Bethesda EP group celebrates its third birthday
Monday, September 6th, 2010Cara Breeden has let us know that the Bethesda Medical Libraries Emergency Preparedness Partnership (BMLEPP) held its third annual meeting on August 20 at Suburban Hospital. Quoting from Cara’s message: “At this yearly meeting, which is the extent of time required, members make any needed updates to the procedural and contact information contained in their BMLEPP reference binders. The Partnership is intended as an agile solution to problems member libraries might encounter, such as extended power outages. Even though it has not been necessary to acticvate the BMLEPP memorandum of understanding (MOU) to date, the Partnership has proved to be a valuable, and a low-maintenance effort.”
Cara also notes that the Bethesda, MD area “is unique in that it boasts five medical libraries within walking distance of each other: the National Library of Medicine, the National Institues of Health Library, the Suburban Hospital Medical Library, the National Naval Medical Center Stitt Library, and the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences Learning Resource Center. The five libraries initiated the Bethesda Medical Libraries Emergency Preparedness Partnership (BMLEPP) on February 14, 2008.”
Cara has sent us the current version of the MOU which these five libraries have enacted, and it will be available for use as an example on the “Model MAA/MOU” page here in the Toolkit. Many thanks, Cara!
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