Bulletin)

As part of the Staten Island University Hospitals continuing mission to give the trainees in residency programs outstanding clinical and academic training, the Medical Library provides information literacy instruction to medical residents as a component of their curriculum. For the last few years, two-hour training sessions have been given to the groups of residents on [...] (Source: NN/LM Middle Atlantic Region Blog)