Technology Improvement Award - Recipients
Year Two - May 2007 to April 2008
Recipient: Riverside Medical Center, Anderson Medical Library, Kankakee, IL
Project Director: Lou Miller
Project Title: Anderson Medical Library Electronic Cataloging/Internet Access for Patrons
Amount: $3,055
Phone: 815-937-7966
Email: Lou_R_Miller@rsh.net
Description: To eliminate the outdated card catalog and replace with a fully automated electronic cataloging system that contains 100% of the Anderson Medical Library’s holdings.
Recipient: South Bend Medical Foundation, South Bend, IN
Project Director: Kristina Flora
Project Title: Creating a Virtual Electronic Medical Library
Amount: $3,467
Phone: 574-234-4176
Email: kflora@sbmf.org
Description: The South Bend Medical Foundation provides quality and cost effective laboratory and blood banking services to hospitals, physicians, and patients in Indiana, Michigan, Kentucky, Ohio, and Illinois. The Foundation Library exists to provide answers to the information needs of physicians within the institution and community, prospective clients, and more than 850 employees who include microbiologists, chemists, toxicologists, and phlebotomists, etc. The Library provides literature searches, access to article and book requests through its’ own collection as well as inter-library loan service through DOCLINE® Freeshare. Purchasing a PC and all-in-one printer/scanner/copier will enable the Foundation library to enhance electronic document delivery.
Recipient: Graham Hospital Association, Medical Staff Library, Canton, IL
Project Director: Daneen Richardson
Project Title: Enhancing Library Services through Digitization
Amount: $4,816
Phone: 309-647-5240
Email: library@grahamhospital.org
Description: By purchasing the cameras, laptop and scanner, we would be able to provide better services to our patrons. The library has stepped in as the school and hospital archivist with our digital imaging and preservation project and oral history project. We want to provide the means for all library patrons to borrow a camera to capture the activities of the students, library and school. A laptop will provide us with the flexibility to move to a quiet area when recording verbal instructions within a tutorial and the means to attend an online training or meeting. The tutorials that are developed will be available via our webpage when appropriate and free for other librarians to use, as they need. It will also provide a visual aid to our word processor when she attempts to transcribe our oral histories. The large bed scanner will allow us to scan our oversized scrapbooks and documents and to send oversized interlibrary loan documents via email in a one-step process. Our historical documents and pictures will be available through our membership with Digital Past, an Illinois historical website.
Year One - May 2006 to April 2007
Recipient: Ingham Regional Medical Library - Greenlawn, Lansing, MI
Project Director: Judith Barnes
Project Title: Electronic Document Delivery of Journals Archived in
Amount: $2,595
Phone: 517-334-2270
Email: judith.barnes@irmc.org
Description: This request is for the funds to purchase an "Image-Mouse" digital retrieval system to enable this library to fill interlibrary loan and document delivery requests from its microfiche collection.
Recipient: Henry Ford Hospital, Sladen Library, Detroit, MI
Project Director: Nandita S. Mani
Project Title: Library On The Go: Utilizing Innovative Technology to Provide Educational Programming
Amount: $4,900
Phone: 313-916-5335
Email: nmani1@sladen.hfhs.org
Description: The Library On The Go project will focus on the delivery of instruction on resources such as PubMed®, MEDLINE®, and MedlinePlus®, as well as other library databases, to Henry Ford Health System (HFHS) employees and consumers. The award funding will be used to create a mobile, wireless computer lab comprised of an instructor's tablet PC, ten laptop computers, and a wheeled storage cart. Using up-to-date technology will allow us to expand our educational programming, which is essential in supporting the practice of evidence-based health care and promoting patient safety. Due to the limited training space available on the HFHS campus and the time constraints placed on health care professionals, it is imperative that we provide instructional services in an innovative, customer-focused manner. The Library On The Go service will allow us to take our programming directly to our patrons - where and when they need it. The service will raise the library's visibility, promote various NLM resources, and support the hospital's education and patient care missions. The proliferation of electronic resources and end-user searching has made it essential that libraries are at the forefront in educating their patrons on effective search techniques. This award will give us the tools we need to achieve this vital goal.
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