National Library of Medicine (NLM) Drug Information Portal, mobile version!

Do you already use the NLM Drug Information Portal in your work? Now there's a mobile version. The mobile version, at http://druginfo.nlm.nih.gov/m.drugportal/ , was released on June 21, 2012. Popular mobile devices will be referred to the mobile site automatically when they access the main Drug Information Portal site, according to the press release.

Read the entire NLM Technical Bulletin (posted June 25, 2012) about this new mobile site.

Disaster Health Information Outreach and Collaboration Project 2012

The National Library of Medicine is again soliciting grant proposals "to design and conduct projects that will improve disaster medicine and public health information access for health professionals, first responders, and others (paid or volunteer) that play a role in health-related disaster preparedness, response, and recovery." 

Need some inspiration?  See the Disaster Health Information Outreach and Collaboration Projects awarded in 2011. Previous recipients include county health departments, university medical centers, health systems, and professional organizations. What will you come up with? 

Grants awarded are for a minimum of $15k up to a max of $30k, for a one-year project. Proposals are due to NLM on August 8, 2012, by 2 PM ET.

(RFP No. NIHLM2012411 and NIHLM2012412)

 

Photos from June 2nd meeting at Baystate Health

Our June 2nd meeting at Baystate Health Center was a great chance to hear more about new medical technology. During our meeting, Lisa Fugiel and Theresa Przybylowicz spoke about their experiences using handheld devices for reference in nurse training. 

After the business meeting, we took a tour of new parts of the health center. It's a beautiful place,  with a rooftop garden and a lot of natural lighting and gentle artificial lighting. They've put a lot of effort into making the new wing a restful place for patients, and a more pleasant place for employees.

Huge thanks to our Baystate Health Center members and Baystate Patient Services for arranging for us to have a thoughtful, thorough tour!

Baystate Health Sciences Library hosts Summer Meeting

Our most recent quarterly meeting happened at Baystate health this past Friday. We listened to nursing faculty from Springfield Technical Community College tell us about how they use mobile apps and ebooks in their teaching and clinicals and also took a tour of the new Heart & Vascular Center at Baystate. Full meeting minutes from June 6th available here.

WMHIC Meeting June 1

WMHIC's summer meeting will be held Friday, June 1, from 9 AM to 12 Noon at Baystate Health Sciences Library at Baystate Medical Center. (The address of the library is 759 Chestnut Street, Springfield, MA 01199.)

Our discussion topic will be mobile apps and mobile devices: please bring any devices you have access to, and we'll do a session of hands-on sharing and learning. See you there!

Registration is open for MLA Annual Meeting in 2012 to be held in Seattle, Washington on May 18-23.

Check out the Annual Meeting Blog, preliminary program information (the official program will be available in May), and the feed of tweets with the hashtag #mlanet12 for more information on what's new and what's happening. This year's Plenary Session speakers are Steven Johnson, Mark E. Funk, AHIP, FMLA, and T. R. Reid.

Metadata Day May 9

National Networks of Libraries of Medicine/New England announces its Metadata Day, a professional development event for New England librarians, to be held May 9.

The event will be held at Hoagland-Pincus Conference Center in Shrewsbury, MA, and will feature speaker Diane Hillmann, Director of Metadata Initiatives, Information Institute of Syracuse. The day will also feature presentations by local metadata librarians.

Registration information will be forthcoming in April 2012. Stay tuned!