May/June 2002
volume 11, issue 3
In this issue:
Loansome Doc for the Consumer: Year One
The Quick Guide to Electronic Delivery: From Paper to PDF
How to Create a Customized Union List Using SERHOLD Report Data
National Library Week Promotional Items Success: Job Well Done!
The Electronic Funds Transfer System
Healthy People 2010
Welcome, Alan!
PSRML's Regional Advisory Committee
NLM's Internet Access to Digital Libraries (IADL) Grant to Replace the Internet Connection and Information Access grants
2002 MLA Meeting Reminder and NLM Invitation
Highlights from the March - April 2002 NLM Technical Bulletin
In every issue:
Table of Contents for the NLM Technical Bulletin
Upcoming Events - 2002
Publication Information
National Library Week Promotional Items Success: Job Well Done!
By Karen Ricard
Administrative Assistant
Pacific Southwest Regional Medical Library
Kudos to all our Network Members who enthusiastically responded to our call for visiting their community public libraries during National Library Week, April 14-20, 2002! Over the course of one month, a record 53 Network members requested NLM health information materials to distribute to diverse groups of community partners. Requests came from throughout the Pacific Southwest Region. One Network member located in Korea, the Medical Library of the 121st General Hospital, US Army, shared these special comments about his goals for the week:
"We intend that the items be offered for the library users to promote health information access. And this special program on National Library Week will be carried out to provide high quality information services to providers in this Army command base."
In addition to reaching out to their community libraries, Members also held Library open houses at their respective medical centers, hosted health fairs, and celebrated National Doctor's Day (March 30) and Special Librarians Day (April 18, 2002). Our Network members truly are partners with PSRML in our joint commitment to improving health information access!
In total, PSRML distributed over 10,000 items, including NIH Health Hotlines booklets, MEDLINEplus bookmarks, NLM and MEDLINEplus pens, HealthInfoQuest postcards, MEDLINEplus posters, and MEDLINEplus screen swipes. All requests for health information materials were filled, free of charge, from orders submitted to our PSRML promotional items website: http://nnlm.gov/psr/promo_items.html
Congratulations to all of our Network Members on your dedication in introducing these resources to health professionals and to the members of the public that we serve!
