Coming Soon: New Regional Medical Libraries Designations 2021-2026
Last June, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) published the Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) for the 2021-2026 Regional Medical Libraries (RMLs), the central component of the Network of the National Library of Medicine (NNLM). Health sciences libraries submitted proposal applications in September. An official announcement from the NLM regarding the new RMLs is forthcoming. The start date for the new Cooperative Agreement is May 1, 2021.
The RMLs carry out regional and national programs in support of the mission to provide U.S. researchers, health professionals, public health workforce, educators, and the publ...
Source: The Cornflower - March 19, 2021 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Miles Dietz-Castel Tags: Blog Source Type: news
Help NNLM Improve its Funding Process!
The Network of the National Library of Medicine (NNLM), Greater Midwest Region is requesting feedback regarding our funding process. Whether you have applied for funding through NNLM or not, your feedback will be valuable in helping us continuously improve our funding program. Please consider taking 10 minutes to fill out the following questionnaire: https://uiowa.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cXRc7nUbo98wqbk
The questionnaire will remain open until March 31, 2021. We appreciate your time!The post Help NNLM Improve its Funding Process! first appeared on Midwest Matters. (Source: The Cornflower)
Source: The Cornflower - March 18, 2021 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Miles Dietz-Castel Tags: Blog Funding General Source Type: news
Responding to the COVID-19 Infodemic: An NNLM Virtual Symposium April 8-9
Responding to the COVID-19 Infodemic: An NNLM Virtual Symposium
Symposium website: https://nnlm.vfairs.com/en/
We are excited to announce that registration is open for a new NNLM virtual symposium focused on addressing the COVID-19 Infodemic in our communities.
What is the Symposium about?
The COVID-19 pandemic highlights the disparities of underserved, minority and underrepresented communities. This includes ensuring equal understanding of accurate health information, education in hard hit communities and valuing inclusion in clinical research to overcome COVID-19.
The NNLM Virtual Symposium is an opportunity to address m...
Source: The Cornflower - March 10, 2021 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Miles Dietz-Castel Tags: Conferences and Meetings Source Type: news
Test the Waters Family Exploration Kit
In partnership with Cornerstones of Science and the NIH All of Us Research Program, the Network of the National Libraries of Medicine (NNLM) is offering an exciting new citizen science resource to public libraries. The Test the Waters Family Exploration Kit is a fun, accessible, loanable kit which includes four family friendly activities, and all the instructions and materials needed (audio file guides are available in in Arabic, Chinese, English, Spanish and Vietnamese).
The free kits are available to the first 400 requesting libraries! They come in a lockable plastic tote and can fit on a typical library shelf. Ap...
Source: The Cornflower - March 5, 2021 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Miles Dietz-Castel Tags: All of Us Blog Consumer Health Outreach Public Health Public Libraries Resource Sharing Source Type: news
Thanksgiving is National Family Health History Day
A generic direct-to-consumer test box
With Black Friday advertised low prices, are you purchasing Ancestry.com or 23andMe for all your relatives? If so, you soon may be one of the estimated 100 million consumers who will have direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic testing by 2021.1 With improved technology and increased profits, consumer-directed companies promote easy and affordable tests for both ancestry and health information.
However, both the general public and the health care provider community need to be aware of the potential utility and limitations of such tests. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prev...
Source: The Cornflower - November 21, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Darlene Kaskie Tags: Blog Consumer Health From the GMR Source Type: news
GMR to Help Support Health Literacy Summit
The GMR is excited to announce that Wisconsin Health Literacy has received a Professional Development Award to help support costs related to bringing two plenary speakers for the 2019 Wisconsin Health Literacy Summit! The Summit is held every two years and brings together more than 350 professionals who are focused on how improved health literacy can help individuals become more engaged with their health and healthcare.
Funding from the GMR will support the travel of both Dr. Dean Schillinger, MD, Professor, UC-San Francisco and Founding Director, Center for Vulnerable Populations Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital,...
Source: The Cornflower - November 19, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Derek Johnson Tags: Conferences and Meetings Consumer Health Funding Success Stories Source Type: news
Mobility for All, Bring Chair Yoga to Your Library
Effingham Public Library, a catalyst for positive change, is excited to partner with the Greater Midwest Region of the National Library of Medicine to bring a series of chair yoga classes to our small, rural community.
The “Mobility for All” project responds to the latest Community Health Profile Report for Effingham, Illinois, that found a prevalence of overweight adults in Effingham County – 41.7%- as opposed to 35.8% nationally.
Even more troubling was the continued increase of respondents who shared that over the past week they’d had no leisure time for activity. Only 20.7% of Effingham County residents had...
Source: The Cornflower - November 12, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Bobbi Newman Tags: Public Libraries chair yoga libs4health Success Stories Source Type: news
National Family Health History Day
Written by Erika Johnson. Erika is a health sciences librarian at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine & Health Sciences and a GMR Partner Outreach Librarian.
Thanksgiving Day is just around the corner – a day when families gather to enjoy time together. Did you know that Thanksgiving Day is also National Family Health History Day? Chances are you will be seeing grandparents, aunts and uncles, and other family members who have important memories to share. What a great opportunity to start a conversation about your family’s health! Documenting medical and health information is an important part of pro...
Source: The Cornflower - November 9, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Miles Dietz-Castel Tags: Blog Partner Outreach Libraries Partner Outreach Library Source Type: news
Reading is Healthy Introducing the NNLM Reading Club
Book Clubs or reading groups are a staple of library outreach and literacy efforts. People gather to discuss Oprah’s picks or the New York Times’ Best Sellers to socially engage with literature and current events.
To help grow health literacy, the NNLM All of Us Community Engagement Network announces the launch of the NNLM Reading Club. The goal is to support libraries’ health literacy efforts and address local communities’ health information needs by celebrating important National Health Observances through the fun and intimacy of a book club.
The NNLM Reading Club offers a selection of three different book titles...
Source: The Cornflower - October 31, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Darlene Kaskie Tags: All of Us Blog Consumer Health From the GMR News from the Region Outreach Public Libraries Source Type: news
Rocking Midwest Chapter MLA!
Fall is a busy season for staff in the Greater Midwest Region office, this season took our team to exciting locations such as Traverse City, MI (cherry pies!), Springfield, IL (Lincoln!), St. Cloud, MN (Eh…Juno?), and Cleveland, OH (rock and roll!). In particular, our team worked hard to debut two new courses at the Midwest Chapter MLA meeting in Cleveland from October 5-8.
Precision Medicine
One of these courses was Open Science for Health Sciences Librarians, which was developed by content expert, Erin Foster from Indiana University (not the University of Indiana, I get it, I get it) in partnership with Sam Watson ...
Source: The Cornflower - October 31, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Elizabeth Kiscaden Tags: Conferences and Meetings General Source Type: news
So you want to be an outreach librarian? Spotlight on Erika Johnson
Once again we return to the farthest northwest corner of the GMR to great state of North Dakota, where not one but four partner outreach librarians make up the outreach team. Today we spotlight Erika Johnson, Southeast Clinical Campus Librarian, University of North Dakota School of Medicine & Health Sciences.
1. How long have you been in the role of an outreach librarian?
I joined the University of North Dakota outreach team three years ago (2015).
2. How did you get involved in outreach?
Outreach has been assigned to the position I hold for some time. Within two months of beginning my duties as a clinical campus libr...
Source: The Cornflower - October 24, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Jacqueline Leskovec Tags: From the GMR Outreach Partner Outreach Libraries Source Type: news
Health Sciences Librarians of Illinois Annual Conference – Rivers of Data, Streams of Knowledge
The Health Sciences Librarians of Illinois received a GMR Professional Development award for 3 CE courses at the annual conference, held September 26-28 at the Cliffbreakers Riverside Hotel and Conference Center in Rockford, Illinois.
Attendees learned how to plan and develop working relationships in Building Partnerships with Faculty, Clinicians, and Other Stakeholders, with Gwen Wilson, the Health Informatics Coordinator/Librarian at Washburn University in Topeka, KS. Erin Foster, Data Services Librarian at the Indiana University School of Medicine provided information on Data Management in the Wild. A trio from the Univ...
Source: The Cornflower - October 23, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Miles Dietz-Castel Tags: Blog Conferences and Meetings Data Science Funding Source Type: news
Joint Conference of Librarians of Color (JCLC) – Chelsea Misquith, Ruth Lilly Medical Library
Thanks to the NNLM/GMR, I was able to attend the 3rd National Joint Conference of Librarians of Color (JCLC) this year in Albuquerque, New Mexico from September 26 – 30. JCLC is a joint initiative organized by the ethnic caucuses of the American Library Association (ALA): American Indian Library Association (AILA), the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association (APALA), the Black Caucus of the American Library Association (BCALA), the Chinese American Librarians Association (CALA), and REFORMA: The National Association to Promote Library & Information Services to Latinos and the Spanish-speaking. Historically,...
Source: The Cornflower - October 16, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Miles Dietz-Castel Tags: Blog Conferences and Meetings Funding Source Type: news
Upcoming Webinar: Addressing Latino Health and Wellness Disparities
Addressing Latino Health and Wellness Disparities Through Virtual Community Health and Wellness Workshops
10/24/2018 – 1:00 – 2:00 PM
This session will provide attendees with background information about the Latino community both in the United States and in Minnesota. An overview of current demographics and health issues will be covered. The presenters will then describe how they designed, implemented, and evaluated the virtual health and wellness workshop series*, covering mental health and wellness topics, targeting the Latino community in rural Minnesota towns. The session will wrap up with consideration...
Source: The Cornflower - October 15, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Derek Johnson Tags: Consumer Health From the GMR Funding News from the Region Outreach Public Health Public Libraries Source Type: news
Now accepting applications for Quarter Three Professional Development Award
Background/Purpose: The purpose of this award is to assist individuals working in GMR Network member organizations to enhance their ability to use NLM resources or keep current on topics related to NIH initiatives.
Eligibility: Individuals working at organizations that are Network members within the Greater Midwest Region (GMR) are eligible to apply. For information on membership and to apply, visit our Members page. Membership is free!
Potential Projects:
Attend a professional meeting and enroll in continuing education sessions on health information
Attend a workshop on searching for systematic reviews for health...
Source: The Cornflower - October 8, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Bobbi Newman Tags: Funding Source Type: news
