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By Linda Milgrom, Outreach Coordinator
NN/LM PNR
Caregivers who work with migrant workers in Central Washington; Vietnamese-speaking breast cancer patients and their providers; and mental health workers in rural Oregon are among the new groups participating in outreach projects in the Northwest. The RML is pleased to announce three Outreach Project Awards given in response to last summer's RFP.
In the Central Washington REACH project Washington State University Health Sciences Library will work with the WSU College of Pharmacy, Yakima Valley Farmworkers Clinic, Yakima and Chelan County WorkSource offices, and local area hospitals. Given the complex health status of the migrant and seasonal worker community in the area, health care providers who practice in the clinics need to be especially well informed about the latest research and the specific health care problems common among the predominantly Hispanic population. Access to current, evidence-based research and accurate, linguistically and culturally appropriate patient health materials is also crucial to improving health. Central Washington REACH will develop a website and provide hands-on training, striving to create an information network responsive to locally-identified needs and building on established relationships in the community (Sarah McCord, PI).
The Oregon Pacific Area Health Education Center (AHEC) provides education and outreach programs to rural health care providers and communities in northwest Oregon. In this project the AHEC and its collaborators (Mid Valley Behavioral Care Network and Accountable Behavioral Health Alliance) will use Internet technology to enhance practitioner and parent knowledge of online educational resources for children-at-risk of mental health disorders. The project will be conducted in ten rural Oregon counties and will involve a needs assessment and subsequent training program targeting the Medicaid providers of children's mental health services and also a consumer outreach component using local media and health fairs to disseminate information (Karen Bondley, PI).
In its new Outreach Project the EthnoMed group at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, with a long history of successful partnerships in immigrant and refugee communities, will collaborate with the Patient Education Institute (PEI). PEI creates interactive tutorials on a variety of health topics in English and Spanish. They are available for public access on MEDLINEplus. In this project, staff of the EthnoMed group, Harborview clinicians, and Vietnamese community members will adapt and translate a PEI X-plain module about breast cancer. The process for translation and narration will include integrating focus group feedback, clinical review of content, and back translation to modify PEI's English text and existing graphics for an audience of Vietnamese patients at Harborview and other Vietnamese health consumers who access the internet. The product will be a prototype that can serve as an example for creating modules about health topics for immigrant patient populations (Christine Wilson Owens, PI).
Congratulations to all!
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Dragonfly, Fall 2002 - Volume 33, Number 3
(posted on PNRNews on January 6, 2003)
Dragonfly thanks the NN/LM Southeastern/Atlantic Region for permission to reprint this article from their newsletter, SEA Currents, 20(6), November/December 2002, http://nnlm.gov/sea/seacurrents/2002/2002n6.html#7
NN/LM Member Document Lending Etiquette, assembled from a plethora of e-mail suggestions
In summary, if you cannot deliver as requested, please pass the request on. A message from NLM as quoted on DOCLINE-L on 2 July 2002. This guideline is critical for members' collective benefit: "...a successful ILL system depends on attention to detail and a cooperative spirit among institutions dedicated to reciprocal (lending and borrowing) partnerships." To all DOCLINE participants, thanks for your continued help and cooperation!
Dragonfly, Fall 2002 - Volume 33, Number 3
(posted on PNRNews on November 21, 2002)
By Susan J. Barnes, Network Coordinator
NN/LM PNR
Virginia Mason Medical Center's Medical Library is the first library in the Pacific Northwest Region of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine to begin its participation in the Electronic Fund Transfer System (EFTS).
EFTS-What Is It and Why Should I Care?
An "eft" is the terrestrial phase of an aquatic
newt, which is a small salamander. But that's beside the
point.
EFTS (Electronic Fund Transfer System) is a transaction-based electronic billing system for interlibrary loan. Libraries that participate in EFTS establish a deposit account and have their charges for lending and costs of borrowing credited and debited each month, based on DOCLINE data. The system reduces the need to create invoices and to process reimbursement checks for interlibrary loans between participants.
Benefits:
When Will the Pacific Northwest Join EFTS?
We already have, with Virginia Mason Medical Center, the first
EFTS participant in Region 6! Any DOCLINE library in the U.S. is
welcome and encouraged to join at any time. In the Northeastern,
Mid-Atlantic, and South Central regions almost all DOCLINE
libraries are EFTS libraries, and EFTS use is growing in other
regions. The National Library of Medicine will enter the system
in early 2003; Canadian libraries will be invited to join some
time after that.
What If My Library Doesn't Charge for Interlibrary
Loans?
Even if your ILL traffic is based primarily on reciprocal
agreements or FreeShare, there will always be libraries that will
charge you for the documents they send to you-in particular, most
resource libraries and the National Library of Medicine. If you
are an EFTS library, you will not have to receive or pay bills
from libraries that participate in EFTS; your EFTS account will
simply be debited.
How Does EFTS Know about My ILLs?
Libraries that charge other EFTS libraries submit Transaction
Data Files to the EFTS server at efts.uchc.edu, where lenders'
accounts are then credited and borrowers' accounts are debited.
If your library uses QuickDoc, ILLIAD, or CLIO, your ILL
management system can save your DOCLINE transaction data in a
format ready to be transmitted to EFTS. Otherwise, you can use
the free EFTS Transaction File Builder program to input your
DOCLINE data in EFTS format.
What Libraries Are Participating in EFTS?
Find out at http://nnlm.gov/libinfo/docline/efts.html
OK, How Do I Get Started?
The Electronic Fund Transfer System
The University of Connecticut Health Center Library
263 Farmington Avenue
Farmington CT 06034-4003
For More Information, Visit the EFTS Web Site at: http://efts.uchc.edu
Read about EFTS in Other Regions:And See Also:
Dragonfly, Fall 2002 - Volume 33, Number 3
(posted on PNRNews on November 13, 2002)
What's the deal? Are your Cubby searches finding fewer new citations than you expect? Why are there so many "in process" citations in your PubMed retrieval? It's "that time of year," the period when NLM staff are busy with end-of-year processing. During the next few weeks all 12 million MEDLINE citations will be reviewed, to update their MeSH descriptors with the 2003 vocabulary and make other changes system-wide. This processing is accomplished as quickly as possible, but generally extends through November and December. New "in process" and "as supplied by publisher" citations will continue to be added to PubMed daily. However, during the end-of-year processing period, newly completed, indexed citations are not upgraded to full-fledged MEDLINE status. For the next few weeks, they will remain in PubMed as "in process," i.e., without MeSH, publication type, subset, and other indexing-supplied information. To include the most recent information in your retrieval, do not use affected field qualifiers. If your stored Cubby strategy includes a qualifier such as MeSH or publication type, you may find no new records during this period. See the NLM Technical Bulletin article at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so02/so02_endofyear.html for all the details.
Dragonfly, Fall 2002 - Volume 33, Number 3
(posted on PNRNews on November 8, 2002)
The first round of Internet Access to Digital Libraries, or IADL grants has been awarded by the National Library of Medicine (NLM.) Three of the thirty-nine recipients are in the Pacific Northwest:
Idaho State University in Pocatello, Idaho proposed the "Idaho
Digital Library for Idaho Rural Healthcare Professionals." ISU
will be partnering with Bear Lake Memorial Hospital, Montpelier;
Bingham Memorial Hospital, Blackfoot; Caribou Memorial Hospital,
Soda Springs; Harms Memorial Hospital, American Falls; Lost
Rivers Medical Center, Arcop; Madison Memorial Hospital, Rexburg;
Minidoka Memorial Hospital, Rupert; Oneida County Hospital, Malad
City; Steele Memorial Hospital, Salmon; and Teton Valley
Hospital, Driggs. Marcia Francis is the Principal
Investigator.
Oregon Health & Sciences University in Portland, Oregon
proposed the "Full Text Internet-based Library Resources for
Nurses." This pilot project will make Ovid's full text
Lippincott/Springhouse Nursing Collection available to more than
43,000 licensed nurses around the state of Oregon. Steve Teich is
the Principal Investigator.
Clearwater Valley Hospital in Orofino, Idaho proposed the
"Digital Libraries for Frontier Idaho." Collaborating with
Clearwater Valley Hospital in this grant are St. Mary's Hospital,
Cottonwood; medical clinics in Cottonwood, Orofino, Craigmont,
Kamiah, Kooskia, Nezperce and Pierce; physical therapy clinics in
Cottonwood, Grangeville and Kamiah; Clearwater Memorial Public
Library, Orofino and Kooskia Community Technology Center in
Kooskia. Colleen Uhling is the Principal Investigator.
The purpose of IADL grants is to "initiate new digital
information services, or extend existing services to a larger
audience." They can be used for a wide variety of activities and
services which might include: the purchase of hardware and
software for connectivity to the Internet; supporting computers
and software for public access to digital libraries; fees for an
Internet Service Provider for the period of the grant; support
for wireless connectivity; training others to use the Internet to
access health information and many other endeavors. Groups of
organizations are encouraged to partner but one institution must
apply on behalf of all. The IADL grants were announced for the
first time in 2002 as a replacement for the Information Access
and Internet Connections grants that NLM formerly offered. The
response to the RFP was so successful that IADL grants are now
part of the regular grant cycle - February 1st, June 1st and then
October 1st of each year. In addition to the link above you will
find a link on the NN/LM PNR
Funding Web page. Also Linda Milgrom, Outreach
Coordinator is happy to discuss any questions you might have
about this or any other NLM grant or funding.
Dragonfly, Fall 2002 - Volume 33, Number 3
(posted on PNRNews on November 6, 2002)
The Montana Library Association meeting, the other MLA, in Great Falls, was the place. Laurel Egan, medical librarian at St. James Healthcare in Butte, and Mary Lou Mires, reference librarian at the D'Arcy McNickle Library at Salish Kootenai College (SKC) a tribal college in Pablo, and Susan Barnes, the RML's Resource Sharing Coordinator, were the people. What happens when serendipity brings them together? Read on.
Mary Lou and her library's director Carlene Barnett were
mentioning that it would be nice if someone with medical library
expertise could come to Salish Kootenai College and teach the
students and faculty of the nursing program about PubMed. Laurel,
who has had lots of experience doing health information outreach
to small rural communities in Montana was part of the
conversation. Laurel mentioned that she would love to teach
PubMed at SKC but for her to go to Pablo, more than 200 miles and
three hours away, would take both time and money. That's when
Susan stepped in to tell them about the mini-awards from the NN/LM PNR
for doing outreach training. And the partnership was born!
Laurel has just finished teaching a basic hands-on PubMed class
for Salish Kootenai nursing students and a more advanced class
for faculty. It was reportedly a huge success and the folks at
SKC would like to make this a semi-annual event. Laurel knows how
important it is to share her expertise in a state like Montana
where the resources, like the people, are spread far and wide
across this fourth largest state. She also knows that many of the
students she taught are from rural areas and reservations in the
state and when they finish their education they will return to
those small communities to be of service to the people there. So
she will continue to be a partner promoting access to better
health information.
Dragonfly, Fall 2002 - Volume 33, Number 3
(posted on PNRNews on October 30, 2002)
Produced by the NN/LM PNR
Maryanne Blake, Editor
Michael Boer, Publication Manager
This publication is funded in whole with Federal funds from the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, under Contract No. N01-LM-1-3516.
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