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The people in your community trust you to connect them with the information they need to make decisions, satisfy their curiosity and expand their world.
The people in your community trust you to connect them with the information they need to make decisions, satisfy their curiosity and expand their world.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has two new opportunities for organizations to help make sure uninsured Americans take advantage of the new Health Insurance Marketplace. The “Partner with Us” tab at http://marketplace.cms.gov/ provides information about becoming a “Champion for Coverage” – nationally or in your state – and the
The SE/A Region is excited to partner with the Health Sciences Library Association of New Jersey (HSLANJ) and their innovative Group Licensing Initiative (GLI). Participation in this cost-saving consortium, offering high-quality electronic resources, could be available to you as early as the spring of 2014. More than ten years old, the GLI
The History of Medicine Division at the National Library of Medicine has launched a new blog, Circulating Now, which is intended to encourage greater exploration and discovery of one of the world’s largest and most treasured history of medicine collections. Circulating Now will bring the NLM’s diverse historical collections to life in
The latest Pew Internet report came out today. The report is part of the larger Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project. To learn more about the findings or read the full report, please visit http://libraries.pewinternet.org/2013/06/25/younger-americans-library-services/
For those of you who were unable to attend MLA13 in Boston, NLM has created a page with links to the presentations at the NLM Booth in the exhibit hall: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj13/mj13_mla_theater_ppt.html
The State Library of North Carolina, in conjunction with the State Archives of North Carolina, is releasing a redesigned, streamlined and mobile friendly digital preservation education site (digitalpreservation.ncdcr.gov). This first-stop site is a great introduction to digital preservation for state employees, librarians and archivists, or anyone interested in making sure their files
For those interested in scholarly communication issues in the sciences, you may want to review the current issue of Nature to learn more about open access, big data, and data sharing issues occurring in the sciences. http://www.nature.com/news/the-future-of-publishing-a-new-page-1.12665
MAR has Reorganized Our Website As a result of focus groups and usability testing, MAR has restructured our website (http://nnlm.gov/mar/) to provide entry points for the populations we serve: libraries, unaffiliated health professionals, K-12 professionals, and organizations providing consumer health information. We’ve heard your voices and have redesigned our site to focus
Have you gone on a library interview lately? Please consider reporting the questions you were asked on this form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1TrsRfxyUJQhKHMDJ9gydDoF9ulkiClC1n-tCilegbKE/viewform The goal of this project is to build a repository for library interview questions, which could then be used by both interviewees and interviewers to prepare. If you’d like a little more
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