Last November, NN/LM Membership Questionnaires were sent to 636 "Member" and 403 "Non-Member" institutions in Region 7. Although questionnaires continue to trickle in, to date we have received 485 renewals from current Network Members. Twenty-one "Members" no longer have health science collections and/or no longer provide information services to health professionals, so their membership has been "closed" in our database.
We obtained a very low response rate from "Non-Members"; of those who did respond, fifteen became new Network Members and seven were "closed" in our database. Membership has been continued for those Network Members who have not returned their questionnaires, although we cannot update their institutional information in our database.
Certificates have been mailed to all Network Members. If you haven't received yours, or if the information on the certificate is incorrect, please let us know as soon as possible. Although our next formal membership drive won't take place until the new millennium (actually, four years from now) we will continue to update information in our database as you notify us of changes. Please help us keep our information current. You can call, email, fax or mail changes to us at any time; if you are notifying us of fairly extensive changes, we would be happy to send you another questionnaire. If we haven't heard from you, you can expect to hear from us at least on a yearly basis.
If you know of any potential Network Members who could benefit from our services, have them contact us and we will send them a New Member Information Packet.
Thank you for joining your colleagues of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine in supporting the goal of providing equal access to biomedical information to all of our nation's health professionals.
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