World AIDS Day : December 1

Established in 1988 by the World Health Organization, World AIDS Day is observed every year on December 1st.

Resources for AIDS awareness are available from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) website, http://www.hhs.gov/aidsawarenessdays/days/world/index.html .

Included are links to fact sheets, customizable posters, downloadable public service announcements (PSAs) and videos. AIDS.gov provides access to U.S. government HIV/AIDS information on prevention, testing, treatment, research, policies and resources.

--From the U.S Department of Health and Human Services, 2007.

Find Drug Information for Health Professionals

Find Drug Information for Health Professionals
Visit the above library web page on the Affinity Intranet for the following listing of recommended drug resources.

DailyMed (Drug Information) : Provides high quality information about marketed drugs. Includes FDA approved labels (package inserts). Provides health care providers and the public with a standard, comprehensive, up-to-date, look-up and download resource of medication content and labeling as found in medication package inserts (similar to the PDR).

FDA's Drug Information Pathfinder : Pathfinder from the Food & Drug Administration

MDConsult : Includes full-text Medical Books, Journals, Patient Handouts, Practice Guidelines and more. Includes excellent drug information from Gold Standard with images for identification and verification.

Drug Information (MedlinePlus) : Information on thousands of prescription and over-the-counter medications.

Micromedex Drug Information : Drug and Toxicology Information, Drug Interactions, Dosing Tools, AltMed Leaflets, PDA Resources. Includes access to the PDR.

How to Find the PDR Online : Step-by-step screenshots to navigate your way to the PDR online.

LactMed : Drugs and Lactation : Includes information such as maternal levels in breast milk, infant levels in blood, potential effects in breastfeeding infants and on lactation itself, the American Academy of Pediatrics category indicating the level of compatibility of the drug with breastfeeding, and alternate drugs to consider.

Online Books on Drugs and Medications : A selection of 20+ items from the Affinity Electronic Bookshelf.

New and Improved Electronic Bookshelf

Did you know that Affinity Library Services subscribes to over 350 online textbooks in medicine, nursing and allied health? We track all of them in a QuickBase application called The Electronic Bookshelf.

You can get a sneak peak here. This new version will replace the old version on December 17th, 2007.

How to get there :
Library Home Page > Find Books > Electronic Bookshelf (old version) > New and Improved eBooks on QuickBase

The Electronic Bookshelf is a DIRECTORY, or index, of the eBooks Affinity-ites can access in various free and subscription sources. It does not (and will not) search the full-text of these eBooks.

Since most of our vendors are IP-authenticated, you'll need to be at an Affinty computer in order to access the eBooks. Use outside Affinity will result in broken links.

Users will be able to search or browse by subject, title or keyword.
The eBooks database will present a direct link into any of the eBooks we track.

Sources covered include eBooks from the following :
Books@Ovid
Stat!REF
MDConsult
NCBI Bookshelf

If you have questions, comments, or want to report broken links, contact Michele Matucheski via Outlook email or via phone at 3-0340.

New and Improved Electronic Bookshelf

Winners Announced from NMLM 2007

Thank you to everyone who helped us celebrate National Medical Librarian’s Month 2007.

We appreciate your participation and enthusiasm!

Winners of our October Contests are as follows :

How Many Life Savers in the Jar? (Winners received the candies.)
Susan Harris, Radiology, MMC
Marilyn Binder, Radiology, STE
Donna Schultz, Cardiology/AMG Heart and Lung

Word Search Prize Drawing for a Gift Shop Gift Certificate :
Patricia Jolin, MMC Environmental Services
Nanette Williams - Nursing
Kendra Rios - STE Foundation