Michigan Health Go Local goes to MLA

November 2009

On Wed. Nov. 4, JILL TURNER, MHGL Selector/Reviewer and LINDA DRAPER, MHGL Project Director will attend Michigan Library Association's conference in Lansing, MI. We are presenting "Consumer Health All-Stars in Michigan Libraries: MedlinePlus and Michigan Health Go Local in Your Community."

On Thu. Nov. 5, we are exhibiting a poster at the MLA titled "10 Easy Pieces: Quick Tips to Make CHI Shine at Your Library!" Creators of the poster are LINDA, JILL and SANDRA MARTIN, MHGL Project Leader.

We are on a mission to encourage all Michigan libraries that want to deliver good consumer health information - to keep it short and simple (KISS). Just add links to MedlinePlus and Michigan Health Go Local on library web sites.

For some flyers to help promote this goal, check out this previous blog post.

13,000 Benchmark & a New Name!

August 2009

We changed our name officially to Michigan Health Go Local this last August 2009, adding HEALTH to our name. A new logo and banner were also created. We want to thank JOSHUA NEDS-FOX at Wayne State University Library Systems for his web graphics help. Thumbs up and kudos for all the great work he does!

June 2009

The 13,000 records mark for approved records was met this summer. SUZANNE VAN PELT, one of the hard-working Selectors/Reviewers, was watching our database closely for this important milestone. SUZANNE entered her first record into the online directory December 2005. That was 13 months before we went "live".