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NLM "Adopts" D.C.'s Woodrow Wilson Senior High
School
Library Forms Partnership to Promote Interest in Science and
Consumer Health
Believing that a Web-connected America is a healthy America, NLM
Director Dr. Donald A.B. Lindberg and Dr. Stephen Tarason, principal
of Woodrow Wilson Senior High School, announced a partnership
between the two institutions that will encourage students to take an
active interest in consumer health. The Adopt-A-School Partnership
Pen Signing Ceremony took place January 21st in the school
library/media center.
"More and more individuals are taking responsibility for their
health and for being more knowledgeable about matters affecting
their physical and emotional well-being," said Dr. Lindberg. "We
think it is especially important that the young people of this
nation are 'connected' to good health information on the web. It
makes for a healthy America."
"The new partnership with the NLM is an exciting voyage for
Wilson Senior High School," said Dr. Tarason. "We will gain
outstanding technical and professional support while we upgrade the
technology in our library. In return we will be helping the city,
nation, and the world by pioneering an Internet consumer health
program which will eventually help every family on health
issues."
NLM will be involved in a number of projects with Wilson Senior
High School, including:
- Sponsoring students to work as interns at the Library;
- Working with Wilson students to design a consumer web site for
teenagers in the Library's consumer Web site, MEDLINEplus. This
model could be emulated by other area high schools;
- Setting up a PC workstation for health information in the
Parent Resource Center, the school's one-stop information center
for parents;
- Supporting the school's SciMaTech (Science, Mathematics,
Technology) Academy, a "school within a school" for the
"analytically inclined;" and
- Providing personal computers and instructional software.
Other long-range projects include the donating books and journals
to the Wilson Media Center, hosting a consumer health day, providing
NLM tours for students and faculty, and sponsoring lectures on
health issues.
Woodrow Wilson Senior High School, founded in 1935, has 1,550
students from all over the Washington, D.C. area and from more than
70 countries.
The lead staffer in the NLM-Wilson partnership is Cynthia Gaines,
Technical Information Specialist in NLM's Specialized Information
Services Division and the Library's Adopt-A-School Coordinator. |
