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Vicki Croft (Washington State University), Kim Granath (University of Montana), Kathy Kaya (Montana State University), Jim Morgan (Oregon Health Sciences University), Kathy Murray (University of Alaska Anchorage), Bob Pringle (Intercollegiate Center for Nursing Education), Barbara Sokolov (University of Alaska Anchorage), Steve Teich (Oregon Health Sciences University), Terry Wiggins (Idaho State University).Staff:
Maryanne Blake; Michael Boer; Linda Milgrom; Nancy Press (Recorder); Neil Rambo.
Jim Morgan welcomed the Resource Library Group to the BICC. He described the BICC and the distance education initiatives under way at OHSU. Steve Teich outlined outreach activities of OHSU. Extensive services are offered to rural practitioners and rural hospitals; any licensed health professional in Oregon gets access to the OHSU system, which provides OVID databases. Jim also gave the group a tour of the BICC facility.
The Alaska Health Sciences Information Service (AHSIS), University of Alaska Anchorage has a subcontract with the RML to provide outreach services to a variety of health care facilities (most of which are Alaska Native facilities).
Kathy Murray described work to date on the subcontract with the RML, which has received a no-cost extension. Kathy, with help from Maryanne Blake, has visited much of Southeast Alaska. She planned to visit Nome, Bethel, Dillingham, and Barrow in October. Overall, the AHSIS offers an 800 number for everyone in Alaska and each hospital in Alaska has a contact person who should be aware of AHSIS services. Some of those services are offered to the various hospitals on contracts, many of which are currently being renegotiated. Internet access is available throughout the state, provided by the Indian Health Service, but is very slow and undependable. Grateful Med has been used extensively in Alaska, but needs to be constantly reinforced because of the high turnover in health care facilities in Alaska.
The BICC at OHSU has just received approval for a subcontract with the RML entitled, "Oregon Community Health Outreach Project." Steve Teich distributed a project summary. Other meeting attendees had questions for Steve about the subcontract process.
Neil Rambo canvassed the group for interest in a Contract Year 3 Subcontract to a Resource Library. Ideas mentioned include: a joint venture between two or more Resource Libraries, increased access to consumer health information in foreign languages, networking among tribal colleges, a traditional healing Web site, development of training materials for public health officials (along the model of the INPHO project in Washington). Neil said that an RFP for Year 3 subcontract funding would probably appear in May of 1998.
The group also discussed joint contracts with vendors. At the April 3, 1997 meeting, Barbara Sokolov had suggested that the Resource Library Group, all of whom are working on licensing agreements with vendors for databases or full text, could benefit from a discussion on the Resource Library discussion list. Kathy Murray had volunteered to facilitate such a discussion.
The RML Resource Sharing Committee decided that access to OCLC holdings information would be the most useful step for health libraries in accessing monographs. The Committee had asked that Nancy Press find out if Resource Libraries would be willing to provide this OCLC look-up service. Several Resource Librarians questioned the use of OCLC as a solution to the problem of finding monographs and suggested that small health libraries might gain from a monographic union list. Nevertheless, since the Resource Sharing Committee had agreed on OCLC look-up as the best solution, representatives from OHSU, the University of Alaska Anchorage, and the University of Montana agreed (and indeed are already offering this service).
Neil announced that the RML has funding ($3000) for a Technology Forum in this year of the contract and asked what ideas might develop. The group mentioned the possibility of showcasing distance education. Several Resource Libraries were interested in working on it. Neil offered to list examples of Technology Forums held in other regions to help develop good ideas in our region; the list will be on the Resource Libraries discussion list.
Neil described progress with two special projects and distributed project summaries (appended). The group discussed some aspects of the Tribal Connections Project. Bob Pringle suggested that the RML work with Darlene Hildebrandt, who is interviewing 30 tribes in Washington to find out about information needs. Barbara Sokolov affirmed the usefulness of the Regional Health Board in Anchorage.
Representatives appreciated the opportunity to see a different library at this meeting and suggested that, in the future, the Resource Library Group might want to meet at various member libraries in conjunction with a meeting other than PNC/MLA.