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N # $! !!" % !&&&$'( ) )% * +, ) -. -, )/ 0 Administration 2 Consumer Health Information Services 9 Document Delivery Services 2 Public Health 10 Resource Libraries 2 Community Outreach 11 Communications 3 Technology Awareness & Regional Advisory Board 4 Integration 12 Evaluation & Education 12 Assessment/Feedback 4 Exhibits and Presentations at Health Professionals Access to Meetings Information 5 13 Network Membership 5 Awards 8 Appendix A - CE and Conferences University of Wyoming 141 Attended by MCR Staff 16 Utah AIDS Foundation 142 Appendix B - Regional Buying Via Christi Medical Center 144 Consortium Meeting 17 Appendix F Appendix C - MCR OARF Subcontractor Final Reports Summary 23 Community Hospital 146 Appendix D - TC4C Public Library Dixie Regional Medical Project Report 24 Center 151 Appendix E Mary Lanning Hospital 156 Subcontractor Reports Stormont-Vail HealthCare 171 Community Hospital 114 Truman Medical Center 189 Dixie Regional Medical Center 118 University of Colorado 215 Johnson County Library 121 University of Missouri 223 Mary Lanning Hospital 123 University of Nebraska 239 Truman Medical Center 125 University of Utah 246 University of Missouri – University of Wyoming 257 Columbia 128 Utah AIDS Foundation 262 University of Nebraska 135 Via Christi Medical Center 270 University of New Mexico 139 1 1 / libraries hold their LIBID in routing cells. She recommended contacting these libraries and requesting that their position in the routing cells be moved to a higher number. (For CE and Conferences attended by staff members see Appendix A) Thomas Gibbs, Technology Liaison, promoted LinkOut at the quarterly meeting A search committee was formed in February of the Health Sciences Libraries Network of to review applicants for the Utah/Network Kansas City. This generated interest in 4 Membership Liaison. The committee libraries to establish accounts. He has also represents Eccles library staff and RML been asked to design two buttons for staff, on site and out of state. Two Network members. candidates have been scheduled for interviews. Siobhan Champ-Blackwell, Community Outreach Liaison, has accepted the This quarter liaisons assisted Network appointment as Faculty Associate in the members to update their library group, Office of Interprofessional Scholarship, institutional records, merge/separate Service & Education (OISSE) at Creighton collections and handle holds. University Medical Center. This appointment ties in with the work that she Marty Magee, Education/Nebraska Liaison, does with underserved populations for the closed the DOCLINE record for the Creighton Health Sciences Library and the University of Nebraska - Lincoln Dental NN/LM MidContinental Region. School when it was discovered that the library was still listed as a full member even Dana Abbey, Colorado/Consumer Health though the dental school has been closed for Liaison taught a Consumer Health several years. Informatics session to 3rd year interns from the medical school and gave a library tour to Doug Blansit from the A.T. Still Memorial newly hired nurses from the medical center. Library, Kirksville College of Osteopathic She planned and hosted a luncheon for 14 Medicine called regarding the use of Aurora-area public and hospital librarians at FreeShare at their library. They are the Nighthorse Campbell Center. A new overloaded with FreeShare requests, yet feel library building is being built in Aurora and obligated to participate in the program. Barb Denison Memorial Library will move from Jones, Network/Missouri Liaison, referred Denver in 2007. Denison Memorial Library them to Report 1-7 which shows them which staff exchanged information with Aurora 2 area librarians on services including the They would be interested if the project were resources and services of the NN/LM MCR. expanded to allow other institutions to participate. Ms. Abbey demonstrated the use and application of Skype, Festoon and Breeze to 21 staff members of Denison Memorial Library at the February Futures Brownbag session. Since the presentation, she has had 7 staff members ask for help in setting up In February, Ms. Abbey compiled web links Skype. Several employees in the education to each state library publications page. A department are excited about possible review of the electronic newsletters revealed implementation of Breeze to conduct and that the preferred format is a short one to archive remote training sessions. two paragraph notice. She wrote an article and made it available to liaisons to Resource Library Directors Meeting customize and submit to their state library Resource Library Directors held two newsletters. videoconferences this quarter in February and March. Resource Library Directors The MCR minority page was added as a link agreed: on the Hospital, Language and Culture - That the molecular biology workshop, section of the JCAHO resources list. offered by an adjunct faculty member (http://www.jointcommission.org/HLC/sourc at Eccles Health Sciences Library, e_Links.htm) using Breeze should be publicized throughout the region and would be a Ms. Magee wrote an information piece on benefit to their faculty. the Health People 2010 Information Access Project that was added to the Public Health - That the videobroadcast service should Association web site. refocus on offering taping and (http://www.publichealthne.org/news_and_f archiving instead of training. unding.htm) - That to increase Resource Library participation in the MCR Regional Breezing Along with the RML Buying Consortium, the consortium Breezing Along with the RML sessions should offer a common product that all continue to be held the third Wednesday of resource libraries currently license. each month with two staff people making Caveats: Current agreements need to presentations and one person hosting. run out before they can join the Sharon Dennis, Technical Coordinator, and regional consortium and if the product Susan Roberts, the Eccles Health Sciences is being licensed through a state-wide Library Breeze expert, monitor the session consortium, Resource Libraries will and trouble shoot problems. About 30+ probably not participate in the regional members attend these sessions including a consortium. few guests from other regions or RMLs. These guests often contact staff with follow Claire Hamasu, Associate Director, reported up questions. For example, our Wyoming on Network Performance Monitoring Pilot Liaison was contacted by a Los Angeles Project meeting held at the end of March at guest asking for some mentoring assistance. the New York Academy of Medicine. The The presentations are recorded for Directors immediately saw the benefit of asynchronous viewing and it would be knowing how fast their connections are as useful to know whether members are taking more and more resources and services are advantage of their availability. However, the being pushed from their institutions’ servers. system managers have not been able to 3 gather data on the number of times the Web Redesign recordings are viewed. Ms. Dennis continued her participation as a team member planning the redesign of the MCMLA-L nnlm.gov and RML web sites. Ms. Dennis New subscribers = 7 mapped files for the new design to the Deleted subscribers = 4 existing pages and led a conference call with MCR staff to determine the final structure BHIC (Bringing Health Information to the for the new site. Coding of the new pages Community) Blog began in March and due to Aron Beal's There were five new subscribers for the scripts, converting has been reasonably fast BHIC blog. Subscribers to the blog continue and efficient. Most of the sections are now to report back on the usefulness of this out for the liaisons to review, approve, or communication tool. They forward on the correct. Ms. Champ-Blackwell took part in a availability of grants and other information Breeze call where she performed tasks and to keep colleagues informed. answered questions on the usability of the new wireframes for the Wiki and OARFS. Publications: Plains to Peaks Post Volume 4, Issue 4 issue was published http://nnlm.gov/mcr/news/newsletter/index.php?vol=4&issue=4 Abbey, Dana “Recent Enhancements to your Favorite NLM Databases,” Council Quotes February 2006. Volume 29, Number 1. http://www.ccmlnet.org/CQ/CQFeb06.pdf Abbey, Dana “Select Natural Standard Monographs Now Available in MedlinePlus” Centennial State Libraries Newsletter March 10, 2006. http://www.cde.state.co.us/libnewsletter/download/pdf/slcent2006/03-10-06.pdf Abbey, Dana “More New Resources – These on Health – LactMed & Toxnet” Centennial State Libraries Newsletter April 21, 2006 http://www.cde.state.co.us/libnewsletter/download/pdf/slcent2006/04-21-06.pdf Updated web resources: Racial/ethnic trifold brochures (http://nnlm.gov/mcr/resources/community/docs/african_american_resources.rtf) (http://nnlm.gov/mcr/resources/community/ethnic/latamer.html) (http://nnlm.gov/mcr/resources/community/ethnic/native.html) (http://nnlm.gov/mcr/resources/community/docs/asian_american_resources.rtf) ! " #$ Ms. Champ-Blackwell received several emails from Captain Ed Galan thanking her Betsy Kelly, Assessment and Evaluation for the daily blogs and responding to a status Liaison, and Maryanne Blake from the report on the RML contract sent to all NN/LM Pacific Northwest Region revised Regional Advisory Board members. “Measuring your Impact” class in 4 preparation for presentations in Columbus, teleconference focus groups that were held Ohio, Des Moines,