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Apr
05
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We have to start meeting like this! Your Regional Medical Library, NN/LM PNR, is unveiling its new series of web-based meetings and talks with its network members – RML Rendezvous. For our premier “at your desktop” meeting, on April 18th at 1:00 pm Pacific time, Susan Barnes, Assistant Director, Outreach Evaluation Resource Center (OERC), is… Read More »
Posted in: News From NNLM PNR, Training & Education
Jan
03
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Article by Sue Jacobsen, MLS Skagit Valley Hospital, Mt. Vernon, WA The Skagit Valley Health Literacy Project was quickly renamed the GetHELP project for marketing purposes. In this moniker, HELP stands for _H_ealth, _E_ducation, _L_ibrary _P_artnership. GetHELP sought to reach out to the low literate and/or low-income population of health care consumers in Skagit County…. Read More »
Posted in: Funding, News From NNLM PNR
Jan
03
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Digital library initiatives for public health workers, multi-cultural information on immunizations, and health literacy activities utilizing Rx Information prescriptions are some of the features of new outreach projects in the Pacific Northwest. Each project will also include training and community development in settings with limited health information expertise. The RML received many excellent proposals in… Read More »
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Dec
27
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Article by Rose M. Jackson, MLIS Portland State University In July 2005, Portland State University received an Express Outreach Award to develop a consumer health collection for the clients and staff of Outside In, a social service agency, located less than five blocks from the campus. After several consultations, the clinic staff at Outside In,… Read More »
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Dec
19
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Article by Joanne Rich, MLIS University of Washington Helath Sciences Library From April 2005 through June 2006, a research project entitled “Evaluating and Promoting Health Literacy in Recovering Addicts and Alcoholics” was conducted at the Salvation Army Adult Rehabilitation Center (ARC) in Seattle, Washington. The aim of the research project was to assess and promote… Read More »
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