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Oct

30

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New Project Funded to Explore Public Health and Public Library Partnerships

Posted by on October 30th, 2019 0 comments

The GMR is excited to announce that the Institute for Public Health Practice at the University of Iowa College of Public Health has been awarded funding for its project: Information Collaboration: Bringing Public Health Organizations and Public Libraries Together. This project will provide resources and educational opportunities that highlight the benefits of collaboration between public… Read More »

Posted in: Funding, Public Health, Public Libraries

Oct

28

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Michigan Health Sciences Libraries Association Conference: Navigating into Public Health Resources

Posted by on October 28th, 2019 0 comments

The Michigan Health Sciences Libraries Association (MHSLA) received a GMR Expert Speaker Award for our annual conference in Lansing, Michigan, October 2-4, 2019. Thanks to the award, we were able to bring Cecilia Vernes to the conference, where she offered a Continuing Education course, True North: Navigating your way to Freely Available Public Health Resources…. Read More »

Posted in: Funding, Success Stories

Oct

08

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Illinois Prairie District Public Library – The Illinois PraiREAD

Posted by on October 8th, 2019 0 comments

  In September and October of 2019, the Illinois Prairie District Public Library hosted its first “big read,” cleverly titled The Illinois PraiREAD. The chosen title was The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon. This title was chosen in part because a local community theatre was staging the play in… Read More »

Posted in: Blog

Sep

25

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TOXNET Website to be Retired, Most Content Will Remain Available

Posted by on September 25th, 2019 0 comments

On December 16, 2019, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) TOXNET (TOXicology Data NETwork) website will be retired. Most content will remain available through other NLM databases as well as from external websites. TOXNET has served as an integrated system of toxicology and environmental health information. The most frequently used databases are being incorporated into… Read More »

Posted in: News from NIH/NLM, NLM Resources, Public Health, Technical Bulletin

Sep

13

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IUPUI Library Recipient of All of Us Ambassador Award

Posted by on September 13th, 2019 0 comments

The IUPUI University Library is one of five award recipients of the 2019-2020 NNLM All of Us Ambassador Program. Funding for this program is the result of a partnership between the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and All of Us, a National Institutes of Health (NIH) research program that seeks to enroll one million or more people… Read More »

Posted in: All of Us, Blog, Consumer Health, From the GMR, Funding, News from the Region, NNLM All of Us Ambassador Award, Outreach, Public Libraries, Success Stories

This project has been funded in whole or in part with Federal funds from the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, under Grant Number 1UG4LM012346 with The University of Iowa.

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