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Dead
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 Partners
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Bosma
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Seven Additional "Partners In Information Access" Awards
Announced
Public Health Professionals to Benefit from Innovative
Projects
Seven additional "Partners In Information Access" awards totaling
nearly a quarter of a million dollars were jointly announced by the
National Library of Medicine and the National Network of Libraries
of Medicine (NN/LM) in May. These outreach projects are part of the
joint Partners In Information Access program for public health
professionals, which also involves the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention (CDC), the Health Resources and Services
Administration, the Association of State and Territorial Health
Officials, the National Association of County and City Health
Officials, and the Public Health Foundation. The Partners web site
is at www.nnlm.nlm.nih.gov/partners/.
These awards bring to 20 the number of contracts funded under
this program. Thirteen were awarded last October (/news/press_releases/pubhthpr.html)
"Public health professionals lag far behind those providing
individual patient care when it comes to access to information
technology and electronic information services," observed Betsy
Humphreys, NLM Associate Director for Library Operations. "This is a
serious problem because public health workers have an equally
compelling need for up- to-date information as they deal with
emerging and longstanding threats to the health of the communities
they serve. In these projects," she continued, "Health sciences
libraries work with government and community organizations to
connect public health professionals to electronic information
services and to teach them how to use these services
effectively."
The goals of the Partnership are to:
- increase public health professionals' awareness of the
services of the NLM, NN/LM and CDC;
- assist public health professionals in getting connected to the
Internet;
- train them in using information technology and information
services; and
- increase awareness of public health information needs and
resources among NN/LM members.
The seven new awards
(described on the Partners web site at www.nnlm.nlm.nih.gov/partners/public.html)
were presented to:
- University of Connecticut Health Center Library Farmington, CT
- Southwest Georgia Area Health Education Center Health Sciences
Library Albany, GA
- University of Rochester Edward G. Miner Library Rochester, NY
- University of North Dakota Harley French Library Grand Forks,
ND
- Vanderbilt University The Annette and Irwin Eskind Biomedical
Library Nashville, TN
- Houston Academy of Medicine Texas Medical Center Library
Houston, TX
- Texas Woman's University Libraries Texas Woman's University
Denton, TX
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