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EthnoMed Community Outreach Project Funded |
NN/LM PNR is pleased to announce that a proposal entitled "EthnoMed Community Outreach Project" will be funded as the Resource Library outreach subcontract for 1999-2000. The target populations for this project are six refugee/immigrant groups in the Seattle area: Amharic, Cambodian, Oromo, Somali, Tigrean, and Vietnamese and the health care providers who serve these communities. The Principal Investigator is Ellen Howard, Head, KK Sherwood Library at Harborview Medical Center, which is one of the University of Washington Medical Centers.
The Project staff will work with the six groups to improve their knowledge of and access to the Web and get them involved in the process of writing health related documents for the Web. The staff will also work with care providers for these populations to improve their access to information related to these populations and cultural diversity in general.
This is the fourth year that the RML has provided outreach funding for Resource Libraries:
1996 - Health Sciences Information Service, University of Alaska Anchorage
1997 - Biomedical Information Communication Center, Oregon Health Sciences University
1998 - Idaho Health Sciences Library, Idaho State University
1998 - Renne Library, Montana State University
1999 - KK Sherwood Branch, University of Washington Health Sciences Library and Information Center
A copy of this proposal and previous ones is on the NN/LM PNR Web site at http://www.nnlm.nlm.nih.gov/pnr/specproj/resourcelib/.