National Network of Libraries of Medicine
Pacific Northwest Region
Quarterly Report
August to October 2004
Table of Contents
- Health Professional Access to Information
- Assess Needs of Health Science Librarians
- Network Membership Program
- Document Delivery
- Resource Libraries
- Communication
- Regional Advisory Committee
- Monitor Region's Programs
- User Feedback
- Training Facility
- NLM User/Non-User Needs Assessment
- NLM Grants
- Follow-up with NLM-funded Projects
- Outreach to Health Professionals
- Consumer Health Information Services
- Training to Support Electronic Access to Health Information
- Exhibits and Presentations at Meetings
- Technology Awareness and Integration
- Library Improvement
- Connections
C. ENHANCEMENTS
E. ADMINISTRATION, STAFF AND OTHER
A. NETWORK PROGRAMS
1. Health
Professional Access to Information
As part of the initiative to work with the public health
workforce, Linda Milgrom attended the Regional Network
Steering Committee of the Northwest Center for Public
Health Practice, October 13 and 14. Workforce development
coordinators and Focus Area G coordinators from AK, ID,
MT, OR, WA and WY and tribal representatives
participated. RML staff have attended for several years
and find this a very valuable forum for contacting public
health leaders. L. Milgrom contacted all PNR Resource
Libraries to share names and contact information.
L. Milgrom reviewed applications for Public Health Outreach awards in Region 5.
2. Assess Needs
of Health Science Librarians
Nothing to report this quarter.
3. Network Membership
Program
In this region as of the end of this quarter:
- 156 Full Members -- one fewer than last quarter. The Pacific Northwest Research Institute, WAUHFY, withdrew from DOCLINE when their librarian took a position with another company. (Note that this number does not include WAUPNR, which is counted as a full member by DOCUSER because WAUPNR is active in DOCLINE. However, WAUPNR is the LIBID for the NN/LM PNR office.)
- 175 Affiliate Members -- five more than last quarter: Somali Community Services of Seattle (WAUJWQ), Eastern Idaho Technical College (IDUJXA), Stone Soup Group (AKUJYF), Alliance for Multi-Cultural Health (WAUJYI), and LINKS Mat-Su Parent Resource Center (AKUJYX).
- 156 full DOCLINE participants -- the Pacific Northwest Research Institute, WAUHFY, having withdrawn from DOCLINE. (Note that this number omits two Demo Libraries, WAUXXF and AKUXXK, which are "active" DOCLINE participants but are not real accounts; it also omits WAUPNR, which is an active DOCLINE participant but is the LIBID for the NN/LM PNR office. It also omits the three "Borrow-Only" DOCLINE libraries: Oregon State University ORUGYU; Willamette University ORUGYO; and Shriner's Hospital for Children Research Department, ORUCDQ -- these are counted as affiliate members.)
- 23 Public Libraries, one of which, Port Townsend Public Library, WAUZEG, is a DOCLINE participant (and therefore a full member). Newest public library affiliate member is Newport Public Library, ORUJTH. Three of the public libraries listed in DOCLINE are not network members -- their records were entered by NLM staff because they'd had ILL transactions with NLM: Seattle Public Library's record (WAUGZW), Asotin County Library (WAUJNV), Hillsboro Public Library (ORUJNT).
- 146 libraries are contributing their Serial Holdings data to DOCLINE -- this figure was derived using the DOCLINE Search function, searching for "Number of Holdings" "Greater Than" "0" which returns a total of 149 institutions, two of which are demo libraries and one of which is the NN/LM PNR office. Eliminating those 3 leaves 146. Since the two new DOCLINE libraries are not yet contributing holdings information, they are not featured in this total. Two additional libraries withdrew from DOCLINE during this past quarter.
4. Document
Delivery
DOCLINE Serial Holdings: The OCLC cost for production of
the SULOP proved to be prohibitive for Portland State
University. Instead, in order to begin their DOCLINE
participation, they elected to enter holdings for 25
titles manually.
DOCLINE Tutorial: The Routing Table section of the tutorial for DOCLINE Version 2.x was released and publicized.
In October, the first DOCLINE class held in
conjunction with the National Training Center and
Clearinghouse's PubMed training took place here. This
DOCLINE class was advertised with the PubMed class, and
registration was handled by the NTCC. We also conducted
local publicity for the class, and had a good
registration of 9 people. Those who attended received 2
MLA CE credits. t text here.
5. Resource
Libraries
Nothing to report this quarter.
6.
Communication
The PNR Web Group continued its review of the PNR Web
Site during the quarter by administering a brief survey
to attendees of the PNC/MLA Annual Meeting. Concurrently,
we contracted for graphics consultation regarding some
incremental changes that will make a big different to the
Web site's look and feel.
RML staff and librarians and public health staff of the University of Washington hosted Dr. Jack Snyder of NLM. Dr. Snyder talked about NLM and SIS developments and collected comments and concerns of RML. [Note: RML subsequently received a complete and thoughtful response from Dr. Snyder].
Gail Kouame and L. Milgrom met on August 17 with Ellen Howard (Harborview Hospital Library) and Yazmin Mehdi (Seattle Public Library) to discuss possible collaborations for the purpose of providing health information to community members who speak English as a second language.
In recognition of National Medical Librarians Month (October), the PNR offered to send letters of congratulations to hospital administrators informing them of the invaluable services medical librarians provide. Our network members provided the contact information and any additional projects, recognition or accomplishments they would like included, and we mailed the letters, on NN/LM letterhead signed by Director Sherrilynne Fuller.
7. Regional Advisory
Committee
G. Kouame continued to host hip-pnr discussion list for
Consumer Health Advisory Committee. She also began
planning for the committee meeting to be held February
3-4, 2005.
8. Monitor Region's
Programs
L. Milgrom and G. Kouame met on August 4 with staff of
Seattle Public Library to discuss outreach to specific
ethnic and cultural groups in the city and to tour the
new library building.
9. User
Feedback
Nothing to report this quarter.
10. Training
Facility
NTCC staff used the facility to teach PubMed (October 11)
and TONET (October 12). The following day, Susan Barnes
taught a half-day DOCLINE class.
11. NLM User/Nonuser
Needs Assessment
Nothing to report this quarter.
12. NLM
Grants
Nothing to report this quarter.
13. Follow-up with
NLM-funded Projects
L. Milgrom Emailed and offered support to Susie McIntyre,
Voices of Hope, Great Falls, MT, recipient of recent
Information Systems grant from NLM.
We received quarterly reports from 5 "Access to Electronic Health Information" projects. Subcontractors were reminded of closing date for their projects. Two subcontractors requested no-cost extensions.
1. Outreach to Health
Professionals Nothing to report this
quarter.
2. Consumer Health
Information Services
We are processing documentation for five new AEHI
projects in the PNR. Although the period of performance
started September 1, the actual start was delayed due to
NLM and University of Washington procedures.
The new Web resource "Public Libraries and Community
Partners" rolled out August 11. It is linked from several
regional and NN/LM national pages as well as MedlinePlus!
Participated in more roundtable discussions hosted by the
RML with representatives from area community-based
organizations.
3. Training to
Support Electronic Access to Health
Information
G. Koume and L. Milgrom traveled to Kalispell, MT
September 20-22 in support of the Express Planning award
managed by Heidi Sue Adams at Kalispell Regional Medical
Center. The Flathead Valley partnership includes public,
community college and hospital librarians as well as
members of the local public health agency, cancer center,
and school district personnel. While in the area, G.
Kouame and L. Milgrom taught five workshops for staff of
partner agencies and the public.
The RFP for this year's Outreach Project Awards was finalized with proposals due September 24. Six proposals were received and distributed to the review team.
RML staff spent many hours this quarter facilitating subcontracting efforts of COPPA applicants and UW Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP) staff. The mechanism for making such awards out of our region proved arduous. At the same time new Access to Electronic Health Information awards were being finalized and processed through the OSP.
Quarterly reports for the following Outreach Project Awards (subcontracts) in PNR are appended:
- Technology Training for Trusted Sources in Diverse Communities (Associates in Cultural Exchange)
- Public Health Nurses and the Internet (Oregon Health & Science University)
- Health Information On-Line Project (St. Mary's Hospital, Cottonwood, ID)
Final Reports for the following projects that were completed this quarter are also appended:
- Central Washington REACH (WSU, Pullman, WA)
- X-plain Vietnamese Breast Cancer Tutorial (Harborview Medical Center, Seattle)
- Locating Resources for Children-At-Risk (Oregon Pacific AHEC, Corvallis, OR)
Final reports for the following Access to Electronic Health Information subcontracts are also appended:
- African American Reach and Teach Health Ministry, Access to Wellness Project (Seattle)
- Empowering Parents of Children with Special Health Care Needs (Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center, Seattle)
- Computer Health Literacy for Seniors in Northern Idaho (Kootenai Medical Center, Coeur d'Alene, ID)
The following AEHI projects received no-cost extensions. Their final reports will be included next quarter:
- Online Access to Reviewed Health Education Materials (Public Health Seattle-King County)
- Alaska Health Education Library Project (Dept of Health and Social Services, Juneau, AK)
Although the following AEHI projects had an official start date of September 1, 2004, due to the aforementioned delay in their implementation, their first quarterly reports will be included next quarter.
- African American Reach and Teach Health Ministry: Access to Wellness Project 2004-2005 (Seattle, WA)
- Electronic Access for Reliable Health and Medical Information Project (Sno-Isle Regional Library, Marysville, WA)
- Health Reference Triage: Health Resources for Public Librarians (Tuality Health Information Resource Center, Hillsboro, OR)
- Locating Healthcare Resource for Rural Communities (Oregon Pacific AHEC, Corvallis, OR)
- Montana Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence (Voices of Hope, Great Falls, MT)
4. Exhibits and
Presentations at Meetings
The RML and regional colleagues exhibited at the
following national and regional meetings. Exhibit reports
are included in the appendix.
National exhibits:
- American Association of Naturopathic Physicians, Sept 7-11, Seattle, WA
- Rural TeleCon, October 10-13, Spokane, WA
- American Academy of Pediatrics, October 9-13, San Francisco, CA
- Midwives Alliance of North America, October 15-17, Portland, OR
- American College of Emergency Physicians, October 17-20, San Francisco, CA
- American College of Chest Physicians, October 24-27, San Francisco, CA
Regional exhibits:
- Washington Library Assn/Pacific Northwest Library Assn, August 11-12, Wenatchee, WA
- PNC/MLA, October 2-4, Seattle, WA
- Idaho Library Association, October 6-8, Boise, ID
Staff of the American Society of Neuroradiology contacted the RML to discuss this year's exhibit and program presentations and to begin planning for the 2005 conference. RML presentations received outstanding reviews by attendees and the association is eager to expand collaboration next year.
Mini-exhibit awards were made to:
- Heather Hill, Benton-Franklin Health District for an exhibit at Infectious Disease Update in November.
- Ann Uffalussy, Missoula Area Parish Nurse Ministries for a health fair in January
- Sandra Means, Puget Sound Alliance for Community Technology for a health fair in October
- Liisa Rogers, Healthwise, for the Idaho Library Association exhibit in October
- Melanie Jones, Kittitas Community Health Library, for a health fair in November
G. Kouame provided the following presentations: "Health Information: What's the Cure?" - Sno-Isle Libraries, August 5, Freeland, WA; "Take This Information and Call Me In the Morning"- Invited speaker, WLA/PNLA joint meeting, August 13, Wenatchee, WA; "Prescription for Success" - August 25, North Olympic Library System, Port Angeles, WA; September 16, Mid-Columbia Library, Pasco, WA; September 27, Montana State University, Bozeman MT; and October 12, North Central Library District, Ellensburg, WA. Also, multiple training sessions in Kalispell, MT September 21 & 22 - hosted by Kalispell Regional Medical center. "Health Information: What's the Cure?" - Montana State Library Fall Workshops, September 24 & 25, Great Falls, MT.
5. Technology
Awareness and Integration
The Technology Forum proposed for this contract evolved
into a two-session Electronic Document Delivery forum,
which was held as part of the Northwest Interlibrary Loan
and Resource Sharing conference in Portland, OR in
September. The first session focused on Web delivery
products and featured presentations by representatives
from CLIO, ILLiad, and Relais, introduced by an overview
by Eric Schnell of Web delivery principles. The second
session presented selected projects and issues: Janet
Croft from the University of Oklahoma spoke on licensing
issues; Eric Schnell spoke about the NN/LM-funded DocMD
project being conducted in the Greater Midwest Region;
and Cyril Oberlander from Portland State University
presented information about his mobile scanning Ariel
booktruck and other new technologies for EDD.
6. Library
Improvement
A second round of Electronic Document Delivery awards was
advertised and only one application was received -- from
Empire Health Services in Spokane, WA. These awards will
be re-publicized early in the next quarter.
7.
Connections
Nothing to report this quarter.
C.
ENHANCEMENTS
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RML staff participated in the PNC/MLA meeting in Seattle, October 2-4. L. Milgrom gave a brief review of changes to NLM databases and shared the related handout via the Public Folder on nnlm.gov.
The NN/LM PNR organized and presented a forum focused on strategies for hospital library survival, "The Three Ps of Hospital Library Success". It was held in conjunction with the PNC/MLA annual meeting in Seattle, WA in October 2004. The forum featured two panels of hospital librarians, special librarians, health professionals, hospital administrators, information technology professionals, and representatives from the National Library of Medicine. The attendees also participated in the day with problem solving sessions, question and answer times and a chance to lunch and mingle with the panelists.
G. Kouame agreed to be co-chair for an MLA tri-chapters meeting to be held in Seattle in October 2006, and participated in several site visits to select conference hotel.
