New York Times Science Section Spotlights OML

Extra,extra read all about Operation Medical Libraries in the New York Times Science section on August 31, 2010.Doctors Heed Call for Books

OML Continues to Provide Training Resources for Afghan Trauma Mentorship Program

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For over 18 months, OML has been providing textbooks for the Afghan Trauma Mentorship Program in Bagram, Afghanistan. The current director of the two-week program is an amazing US Army nurse. Here are some of the photos she took of her students using the OML resources.

OML Salutes Dr E.H. Munro Medical Library within St Mary's Hospital and Regional Medical Center in Grand Junction, Colorado

The Dr E.H. Munro Medical Library within St Mary's Hospital and Regional Medical Center in Grand Junction, Colorado is in the process of sending a large amount of journals, textbooks and software to the University of Health Sciences in Antiqua. The library is fortunate to currently have Tyler H., a young volunteer who is responsible for getting these items packed securely to survive the trip to Lyzette Roman, whose office is in Puerto Rico. Hopefully Ms. Roman has a 'large' office, as we have already sent 61 boxes of just journals, and will be sending textbooks and software when the volunteer gets them packed up. The challenge is finding enough smaller boxes, so this can all go by USPS at Library Media rate [which has a maximum of 70 lbs!!].

Mark McKenney, the medical librarian, managed to get four oncologist MDs to donate a large number of oncology journals that they had access to electronically via their various medical associations they belong to. Mark also contacted the local nursing education department at Mesa State College [also in Grand Junction, CO], and the faculty came up with several large boxes of textbooks/journals/software that were picked up on May 12 2010, and those will also be going to Antiqua.

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OML POC Daughter Salutes Her Dad and Military in Song

For every deployed soldier there is a family left behind waiting for his/her safe return. One of the current OML POC's stationed in Kabul received a special song from his daughter, who wrote and performed We Salute You. She dedicated the song to her dad and all those deployed. The clip is on YouTube. We Salute You

Verse 1
To the men and women out there who stand for liberty-
To the ones who died in battle to make our country free-
To the families of veterans who fought for the truth-
To the mothers of young men who gave up their youth:

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We salute you for this country we call free,
We salute you for the land of liberty,
We salute you for safety in the night.
We salute you for fighting for the right.

Verse 2
You have all fought so bravely, our thank you's not enough.
You risked your lives to protect us, you gave up so much.
But you did it for service to country and God
And you stood up for what you know is such a great cause.

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University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria Weighs In BIG

University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria is in the middle of a very successful OML drive. To date, they have collected and sorted by subject (OB/GYN, surgery, trauma, pediatrics, etc.) 15 very heavy of boxes. A big OML thanks to Molly M., a third year medical student, for organizing this book drive. Way to go, Molly!

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MedImpact Donates New Medical Books to Antigua

MedImpact Healthcare System in San Diego donated 7 boxes of medical books and journals to the University of Health Sciences Antigua.

From all of us here at MedImpact, thank you OML for giving us the opportunity to donate unused medical books to such a great cause. We are happy to know they will be put in good use.

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OML's Website Re-design is Complete

Kudos to the UCLA Alumni Association marketing team for making the final tweaks and edits of the OML Website re-design. It looks fabulous! OML Website