HealthPartners Institute for Medical Education
Tuesday, July 5th, 2011By: Jennifer Feeken, MLIS
Librarian
Regions Hospital Medical Library 11202B
640 Jackson Street
St. Paul, MN 55101
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The CornflowerThe Blog of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine Greater Midwest Region
Archive for the ‘Conferences and Meetings’ CategoryHealthPartners Institute for Medical EducationTuesday, July 5th, 2011By: Jennifer Feeken, MLIS
The librarians at Regions Hospital Medical Library are currently working on a project that brings medical information and a librarian presence to healthcare conferences in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area. The conferences are offered by HealthPartners Institute for Medical Education (IME).
Thanks to a GMR technology award, the librarians have purchased a laptop and monitor to display resources from the National Library of Medicine, such as PubMed and MedlinePlus, and for HealthPartners employees, the subscription resources available to them through the library’s Intranet site. Conference attendees are primarily from Minnesota and surrounding states. Another goal of our project is to increase awareness of medical libraries in general among all conference participants.
The librarians have attended three conferences so far and answered questions regarding consumer health and accessing subscription online resources. Building on the early success of this project, the librarians plan to continue attending IME conferences beyond 2011.
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Due to the interest in LibGuides, I felt that our poster was very timely. Several people were fascinated by the idea of creating a LibGuide for a specific population located outside of the library and then using that LibGuide to connect them to free resources from various institutions. For many, seeing the poster and reading about how the LibGuide was key to the success of this project reinforced the importance of using them to reach out to populations outside of their libraries. |
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