(Submitted by Brandi Tuttle) From American Libraries Direct 3/25/2009: Librarians looking for a credible and easy-to-use health promotion and wellness online resource for their customers should visit Healthfinder.gov. This is a National Health Information Center website full of personalized health information and tools presented in an easy-to-read format with simple navigation. The
From Terri Ottosen: healthfinder.gov: The Health Promotion Information Resource Librarians Have Been Searching For Librarians looking for a credible and easy-to-use health promotion and wellness online resource for their customers should visit http://www.healthfinder.gov. healthfinder.gov is a Government Web site full of personalized, actionable health information and tools presented in an easy-to-read format
The new videos are on depression and on exercise for older adults; the new topic is Medicare Basics for Caregivers. (From Terri Ottosen)
From Anna Tatro: May 12, 2009 Non-Tenure Track Faculty Position Vacancy Health Sciences and Human Services Library TITLE: Head of Reference and Research Services University of Maryland MINIMUM SALARY: $54,000 601 West Lombard Street Baltimore, Maryland 21201
From Dale: I write this as I pack for the annual MLA meeting in Hawaii, a meeting that will be bittersweet at best: in this economic climate there is no doubt that many faces from our region will be missing. It won’t be the same if I can’t run around taking pictures
The 2009 Annual Meeting official conference website is now live.
(This post is based in part on a UNC Chapel Hill HSL e-news article by Ginny Bunch) The Health Sciences Library at UNC-Chapel Hill was excited to host UNC’s resident Nobel Laureate, Dr. Oliver Smithies, Excellence Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, on March 30, 2009 at 4pm. Dr. Smithies talked informally
From Amy Blevins: An interview with Meredith Solomon, Outreach Librarian at the University of Maryland, Baltimore How long have you been a librarian? I have only been a professional librarian since August 2006. How did you get into this field? I got into the field of librarianship while I was a student
From Pat Hammond: Dear MAC Members, Please extend a welcome to Andrea Hilliard. Andrea Hilliard is the new medical librarian for MediCorp Health System which contains Mary Washington Hospital of Fredericksburg, VA and the new Stafford Hospital Center in Stafford, VA. Andrea was previously employed at JPS Health Network in Fort Worth,
From Alan T. Williams – Recently, surgeons in Detroit used Twitter while performing brain surgery. The article has a nice video with it and discusses how medical students across the country were able to virtually sit in on this brain surgery through the use of Twitter. I found this extremely interesting so
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