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In October 2010, the Gretchen and James Johnson Medical Library at the Matheny Medical and Educational Center received a Technology Improvement Award from NN/LM MAR. In 2008, the library received a grant under the same program whereby it upgraded two computers out of four. The 2010 award allowed the library to upgrade the remaining two [...] (Source: NN/LM Middle Atlantic Region Blog)

This year is the 100th anniversary of the first scientific publication on allergen immunotherapy. Leonard Noon, the father of allergen immunotherapy, called it prophylactic inoculation against hay fever. In his pioneering article, he acknowledged that Dunbar in Hamburg, Germany, through his animal experiments, provided the initial scientific understanding for sensitivity to pollens. Alexandre Besredka in Paris was the first to successfully perform allergen hyposensitization in animals. The foregoing scientific works formed the foundation for prophylactic inoculation against hay fever. However, the concept of prophylactic inoculation, ie, vaccination, was introduced to the Western medicine more than 100 years earlier in 1798 by Edward Jenner. Therefore, it is likely that Leonard…

The National Library of Medicine (NLM), the world’s largest medical library and a component of the National Institutes of Health, has been named a strategic advisor to the Medical Heritage Library (MHL) Digital Collaborative. The MHL is a digital curation collaborative among some of the world’s leading medical libraries, initiated in 2009 by the Open Knowledge Commons to digitize many of the world’s great historical medical books. (Source: NLM General Announcements)

By Ann Pederson
Altru Medical Library
Altru Health System
Grand Forks, ND
Use of social media in the face of disasters has added another facet to disaster assistance and information. The staff at the national Red Cross is reviewing their recent survey and finds that Facebook is the fourth most frequent site uses as a means of obtaining emergency information after traditional broadcast sites. Three out of four individuals expect assistance to arrive within the hour after they have posted a message for help in a disaster.
Surprised? The recent symposium conducted by the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health on March 29-30, 2011, provided participants with a few such surprises along with an expansive overview of disaster experiences and resources. While medical librarian…

Karen Wells, Manager and Reference Librarian, at Medical Library Services, Exempla Lutheran Medical Center in Wheat Ridge, Colorado, has been named recipient of the 2011 Marla Graber Award.
The Marla Graber Award for Excellence and Achievement is awarded annually by the Colorado Council of Medical Librarians (CCML). Established in 2002, the Graber Award recognizes the career of a CCML member who has made outstanding contributions to CCML and to health sciences librarianship at the local level.
Karen, a member of CCML since 1982, has worked in areas of both hard and applied sciences, as well as law and medicine. Widely published, she is regionally known for her work in advocacy, training and mentoring. Congratulations, Karen! For more, please visit http://councilquotes.wordpress.com/catego…

A pilot scheme launched by the Medical Library to enable students and staff to borrow laptops has been extended to provide an ongoing laptop loan service. (Source: University of Bristol news)

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This Spotlight! session on Cancer Resources will be presented by Marty Magee.
Is there an “epidemic” of cancer? How can you find out more? Tune in and learn about multiple sites with content about basic information, topic searches, support, statistics, registries, treatment, and more.
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 w…

The recording from the videocast of the Disaster Information Outreach Symposium, held March 29-30 at NLM, is now available:
Day 1, http://videocast.nih.gov/launch.asp?16561
Day 2, http://videocast.nih.gov/launch.asp?16556
Speakers slides will be added to the videocast in the coming weeks. Medical Library Association continuing education credit is available for watching the videocast through March 2012.
The PowerPoint slides for the class Roadmap to Disaster Health Information Resources and Tools are now available in PDF format at the Class slides link on this page, http://disasterinfo.nlm.nih.gov/dimrc/symposium2011class.html. (Source: Network News)

CONCLUSIONS  Despite the development of many isolated educational interventions, few have been tested rigorously or evaluated under sufficient
standardized conditions to allow for quantitative comparison. Improved and rigorously tested skin cancer educational interventions
for PCPs with outcome measures focusing on changes in performance are needed.

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