Promoting Your Library
The GMR staff would like to assist you in celebrating your library. We have gathered a set of free online tools that may be of assitstance.
National Medical Librarians Month
Assistance from the GMR
- Promotional items you can order from the GMR - Outreach is the foundation of the work we do. We know that the same is true for many of you. When you promote the products and services of the National Library of Medicine consider ordering free promotional materials to support the presentations, exhibits and classes that you do.
- Educational Supplements - The staff of the NN/LM often create class material as part of their work. We offer these items to network members to support their efforts.
- Patient Safety: Librarian as Advocate - This page invites libraries wanting to take a more active role in patient safety to use the resource provided. The ten minute PowerPoint presentation highlights the different areas in which the library may become involved in patient safety in their institution.
- Measuring Your Impact is a workshop offered free to network members. We invite consortia to request this training. You can learn to use evaluation for library advocacy, make an evaluation plan or develop a logic model.
- 2009 Letter to Hospital Administrators
- In honor
of National Medical Librarians Month, the Greater Midwest Region is pleased to support our hospital librarians by re-instituting the Hospital Administrators Campaign. The Advocacy Working Group of the
Regional Advisory Council has assisted our office in generating an advocacy letter to hospital administrators informing them of the invaluable services medical librarians provide. This year we are asking the administrator to contact the librarian. It is our hope that this effort will give the librarian an opportunity to connect with the organization's leadership. If you would like to participate in this effort simply send an email to 
with the subjectline of "Hospital Administrators Letter" and include the information for the addressee of your choice.
Assistance from NLM
- Information Rx - NLM's free program that assists physicians in referring their patients to MedlinePlus. The toolkit is an online guide to help health science librarians promote Info Rx to physicians, patients, famililes and community groups.
- Add PubMed to your website - NCBI invites you to add PubMed to your website. They have made images and terms of use available to facilitate this effort.
- Linking to MedlinePlus - You are welcome to place the MedlinePlus searchbox on your website or link to MedlinePlus or any of its 800 health topcis directly. Graphics and suggested text are also provided.
Assistance from other Sources
- Advocacy University
- The Pacific Northwest Region maintains a bibliography on library advocacy
- The MidContinental Region maintains business calculators for you to judge the value of your library.
- Association of College and Research Libraries Advocacy Resources
- Web Junction
- Hospital Library Advocacy Blog
eBlogger has been hosting a weblog devoted to hospital advocacy for the last three years.
MLA tools for Advocacy
- MLA Communications Toolkit
- MLA Promotional Tip Sheet
- MLA Vital Pathways for Librarians
- Benchmarking Network
- 2005 Salary Survey
