OutHistory.org, the award-winning website on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer U.S. history, announced the winners of its “Since Stonewall Local Histories Contest,” 41 years after the start of the rebellion that marks the beginning of the modern movement for LGBTQ rights and liberation. “LGBT Life in Iowa City, Iowa: 1967-2010″ online exhibit curated by University Archivist David McCartney and Iowa Women’s Archives Curator Karen Mason earned an honorable mention in the competition.

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LGBT Life in Iowa City, Iowa: 1967-2010 Online Exhibit Earns Honorable Mention

In a July 19 article published in ForbesWoman , an online and print periodical targeting women professionals, Medical Assistant jobs are listed as some of the fastest-growing professional opportunities for women in the country. The article cites recent research conducted by Laurence Shatkin, a 30-year veteran of the career information field, and the prolific author of numerous employment resource guides, including “Best Jobs for the 21st Century,” “50 Best Jobs for Your Personality,” and “150 Best Recession-Proof Jobs.” According to Shatkin, the Medical Assistant field is ranked eighth in a list of the 20 fastest-growing professional fields for women. Opportunities for Medical Assistants, such as San Francisco Medical Assistant jobs , are projected to increase 40% through 2018

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Medical Assistant Profession One of the Fastest-Growing Job Fields for Women Says Leading Career Information Expert

Congratulations to Robert Oppliger. Nancy Baker, University Librarian, drew his name from the fishbowl of raffle tickets to win the collection of 75 books from Penguin Publishing . All of the money collected for the raffle will go directly to support the Iowa City Book Festival (Penguin Publishing donated the books for the contest).

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ICBF Book Raffle Winner Announced: Robert Oppliger

Brenda Calvin Wright, a licensed vocational nurse ( LVN ) clinical manager for the Chapa-De Indian Health Program in Auburn, California, will receive a distinguished national award for excellence in nursing on July 21 in Washington D.C., reported the Colusa County Sun Herald . Wright will be awarded on Wednesday during the 2010 Nurse Leaders in Native Care Conference.

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Greater Sacramento Licensed Vocational Nurse to Receive a Prestigious Nursing Award in Washington D.C.

In honor of the upcoming Iowa City Book Festival (July 16-18, 2010), we’re featuring some of the literary collections in Iowa Digital Library and Iowa Research Online. We hope you’ll explore the content online and the book fest in real life. Paul Engle teaching at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop , The University of Iowa, ca

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Digitally celebrating books, reading, and writing

The University of Iowa Libraries will be migrating the online Interlibrary Loan system to a new server on July 15. Interlibrary Loan/Article Delivery service will be completely unavailable this day (users may not request items, ask for renewals, view scanned PDFs, etc.).  We expect this to take a single day only and will announce when this is completed. For questions, please contact lib-ill@uiowa.edu .

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Interlibrary Loan Service Unavailable July 15

In the upcoming issue, Drug Topics reports on ASHP’s Remote Medication Order Processing guidelines published earlier this year. From the aritlce: I had all of 2 weeks to fill those slots.

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ASHP finds 80% of Hospitals without 24/7 Pharmacist Coverage, Publishes RMOP Guidelines, Trumpets RMOP Providers

PharmaTrust issued a press release today , announcing they were enabling all Ontario Telemedicine Network members to easily install and use their MedCentre dispensing machine. As a result, they got some good press on CBC News which relayed this tidbit: [d]iscussions are continuing with about 30 health facilities, with six to 10 showing strong interest in adopting the new technology.

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MedCentre Remote Dispensing Machine to expand further in Canada, UK, and soon, USA?

An article by Kate Traynor from next month’s ASHP News interviews the the Navy’s telepharmacy program project manager, Lieutenant Commander Marc Young (Lt.

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US Navy’s Worldwide Outpatient Telepharmacy Program to be Extended to Inpatients, Army, Air Force?

In a new study in the American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy (AJHP), the “Current practices and state regulations regarding telepharmacy in rural hospitals” were examined for a good number of US states. Through a series of interviews with board of pharmacy directors, a team out of the University of Minnesota including Michelle Casey, Todd Sorensen, Walter Elias, Alana Knudson, and Walter Gregg found: Results. Although telepharmacy is addressed in NABP’s model pharmacy practice act, many state boards are just beginning to address it

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New Study: Many US States Neglect Setting Any Telepharmacy Policy

In an article in online magazine “Lifestyle” called White River Medical Center Uses Meta Pharmacy System to Support Distance Medication Dispensing , Holly Meyer of tells a tale of two medical centers in North Central Arkansas, one providing remote order entry to the other in the absence of an on-site pharmacist: This remote link allows WRMC pharmacists to provide remote medication order entry and real time review of medication orders for appropriateness of doses, as well as screening for medication allergies and drug-drug interactions. Although 35 miles away, SCMC functions as a virtual nursing unit of WRMC, allowing nurses at SCMC immediate access to medications in their dispensing machines. Two goals are achieved with this arrangement – orders for every patient are reviewed and verified by a pharmacist and nurses have access to medications without using an antiquated medication cart fill each day

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Arkansas: Medical Center Provides Telepharmacy for Disaster Relief, Reduces Errors

Building a small internet business online has become one of the most sought after ways for many to make money online. Not only is it easier to maintain, it can also effectively provide a very lucrative business if done successfully

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How to Build Your Own Profitable Small Internet Business

The online business is not hard to start, but many individuals get discouraged right out of the gate because they just either don’t understand it, or are just not good with computers. This is a common problem and you are not alone, but there are ways to get through all of that without trying to re-inventing the wheel. First of all I want to make something clear, all this work should be intended to facilitate starting up a long-term business that will earn online existence through a website that you put together

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Mostly we see how men are making a great living from Internet Marketing, Affiliate sales and Online Businesses. But we are also getting the idea that one of the best and smartest alternatives for women to earn a living is also to establish an Internet business, and that more and more women are doing this and making it work for them.

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10 Reasons Why Women Should Set Up an Internet Business Online

If you are entrepreneurial like myself, then surely at times you have great ideas for a new product or service that you could turn into an (online internet) business. Nowadays you can automate many processes online, which allows you to focus on other business related issues. If set up properly, you have the opportunity to earn money whilst sleeping

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Starting an Internet Business Online – How To

There are so many different types of Internet businesses out there today. In addition, there are many that will be starting up over the next few months. With the economic downturn many people are looking at the Internet as a possible way out.

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Best Internet Businesses – Online Business Opportunity

When you think about the best home internet business, you might instantly become overwhelmed or frustrated. You have seen everything, you have tried everything and I’m sure you are tired of getting the run around, false promises and all the hype that surrounds making money online.

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Best Home Internet Business Online

The 2010 Iowa City Book Festival (ICBF), presented by the University of Iowa Libraries, has announced its schedule for the three-day celebration of reading, writing and books July 16-18. The Festival offers activities for the entire family: best-selling authors, hands-on book arts, kids’ activities, music and festival food. For its second year, the ICBF has greatly expanded its schedule and has attracted some leading writers and filmmakers, including Jane Smiley, Audrey Niffenegger, Jeffrey Zaslow and Nicholas Meyer

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Iowa City Book Festival Announces Line-up

Content Expansion Will Bring New Material to Civil War Collection The University of Iowa Libraries has signed an agreement with Accessible Archives, an electronic publisher of primary source full-text historical databases, to preserve in digital format a number of primary source publications from the Civil War era. The Libraries’ holdings include various Civil War memoirs, pamphlets, and regimental histories, which up to now have been available only for those with access to its Special Collections Department.  Once the materials have been digitized and made fully searchable, they will become a new portion – an additional part – of The Civil War, a collection from Accessible Archives that has been well received by university and public libraries

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University of Iowa Extends Its Collaboration with Accessible Archives, Inc.

Candie Helseth wrote an article in Prairie Business Magazin e about Kathy Nelson, a North Dakota pharmacy owner who remotely supervises technicians dispensing medications in a retail setting. The NDTP’s stats were highlighted a bit as well: The use of telepharmacy technology is growing in North Dakota, which in 2001 became the first state to approve legislation allowing retail pharmacies to operate in remote areas without requiring a pharmacist to be physically present. In the decade preceding the creation of the North Dakota Telepharmacy Project, the state had lost 26 pharmacies.

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North Dakota Telepharmacy Project Continues to Expand