By Dolores Judkins, Oregon Health & Science University

The OHSU Library has received the official announcement from the National Library of Medicine that Oregon has been accepted by to become a MedlinePlus GoLocal site. Todd Hannon, OHSU Reference Librarian, wrote the proposal for an LSTA grant through the Oregon State Library, and we were notified in October that the proposal was funded. We also received additional funding through the National Library of Medicine. We are very excited that Oregon will be one of the GoLocal states.

GoLocal is a feature of MedlinePlus that enables people to find local resources for health care, beyond the general health information that is available in MedlinePlus. To see what this will mean for Oregon, go to MedlinePlus, look up a condition or disease, and then select a state from the GoLocal link on the right side of the page. If you click on the map at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/golocal/topicmap_32.html you will see that the northwest does not have other GoLocal state projects, although Montana will be going live soon.

We have had wonderful support from the libraries and groups we worked with in writing the grant, and look forward to working with many of you as the project gets underway. We will be hiring a project director, and the position will be posted soon. If you have questions about this project or would like more information about it, please contact Todd Hannon at 503-494-3474 or hannont@ohsu.edu.

Show your administrators how your library and your librarian skills benefit the hospital! How do you contribute to quality care, patient safety, and the all-important “bottom line”? The NNLM PNR is now accepting applications for a new award, specially designed to assist medical librarians in demonstrating their value and impact.

Rather than “outreach,” these Medical Library Impact Awards might be considered “inreach” since they address health information problems and priorities within member institutions. Award funds (maximum of $5,000) might be used to support a study of the contribution of library services to the IRS-mandated community benefit standard, to showcase the librarian as leader of an interdepartmental team working on electronic medical records and linking knowledge-based resources, to develop and evaluate an institution-wide marketing campaign, or other projects unique to your institution and community. The librarian must be the project leader and support from administration must be documented.

Applications are due February 15, 2008. Read the full announcement and link to the application form at http://nnlm.gov/pnr/funding/Impact_2008.html. Contact Cathy Burroughs (nnlm@u.washington.edu) or Linda Milgrom (lmilgrom@u.washington.edu) if you have any questions.

The NN/LM Pacific Northwest Region is currently accepting proposals for 2007-2008 Express Outreach Awards. For the full announcement and a link to the online application form see http://nnlm.gov/pnr/funding/Express_Outreach_2007.html. Summaries of previously funded projects are also online.

Proposals for 9-12 month projects, with a maximum cost of $12,000 are due no later than August 15, 2007. The applicant agency must be a member of NN/LM PNR, though collaboration with a variety of groups is encouraged. For additional information contact Linda Milgrom (lmilgrom at u.washington.edu) or Cathy Burroughs (nnlm at u.washington.edu).

NN/LM PNR is pleased to announce funding to support implementation of Go Local in the Pacific Northwest. The MedlinePlus Go Local project links MedlinePlus users to health services in their local community related to the health topic they are researching. Conversely, the project also directs users of the Go Local site to MedlinePlus health topics. For example, users get medical information on diabetes from MedlinePlus and then visit a Go Local site for nearby health programs, services, and providers.

The end user experience for Go Local is that each MedlinePlus health topic links to relevant local services on the Go Local site. Go Local sites receive this user traffic from each MedlinePlus health topic and route it to a page listing matching Go Local records or to a page explaining that the site contains no matching local services. To see how these links work, choose a Go Local area from the pull-down list or map link on any MedlinePlus health topic page.

To see the full funding announcement and call for submissions, please visit - http://nnlm.gov/pnr/funding/golocal-2007.html (more…)

The NN/LM Pacific Northwest Region is currently accepting proposals for 2007-2008 Express Outreach Awards. For the full announcement and a link to the online application form see http://nnlm.gov/pnr/funding/Express_Outreach_2007.html. Summaries of previously funded projects are also online. Proposals for 9-12 month projects, with a maximum cost of $12,000 are due no later than August 15, 2007. The applicant agency must be a member of NN/LM PNR, though collaboration with a variety of groups is encouraged. For additional information contact Linda Milgrom (lmilgrom@u.washington.edu) or Cathy Burroughs (nnlm@u.washington.edu).

Request for Quotations:
AIDS Community Information Outreach Projects 2007

The National Library of Medicine is pleased to announce the solicitation of quotations from community-based organizations and libraries to design and conduct projects that will improve access to HIV/AIDS related health information for patients, the affected community, and their caregivers. (more…)