NLM Volunteer Internship Program
Do you know someone who’s looking for library related internships or someone who might just enjoy the experience of a Volunteer Internship in NLM’s History of Medicine Division? If yes, make sure to pass on this information. “The HMD volunteer internship program offers practical, hands-on and results-oriented experience in the largest medical […]
Minutes – 4/18/12 MLGSCA business meeting
Update: it looks like IE users are having trouble downloading the minutes from WordPress, so I’m going to paste them into this post. Sorry for the hassle, IE users. I just finished the minutes of our 4/18 business meeting (Word doc available here). If you attended the meeting, please take a look and let me […]
Ten attributes of a health literate organization
The IOM Roundtable on Health Literacy has recently published a report describing the ten attributes of a health literate organization, that is, “an organization that makes it easier for people to navigate, understand, and use information and services to take care of their health.”
Best Bytes: Medify.com
Contributed by Catherine Madsen, MLIS graduate, UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies Medify.com is a web app for consumers, currently in beta. It is designed to cull millions of medical research studies primarily from Medline and other professionally vetted sources, making them more easily accessible, thus empowering consumers with the medical information they […]