 Hello and welcome to this week's session of Encompass Live. Encompass Live is the Nebraska Library Commission's weekly online event where we cover various NLC activities and library topics presented by NLC staff and guest speakers. We do these free one-hour sessions every Wednesday at 10 a.m., central time, and we have a pan of mixture of things, presentations, interviews, book reviews, web tours, some mini training sessions maybe coming up, Q&A sessions, anything we can think of that might be of interest to Nebraska Library World. This morning we are going to have a session on free health resources from the National Library of Medicine, Marty McGee and Mary Jo Ryan. We'll be going through that with us and I will now turn over the controls to you guys and go ahead. Here's your mouse. No video? Okay, here we are. Hello everybody. I'm Mary Jo Ryan from the Nebraska Library Commission and I'm very pleased today to be able to introduce Marty McGee. Marty McGee is a medical librarian from the National Library of Medicine. She's with the, what's it called, the National Network Libraries of Medicine. She's based at McGee Library of Medicine at University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha. Marty's been doing a lot of projects with us. We've had a lot of fun doing some health information resources training across the state. We've worked with some small groups in different communities that we're doing projects to get the word out about health information in their communities. We just, you're teaching LTA classes as well. Anything else about who I need to tell them? I think the list is too long. Oh, the list is too long, yes. So we'll just, without further ado, I'll just turn this over to Marty McGee and you can talk a little bit about what you think we should be to do to feel the love. Okay. Thank you, Mary Jo. I'm delighted to be here and obviously we've themed today's program around feel the love because we're pretty close to Valentine's Day and we want everybody to be healthy in any case. So I'm just going to run you through a number of things, but first before we get started here is my contact information. This PowerPoint is going to be posted out on the Nebraska Library Commission Web site. It's also going to be on the Mid-Continental Region site, which is the six states that I serve here. So we'll go ahead and get started. Whoops. There we go. I've got to find the right buttons here. Okay. All right. We are going to start talking first about some national library of medicine websites and might I say I was delighted to see a couple of medical librarians on our call today. So I'm glad you've joined us. Some of this may be redundant for you, but we'll go through Medline Plus fairly quickly because I think most of you have probably heard of that before. We're also going to cover some other librarian resources and then I'm going to share with you some promotional ideas because we think a lot of what libraries should be doing today is doing outreach, things outside their library. And I have a huge fan of that, Mark. That's right. We all have this kind of advocacy behind us that we need to be paying attention to. So, whoops. I hit the up instead of the down. I'll get the right one now. Okay. So first we're going to cover some websites. So first I'm going to talk about the National Library of Medicine. For those of you who don't know, it's in Bethesda, Maryland. It's part of the National Institutes of Health. And if you go on to the main website, the URL is listed here, you'll see there is a place that's listed for librarians. And then the other red arrow is pointing down towards Medline Plus, which of course is probably one of our most heavily used databases. The National Library of Medicine has about 80 different databases ranging from Medline Plus, which is really for consumers. Two things like research on the human genome, which I would have no clue how to tell you how to use. But there are plenty of people who do. So we're glad that we have the range for everyone to find what they need to on our site. I want to stress that you can get in touch with a national network of libraries of medicine persons such as myself, anywhere in the United States. We are broken into eight different regions, and you can see those represented here. We are the purple region, the mid-continental region. And if you dial that 800-338-7657, that will get you to our offices. So if you wanted to reach me, you dial that number and you'd listen for Nebraska Liaison. And eventually you would get to me. Do you cover all the states, Marty, or just Nebraska? Well, I cover primarily all the states in Nebraska, but I also wear what's called the education hat or project. And so I cover education for the entire six states. So if librarians need help learning how to do a PowerPoint or put together a Camtasia video or do something even like a web conference, we can assist them with those kinds of activities. So that 800 number, however, if you were located, let's say in North Dakota, your central offices are in Chicago. So if you dial that 800 number and you're in North Dakota, it would take you to the Chicago office. So it depends on where you're located where that 800 number takes you. Okay, this is Medline Plus. I'm guessing most of you have probably used Medline Plus or heard of it before. This is just a quick snapshot of all the things that are available and the kinds of updates that happen. When we go to our Medical Library Association Conference, which is held on a yearly basis, we get all the updates on PubMed. This happened to be the one that we got last year. So I'm not going to go into each one of these, but I'll cover a few of these things on following slides. So here's Medline Plus. The thing that I wanted to mention today and kind of stress here, if you can see health topics, drug supplements, et cetera, on the left side, if you look down there at directories, this is what I want to talk about today. And if you click on that, you'll get to a choice and libraries will be at the top of that next page. And then you'll get to another screen and I'm going to talk about that too. This one is the health topics page, though, which was the first click. And now they have divided it so you can have body locations. So if you have something wrong with your back, you could find your back area or your spine area and go through it that way. The other demographic groups over here, if you're doing particular programming, let's say for a youth group or maybe a senior group, you might want to look at the resources that are included there. If you're doing health and wellness, maybe you have an activity going on where you're promoting that in your community. You might want to highlight this part of the website so people can see that kind of information. Here are the interactive body maps. So for example, if you've gone into the spine part of things, here you can see the spine, then it gives you some different kinds of conditions that can be affected there. And then if you're actually in the live site when you scroll over these areas, it turns green whenever you're on the one that it's talking about. So it makes it very clear where those parts of the body are and how you can refer to them. This seems like it's a really good resource to recommend to health science educators in the schools. I don't know if there's any school media specialists listening in with us, where they could certainly recommend this site to the school. You bet. Maybe that's a great idea for outreach. Mary Jo is really making a connection with your high school media librarian and just letting them know about some of these things. You know, a half hour with them can be time really well spent. They can disperse it to their teachers from there or go to a parent teacher or organization meeting or be a presenter. It'd be a great thing to do. This next one is just an example of what comes out of the encyclopedia. Great illustrations. Things are well marked. There are links to other resources as well. Related topics. Sometimes you don't always know what something is called. So if you, you know, put in coronary artery disease, you know, then you can find angina or some of these other topics. Go local. We're going to talk about in a minute. And here is just additional information from the National Institutes of Health. The National Institutes of Health actually has several smaller organizations that are part of it. This one happens to be National Heart Lung and Blood Institute. So you can go there for more information, too. And it's linked from the Medline Plus website. This is the drug information and herbs and supplements. And I want to make this distinction here. Drug information is generally going to be prescription drugs or over-the-counter kinds of drugs. Herbs and supplements are going to be just what it says, herbs and supplements. And that was added just a couple of years ago because people don't always know a great deal about it. But you can see the distinction here and you can get to both of them from an alphabetical listing. Medline Plus also has a joint relationship called Go Local. We do have this in Nebraska which allows you to find doctors or physicians or support groups or many other different kinds of things on a local basis. So if you went to the Go Local button and it was on the Medline Plus website you'd get to this site. You would click on Nebraska and it would bring up a map of Nebraska and all the different counties. So you could click on one of the counties or if you wanted to search it by zip code you can do that as well. I happened to set this one for Douglas so I clicked on Douglas and I was searching for diabetes resources. Here you can see all the research in Douglas County. There's 196 clinics I think. Community clinics there's a couple of those. Look at the number of libraries I'll talk about that a little bit further. But you can see how many are associated with each one of these different topics. The University of Nebraska Medical Center hosts this information for the National Library of Medicine so they are constantly updating this information. So if you go into it and you find that your hospital is listed incorrectly or your library is listed incorrectly by all means let us know. You can send me an email and I'll get it to the right people. But it's a great resource it takes a great deal to maintain it and keep it current and we can only do that with your help. So we appreciate any assistance you can give at this. I was going to ask a question about the local. Now at one time I noted that the Medical Center had some special materials that librarians could use if they wanted to take some information out and say to a group of social workers or case workers about the human services. Do you still have some handouts? Absolutely. In fact the University of Nebraska Medical Center I'll talk a little bit about that more soon. They do have information that they can send out to communities or libraries and that even includes not just brochures but if you have a health fair and you want to display or they can even send it out to you. So that was a good question Mary Jones. Thanks. Let's move on. Our next part of Medline Plus is these interactive tutorials and if you haven't looked at these I think these are a terrific resource. There are about 160 different topics. These are just chapters on one particular topic. This one happens to be on lasing surgery. But when you are using this there will be a green arrow down here at the bottom and you can't quite see it from this screenshot. There we go. Yeah. There's a green arrow down here and you just advance this green arrow and you would advance that for each one that you want to see. And at the end of each little chapter here there's a couple of questions for you to answer. But what I like about this is it not only has easy to read materials it's very visually effective because they're just little drawings so it's not overly graphic but it also has an audio component. So if you're doing reading in a second language this is a good way for them to get that information. This is NIH Senior Health. This obviously is getting a lot more attention. These are particularly topics that are directed at seniors but what's nice about this is you can change the text size on this website. So you can just click this little plus button up here and it just keeps getting larger and larger and larger. This is a large print. This is a terrific resource. You can also change the contrast so instead of having it be with a white background it can be a black background with white print. And again you can add a speech component so people can listen to it as well as read the information. So this is a nice resource for our senior population too. I happen to go to a workshop and maybe some of you will be going to this workshop on seniors and libraries and it occurred to me as I was sitting in that we have a lot of teen spaces, children's spaces and libraries but we don't always have senior spaces and maybe that's something we need to be thinking about someplace that's quiet where they can read or chit chat or however you want to focus that attention but just some thought for your own public library too. Middle Life Plus also has surgery videos. Most of these are about an hour long. These are very graphic. These are actual surgeries and you can see where these come from. I have watched a couple of them and they're quite interesting but I'm glad it's not me. So some extras for Medline Plus if you have not already linked Medline Plus to your website and you have once you can get to that information by going into a valuable Medline Plus and click on Medline Plus to your website. It will give you the code for doing so so it should just be a copy and paste kind of function. I'll talk a little bit about Medline Plus Magazine and you can also get email updates. I recommend this just because it will keep you in tune with what kind of topics are out there. It just comes to you as an email once a week. Here's information for libraries and trainers. If you had clicked on that about Medline Plus and then there is a place where you click on information for the librarians and trainers you can get all of this information. So here you can see a guide to healthy web surfing. I'll talk a little bit about evaluating websites in a few minutes. There are several tutorials on using Medline Plus as well as some other things and some additional resources and I think these are well worth checking out. I would highly recommend that you get to this page and take a look at some of the resources that are here. Here's Medline Plus Magazine. If you're a public library or a medical library, you can order multiple copies for this. When I'm in a waiting room and I see WebMD, WebMD is not a bad website, but it is a commercial website and I always recommend that to that office that they get Medline Plus because we want to get our information out there because it's free and it's credible and it's not a commercial product. So you can do that by going on to the Medline Plus website. When you say a library can get multiple copies, they get like 20 copies? Yes, they can. It comes out quarterly. Exactly. Maybe when you're thinking about doing something for the school, you can recommend this brochure that came out from another book called National Library of Medicine, which is Specialized Information Services. This is resources for science teachers, but I also say it's for kids as well because it has several different websites that include all these different topics. I'm going to kind of zip through some of those things. Oh, I'm not going to zip through those. I'll let you zip through those. But because I thought it would take too long to do that. Another thing they might be interested in, we have a website called HasMap, which stands for really hazardous kind of materials. Sometimes you have children who are searching for information on careers, or even adults. And here's information on careers that they can find here. So you can find out that if you wanted to be a hairdresser, for example, or a beautician, is that hazardous to your health? What kinds of things are involved there? What kinds of chemicals might affect you? A household products database is to look up any kind of household product you can possibly think of. And they have broken those down for us here. So we have personal care or auto products or pesticides. And you can go in and find the chemical make up of any kind of household product. Excuse me, I have a little cold hair, so I sound a little nasal. But you can also find out what to do in the case of a spillage, or what you may need to do to take care of that kind of information. So this is a really nice website too. Or maybe you're allergic to something and you want to check out a product before you buy it. This is a good place to go for that information. DailyMench just came out about a year ago to check prescription and over-the-counter drugs. So for example, you could put in Lipitor, which I think is the example that I used here. And you'll see that you can get the chemical breakdown of it. You can get about 40 pages of information. So this would be far more than you get when you get the prescription, and more than you may be aware of. But it will tell you about side effects. And it even has the ability that you can report back side effects that you have, which I think is a nice way for them to be able to do that as well. And let me just say, you know, one of the common things a lot of libraries do is select the physician's desk reference. We do not recommend that because that is simply the compilation of all of the things that come from the drug representative or from the pharmaceutical company. Not really value added. That's right. It's not only not value added, but it can be kind of biased in their favor, shall we say. So we recommend that you go out to a resource such as this if you want something that's unbiased and you can see the information on both sites. This one has just been added in the last couple of months, and this is called Drug Information Portal. So again, I put in search here and you can see what it's really called by its more generic name, its description from a chemical standpoint. But the other thing that this gives you is a summary of where this is found in other websites from the National Library of Medicine. So here you can see it's on Medline Plus topics. It's in Daily Med and it's also called in clinical trials. So there may be some clinical trials that have already occurred or may currently be occurring around Lipitor and you might want to research that further. This is the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine and obviously we have Western Medicine and we have lots of other alternatives. So if you're interested in exploring those, this is a good place to do it because it's a little more reliable. So it will tell you about yoga or copper or meditation or you know a number of different things that may be beneficial for your health or what the downsides may be as well. Looks like it's got information in Spanish as well on this website. Yes, it does. We're seeing more of that in a lot of the governmentals websites as they're providing it in Spanish. You know one of the things I didn't point out on Medline Plus on the left side on the bottom is now a resource called Multiple Languages and you can go in there and click on a language you want and see what kinds of resources are available for you. So we're collecting more than just Spanish these days too. Good question Mary. This one also recently came out. This one is from the American Library Association. They call a good health information at your library. This was a joint effort with the National Library of Medicine and basically this will take you to information on Medline Plus and your particularity like ALE resources. I think this is also a good place to bookmark on your places to bookmark. Evaluating health information, I always say when you are working with someone in your library, be sure and tell them that they need to be thinking about the websites they are looking at and if they don't really know how to look at a website, if you type evaluate in the search box of Medline Plus, you can get to the National Center for Complimentary and Alternative Medicine where they may list of 10 things you may need to know about evaluating medical resources on the web. So it gives you questions like who runs the site or who's paying for it or how often is it updated. Those kinds of things and all of us should be looking at that because we know there's great information out there but we also know there's a lot of not so great information out there and we all need to be aware of that. Google is a terrific resource but sometimes it can give you way too much information and not the information that you're looking for. Now let's talk a little bit about some other resources you may be interested in. I mentioned that our professional organization, the Medical Library Association, they have a subset of the Medical Library Association that is called Consumer and Patient Health Information Section or they call it CAFIS. CAFIS has put together a list of 100 health websites that you can trust so I think that's a good place to go check some of those out. WebMD for example would be on that list Mayo Clinic would be on that list Johns Hopkins etc. Then another thing they have down here is managing a consumer health information source. I don't think that stands for it. Anyway, like if you have a small collection of your public library for example, you're not quite sure how you should go about planning that or budgeting that or selecting materials for that. These are all resources that you can get to that people have put together for that particular purpose. I think those consumer health libraries are really becoming more popular. You're seeing them more in hospitals and we want to make sure that we lend as much assistance as we can in order to make those good places to be applied to check your email. Well, and you've also seen little sections in public libraries with these kinds of resources too, so that's another thing to think about. You bet it is. I'm also going to mention here the National Network Libraries of Medicine we have what we call our National Training Center in Clearinghouse. We abbreviate that with NTCC but we have what we call an educational clearinghouse database and I've left the URL on this PowerPoint too. So if you go in here and you want to find a brochure or a pamphlet for Medline Plus it gives you a drop down menu here. I just happened to put in Medline Plus and I selected a pamphlet. But if you click on this then it would take you to a little length then you can print out a brochure that you can just keep in your library. Likewise it has classes here that will provide you not just the PowerPoint but a script and a workbook and loads of materials around that. So if you want to do a class on Medline Plus you would just instead of checking the format for pamphlet you would check for class and be provided with those materials. All of those materials are free. There are no copyright restrictions. We want to make sure that you have materials that are good for you. And these are all things that generally liaison such as myself have produced and we just want to share that with the rest of the people who will be presenting that information. Okay this is our mid-continental region website. It looks a little skewed it's going to squish you in there but because Nebraska's right in the center. That's right. A couple of things that I want to point out here member services has to do with membership. We have what we call full members who are generally hospitals which have at least 25 medical journals and they're sharing medical journal articles with other libraries. We also have affiliate memberships which are for public libraries and other entities who have a consumer health collection or collection of books or things that they're sharing with the public. Now the school or a public library wants to join us as an affiliate member do they need to pay dues or no they don't. It's free too. It's free too. Everything's free in an actual library medicine. That's why it's such a wonderful thing. Yeah. So yes to find out about that you would just click on member services and it would take you to full membership or affiliate membership and you can look over the guidelines and you just send this information and we sign you up. It's painless that also qualifies you to apply for grants when we have them available and we can also send you promotional materials and you don't need to be a member for us to send you promotional materials but we can send you things like bookmarks or you know those kinds of resources that you can have on hand at your library to get you to do. And educational opportunities that's where you're going to find things like for example this PowerPoint I will have it posted on that section but we also do different webcasts that we archive there. There are a number of different resources and you can check that. And I can't quite read you. Calibre events. Oh yes, Calibre events. Thank you. I need my other glasses on. The Calibre events if you click on that you'll find a listing of all the events that are happening in our six state area. So we try and practice that with Nebraska or Utah or online. If it's online obviously anybody can get to it and geographically you're only limited by whether you want to drive somewhere to get to one of those classes. So keep an eye on that and it has the details for registration for web sites as you may need it. This is what we call our spotlight on National Library of Medicine and Resources. We're doing fine. Okay, great. Our spotlight on National Library of Medicine is actually a new series of classes that we put out and so we really wanted to kind of heighten that. We've sent this postcard out recently you may have received it or if you want to receive it let me know and I'll send you one. But the spotlight is actually a once a month training. It's an hour long. It requires that you have a phone and a PC. And so for example last month we did a PubMed update on PubMed. On February 25th we'll be looking at Medline Plus and Household Products so you'll hear some of these same kinds of things I talked about today. But we have included exercises in these because what we have heard back from people when we've sent out surveys is they like hearing about this stuff but they wish they had time to practice. And so we have included some exercises in there that they can write their desk and practice. This does not require any kind of download to your computer so a firewall should not be any kind of an issue. All you have to do is go to the URL which we have given you here and then you type into your phone number and the phone system then will call you. So you just sit at your desk and you can listen to this. I recommend getting a headset for your phone if you don't already have one. It's a very convenient thing to have when you have these sort of activities. And if you find that you're like in a one person library and you can't sit down for that kind of thing these are also archived so you can go back and listen to them and then do the practice at your own leisure if that works better for you. So now do people have their pre-register for these and they just log in at the time? No they just log in at the time. We have seats for more than 50 people so we welcome your participation and I don't think we exceed that too once in a while we'll get a real hot exception but we like to have you participate in these as I said again it's all free no pre-registration and if you can't get it to it go to the archived session. Breezing along with the RML we've been doing these for a couple of years as web conferences on what we're doing in our 68th area. So that may include some different things you can see some of our topics here presentation from the staff we all kind of did a presentation to the National Library of Medicine a couple of months ago and so that will be included here. We're going to talk about historical collections in March which is one of the programs I'll be hosting. A lot of medical libraries actually have historical collections like the museum a small museum so for example at the New England Library of Medicine we have a person who staffs that full time and they are responsible for keeping those collections in good shape and they can be worth a lot of money as well but people will go in there and do research to find out things that happened long ago we have a post of dating back to the 1500s you'd be surprised to lead just in everything well we don't carry the life lead just now but you could find out about them. So anyway some interesting topics and as I mentioned that calendar is available too for you to see all of the things that we have for you as educational opportunities This was put out a few years ago I always just like to mention it though particularly with public libraries or again if you're working for this school the New England Library of Medicine I was part of this team when they put this together this DVD and it's really aimed at children and their parents to show them how to go to the doctor how to make the appointment because we were finding that some different populations really did not know how to do this so this is available as a DVD if you would like to have one you can get a free copy you would just go to this URL or if you would like to see it streaming you can also go to that same URL and get that information it's about 10 minutes long it's available in English and Spanish and Sudanese so you can listen to it in any one of these three languages Oh you know and I just can't I have to say Mari I think this is just a great resource I think it's so well done and it's so much fun and it's free to public libraries school libraries hospitals I think everyone should order one of these they're just terrific we have a lot of them left we have a lot of them left so I'm glad to hear that so it's nice to hear that from somebody else as I mentioned the Magugan Library of Medicine does have resources they have a consumer health information resource service that includes the work that they do on Go Local it also includes a reference service so if you're a resident of the state of Nebraska if you have any patrons who are obviously residents they can call, email or write the university the reference librarians there are a packet of information let's say they have a diagnosis that they're having a hard time finding information on they will provide this service and again this service is free the fact that we have this in Nebraska and have had it for about 20 a little more than 20 years is a terrific resource and we want to make sure that people know about that so when they're really stuck this is a terrific place to develop and correct me if I'm wrong but this is pork consumers this is not for doctors to call it this is actually someone who has a health issue they want to have information that's right so probably not for school children to get information for their reading no and we don't want to be doing your homework so good that's right there's plenty of it this was a new project that we tried this year maybe some of you have taken the web 2.0 kinds of classes and many exposed to something like Google Docs well we had a practical student at the Google Michael Stratton and he actually works at the University of Nebraska Lincoln Libraries and so we put together this collaborative project so this has four different topics and it includes information on Medline Plus information on the local Nebraska information on the cheers project as well as the evaluation of websites and essentially what he did for us was take the information that we gave him and then we collaborated on this so the Google Docs is like doing a PowerPoint but instead of having it stored on your computer it's stored out there in Google land and anybody could get to this and just go to Google and you would type in Nebraska notebook and it would take you to this information you may have to sign up for a free Google account to get to it but there's no charge for doing anything and you could even take this information and then add the slides to it if you wanted to for your library and then save it on the Google Docs so but the Nebraska notebook it stays in its entirety but you could go out there and save it for other purposes and save it on a very different name so we think this is kind of a fun resource and it was a good experiment for us so that if I wanted to change something I could go change to nothing if Michael was changing something he could change something and we didn't even have to be in the same place so this is a terrific resource something I would urge you to try sometime here's the CD I made this a couple of years ago but I do have some copies left this is a CD so if you don't have a good internet access this just has some little tutorials on it you can see the time on each one of the two tutorials there are eight tutorials in all and you can just email me if you want my copy the library and this also was a resource that was done a few years back actually we're kind of thinking about rejoining it at this point but it is a video that you would have ordered so you can see why we need to redo it and it kind of tells you how to do reference so for example if you're doing reference on a private topic with someone you may not want to be doing it out where everyone else can hear what you're saying so this is a resource this is also available through the Nebraska Life Break Commission you can check it out you can order it now that one I think costs about $200 for both the video and the workbook but I think checking it out from the library commission would be a great resource and I did just verify that you have it we do have some training coming up I wanted to mention we have three classes coming up in February the first day and Friday the 19th and 20th you've been signed up for one class or all three classes and you may remember earlier the presentation where I told you about the educational clearing house these are the three classes that are straight off that educational clearing house that other blades on have created so the first one is Beyond an Apple a Day which is providing consumer health information at your library the second one is No Cook and Friend Day which is the Spanish Trace of Artists and the third one is the ABC's of DNA or genetic information that you may be interested in exploring we do still have slots left for these email me if you're interested again it's all free and it's at the University of Nebraska Medical Center the classes are in the Google Library of Medicine and that's easy to find in Omaha you can drive into Omaha and that's a good direction stop at the interstate you just zip right off the interstate you're probably your hardest challenge but we'll give you all the information beforehand I'm going to share a few promotional ideas here as we start to close this out I like this one this one's called My Family Health Portrait so they recommend this as an activity for Thanksgiving because you may not have other kinds of activities at Thanksgiving but you could promote it at any time here obviously this one happens to be My Family Tree and they're genetic health so you can see sort of the symbols are different from women and men when they're deceased there's an X through it you can either print this off and then just fill it out as you would like to or you can fill it out electronically and then store it on this site somewhere else in the United States that they could pick this up and fill in their information this is a really valuable thing if you are doing genetic kinds of information you could sort of start to track what kinds of things are happening in your family I think this would be a great activity for a school kid for a health science class or even just if they're doing some kind of genealogy to add this to the genealogy yes it would be a nice tie in and speaking of other things that you can do with kids and what kinds of promotions you can do if you haven't seen this this comes from the National Health Information Center which is part of Health and Human Services and so you can find at any given time a holiday to celebrate so did you know for example that February is National Wise Health Consumer Month that you didn't I did not isn't this optical here we are in February training my friends to go out and help those consumers be wiser about their sales for each thing that you clicked on we'll give you the information for examples I've shown here in the box where it says National Wise Health Consumer Month so there are multiple holidays every month so it might be a fun thing to highlight in your library maybe around your consumer health collection if you have one this one is a little bit different but I think this is a great way to make a connection with your local hospital we are as you well realize is trying to get people to use Medline Plus because it is a great free reliable resource so you as librarians or health professionals can order these little prescription pads which look like this so this looks like your prescription and it has the medlineplus.gov up here so if you want to find out more information on here is the National Network Library of Medicine URL which is the one that I've shown here and then if you want to order these little prescription pads you can go here and you can also order little tabletop posters with a little pad that can be attached so it could be given to a doctor's office or a hospital for that purpose this is such a great idea it is I like it and maybe one of the other things you want to do is maybe have a stamp made of your public library and you could also stamp it out on there so that they would know where to go for your resources and I always recommend if you don't have a stamp just use those mailing labels but print them on clear mailing labels anything you want to line up say about your library with your phone number and all that absolutely good idea I do wish a lot of information out here so I am going to turn it back to Kristen to continue driving I do want to mention a couple of other points or maybe Kristen will mention about the PowerPoints and the podcasts I'll let you mention those Chris let's just see does anybody have any questions about all this information that you have thrown at you anything you want to know more about any questions on any particular sites that were mentioned you can either use a microphone if you have one or use a text chat box we do have that up I don't know open here so we can see what you're talking about on there we must have a fairly knowledgeable group nobody has any questions this morning okay that's fine okay good that's great if you never know are you trying to figure out how to work your microphone text box the text chat button is the upper right end of your interface do you want to use that I guess we might have a couple of yes or no questions to ask you can answer those by clicking your green check mark or your red x I think the first question I would ask all of you is whether or not this format worked for you to get this kind of information because Marty had quite a lot of information a lot of websites and did this seem to work for you to get that kind of information we've got a couple green marks yes they seem to do anything we do have a question finally well Marty come out to libraries and do a presentation for the community I would say it depends and you might well guess our travel funds are becoming more limited which is one of the reasons we like to explore all these web conferences but you know honestly there's probably no reason you couldn't do this kind of web conference in your library if you have a projector you just need to hook up your projector to a computer you have a speakerphone we could hear each other on the speakerphone so I think there are possibilities for that one of the other things I'm exploring is some of you I know are associated with hospitals we are going to be looking at the telehealth network you may or may not know that they have video conferencing available in all of the hospitals in the state and so we're kind of thinking about doing a program and pushing it out for the hospitals that way there's no reason that public librarians couldn't also attend that so watch for that information in the future and that as it depends kind of part if you indicate to me that you really think you need a presentation and I'm headed your way I can probably work that in obviously most of my travel happens along I-80 so you're lucky if you're in that direction but I really want to encourage you to do the presentation that's really why that educational clearing house is out there it's giving you all the materials to do that and certainly if you need any help with anything I can assist in that also so I hope that answers your question now this also this powerpoint presentation is available for people too they can use parts of this as we do with all of our encompassed life sessions this powerpoint goes up to the library commission slideshare account which is a website where you can share powerpoints with people and it's downloadable from there and you can download it to your computer and then tweak it, change it, do whatever you want with it to present to your community you know take Marty's name off for your name on ask her for advice on what to say of course you know but it's out there and so you can use different pieces of it if there's certain sites that you want to just focus on you know just pull those different pieces from it it's available out there and also the individual websites that are listed are also in the library commission's delicious account which is a website where you can collect bookmarks that you can go to for the link for that will be on the presentation as well but you can go to delicious.com and the library commission's account you can look forward to NLC for the reference and then you can search for Encompass Live in Health and you'll find all the links that she mentions in this presentation as well for quick jumps to those if you want to so um I particularly want to thank Christopher Dillion I think it's a terrific resource to be able to do that in delicious and gives you those and you can show that to your patrons they can use those delicious accounts as well so it's a good way for them to be shown those kinds of websites yeah all these delicious and slideshare they're free so you can set up your own accounts there just to collect your own bookmarks or have your patrons set up their own accounts to share things and find stuff, resources and information I want to join in the text so we like the presentation especially for archive features yes we like the saving of the recordings as well we only can have a limited number of people in here so at a time so we like being able to record these so anyone with most of these I have to affect did you have any other yes or no questions you wanted to ask? you know I guess I would just like to know whether you thought that this really met the objectives and maybe that's the same as the other question that we had but you know our objectives were really to tell you about some web web resources that came from the National Library of Medicine those that came from other resources that we mentioned and the promotional materials and how to interface a little bit some ideas that you might do in your community do you think that this web conference met those objectives? and again you can do this with your yes or no which are located at the top of your screen I guess we prefer we did this anonymously because probably no one's going to say no when we see your name we're actually we're working on getting an evaluation out there for our Iconcompassal lives that would be anonymous because there's a website called surface monkey that we have and just do an anonymous evaluation of all of our sessions so hopefully that will be coming soon good, good to know some more feedback on how we're doing um people are attending so that's a good thing it is, absolutely so are there any last-minute questions or suggestions? well Marty thank you so much for joining us today Marty McKee from the National Network Libraries of Medicine she's based at the McGuggen Library of Medicine at the University of Nebraska Medical Center and we're giving you some applause thank you so much Laura do you have a question? you've got your hand raised there did you clip through on my no, okay, no problem thank you all very much for joining us and we'll talk to you again if that happens no problem see you again next week at 10 o'clock time 9 o'clock now next week oh, next week is our Nebraska Learns 2.0 wrap up we may have been doing the 23 things in the Nebraska Learns program and we're going to have a session on how that went, it ended just last week, January 30th and see how it all turned out how people did it and do away some of my visits where you can the session has been recorded we'll be up hopefully this afternoon I'll get it all taken care of as you fill us in the recording and I said see the PowerPoint if you don't already have a hold of it and the links that are available out there if there's no other questions thank you very much for attending thank you for stopping by bye