National Network of Libraries of Medicine
nnlm.gov
Archives
This page was archived on: May 02, 2008 | View page metadata
Document content is not current. Links may be broken.
| National Network of Libraries of Medicinennlm.gov |
Archives |
|
This page was archived on: May 02, 2008 | View page metadata | Document content is not current. Links may be broken. |
||
 |
| NN/LM PNR National Network of Libraries of Medicine Pacific Northwest Region |
Home | About Us | Search |
 |
Dragonfly
Fall 2002 -- Volume 33, Number 3 |
The Montana Library Association meeting, the other MLA, in Great Falls, was the place. Laurel Egan, medical librarian at St. James Healthcare in Butte, and Mary Lou Mires, reference librarian at the D'Arcy McNickle Library at Salish Kootenai College (SKC) a tribal college in Pablo, and Susan Barnes, the RML's Resource Sharing Coordinator, were the people. What happens when serendipity brings them together? Read on.
Mary Lou and her library's director Carlene Barnett were
mentioning that it would be nice if someone with medical library
expertise could come to Salish Kootenai College and teach the
students and faculty of the nursing program about PubMed. Laurel,
who has had lots of experience doing health information outreach
to small rural communities in Montana was part of the
conversation. Laurel mentioned that she would love to teach
PubMed at SKC but for her to go to Pablo, more than 200 miles and
three hours away, would take both time and money. That's when
Susan stepped in to tell them about the mini-awards from the NN/LM PNR
for doing outreach training. And the partnership was born!
Laurel has just finished teaching a basic hands-on PubMed class
for Salish Kootenai nursing students and a more advanced class
for faculty. It was reportedly a huge success and the folks at
SKC would like to make this a semi-annual event. Laurel knows how
important it is to share her expertise in a state like Montana
where the resources, like the people, are spread far and wide
across this fourth largest state. She also knows that many of the
students she taught are from rural areas and reservations in the
state and when they finish their education they will return to
those small communities to be of service to the people there. So
she will continue to be a partner promoting access to better
health information.
Dragonfly, Fall 2002 - Volume 33, Number 3
(posted on PNRNews on October 30, 2002)
This publication is funded in whole with Federal funds from the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, under Contract No. N01-LM-1-3516.
NLM | MedlinePlus | PubMed | NLM Gateway | TOXNET | LOCATORplus
NN/LM | UW HSL | NN/LM PNR | Contact us: nnlm@u.washington.edu | Revised: October 29, 2002