New FIND/SVP report: Flawed Online Searches Costing US Businesses $31 Billion Each Year [ http://www.find.com/about/survey.htm ]. This report may help your library put a better value on its services.

Are you looking for an opportunity to share with other librarians through publication? Consider the following sources when you are sharing what you have learned 'in the trenches' as a librarian.

"The One Person Library": A newsletter for Librarians and Management [ http://www.ibi-opl.com/newsletter/ ]

National Network of Libraries of Medicine regional offices have newslettters that offer sharing opportunities to their respective network members. Just click on your region to find out the contact information: [ http://nnlm.gov/ ]

Add to this or another library blog. Send me items of interest to other librarians: thartman@unmc.edu . A list of other library-related blogs can be found here:http://www.libdex.com/weblogs.html

Create a blog of your own! (Search 'create blog' in Google, and locate many sites that will host your blog.)

This article is in today's Technology section of the NY Times: Old Search Engine, the Library, Tries to Fit Into a Google World [ http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/21/technology/21LIBR.html?ex=1088826624&ei=1&en=fcab43e86c2bc056 ]. Of additional interest is the April report: Access In the Future Tense, published by the Council On Library and Information Resources: [ http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub126abst.html ].

[listed on EQUIDAD email list (Pan American Health Organization)]

A glossary for evidence based public health

Lucie Rychetnik, Michael Frommer, Sydney Health Projects Group, School of
Public Health, University of Sydney, Australia

Penelope Hawe, Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research, Department
of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Canada and School of
Public Health, LaTrobe University, Victoria, Australia

Elizabeth Waters, Centre for Community Child Health, University of
Melbourne, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Victoria, Australia, and
Cochrane Health Promotion and Public Health Field

Alexandra Barratt, Screening and Test Evaluation Program, School of Public
Health, University of Sydney, Australia

J Epidemiol Community Health 2004;58:538-545

[ http://jech.bmjjournals.com/cgi/reprint/58/7/538 ]
[ http://jech.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/58/7/538 ]

This glossary seeks to define and explain some of the main concepts
underpinning evidence based public health. It draws on the published
literature, experience gained over several years analysis of the topic, and
discussions with public health colleagues, including researchers,
practitioners, policy makers, and students

Marketing and Partnership Resources & Contacts
These are posted for a the breakout session I facilitated at the recent Unlocking the Mysteries of Consumer Health Information conference, hosted by the University of Missouri-Columbia. If you have questions about any of these links, or about issues involved with marketing and/or library partnerships, please contact me by email.

Public Libraries as Partners in Community Information Provision
[ http://databases.si.umich.edu/cfdocs/community/LibPartnerDisplay.cfm ]
Community network partnering [ http://www.benton.org/publibrary/ ]

An early (1980) article: Consumer Health Information: Libraries as Partners
[ http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=226479 ]

Other organizations are looking for partners
[ http://www.health.org/initiatives/partnersinprev/ ]

Use Best Practices to plan for future activities
[ http://www.consal.org.sg/webupload/resource/brief/attachments/%7B16EE107F-F8D7-4FFB-B47C-B17BBE3CE680%7D.pdf ]
[ http://www.si.umich.edu/libhelp/best.htm ]
[ http://www.ala.org/ala/pla/resources/bestpractices.htm ]

Use Environmental Scans to help guide strategic planning
[ http://www.oclc.org/membership/escan/introduction/default.htm ]

Advertise where your audience will see it
[ http://www.mocities.com/default.asp?javascript=1 ]
[ http://clarionhotels.orbitz.com/Clarion_Collection_Hotel_Bothwell_Sedalia.htm ]
[ http://www.ancestry.com/library/view/columns/extra/2178.asp ]
[ http://www.claycogov.com/Text/Links/links.php ]

Marketing resources
[ http://www.chrisolson.com/marketingtreasures/ ]
[ http://www.ssdesign.com/librarypr/toolbox.html ]
Learn from other industries also facing online competition [ http://solutions.sheshunoff.com/MarketingWorks/ ]
5 strategic marketing resolutions [ http://channelzone.ziffdavis.com/article2/0,1759,1427642,00.asp ]
[ http://www.librarysupportstaff.com/marketinglibs.html ]
[ http://www.lff.org/ ]
See if any of your other vendors have developed marketing resources (it is in their best interest, too!) [ http://www.galegroup.com/free_resources/marketing/find_yourself/ ]
We can learn from the Canadians [ http://www.visityourlibrary.net/promoting_libraries.html ]
and the Australians [ http://www.nla.gov.au/libraries/resource/friends.html ]
Business cards as marketing tools [ http://www.professorprint.com/business_card_marketing.html ]
Make sure you are marketing quality services [ http://www.libqual.org/About/Information/index.cfm ]
An example of promoting multimedia collection (do you have health-related multimedia?) [ http://eduscapes.com/seeds/promote.html ]

Use consumer health information as a reason to gain/give training to library staff and trustees, as well as a way to get recognition for additional training you have taken
MLA Certification program [ http://www.mlanet.org/education/chc/index.html ]
ICON's "The Librarian Is In" Workbook and trigger tape set [ http://www.iconlibrary.org/hhqvideo.html ]

Two blogs that would interest librarians:
Open Access News: News from the open access movement [ http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html ]
The Handheld Librarian [ http://www.handheldlib.blogspot.com ]

The Network News: Newsletter for the South Central Region (NN/LM) has an article of interest to librarians working with National Library of Medicine databases: What's new with NLM Databases? [ http://nnlm.gov/scr/scnn/mar-apr04/databases.htm ].

An article in the current issue of the Journal of Medical Internet Research of interest to librarians working with consumer health: Health attitudes, health cognitions, and health behaviors among Internet health information seekers: population-based survey. [ http://www.jmir.org/2004/2/e15/index.htm ]

Two articles mentioned on medlib today that would surely be of interest to librarians dealing with EBM and/or search strategies:
Optimal search strategies for retrieving scientiffically strong studies of diagnosis from MEDLINE: analytical survey. Haynes, RB, et al. p. 1040 [ http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/content/vol328/issue7447/ ]
A simple method for evaluating the clinical literature. Flaherty, RJ [ http://www.aafp.org/fpm/20040500/47asim.html ]

Teach-nology, the web portal for educators [ http://www.teach-nology.com/sitemap/ ]. Designed for teachers, this site has resources that I have found useful. When teaching someone brand new to using the mouse, use the Practice With a Mouse [ http://teachers.teach-nology.com/web_tools/mouse/ ]. (Hey, that might even be a site that physical and occupational therapists would want to know about.) Another topic of interest to me is Fundraising, under General Ideas [ http://www.teach-nology.com/ideas/ ].The site has pop-up ads, but my Google toolbar catches most of them. There are membership options for the site, but some resources are available without signing in.

"Finding Technology Funding" at eSchool News online is a resource that may be of interest to librarians (or librarians that support educators looking for technology funding). [ http://www.eschoolnews.com/resources/reports/grants/ ]

For those interested in EBM - Evaluating Health Services: A Reporter Covers the Science of Research Synthesis [ http://www.milbank.org/reports/2004Moynihan/040330Moynihan.html#executive#executive ], by Ray Moynihan.

If you are considering collaboration on campus to create an 'institutional repository' as a way to share scholarly communication and open archives, you should read this article by Clifford Lynch: [ http://www.arl.org/newsltr/226/ir.html ]

I thought you would like to see what some of our future students were up to for prom: [ http://www.iolaregister.com/registerarchive/stuck.html ]. I found these students' creative use of duct tape for prom regalia refreshing! The fashions were created for a nationwide scholarship contest. (And as a mother of college-bound children, I will be encouraging my brood to apply and sweat for the scholarship as well!)

"Students check out the web instead of the library", Star Tribune, May 7, 2004: [ http://www.startribune.com/viewers/story.php?template=print_a&story=4763459 ]. This story is a real-world scenario that the OCLC Environmental Scan described in its findings.

ARL posted the latest salary survey in April here: [ http://www.arl.org/newsltr/233/salsvy.html ]

A MUST SEE for all librarians!
Lorcan Dempsey, OCLC's Vice President of Research and Chief Strategist, recently presented to the Library and Archives Canada. The presentation: "The pattern is new in every moment: observations on issues affecting libraries and archives within the frameworkof the 2003 OCLC environmental scan", has 60 slides, and can be viewed here: [ http://www.oclc.org/research/presentations/dempsey/larc.ppt ] The OCLC 2003 Environmental Scan can be downloaded (free registration required) here: [ http://www.oclc.org/membership/escan/default.htm ].

At the risk of becoming a suspect myself, I thought you would like to read about one student's experiences after filing a FOIA request for information on campus steam tunnels: [ http://www.dailytexanonline.com/news/2004/05/06/TopStories/Fbi-Investigates.Underground.Tunnel.Requests-678980.shtml?page=1 ]

The Public Library of Science has a new journal: PLoS Medicine. The open-access journal is now accepting manuscript submissions: [ http://www.plosmedicine.org/medicine/ ]. PLoS Medicine will publish "important advances in all disciplines, including epidemiology and public health." All you writing librarians out there - consider this avenue for publishing your manuscript.

Evidence based medicine article, posted to medlib today by Tanya Feddern:
Oosterhuis WP, Bruns DE, Watine J, Sandberg S, Horvath AR. Evidence-based guidelines in laboratory medicine: Principles and methods. Clinical Chemistry, 2004 May; 50(5):806-818.
[ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=PureSearch&db=pubmed&details_term=15105349%5BUID%5D ] You can also just type in the PMID number in the PubMed search box to retrieve the citation: 15105349

The Guardian put Google's claim of being the fastest and most accurate way to get information. Three reporters searched for answers, each using a different source: Google, phoning someone, and using the library (without assistance). The results might not surprise you: [ http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/news/0,12597,1210455,00.html ]. Now, for the contest between Google and a team of subject specialist reference librarians! That would be a reality show to watch.

Have you been wondering if your students are catching all the information and tips you present on your web pages or in your classes? Maybe not, according to studies on visual cognition reported in the Telegraph [ http://tinyurl.com/2jzwe ]. There is also a link to online demonstrations, in case you want to test your own powers of observation: [

The Kaiser Family Foundation has announced a site for health policy students and faculty: [ http://kaiseredu.org/ ]

Is your library considering migrating to open source? Here is an article about a public library and their migration to the Linux operating system: [ http://www.newsforge.com/os/04/05/03/1520209.shtml ]

The U.S. Department of Education has developed a guide to help with identifying evidence-based education research. This information would be useful to anyone going after an education grant. The report, Identifying and Implementing Educational Practices Supported by Rigorous Evidence: A User Friendly Guide, can be found here [ http://www.ed.gov/rschstat/research/pubs/rigorousevid/index.html ]

A great article on Libraries in the New York Times: Libraries Wired, Reborn [ http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/22/technology/circuits/22gate.html?ei=5062&en=cad7513eee35ba2f&ex=1083211200&partner=GOOGLE&pagewanted=all ]

A free online newsletter for news and events on distance education in medicine and health: EduMed [ http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/edumednewsletter/ ]

The Webby Awards may offer a few sites for your next education class. The Health nominees are here [ http://www.webbyawards.com/main/webby_awards/nominees.html#health ], and Science is listed here [ http://www.webbyawards.com/main/webby_awards/nominees.html#science ]

The complete text of Managing Knowledge in Health Services (2000) is now free to read online at [ http://www.shef.ac.uk/scharr/mkhs/index.htm ]. Chapters include Marketing a Service, Consumer Health Information, Evaluating information services, Keeping up to date with the knowledge base, and many others.

New book from National Academies Press: Electronic Scientific, Technical, and Medical Journal Publishing and Its Implications: Report of a Symposium . You can read an online edition of this book at [ http://www.nap.edu/catalog/10969.html ]

There is an interesting story on the FBI raiding a school district for copyright infringement, and a discussion among SlashDot members at [ http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/04/04/22/1223203.shtml?tid=123&tid=141&tid=146&tid=188&tid=99 ] . The Justice Department's official press release is here, calling it Operation Fastlink [ http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/2004/April/04_crm_263.htm ]

The Pew Internet & American Life Project has released its report "Broadband Penetration on the Upswing: 55% of Adult Internet Users Have Broadband at Home or Work" [ http://www.pewinternet.org/reports/toc.asp?Report=120 ]. There are also two charts of interest to librarians. One, Daily Activities for Overall Internet Population [ http://www.pewinternet.org/reports/chart.asp?img=Daily_Activities_3.22.04.htm ]. The second chart shows the percentage of Internet users who have ever done an activity [ http://www.pewinternet.org/reports/chart.asp?img=Internet_Activities_3.22.04.htm ]

Somehow, I missed this April Fool's story on Outsourcing Library Directors and Staff , from the FreeRepublic [ http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/1110271/posts ].
I found the above today while looking for outsourcing news, after reading this article in Modern Healthcare: Outsourcing Everything? [ http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article.cms?articleId=32223&TopicId=27 ]. If you are in a library that serves health care administration, you should share this article. It talks about how outsourcing can impact charitable status of health care organizations.

Higher Education Coalition Comments Filed With the FCC Regarding Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) and Internet Service Providers [ http://www.educause.edu/asp/doclib/abstract.asp?ID=NET0404 ]. The Coalition includes the American Library Association, Association of Research Libraries, and EDUCAUSE, along with higher education associations.

GREAT story on the benefits of using reference librarians! "Best Search Engine? A librarian" by Zay N. Smith, Chicago Sun-Times, April 11, 2004 [ http://www.suntimes.com/output/lifestyles/cst-nws-zay11.html ]

Your library users that are interested in community health and/or public health, as well as those working towards the electronic health record, would be interested in this site: eHealth Initiative: Connecting Communities for Better Health Resource Center [ http://ccbh.ehealthinitiative.org/default.mspx ]. There are many great links in the "helpful links" section on the right side of the home page, including MLA's consumer information sources, and the homepage for NLM.

Looking for resources to determine the return on investment for your library?
A great example of estimate of annual added value (plus has a citation at the bottom that you might be able to use) [ http://www.dot.state.mn.us/library/mndot_library_benefits.html ]

A discussion about ROI that may give you a starting place
[ http://www.dialog.com/communities/forums/messageview.cfm?catid=3&threadid=13 ]

Article on value and ROI from March 2003 Information Outlook
[ http://www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m0FWE/3_7/99011610/p1/article.jhtml ]

There is also a pre-recorded webcast "The Library's Contribution to Your Community" on [ http://www.illinoislibrarysystems.info/advocacy/advocacyday2004.html ] that may help you identify value points.

Don't forget to check with your local Special Library Association chapter members for additional ideas. Special libraries have long been in the ROI arena, and may have resources to help you.

The Institute of Medicine has completed its report "Health Literacy: A prescription to end confusion" [ http://www.iom.edu/report.asp?id=19723 ] . The report can be purchased, or read free online at [ http://www.nap.edu/books/0309091179/html/ ].

The latest Pew Internet Project Data Memo has been released, showing the most recent Internet tracking data. [ http://www.pewinternet.org/reports/pdfs/PIP_April2004_Data_Memo.pdf ] For the tracking survey done in February 2004, they recorded the highest numbers of Americans using computers.

Open access is discussed in a new article on the American Medical News site. "Journal free for all: The future of scientific publishing", by Victoria Stagg Elliot, April 19, 2004 [ http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2004/04/19/hlsa0419.htm ]. There is a link to send a letter to the editor.

The National Library of Medicine has announced the next NCBI Advanced Training Course, with a registration deadline of May 31, 2004. The five-day course is scheduled for August 2-6, 2004. The course website is: [ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Class/NAWBIS/ ]. Space is limited to 9 people.

Looking for ideas to help with training?
Quick Training Tips [ http://www.quicktrainingtips.com/ ]
Workshops for Trainers [ http://www.langevin.com/career ]
ASTD Do Your Own Research resources (some are members only) [http://www.astd.org/astd/resources/dyor/about_dyor ]
Bibliographic instruction topics in the i-DLR [ http://tiger.coe.missouri.edu/~rafee/iDLR/sitelist1.php?cid=33&catclick=148 ]

Developed by the Kaiser Family Foundation, kaiserEDU gives health policy
students and faculty easy access to data, literature, news and developments
regarding major health policy topics and debates.[ http://www.kaiseredu.org/ ] Thanks to Siobhan Champ-Blackwell for this item.

Informed Consensus: How to work with patients to achieve positive
treatment [ http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2004/04/05/hlsa0405.htm ]

excerpt of interest to librarians justifying their services:
"The ease of obtaining medical information from the Internet is another
driver, as is the growth of research on evidence-based medicine. "We
realized that if you really want evidence-based practice you need to not
only inform the professionals, but you need to inform patients," Dr.
O'Connor says."

Take a look at what Google has added in its search features: [ http://www.google.com/whatsnew/ ].

from an NIH press release [ http://www.nih.gov/news/pr/mar2004/od-26.htm ]: NIH and FDA Launch New Human Gene Transfer Research Data System. A quote from the release: "GeMCRIS, developed collaboratively by the two agencies, is a unique public information resource as well as an important new electronic tool to facilitate the reporting and analysis of adverse events on these trials. The new system will provide information to the public directly and will improve the government's ability to monitor adverse events in gene transfer research, also known as gene therapy." The GeMCRIS site is [ http://www.gemcris.od.nih.gov/ ].

Wonderful quote from Google executive, posted by Karen Albert on MEDLIB yesterday:
From:CBS News Sunday Morning:Inside The Wide World Of Google
March 28, 2004
[ http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/03/25/sunday/main608672.shtml ]
But despite the tiny distraction of $20 billion, Google's executives hope they can keep their eye on the ball. For them, cataloging the Web is only the beginning.

"My guess is about 300 years until computers are as good as, say, your
local reference library in doing search," says Craig Silverstein. "But we can make
slow and steady progress, and maybe one day we'll get there."

Inflation projections for the next year, thanks to a message on MEDLIB posted by Nancy O'Brien:
Projected inflation for books is 5%
(Matthews); U.S. Journals 8-10%, UK Journals 10-12% and European
Journals 12-14% (Ebsco); Databases 9% (Ovid)

The Free Expression Policy Project has a public policy report that may be of interest to librarians: "The Progress of Science and Useful Arts": why copyright today threatens intellectual freedom [ http://www.fepproject.org/policyreports/copyright2dexsum.html ].

Here is an open source Course Management System that I just learned about: Moodle [ http://moodle.org/ ]. What the developers say is better about this software is its grounding in "social constructionist pedagogy", allowing teachers to keep in mind what is "best for learning from the learner's point of view".

The old AskERIC service has been discontinued, but the services it conducted are now hosted by Syracuse University, called The Educator's Reference Desk [ http://www.eduref.org/ ]. Librarians familiar with education sources of information can now volunteer to help maintain the online reference collection [ http://www.eduref.org/About/volunteers.shtml ].

TabletPCs are being used by patients in a Memphis cancer clinic, according to this Mobile Health Data story [ http://www.mobilehealthdata.com/article.cfm?articleId=706&banner=b1 ]. Wouldn't this be a great way to connect the patients to the health information library while they are waiting for their appointments?

The Pew Internet Project has just released its new report: Older Americans and the Internet [ http://www.pewinternet.org/reports/toc.asp?Report=117 ] .

Creating community in distance classes can be a challenge. If you teach or support faculty that conduct distance classes, you may find this resource useful: Icebreaker Ideas Submitted By DEOS Members and SNHU Faculty [ http://acadweb.snhu.edu/DE/Goddard_Gretchen/icebreaker%20activities.htm ] .

The National Network of Libraries of Medicine has announced a Request for Proposals for projects involving Access to Electronic Health Information [ http://nnlm.gov/projects/funding/aehi_rfp2004/ ] . Deadline for proposal submission: June 4, 2004.

A paper in the Journal of Medical Internet Research that may be of interest to education librarians in medical schools: Experience and Attitudes Towards Information Technology Among First-Year Medical Students in Denmark: Longitudinal Questionaire Survey [ http://www.jmir.org/2004/1/e10/index.htm ] . The paper's author is Jens Dorup, MD, PhD.

A paper in the Journal of Medical Internet Research that may be of interest to librarians serving consumers: Online Pediatric Information Seeking Among Mothers of Young Children: Results From a Qualitative Study Using Focus Groups [ http://www.jmir.org/2004/1/e7/index.htm ] . The paper's authors are Jay M. Bernhardt, PhD, MPH, and Elizabeth M. Felter, MA.

AMNews reports on a study that tracked learning via online CME: [ http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2004/03/22/prsb0322.htm ] . This award-winning study was funded by the Merck Co. Foundation.

A resource for effective writing, writing for science, and writing for advocacy has been developed by the International Development Research Centre. Title: An Interactive Guide to Effective Writing, Writing for Science, and Writing for Advocacy.Authors are Alan Barker and Firoze Manji. To access the free online version, go to [ http://web.idrc.ca/IMAGES/books/WFC_English/WFC_English/ ].

An item was posted to the MEDREF-L listserv regarding a grant opportunity with the Rural Utilities Service’s Distance Learning and Telemedicine Program. Applications are being accepted until April 30, 2004. For more information, visit [ http://www.usda.gov/rus/telecom/dlt/dlt.htm ]

A source for grant and nonprofit fundraising related information [ http://www.lib.msu.edu/harris23/grants/4fcelec.htm ] , maintained at the Michigan State University Libraries.

Two great web resources for Instruction/Education Librarians:

Resources for Instructors [ http://www.ala.org/ala/acrlbucket/is/projectsacrl/resourcesinstructors.htm ] , maintained by the Instruction Section of ALA/ACRL

Instruction Links [ http://www.emich.edu/public/loex/islinks/islinks.htm ] , maintained by the LOEX Clearinghouse for Library Instruction. (Thanks to Heather Brown for this posting-th)

Considering setting up electronic reserves to support faculty and students? There is a Electronic Reserves Clearinghouse (dated Aug 2003): [ http://www.mville.edu/administration/Staff/Jeff_Rosedale/ ] . Vendors, publishers, and copyright policies surrounding electronic reserves issues are linked here.

New Pew Internet report: Rural Americans’ Internet use has grown, but they continue to lag behind
others [ http://www.pewinternet.org/reports/toc.asp?Report=112 ]

Keeping up with search engine news? Try the Search Engine Lowdown blog [ http://www.searchenginelowdown.com/ ]. If you have other favorite sources of search engine information that could prove useful to others teaching users, please email them to thartman@unmc.edu .

Google now has access to more than 6 billion items. Story from BusinessWire [ http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20040217005529&newsLang=en ]

The National Library of Medicine's Division of Specialized Information Services (SIS) has introduced the "Review of PDA Applications in Toxicology and Environmental Health," [ http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/Tox/PDAReview/PDAHomePage.htm ] an ongoing descriptive review of selected PDA applications in the fields of toxicology and environmental health.
Individual reports in the review series are based on downloadable demo versions of selected PDA applications. Each review typically covers: General Information, Intended Users, Authorship/Data Source, Contents, Navigation, Requirements, Application Type/Price, Availability, Useful Web Links, and Updates when applicable.

URAC study finds problems with access to credible health information online, calls for more help for consumers [ http://www.urac.org/news_release.asp?navid=news&pagename=news_releases&id=1049 ]

Article of interest: Cochrane proposes further limits on commercial funding. BMJ 2004; 328:366 (14 February) Link to article [ http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/328/7436/366 ]

Article of interest: Information needs of residents during inpatient and outpatient rotations: identifying effective personal digital assistant applications.
Barrett JR, Strayer SM, Schubart JR. Proc AMIA Symp. 2003;:784 PMID 14728289

If you are planning a new library or renovation to your current facility, the National Library of Medicine has a great page of planning resources, links to building projects, and help/advice links. Library as Place Planning Resources [ http://www.nlm.nih.gov/programs/building/index.html ]

Check out new PubMed search filters article in the Jan/Feb 2004 NLM Technical Bulletin: Beta Test on Health Services Research (HSR) Filters for Searching PubMed [ http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/jf04/jf04_hsr.html ]

Article of interest posted by Cathy Jordon, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, on medlib today: Peterson MW. Medical students' use of information resources: is the digital
age dawning?
Academic Medicine 2004 Jan; 79(1): 89-95

Free online magazine of interest: eLearn Magazine-Education and Technology in Perspective [ http://www.elearnmag.org/ ] . There is a column listing Predictions for 2004 in the current issue.

If there is a governing or advisory board in your life, the Free Toolkit for Boards would be a useful resource. [ http://www.mapnp.org/library/boards/boards.htm ]

A study conducted by HP Laboratories on how and why people give up their private information is linked here: [ http://www.hpl.hp.com/research/idl/papers/deviance/index.html ]

Free Management Library for non-profits and for-profits: [ http://www.mapnp.org/library/ ] . This resource is for personal, professional, and organizational development.

National Library Week is coming up, April 18 - 24, 2004. Browse on the following link to Microsoft Office resources to locate templates that can help with your library's public relations: [ http://office.microsoft.com/templates/ ]

You may find this site useful if you design web pages: Colorcombo - visualize color combinations for web-design [ http://www.colorcombo.com ] . There is a link on the page to allow free downloading of the site for off-line use. They also sell the charts on a cd for a nominal fee.

AskERIC has changed into The Educator's Reference Desk [ http://www.eduref.org/ ] . Resource guides, lesson plans, question archives, and Search ERIC Database are all linked from the site. There is a section on Librarianship that includes librarian education (although the information listed there isn't comprehensive).

The Information Commons Productions Services in
Hardin Library for the Health Sciences at The University of Iowa has released a beta edition of iLecture, the simple online lecture delivery system. The system allows users to record voice-overs on PowerPoint slides. They are seeking beta users for this tool. Find out more about the system and request consideration as a beta user at this site: [ http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/commons/ilecture/ ]

If your organization is considering e-learning tools for purchase, please check out this site created by the US Department of Labor: Advanced Learning Technology Resource Center's Test Drive [http://www.altrc.org/testdrive.asp ] There are many other valuable resources on the ALTRC site for learners and developers of e-learning.

The LOEX Clearinghouse for Library Instruction has links to assignments, syllabi, electronic classrooms, tutorials, and many other topics. This is a great site to check out for teaching resources. [ http://www.emich.edu/public/loex/islinks/islinks.htm ]

There is a new set of quick, simple guides to using the Internet (tutorials plus assessment feedback) developed by the 21st Century Information Fluency Project: [ http://wizard.imsa.edu/teach/micro ]. The tutorials are suitable for 6th grade through adult learners. Topics covered include: copyright, search tips and tools, evaluating web resources, etc. A teacher's guide is also available [ http://wizard.imsa.edu/teach/micro/page3.htm ]

Findings from the first international study of Internet users are in the recently released World Internet Project Report [ http://www.ccp.ucla.edu/pages/WhatNew.asp ] at the UCLA Center for Communication Policy.

Online, full-text, and free - just what most patrons are asking for these days. As librarians, we are also looking for quality control. The Directory of Open Access Journals, in cooperation with SPARC [ http://www.doaj.org/articles/news/030512/ ] , based at Lund University, Lund, Sweden, is a database of nearly 700 journal worldwide journal titles. They also have information on how to include the journals in a library's collection [ http://www.doaj.org/articles/questions/#metadata ]. The database records can be harvested from the Open Archives Initiative [ http://www.openarchives.org/ ] .

To hide the toolbars and buttons on Internet Explorer in order to have more screen space for web site demonstrations, hit the F11 key. When the demonstration is over, or you need the regular buttons and toolbars back, hit the F11 key again.

There is a great blog that covers library career information and professional development information: Beyond the Job [ http://librarycareers.blogspot.com ]

Is your library considering purchasing/collecting resources to support Evidence-Based Health Care education? There is a list of resources on the Denison Library's page for their workshop on How to Practice Evidence-Based Health Care that may help your library's plans: [ http://denison.uchsc.edu/education/ebhc.html ]

Educating health professionals? Check out this free to read online book from the National Academies Press - Health Professions Education: A Bridge to Quality (2003) [ http://www.nap.edu/books/0309087236/html/ ]

Articles in the journal Lancet of interest to librarians:

Publishers face backlash over rising subscription costs: High prices have led some US institutions to cancel subscriptions to, or even boycott, scientific journals, The Lancet, Volume 363, Issue 9402, 3 January 2004, Pages 44-45

Where now for problem based learning?, The Lancet, Volume 363, Issue 9403, 10 January 2004, Page 174

IBM has developed Web Fountain, an analysis engine for web information that may prove useful to anyone mining data (especially librarians). [ http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/publicfeature/jan04/0104comp1.html ] One of the first resellers is Factiva, with the cost of their service estimated at $150,000 to $300,000 per year.

The UTHSCA Library publishes the Hispanic Americans and Health Bibliography Series annually. MEDLINE, CINAHL, and PsycInfo databases are searched, but the bibliography only lists citations from journals that are owned by the Briscoe Library at UTHSCA. [ http://www.library.uthscsa.edu/basics/hisbib.cfm ]

BMJ has an editorial of interest to librarians:
Preserving today's scientific record for tomorrow
[ http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/328/7431/61?eaf ]

"Distance Education in Public Health" is a new title in the Current Bibliographies in Medicine at the National Library of Medicine. It lists 471 citations from January 1998 through October 2003. [ http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/cbm/distanceeducationph.html ]

Are you following a current topic in the news to prepare for your next presentation? Would it help you serve your patrons better if you had current links to news that interest them? Try the Google News Alert service (still in beta version) [ http://www.google.com/newsalerts ]
You can specify alerts to be sent once a day or when the news happens.

Teaching new and experienced users about the Internet and the WWW usually at some time involves a discussion about privacy. In case you need an example of a site that has changed its privacy policy recently, here is a story about Disney [ http://news.com.com/2100-1038-5133045.html ] The site will now allow sharing of user information with third parties as the default setting.

Knowing how or if your users are accessing the Internet could make a huge difference to your program. The Pew Internet & American Life posts Internet Project Reports based on their research. The latest one, posted Dec. 22, 2003, is "America's Online Pursuits: The changing picture of who's online and what they do" [ http://www.pewinternet.org/reports/toc.asp?Report=106 ]

If you are looking for up-to-date resources to add current interest to your training sessions, don't forget to check the MEDLINEplus.gov site. An example is the health topic Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, which is the human version of Mad Cow Disease (a topic in today's news): [ http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/creutzfeldtjakobdisease.html ]

If your patrons use EndNote, there is a new filter for PubMed located at [ http://www.endnote.com/support/enfilters.asp ]