Overview

The Regional Advisory Council advises NN/LM—NER on all program areas and assists in the evaluation of program areas. The RAC and its entities provide feedback on current trends and issues facing libraries and assist in identifying opportunities for collaboration and outreach throughout the region.

Subcommittees, Working Groups, and Task Forces:

• Standing subcommittees are ongoing groups with a specific charge.
• Working groups may be convened a limited number of times throughout the contract period; their work is episodic.
• Task Forces will be convened to address specific areas of the RML Statement of Work.

Subcommittees

Consumer Health Advisory Subcommittee
The Consumer Health Advisory Subcommittee identifies potential areas of consumer health outreach and reviewd courses under development by the Consumer Health Information Coordinator.

Cheryl Bryan Southeastern Massachusetts Regional Library System Lakeville, MA	Alberta Richetelle UCONN Healthnet Farmington, CT
Janet Eckert Western MA Regional Library System Whately, MA	Mary Ann Slocomb Lifespan Libraries, Rhode Island Hospital Providence, RI
Amy Frey Hospital for Special Care New Britain, CT	Cindy Stewart Dartmouth College Lebanon, NH
Alan Lampson Frymoyer Community Health Resource Center of Fletcher Allen Health Care Burlington, VT	Julie Whelan Countway Library, Harvard Boston, MA
Linda Oliver Curtis Memorial Library Brunswick, ME

Hospital Library Subcommittee
The Hospital Library Subcommittee informd the RML on issues related to the status of hospital libraries in the region. The subcommittee’s charge is to inform the NN/LM-NER of ongoing hospital library concerns and to explore strategies which promote the value of health science libraries within health care institutions.

Margo Coletti BIDMC	Shirley Gronholm Hartford Hospital
Denise Corless Caritas Norwood Hospital	Mimi Guessferd Parkland Medical Center
Cora Damon MaineGeneral Med Ctr-Waterville	Sheila Hayes Portsmouth Regional Hospital
Barbara Davis Newport Hospital	Betsy Merrill Northeastern VT Regional Hospital
Anne Fladger Brigham & Women’s Hospital

Resource Library Directors
Resource Library Directors are an advisory group convened to for periodic updates and discussion of ongoing concerns of academic medical institutions

Eric Albright Tufts University	Richard Kaplan Mass College of Pharmacy
Wanda Anderson (liaison) Boston College	Kenny Marone Yale University
Marianne Burke University of Vermont	Alexa McCray Harvard University
Fran Becker Baystate Medical Center	Evelyn Breck Morgen University of Connecticut
Janet Cowen Maine Medical Center	Tovah Reis Brown University
David Ginn Boston Universtiy	Mary Ann Slocomb Rhode Island Hospital
William Garrity Dartmouth Colleg	Elizabeth Schneider Massachusetts General Hospital
Shirley Gronholm Hartford Hospital

Working Groups

Resource Sharing
Resource Library Directors are considered advisory group convened to for periodic updates and discussion of ongoing concerns of academic medical institutions

Mary Angelotti Yale University	Frances Foret Tufts University
Ron Chabot Dartmouth College	Bart Hollingsworth Brown University
Janet Cowen Maine Medical Center	Jeanene Light University of Vermont

Training and Education:
Will assist in Training and Education Assessment; provide guidance on Training and Education Program and the development of the proposed Winter Series

Cynthia Arnold Midcoast Hospital	Alison Clapp Children’s Hospital
Janene Batten Yale University	Linda Spadaccini Waterbury Hospital
Ellen Burchill Brassil New Britain General Hosptial

Task Forces

Emergency Preparedness Task Force:
Will assist NER in developing and implementing a regional emergency preparedness plan as advised or dictated in the NEPP developed by NLM

Donna Beales Lowell General Hospital	Barabara Davis Newport Hospital
Sarah Burge Yale University	Claire LaForce Rutland Regional Medical Center

Historical Collections Task Force:
Will assist NER in identifying unique historical collections that are held by non-member libraries but are of some significance to the history of medicine.

Marjorie Anderson Mercy Hospital, Maine	Patty Kahn Penbay Medical Center
Toby Appel Yale University	Dr. Richard Kahn Penbay Medical Center
Emily Beattie Boston University	Jocelyn Leadbetter Maine Medical Center
Angie Chapple-Sokol University of Vermont	Ellen More University of MA Medical School
K Kathryn Hammond Baker Harvard Medical School	Nancy Ross Women and Infants Hospital, RI
Joseph Harzbecker Boston University	Lorna Wright UConn Health Center