Deadline Extended! - Health Literacy and Plain Language Workshop

Dear Members,

Happy New Year - We hope that 2007 is healthy and prosperous for all of you and your families!

Don’t forget - This is your Final Opportunity to Register:

Health Literacy and Plain Language: Skills for Clear Health Communication
Tuesday, January 23, 2007, 9:00 - 4:30
Enders Auditorium, Children’s Hospital Boston
Sponsored by MAHSLIN and NNLM/NER

**THE REGISTRATION DEADLINE HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO TUESDAY, JANUARY 9TH, 2007**

Many of you may have seen Carolyn Paul and Beth Schneider’s recent article in the Journal of Hospital Librarianship entitled Leading a Plain Language Program (6#2: 51-8). To quote them: “The authors encourage other librarians to embrace opportunities to expand their roles in this arena.”

Health literacy directly relates to patient safety - make it a New Years’ resolution to get involved by promoting this program to your patient safety colleagues in addition to the nurses, educators, pharmacists, public affairs and other staff writing for patients, their families and the health care consumer.

Our speaker, Sue Stableford is an expert on writing health information using plain language - you and your colleagues don’t want to miss this workshop on January 23rd!

More information can be located here:

http://www.mahslin.org/resources/health_lit_flyer.pdf

The registration form can be located here:

http://www.mahslin.org/resources/health_lit_reg.pdf

Thank you, let us know if we can answer any questions, and we look forward to seeing you at Children’s Hospital, Boston!

Alison Clapp
Nathan Norris
Co-chairs, MAHSLIN Education Committee

Handouts from “Moving at the Speed of Byte”

MAHSLIN was pleased to bring to our members the recent MLA webcast, “Moving at the Speed of Byte” at locations in both Boston and Worcester. In addition to the webcast, we had a couple of great wrap-around sessions in Boston — Brandy King, Librarian, Center for Media and Child Health, spoke about her new blog for the Center, while Cara Helfner, Chief Librarian, Kessler Health Education Library, talked about the use of podcasting in her library.

By popular demand, here are are the handouts from those talks:

Blogging basics

Calling all iPods!

New Web Site

You may have noticed that things look a little different at our web site these days. We’ve just completed a redesign based around our brand-new MAHSLIN logo. You’ll find all the same great content as before, just now with a new look.

If you find any broken links, or if there’s anything else that you think belongs on the site, please contact Ed Sperr.