By: Marie Kaddell
Couldn’t be at the DC SLA Military Librarians Program: Disaster Response – How Information Professionals CAN Help? Here is a little information about yesterday’s program and my tweets from the session. You can find all tweets for this session at #dcsla. Others who tweeted in-session yesterday were: @gemarlatt, @FederalLibrary, @NLM_DIMRC and @siobhanmaire. They’re definitely worth following on Twitter.
You can follow me @libraryfocus. Here’s my session tweets:
- Disaster Response – How Info Pros Can Help Program now starting #dcsla
- DIMRC mission – to develop and provide access to health info resource and tech for disaster preparedness, response and recovery. #dcsla
- NLM long-range plan also includes demonstrating how med libs & librarians can provide critical disaster info services. #dcsla
- NLM long-range plan includes partnering in fed disaster preparedness & recovery efforts. #dcsla
- Disaster Info Management Research Center http://disasterinfo.nlm.nih.gov #dcsla
- New topic page on mobile connections – apps from DIMRC -http://disasterinfo.nlm.nih.gov/dimrc/disasterapps.html #dcsla
- Medlineplus website includes emergency information for the public #DCSLA @NLM_DIMRC Retweeted by Marie Kaddell
- Find peer reviewed literature as well as “grey” literature at NLM #DCSLA @NLM_DIMRC Retweeted by Marie Kaddell
- WISER HazMat/CBRN Response at http://wiser.nlm.nih.gov includes Protective Distance Mapping. #dcsla
- Like WISER REMM (Radiation Emergency Medical Management) is available as an app. http://remm.nlm.gov #dcsla
- Chemical Hazards Emergency Medical Management (CHEMM) doesn’t have app yet but can be downloaded. http://Chemm.nlm.nih.gov. #dcsla
- Access to articles from biomedicine titles to healthcare pros, librarians, & public affected by disasters. http://eai.nlm.nih.gov. #dcsla
- Librarians have skills to collect, organize, and disseminate quality info crucial to disaster work and pub health emergencies. #dcsla
- Disaster Information Outreach by Librarians Listserv: DISASTR-OUTREACH-LIB listserv - https://list.nih.gov/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A0=DISASTR-OUTREACH-LIB. #dcsla
- DIMRC provides funding to help collaborations between libs and emergency response orgs #dcsla @gemarlatt Retweeted by Marie Kaddell
- disaster information specialization - http://www.mlanet.org/education/dis - no cost to students #dcsla @gemarlatt Retweeted by Marie Kaddell
- Stafford Act – gets the ball rolling for federal support – has now written libraries written in as an essential community service #dcsla @gemarlatt Retweeted by Marie Kaddell
- working on developing relationships with the first responder community so they know what support librarians can bring #dcsla @gemarlatt Retweeted by Marie Kaddell
- NN/LN – One part of mission is to improve public health by providing all US health pros with equal access to biomedical info. Wilson #dcsla
- NN/LM Emergency Preparedness & Response Toolkit http://nnlm.gov/ep/ includes NEPR Times Tweets @neprtimes. Wilson #dcsla
- Compilation of library disaster stories on NN/LM Emergency Preparedness & Response Toolkit - http://nnlm.gov/ep/ Wilson #dcsla
- Also on NN/LM Emergency Preparedness & Response Toolkit is info on writing your disaster plans - http://nnlm.gov/ep/disaster-plan-templates/Wilson #dcsla
- RT @NLM_DIMRC Libraries are included as essential services as part of the Stafford Act #dcsla
- @vandervolgen Retweeted by Marie Kaddell
- great training opportunties – “10-Step Approach to Service Continuity Planning” class – see their virtual materials #dcsla @gemarlatt Retweeted by Marie Kaddell
- Introduction: A 10-Step Approach to Service Continuity Planning - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBeAbAykCKM&feature=relmfu #dcsla
- 15 Elements/ High State of Library Readiness -http://nnlm.gov/ep/highest-state-of-library-readiness/ Wilson #dcsla
- elements of success – strong network, motivation (event) and common geography (shared stories) #dcsla@gemarlatt Retweeted by Marie Kaddell
- Medical Reserve Corps is avoid partner for libraries #DCSLA @NEPRTimes @NLM_DIMRC Retweeted byMarie Kaddell
- Red Cross has developed model for monitoring social media in times of crisis. Champ-Blackwell #dcsla
- #dcsla @siobhanmaire underlining important of Twitter for emergency response.
- NLM Gallery of mobile apps and sites - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mobile/index.html #dcsla
- Good idea to have a twitter feed just for approved retweets #dcsla Thanks NLM! @FederalLibrary Retweeted by Marie Kaddell
- Great job tweeting from Disaster Response – How Info Pros Can Help Program @gemarlatt @FederalLibrary @NLM_DIMRC @siobhanmaire #dcsla
To read more about this event and the DC/SLA Military Libraries Group, click here.
