March 2008 Events

March 18

Michigan Go Local presents at Michigan's Public Health Technology Conference in East Lansing. ANNETTE HEALY and LINDA DRAPER are scheduled to conduct 2 hands-on computer sessions.

10,000 Records!

February 2008

MGL passed the 10K milestone.

We have officially been "live" for one year since launch date January 24, 2007 . Time sure flies when you're having fun!

Fast Facts:

• Approved Records = 10,131
• Audited Records = 2,932
• Visits in January = 859
• Average per day = 27
• Most popular = Arthritis (30 hits) and Clinical Trials (23 hits)

(Source: National Library of Medicine Go Local Database and WEBSTATS, selected data summary by DEBORAH CHARBONNEAU)

January 2008

Welcome Royal Oak librarians: MARGIE KOWALCZYK and MARY ANN DEKANE.

They are part of the Royal Oak Health Information Portal (ROHIP) ropl.orh/health project. LINDA DRAPER, MGL project director trained and will follow-up with Margie and Mary Ann as new selectors. They will review health services in the Royal Oak area, to audit existing records and add new records to the database.

AUTHOR! AUTHOR!

ANNETTE HEALY is lead author on an article about Michigan Go Local. It's published electronically in the January issue by the Michigan Library Association.

Healy, A.M., Draper, L.A., Turner, J.A., Van Pelt, S.M., Marks, E.B. (2008). Michigan Go Local: Connecting Michigan Residents with Health Services [Electronic Version]. MLA Forum, 6 from www.mlaforum.org/volumeVI/article1.html

November 2007

MGL exhibited a poster, Michigan Go Local: Online Statewide Directory of Public Health Services and More at Michigan's Premier Public Health Conference in Dearborn MI.

Public health professionals were greeted by LINDA DRAPER, JILL TURNER and DEBORAH CHARBONNEAU of Shiffman Medical Library.

9000 Records!

September 2007, Michigan Go Local passed the 9K milestone.

Fast Facts:

• Approved records = 9,282
• Audited records = 1,131

Sept 26-28

Michigan Health Sciences Libraries Association (MHSLA) Annual Conference in Bay City, MI hosted a Lunch & Learn session on Michigan Go Local. The update for health sciences librarians was presented by MGL project director, LINDA DRAPER . The presentation has been posted by MHSLA on their website www.mhsla.org/home/GoLocalMHSLA07.ppt

ANNETTE HEALY, consultant and former project director is presenting a poster on statistics from the first 6 months of Michigan Go Local.

SHIRLEY LANGEBARTELS, Wayne State University, graduate student of Library Information Science Program (LISP) attended and participated in the the MHSLA conference on a scholarship awarded by the organization. Congrats, Shirley! She is also a volunteer working on Go Local, primarily focused on audting records in her home county of Lapeer.

Sept 19

Royal Oak Health Information Portal (ROHIP) held its first health lecture by Beaumont Hospital faculty on Integrative Medicine. MedlinePlus and Michigan Go Local are part of the year long project. Read more about it! Visit the Royal Oak Public Library website!

8000 Records!

Another milestone has been reached primarily due to the dedication and skills of librarians JILL TURNER and SUZANNE VAN PELT who are MGL reviewers. Keep up the wonderful work you both do!

New librarian KRISTINA CROFUT and library and information science graduate student SHIRLEY LANGEBARTELS have also joined the MGL effort as selectors. Welcome!

Fast Facts:

• Approved records = 8051
• Libraries or library associations that link to MGL = 21
• State of Michigan Department of Community Health (MDCH) adds link = http://michigan.gov/mdch/0,1607,7-132-2940_2955_2982_45999---,00.html

May 2007 Events

May 31
Total approved Michigan Go Local records = 7,646
Michigan libraries or library associations linking to MGL = 20

May 16
METTA LANSDALE, director of Royal Oak Public Library announced plans to launch a Health Information Portal, partnering with William Beaumont Hospital and Wayne State University's Shiffman Medical Library and Library and Information Science Program (LISP) This exciting community health information project will be funded by a contract with the Greater Midwest Region (GMR) and the National Library of Medicine (NLM). One component of the endeavor includes regional input into Michigan Go Local. For more details read Metta's news release http://tln.lib.mi.us/news/2007/5/21/roak-healthinfoportal.pdf

May 10
Michigan Go Local was presented in Lansing at the Michigan Library Consortium (MLC) at a class hosted by the Michigan Health Sciences Libraries Association (MHSLA). Participants were librarians and support staff from libraries across the state - from Grand Rapids to Royal Oak. LINDA DRAPER, MGL project director coordinated the session.

7000 Records and LIVE!

Michigan Go Local successfully launched January 24, 2007. Records for hospitals and public health departments serving all counties in the state have been completed.

ANNETTE HEALY, project director since 2004 accepted a position at Wayne State University, Science & Engineering Library in Detroit, but still serves as a project consultant. Thanks, Annette, for your tremendous accomplishments and hard work!

LINDA DRAPER, current project director, made the first official presentation of Michigan Go Local to Michigan Department of Community Health and Michigan HIV/AIDS Council on March 23 in Eaton Rapids.

April 2, the 7,000 benchmark was reached for approved records.

6000 records!

As we continue to add records to the Michigan Go Local database, we have reached a new milestone of 6000 approved records. In the figure on the right, counties in which hospital and health system data entry has been completed are indicated in blue. We are still on target to launch the database in January 2007.

Michigan Health Sciences Libraries Association Conference

Annette Healy presented an update of the Michigan Go Local project on October 20, 2006 at the Michigan Health Sciences Libraries Association Conference, which was held on the campus of Michigan State University. The presentation featured an update of the status of the project, recognition for those who have contributed to the project and a preview of the site as it will look when it becomes available online in January 2007.