In This Issue:

• Thank You
  
  
• Director's CorNER
  
  
• Future Leaders
  
  
• PubMed Particulars
  
  
• LinkOut
  
  
• New Library Groups
  
  
• Ill Advised
  
  
• Know Tech
  
  
• Tres Chic
  
  
• INside OUTreach
  
  
• Links
  
  

Directors Corner

The mission of the NN/LM is: 1) To advance the progress of medicine and improve the public health by providing all US health professionals with equal access to biomedical information and 2) to improve the public's access to health information to enable them to make more informed decisions. The NER program is built around the guiding principles of decentralization, collaboration, needs assessments, member input and evaluation. Working through a system of subcontracts and partnerships, the NER develops programs that respond to this national network mission.

To date, 3 outreach subcontracts (Yale, Tufts and BU) have been awarded. One course development award to the Berkshire AHEC for educating nurses how to search for quality information resources on the Internet has also been awarded. A technology awareness award (UConn), a health professionals outreach award (BC Social Work Library) and a consumer health outreach award (MGH) have been sent to the National Network office at NLM for final approval.

On January 16th, and again on the 23rd, the NER held interactive hands-on grant writing workshops for network members interested in responding to our proposals. Attendees brought ideas, early drafts of responses and their questions. They left with hints for developing a winning response.

The NER has several awards available (see our website for complete details) to network members and we encourage responses. Don't hesitate to call the office and ask us to work with you on drafting your proposal. The NER is in the invaluable position of having money to give away to qualified applicants. We encourage you to develop winning proposals in collaboration with us that meet the NN/LM mission and goals.