Book chapter
Expanding health information outreach through academic health science partners
Library collaborations and community partnerships: enhancing health and quality of life
Routledge
06/10/2020
DOI: 10.4324/9780429439261-12
Abstract
The Greater Midwest Region (GMR) of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NNLM) maintains a partnership with regional health sciences libraries that share the NNLM’s mission of providing outreach to underserved and underrepresented groups. The outreach libraries program supports the mission of NNLM, “to advance the progress of medicine and improve public health by providing U.S. health professionals with equal access to biomedical information and improving individual's access to information to enable them to make informed decisions about their health”. By engaging organizations within their communities, these librarians extend the outreach arm of the GMR.
From 2006 to 2011, Outreach Libraries received a stipend ($3,000–$5,000) to train on National Library of Medicine (NLM) and National Institutes of Health (NIH) databases and other resources, exhibit on behalf of the GMR, and provide reference services for unaffiliated health professionals. For 2016–2021, the GMR program funding structure changed. Grants are awarded through a competitive process and a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) is required.
Examples of collaborative activities include train-the-trainer sessions with community center staff, and public librarians, teaching health professionals how to access content, promoting NLM consumer resources at health fairs, teaching high-school students at summer camps on how to use PubMed for research projects, promotion of NLM resources at state and regional conferences, presenting health information resources to seniors and culturally appropriate materials to community organizations, holding workshops for patients at medical centers, provide training sessions at critical access hospitals, and hosting NLM traveling exhibits for the public.
The new funding structure changed many aspects of GMR-funded outreach. GMR staff provide a more hands-on approach, to develop resource guides, provide online training, and monitor the outreach libraries progress in meeting the requirements of the MOU.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Expanding health information outreach through academic health science partners
- Creators
- Elizabeth KiscadenJacqueline Leskovec
- Contributors
- Vicki Hines-Martin (Editor)Fannie M Cox (Editor)Henry R Cunningham (Editor)
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Library collaborations and community partnerships: enhancing health and quality of life
- Publisher
- Routledge; London
- DOI
- 10.4324/9780429439261-12
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 06/10/2020
- Academic Unit
- Hardin Library
- Record Identifier
- 9984439060002771
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