National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM) Region 3

国家医学图书馆网络 (NN/LM) 第 3 区

• 批准号: 7945220
• 负责人: RUTH HOLST
• 金额: $ 146.23万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-05-01 至 2011-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7945220
• 关键词: National; Network; Libraries; Medicine; NN

The mission of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM) is to advance the progress of medicine and improve the public health by: 1) providing all U.S. health professionals with equal access to biomedical information resources; and, 2) improving the public's access to information systems and information resources to enable them to make informed decisions about their health. The Program is coordinated by the National Library of Medicine and carried out through a nationwide network of health science libraries and information centers. The Network comprises eight geographic regions, with a contract for one Regional Medical Library to manage program activities for each region. This contract is for the RML for Region 3, which is located within and provides services to the states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wisconsin. The NN/LM goals are: to develop collaborations among network members and other organizations to improve access to and sharing of biomedical information resources throughout the nation; to promote awareness of, access to, and use of biomedical information resources for health professionals and the public, with a particular emphasis on contributing to the Healthy People 2010 goal of eliminating health disparities; and to develop, promote, and improve electronic access to health information by network members, health professionals, and organizations providing health information to the public. Network Infrastructure Each RML is expected to maintain a level of programs and services to continue supporting the infrastructure of the network. Included are activities related to planning, promoting, and implementing services within the region; coordinating the activities of the region with other regions and within the national program; and serving as a contact point for the region in relation to other library and information networks or health organizations and professional associations. The network infrastructure supports health sciences libraries¿ collaborations with a variety of organizations, including other health sciences libraries as well as affiliate member organizations. Collaborations with affiliate network members such as public libraries and community-based organizations often lead to outreach projects with broad community impact. Specifically the contractor shall undertake the following: 1. Assessing and responding to the needs of health sciences libraries in order to support programs to improve the transfer of health care and biomedical information within their institutions and through their participation in the network; 2. Assisting NLM with the implementation of a National Emergency Preparedness Plan; 3. Obtaining ongoing feedback from users about their information system and information resources preferences, needs and uses, and recommending ways of improving health professional and consumer access to information; 4. Conducting or participating in needs assessments or surveys of users and non users of NLM and NN/LM products and services, participating in tests of new NLM products and services as well as conducting and/or participating in usability studies of NLM and NN/LM products and services when requested by NLM; B. Outreach Programs Each RML will implement an outreach program designed to provide health professionals in all parts of the region with basic information services, by maintaining or by negotiating arrangements with libraries willing to serve individuals without a library affiliation. Continued development of strong inter-institutional relationships within the region and adherence to consistently high standards of performance is expected. Health professional outreach programs include targeted programs to make underserved rural, minority, and inner city health professionals aware of available health information resources (including PubMed and other specialized NLM databases). These programs will also promote connection to the Internet by health professionals as a means of accessing the global information community. In the development of programs to improve the public's access to health information, the RMLs will work with network libraries, state library agencies, state, public and school libraries, community-based organizations, as well as other regional, state, and local organizations that provide health information to the public. Outreach efforts will focus on MedlinePlus and PubMed as resources for locating health information. Promoting the expansion of MedlinePlus GoLocal will also be a priority for the RMLs¿ outreach efforts. Outreach programs encompass the following types of activities: 1. Outreach to Health Professionals The contractor shall continue to develop, implement, and evaluate targeted outreach programs to bring biomedical information resources within easy reach of U.S. health professionals who still do not have access, with special focus on those in rural areas and inner cities. The RML outreach program shall focus on: special populations or subject disciplines that have been identified as priority initiatives (e.g., health disparities, health literacy, HIV/AIDS, health services research, public health); unaffiliated health professionals and health professionals in inner cities and rural areas; local/state public health departments with particular emphasis on Internet access and collaborations with other organizations/institutions that work with public health personnel; and institutions whose objective is to train minority health practitioners or those who serve minority populations, to develop specific Internet linkages so that their health professionals and students have full benefit of the information resources of the network. 2. Consumer Health Information Services The contractor shall develop, implement, and evaluate outreach programs to increase the public¿s awareness of and access to high quality electronic health information. In carrying out these programs, the contractor shall work with a variety of intermediaries, including network members, health care providers, public health personnel, librarians, K-12 teachers and staff, other educators, community organizations, health advocacy groups, churches, and self help groups. The NN/LM consumer health outreach program shall include: developing programs that focus on reaching minority groups, including African American, Hispanics, and Native Americans; senior citizens; and low income populations; working with NLM, the NN/LM, and other organizations to develop tools and Internet linkages to improve access to electronic consumer health information systems at the local, state, and regional levels; developing programs to promote MedlinePlus and other NLM resources to all health professionals as a resource for them and their patients; and coordinating the development of MedlinePlus GoLocal in the region. 3. Training to Support Electronic Access to Health Information The contractor shall support training in the effective use of electronic health information resources on the Internet. Emphasis should be on reaching health professionals, public, school and other librarians, and other intermediaries who do not have access to such training or who intend to train others, including consumers. Training should focus on topics not available through other sources and should include, but not be limited to: PubMed, MedlinePlus, and other specialized NLM databases; and finding and evaluating health information resources on the Web. 4. Exhibits and Presentations at Meetings The contractor shall promote NLM and NN/LM programs and services at national, regional and state meetings of health professionals and organizations that represent minority groups or underserved members of the general public. 5. Information Technology and Policy Awareness The contractor shall develop an information technology and policy awareness program which includes the following: holding regional showcases or forums focused on the use of information technology to improve access to biomedical information and on policy issues affecting production, distribution, and access to biomedical information; and monitoring current technological and policy developments and trends to identify those that will improve access to biomedical information. In cooperation with the NNO, the contractor shall design and test systems to help support these operations within the region. 6. Library Improvement The contractor shall implement an NN/LM library improvement program, if needed, in the region. The following shall be included in this program: Identifying hospital libraries that do not have onsite Internet access to NLM resources; and developing a program to improve library services delivered to hospital staff, which may include Loaning computer and telecommunications equipment necessary to access PubMed, MedlinePlus, DOCLINE and Web services; introcucing the library manager, key staff, administrators and health professionals to the NLM systems, hardware, software and other resources available in the network to improve their access to information. 7. Connections The contractor shall develop, implement and annually update a plan to encourage high quality Internet connectivity for network members and health professionals in the region. This shall include, but not be limited to: reviewing the adequacy of the Internet connections of network members on an annual basis, reporting the results to the region and to NLM, and assisting the "underconnected" in maintaining and upgrading their connections; and Identifying inner-city and rural health care organizations that are not connected to the Internet or that are under-connected; consulting with them to determine if they would benefit from assistance with connecting/upgrading their connection, and providing the needed assistance; introducing staff to PubMed, MedlinePlus and other health information resources on the Web.

国家医学图书馆网络 (NN/LM) 的使命是通过以下方式推动医学进步并改善公共卫生：1) 为所有美国卫生专业人员提供平等的生物医学信息资源；2) 改善医疗服务；该计划由国家医学图书馆协调，并通过由八个地理区域组成的全国性健康科学图书馆和信息中心网络实施。 ，与一份区域医疗合同图书馆负责管理每个地区的项目活动。该合同适用于第 3 区的 RML，该图书馆位于伊利诺伊州、印第安纳州、爱荷华州、肯塔基州、密歇根州、明尼苏达州、俄亥俄州、北达科他州、南达科他州、和威斯康星州。 NN/LM 的目标是： 发展网络成员和其他组织之间的合作，以改善全国范围内生物医学信息资源的获取和共享，提高卫生专业人员和公众对生物医学信息资源的认识、获取和使用； ，特别强调为“健康人民 2010”消除健康差距的目标做出贡献；并开发、促进和改善网络成员、卫生专业人员和向公众提供健康信息的组织对健康信息的电子获取。 网络基础设施 每个 RML 预计将维持一定水平的计划和服务，以继续支持网络基础设施，其中包括与区域内的规划、推广和实施服务相关的活动；计划；并作为该地区与其他图书馆和信息网络或卫生组织和专业协会的联络点。网络基础设施支持健康科学图书馆。与各种组织的合作，包括其他健康科学图书馆以及附属成员组织，例如公共图书馆和社区组织，通常会带来具有广泛社区影响的外展项目。 : 1. 评估和响应健康科学图书馆的需求，以支持旨在改善其机构内以及通过参与网络的医疗保健和生物医学信息转移的计划； 2.协助NLM实施国家应急准备计划； 3. 获取用户关于其信息系统和信息资源偏好、需求和使用的持续反馈，并就改善卫生专业人员和消费者获取信息的方式提出建议； 4. 进行或参与 NLM 和 NN/LM 产品和服务的用户和非用户的需求或评估，参与新的 NLM 产品和服务的测试以及进行和/或参与 NLM 和 NN/LM 的可用性研究应 NLM 要求提供的产品和服务； B. 外展计划 每个 RML 将实施一项外展计划，旨在通过与愿意为没有图书馆隶属关系的个人提供服务的图书馆保持或协商安排，为该地区所有地区的卫生专业人员提供基本信息服务。卫生专业人员外展计划包括使服务不足的农村、少数民族和内城区卫生专业人员了解可用的卫生信息资源（包括 PubMed 和其他专业 NLM 数据库）的有针对性的计划。还促进卫生专业人员与互联网的连接作为访问全球信息社区的一种手段，在制定改善公众获取健康信息的计划时，RML 将与网络图书馆、州立图书馆机构、州立、公共和学校图书馆、社区组织以及社区组织合作。与向公众提供健康信息的其他区域、州和地方组织一样，推广工作将重点放在 MedlinePlus 和 PubMed 上，作为查找健康信息的资源，促进 MedlinePlus GoLocal 的扩展也将是 RML 的优先事项。外展活动包括以下类型： 1. 接触卫生专业人员 承包商应继续制定、实施和评估有针对性的外展计划，以使仍然无法访问的美国卫生专业人员能够轻松获得生物医学信息资源，特别关注农村地区和内城区的人员。RML 外展计划应。重点关注：已确定为优先举措的特殊人群或学科（例如健康差异、健康素养、艾滋病毒/艾滋病、卫生服务研究、公共卫生）； /州公共卫生部门特别强调互联网接入以及与其他与公共卫生人员合作的组织/机构以及旨在培训少数民族卫生从业人员或为少数民族人口服务的机构的合作，以发展特定的互联网联系，以便其卫生专业人员和学生能够充分利用网络信息资源。 2. 消费者健康信息服务 承包商应制定、实施和评估外展计划，以增加公众参与度。在实施这些计划时，承包商应与各种中介机构合作，包括网络成员、医疗保健提供者、公共卫生人员、图书馆员、K-12 教师和工作人员以及其他人员。 NN/LM 消费者健康外展计划应包括： 制定针对少数群体（包括非裔美国人、西班牙裔和美国原住民）的计划；低收入人群； NLM、NN/LM 和其他组织开发工具和互联网链接，以改善地方、州和地区各级对电子消费者健康信息系统的访问；制定计划，向所有卫生专业人员推广 MedlinePlus 和其他 NLM 资源；为他们及其患者提供资源；并协调 MedlinePlus GoLocal 在该地区的发展。 3. 支持以电子方式获取健康信息的培训 承包商应支持有效使用互联网上的电子健康信息资源的培训，重点应放在无法获得此类培训或打算培训其他人的卫生专业人员、公众、学校和其他图书馆员以及其他中介机构上。培训应重点关注其他来源无法提供的主题，并应包括但不限于：PubMed、MedlinePlus 和其他专业 NLM 数据库；以及查找和评估网络上的健康信息资源。 4. 会议上的展览和演示 承包商应在代表少数群体或服务不足的公众成员的卫生专业人员和组织的国家、地区和州会议上宣传 NLM 和 NN/LM 计划和服务。 5. 信息技术和政策意识 承包商应制定信息技术和政策意识计划，其中包括：举办区域展示会或论坛，重点关注利用信息技术改善生物医学信息的获取以及影响生物医学信息的生产、分发和获取的政策问题；监测当前的技术和政策发展及趋势，以确定那些将改善生物医学信息获取的技术和政策发展及趋势。承包商应与 NNO 合作设计和测试系统，以帮助支持该地区的这些业务。 6. 库改进 如有需要，承包商应在该地区实施 NN/LM 图书馆改进计划，该计划应包括以下内容： 确定无法通过互联网访问 NLM 资源的医院图书馆，并制定改善图书馆服务的计划；交付给医院工作人员，其中可能包括借用访问 PubMed、MedlinePlus、DOCLINE 和 Web 服务所需的计算机和电信设备；向图书馆经理、主要工作人员、管理人员和卫生专业人员介绍 NLM 系统、硬件、软件和其他可用资源；这网络以改善他们获取信息的能力。 7. 连接 承包商应制定、实施并每年更新一项计划，以鼓励该地区的网络成员和卫生专业人员提供高质量的互联网连接。这应包括但不限于：每年审查网络成员的互联网连接是否充足。向该地区和 NLM 报告结果，并协助“连接不足”者维持和升级其连接；以及 识别未连接到互联网或连接不足的城市内和农村医疗保健组织；与他们一起确定他们是否会从中受益协助连接/升级他们的连接，并提供所需的帮助；向工作人员介绍 PubMed、MedlinePlus 和网络上的其他健康信息资源。