I’ll be in DC from Nov 10-17 for the AMIA conference, and will be making stops at the medical libraries of Johns Hopkins, University of Maryland @ Baltimore, and Howard University, as well as the National Library of Medicine. If you’re at the conference or in the area, and are a librarian, health or librarianship blogger, or women’s health advocate who would like to get together, send me an email.
Following the AMIA conference in DC, we went on a whirlwind tour of area libraries, where we were provided with tours, lunches, information, and time by many a medical librarian. Thanks to everyone at the following for hosting us, and especially to those of you who so graciously took time out of your busy days to share your brainpower with us:
March is Women’s History Month, and the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, MD is celebrating with this lecture:
Although Women’s Health News has moved, I’ll add a post here now and again to let you know what has been added to the new site. Click on over and join us at the new place.
This post is really for the librarians among you, and possibly those of you who are interested in words and their meaning. The National Library of Medicine has released their 2007 updates to the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). MeSH geeks may click on the links for MeSH descriptor data, including definitions. Among the changes: