NCompass Live: Digital Resources of the National Library of Medicine

Spotlight! on NLM Resources NLM Digital Resources Marty Magee National Network/Libraries of Medicine Education and Nebraska Liaison McGoogan Library of Medicine Univ. of Nebraska Medical Center 986706 Nebraska Medical Center Omaha NE 68198-6706 402-559-7076 1-800-338-7657 mmagee@unmc.edu

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National Library of Medicine http://www.nlm.nih.gov/index.html

LocatorPlushttp://locatorplus.gov/

Why would you use Locator Plus? To find records for journals, books, reports and audiovisuals in the NLM® collection To find records for serials and books not in the NLM collection, but owned by regional libraries To see records for journals, books, reports and audiovisuals on order, on loan or in process at the NLM

Images from the History of Medicine http://ihm.nlm.nih.gov/luna/servlet/view/all

How could you use these images?

History of Medicine http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/index.htmlClick on topic for more choices What is the first entry under Books and Journals?

Online Exhibitions and Digital Projects http://www.nlm.nih.gov/onlineexhibitions.html

Digital Collectionshttp://collections.nlm.nih.gov/muradora/

Read books online or on your Kindle….http://www.archive.org/details/medicalheritagelibrary/

What it may look like….

Books….

Films and Videos Recognize this guy?

Oral Historieshttp://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/manuscripts/oh.html

Oral Historieshttp://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/oral_history/Interviewees.html In a search for Estelle Brodman, at what university might would you find her oral history?

Oral Histories

Visible Humanhttp://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/visible/visible_human.html In what year was the Visible Human Female data set released?

Turning the Pageshttp://archive.nlm.nih.gov/proj/ttp/v2/ How many “books” are Now a in this Mobile collection? App!

Medlineplus.gov – Anatomy Videos There is a video for PTCA – What does that mean?

MedlinePlus – Surgery Videos

MedlinePlus.gov - tutorials http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/training/trainers.htmlWho could use this? How can youpromote this to them?

NIH SeniorHealthhttp://nihseniorhealth.gov/ How long is the video ”Cognitive Test for Alzheimer’s?”

PubMed Tutorialshttp://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/disted/pubmed.html What’s the first step for registering for a Loansome Doc Account?

The Cell: an Image Library http://www.cellimagelibrary.org/

Traveling Exhibitionshttp://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/about/exhibition/travelingexhibiti ons.html Name one of the first two “Available” exhibitions

Further Resources in History of Medicinehttp://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/resources/web/libraryarchivalcollections.html Is your resource library listed?

Directory of History of Medicine Collections http://wwwcf.nlm.nih.gov/hmddirectory/index.cfm Is your resource library listed?

Access to Audiovisual Materialshttp://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/lrc.html

The future… Digital Public Library of America – Discussion about what needs to be digitized

Contribute to “New Media” i.e. Horizon Report

Crowd Sourcing For example … – local publications of more than 50 World War I hospitals in U.S. – Held by a national institution, with local roots – Connect collections to locales of their origins, map them? By RML?

What can you do? Promote these resources in your institution in a printed or online publication Lead a “class” or brown-bag session Use the resources in your own presentations (and be sure to give credit to NLM!) Sign up for a traveling exhibition!

Contact Information After 175 years of the National Library of Medicine… Shouldn’t you be celebrating? The answer is YES!Marty MageeNational Network/Libraries of MedicineEducation and Nebraska LiaisonMcGoogan Library of MedicineUniv. of Nebraska Medical Center986706 Nebraska Medical CenterOmaha NE 68198-6706402-559-70761-800-338-7657mmagee@unmc.edu

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