The Interagency Council on Information Resources in Nursing has just released the 26th edition of Essential Nursing Resources. This is a 36 page collection of print, online and mobile resources, both free and fee-based.

I rediscover this every January, and then forget about it for the rest of the year. My hope is that by posting it to the blog I can spread the word, and cement it into my mind as a resource to be used on a regular basis!

The January 19 meeting will be held at Texas Scottish Rite Hospital in Dallas.

See the HealthLINE website for more details.

Happy New Year HealthLINE!

If your resolution is to have a positive outlook in 2012, there is a great webinar for you! This free webinar is titled The Hopeful Workplace and is offered via the Infopeople website.

Here is their description:

There’s a fair amount of doom and gloom out in library land, but futurist Joan Frye Williams and strategist George Needham are having none of it! These passionate library advocates believe that dealing with desperate economic times need not make us desperate.

In this upbeat webinar, George and Joan will explore how we can get out of the rat race that says “do more with less” and shift our focus to hope-engendering ways to “do different with less.” They’ll offer practical techniques for improving your own job satisfaction and moving your organization in a more positive direction.

It will be held on January 17 at 2:00pm. Registration is not required.

Clifford Lynch, Ph.D., Executive Director for the Coalition for Networked Information at the National Library of Medicine will be presenting a 90 minute seminar on the future of biomedical libraries.

The live webinar will be held December 16, at 9:00 CST. Visit the NIH site to login.

"It might not be as cool to look through as the Neiman Marcus Christmas catalog, but I still love to browse through the yearly new and updated MeSH terms.

A whopping 454 new descriptors have been added, 42 terms have been replaced with new terminology, and 15 have been deleted.

Some terms I'm very happy to see added. These include:

• Depressive Disorder, Treatment Resistant
• Kangaroo-Mother Care Method
• Numbers Needed to Treat
• Physical Therapists
• Social Networking
• White Coat Hypertension

Others I found interesting, though I'm not sure I'd ever use them:

• Facilitated Tucking
• Dyscalculia
• Forgiveness
• Hygiene Hypothesis
• Obsessive Hoarding
• Sense of Coherence

Happy browsing!"

The most recent NLM Technical Bulletin describes changes in the works for PubMed's advanced search page. It looks like they are trying to make search building a little more intuitive and easy to use.

Ellyssa from the iLibrarian blog has started a new series of posts on personal digital archiving. I know that this is something I struggle with both at home and work, so I'm looking forward to learning more! I'll add links to this post as each new entry is published.

The HealthNewsReview blog posted a link to PDF copy of a book titled, 'Testing Treatments'.

The Testing Treatments website has this description of the book: "Aimed at both patients and professionals, Testing Treatments builds a lively and thought provoking argument for better, more reliable, more relevant research, with unbiased or ‘fair’ trials, and explains how patients can work with doctors to achieve this vital goal".

I just signed up for the MDConsult blog (just what I need, more blogs to go through!), and while looking through the older entries I see a post titled, Featured Medical Librarian. Awesome! Then I see that the librarian is one of our own, Rosanna Ratliff. Even better!

Congrats to Rosanna for the cool press!

The HealthLINE election is currently underway- have you voted? The deadline for voting is noon on November 9th.

Contact Jon Crossno if you did not receive an emailed ballot from Survey Monkey.