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Dragonfly, Winter 1999 1999 Local Outreach Awards Available

"It's a brand new world for many of them. When you show them the resources they can get, things they didn't know were out there, they are really excited. And they are really grateful. It re-energizes you and makes you remember why you went into the profession."

A previous Outreach Award recipient, a librarian, was talking about her experience with the health professionals she "reached out to" through her funding. This year the NN/LM PNR is refocusing and expanding its outreach efforts by making funding for Local Outreach Awards available not just for Network Member Libraries but also for those organizations that we consider our Outreach Partners. Outreach Partner organizations are non-profit healthcare organizations or associations whose outreach goals are closely aligned to those of the NN/LM PNR. They should represent health professionals in our target population of unaffiliated health professionals described in the next paragraph. It is also advantageous to have a working relationship with the NN/LM PNR. Examples of our Outreach Partners are the Northwest Regional Primary Care Association and similar organizations representing primary care practitioners, AHECs in the states of our region, and health departments in the region, both county and state.

Any proposal, which targets health professionals who lack adequate access to health care information and who are not affiliated with an institution that has a medical library, will be considered, but those that address the NN/LM PNR's specific target populations will receive priority. We focus our outreach efforts on healthcare professionals located in rural or under-served areas, those serving primarily minority populations -- in either inner city or rural areas, or public health workers. NN/LM member libraries and Outreach Partner organizations are invited to submit project proposals that will complement and extend the NN/LM outreach mission.

To find out more, go to http://www.nnlm.nlm.nih.gov/pnr/rfq/1999/

If you're still hesitating, wondering what you would do, then think about:

• providing information access training, including Internet, Internet Grateful Med, MEDLINEPlus or PubMed, to a state association for nurse practitioners, physician assistants, pharmacists, or other health professionals that are not normally served by medical libraries.
• doing an exhibit and hands-on training at an annual meeting of environmental health officers, public health nurses, or other public health workers.
• training primary care clinic workers, such as those in migrant worker clinics or urban clinics, to use the Internet and then assisting them in developing a home page.
• extending library service, including PubMed training and Loansome Doc services, to a nearby clinic, long-term care facility, or community agency.

Summaries of past outreach proposals that we've funded are at:

http://www.nnlm.nlm.nih.gov/pnr/rfq/1999/grantsummaries.html

Applications are due April 30, 1999, and awards will be made within one month. The number of awards will depend on the projects chosen and their budgets. We are planning to fund two or three proposals, each up to a maximum of $5,000. The period of performance for any proposal should begin after July 1st 1999 and should not go beyond July 31, 2000. Also, since these are purchase orders funds will not be disbursed until invoices are presented for expenses incurred.

If you have questions please contact Nancy Press, Acting Associate Director (pressno@u.washington.edu) or Maryanne Blake, Outreach Coordinator, (blakema@u.washington.edu).

URL: http://nnlm.gov/pnr/news/199901/rfq.html