Promoting Your Library
The GMR staff would like to assist you in celebrating your library.
National Medical Librarians Month
Assistance from the GMR
- Promotional items you can order from the GMR
- Educational Supplements can be used to support your teaching efforts.
- Patient Safety: Librarian as Advocate contains the file from an oral presentation.
- Measuring Your Impact is a library evaluation class that network members can request.
- 2008 Letter to Hospital Administrators
In honor
of National Medical Librarians Month, the Greater Midwest Region is pleased to support our hospital librarians by re-instituting the Hospital Administrators Campaign. Your
Regional Advisory Council has assisted our offce in generating a advocacy letter to hospital administrators informing them of the invaluable services medical librarians
provide. If you would like to participate in this effort simply send an email with the information for the addressee to
Assistance from NLM
- Information Rx
NLM's free program that helps librarians promote consumer health resources. - Add PubMed to your website
- Linking to Medline Plus
Assistance from other Sources
- ALA supports library advocacy
- The Pacific Northwest Region maintains a bibliography on library advocacy
- The MidContinental Region maintains business calculators for you to judge the value of your library.
- ACRL's Advocacy Site for Academic Institutions
- Web Junction
- Hospital Library Advocacy Blog
eBlogger has been hosting a weblog devoted to hospital advocacy for the last two years.
MLA tools for Advocacy
- MLA Communications Toolkit
- MLA Promotional Tip Sheet
- MLA Vital Pathways for Librarians
- Benchmarking Network
- 2005 Salary Survey
