Hello, I am Cathy Burroughs, Executive Director of the Network of the National Library of Medicine (NNLM) Region 5, and I would like to extend a warm welcome to NNLM Region 5 members! \u00a0The National Library of Medicine (NLM) has awarded a new five-year cooperative agreement grant to the University of Washington (UW) Health Sciences Library to serve as the Regional Medical Library (RML) for NNLM Region 5.\u00a0 This is a *new* region of the NNLM, that reflects a redistributed geography and structure. The RML at the University of Washington now serves members in Alaska, California, Hawaii, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, and the U.S. Territories and Freely Associated States in the Pacific from 2021-2026.<\/p>\n
The NNLM Region 5 RML is under the experienced leadership of Tania Bardyn, MLIS, AHIP, Associate Dean for Health Sciences at University Washington, who serves as Principal Investigator (PI) and Director of NNLM Region 5. \u00a0Tania and I are fortunate to work with an exceptional RML staff of 4 librarians plus several specialists who deliver and support NNLM services and programs.\u00a0 We also expect to hire an additional staff member this year to assist with the administration of the larger geography and membership.<\/p>\n
An important NNLM Region 5 aim is to increase membership engagement. \u00a0We want to reconnect with longtime members, get to know newer members, and stay connected with all of you!\u00a0 We are planning on hosting virtual listening sessions, meetups at conferences and site visits to locations in Nevada, Hawaii and California in the coming year.\u00a0 Stay tuned for more information!\u00a0 Meanwhile we invite you to connect with us in these ways:<\/p>\n
For your convenience, bookmark our Region 5 Informational Brochure<\/a> which is a compilation of the above links for handy reference.\u00a0 Be sure to Join our NNLM Region 5 Listserv<\/a> to learn about important announcements, such as new funding opportunities coming soon!<\/p>\n The RML looks forward to working together with you in the years ahead to address health information needs in your communities; to support a highly trained workforce for biomedical and health information resources and data; to improve health literacy; and to increase health equity through information. Specific goals and aims of our program were introduced in our NNLM Region 5 Virtual Town Hall in June.\u00a0 If you missed it, please check out the Town Hall recording<\/a> and Town Hall Q&A<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hello, I am Cathy Burroughs, Executive Director of the Network of the National Library of Medicine (NNLM) Region 5, and I would like to extend a warm welcome to NNLM Region 5 members! \u00a0The National Library of Medicine (NLM) has awarded a new five-year cooperative agreement grant to the University of Washington (UW) Health Sciences… Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[314],"tags":[326,325],"class_list":["post-19553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-from-nnlm-region-5","tag-communication","tag-nnlm-region-5"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19553"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19560,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19553\/revisions\/19560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}