Technology Improvement Award - Recipients
Year Four - May 2009 to April 2010
Recipient: University of North Dakota - Library of the Health Sciences, Grand Forks, ND
Project Director: Theresa Norton
Project Title: Purchasing a Web/Database Server to Replace an Existing Server
Amount: $4,780
Phone: 701-777-2946
The library's web/database server provides UND affiliated users with access to all of the library's online resources and services. In addition, unaffiliated users are welcome to make use of the approximately 1400 free electronic resources available through the library's web site. Those free resources include many NLM and NIH resources such as MedlinePlus, PubMed Central, and PubMed. By replacing an out-dated server, they will be able to continue to offer these invaluable services.
Year Three - May 2008 to April 2009
Recipient: Broadlawns Medical Center, Des Moines, IA
Project Director: Elaine Hughes
Project Title: Kiosks for Kids
Amount: $2,936
Phone:512-282-2394
Healthy-lifestyle promotion and wellness education has become a major focus in the health care industry as the United States deals with a population suffering from ever-increasing rates of chronic illnesses in children and adults. As an outreach health information/wellness education project, the BMC Health Sciences Library would like to be able to provide health information to the children and their families who visit or are patients at Broadlawns Medical Center. Funds from the “Kiosks for Kids” proposal will be used to purchase two computer kiosks which would be installed in two high-traffic waiting areas of the medical center. One kiosk would be located in the Family Health Center waiting area. The other kiosk would be located in the waiting area of the Pediatric Clinic.
Recipient: Malcolm X College, Chicago, IL
Project Director: Daniel Mulvihill
Project Title: Improving Access to Health Resources at Malcolm X College
Amount: $1,040
Phone: 312-850-7244
Malcolm X College plans to purchase an Hewlett-Packard LaserJet All-in-One to offer quicker delivery of interlibrary loan materials. Before purchasing this equipment, they sometimes had to deny some requests because of the time and supplies needed for photocopying and mailing. With equipment to improve document delivery, they will speed up the process of document delivery, which will allow them to fulfill more requests and spend free time helping their patrons.
Recipient: Summa Health System, Akron, OH
Project Director: Heather Holmes
Project Title: Developing an EBM Consultant Service: Measuring the Impact
Amount: $3,000
Phone: 330-375-6770
This service has been designed to fully embed the librarian with a general medicine patient care team to serve as an EBM consultant at the point of care. By purchasing a small, ultra portable tablet-style computer, evidence can be provided immediately at the point of care by the librarian. Access to PubMed, MedlinePlus, ClinicalTrials.gov and other databases are important to fully implement this service. The librarian will also be able to provide instruction at the point of care as well, showing the patient care team how to quickly and effectively do a search in the absence of the librarian.
Recipient: Methodist Medical Center of Illinois, Peoria, IL
Project Director: Melissa Hudak
Project Title: Improvement of Document Delivery and Interlibrary Loan Services
Amount: $900
Phone:309-672-4937
Methodist Medical Center plans to buy a flatbed document scanner to upgrade their document delivery to their students, staff, nurses, physicians and faculty to better serve their interlibrary loan patrons. They currently provide free interlibrary loan services though Docline, FreeShare, and Free for All. The new scanner will allow them to better provide articles and other information in a timely manner to all of these groups.
Recipient: Mercy College of Health Sciences, Des Moines, IA
Project Director: Eileen Hansen
Project Title: Recording Devices for an Online Nursing Assessment Course
Amount: $1,225
Phone: 515-643-6612
This project seeks to provide easy to use video technology for students and faculty in a newly online Nursing Assessment course. Students are currently required to perform an assessment in front of their instructor and receive feedback to improve their techniques. A final evaluation requires students to provide a video of themselves performing a complete physical assessment. By providing easy to use, inexpensive recording devices that could be checked out and shipped to students, faculty will be able to evaluate student skills to be sure learning outcomes are achieved.
Recipient: Blessing Health Professions Library, Quincy, IL
Project Director: Arlis Dittmer
Project Title: Blessing Begins Webinars for Nursing Utilizing Collaborative Technology
Amount: $3,314
Phone: 217-228-5520
Blessing Health Professions Library staff regularly look for ways to enhance teaching and learning activities. They have the reputation of sponsoring educational programs throughout the year which attract attendees from Springfield, Peoria and other cities in the Midwest. As of 2010, nurses in Illinois will be required to have 20 hours of continuing education per year. Blessing plans to purchase six webcams and a SB680 Smart Board to capture programming through webinar technology and archiving it for others who could not attend.
Recipient: Broadlawns Medical Center, Des Moines, IA
Project Director: Elaine Hughes
Project Title: Wireless Students!
Amount: $753
Phone: 512-282-2394
The Health Sciences Library at Broadlawns Medical Center in Des Moines, IA plans to purchase and install a wireless access point in the library. The medical education program at Broadlawns serves several hundred medical students and is also a second home for the students and residents. For those that have laptop computers which they use for patient care, research, case studies, etc., they were unable to access the Internet or the Intranet (for students and residents) to get to patient care information. Once this access point is installed, this will be possible - not only for students and residents, but also visitors and patients who use the library.
Recipient: Indiana University (Center for Disability Information and Referral), Bloomington, IN
Project Director: Christina Wray
Project Title: Accessible Workstation
Amount: $3,831
Phone:812-855-0077
The Indiana University Center for Disability Information plans to purchase a workstation with the latest adaptive software to make health and educational information available to people with disabilities. They also plan to introduce people with disabilities and their families and educators to accessible software options available. Residents of the Bloomington area, workshop and training attendees, and university students in the special education program will benefit most from this technology.
Recipient: Wegner Health Science Information Center, Sioux Falls, SD
Project Director: Carolyn Warmann
Project Title: Micro Format Digitization Equipment
Amount: $4,900
Phone: 605-357-1397
The Wegner Center is purchasing equipment which scans microform and converts it to a digital copy that can be saved, printed, viewed, or emailed directly from the system. The equipment purchased will replace two Minolta reader/printers currently used to create hard copy from microform. The digital microform system will create a better copy, have more functionality and can streamline the process of retrieving information in microform.
Recipient: Medcenter One Health Library, Bismarck, ND
Project Director: Travis Schulz
Project Title: Enhancing Online Access for Health Care Information Consumers
Amount: $4,900
Phone: 701-323-5390
As the only dedicated medical library serving south-central and southwestern North Dakota, the Medcenter One Health Library serves as the region’s major health information resource center connecting physicians, nurses, patients, and health information consumers with quality medical and consumer health information. Mobility, personal space, and privacy are current issues facing many visiting health information consumers at the Medcenter One Health Library. I am therefore requesting funding for equipment that will enable a more accommodating library environment. The equipment, combined with outreach and promotional activities by the library staff, will allow the Medcenter One Health Library to fulfill it’s commitment to connect health information consumers with the information they need.
Recipient: Pacific College of Oriental Medicine
Project Director: Naomi C. Broering
Project Title: Improving the Library’s Access Services
Amount: $4,900
Phone: 800-729-0941, ext 134
The Pacific College of Oriental Medicine is actively engaged in a development plan to improve the Chicago campus library for its users and the community. The library is a NN/LM member and needs to update its services to network with the region’s medical libraries, to conduct community outreach services, and to improve user services. The project goals are to improve the library’s access services and promote health information literacy instruction by automating and implementing a library information system. The system will include an on-line public catalog (OPAC), with cataloging, information access, and circulation functions. The objectives are to acquire and implement the necessary equipment and software over six months, and continue maintaining the system once it’s operational. The library has Internet access and a Webpage. It is well poised to launch a project of this nature to raise the level of its information access services. The proposal requests minimal equipment, software and supplies to initiate the project, which will be continued and supplemented by the institution in the future. Visibility to the NN/LM network and the NLM Medline Plus and Pub Med is part of the health information literacy program to be offered by the library.
Year Two - May 2007 to April 2008
Recipient: Mercy Medical Center - North Iowa, Mason City, IA
Project Director: Elizabeth Kiscaden
Project Title: Electronic Document Delivery
Amount: $974
Phone: 641-422-7699
Mercy Medical Center is a not-for-profit community health care system that offers comprehensive health care services for people throughout northern Iowa and southern Minnesota. The medical library within Mercy supports the medical center as well as the health community in North Iowa. The library is a member of multiple groups within Docline that share interlibrary loan materials at no cost. Our biggest obstacle is that we lack a scanner and are only able to deliver loans through an unreliable fax machine or the post office. We would like to procure a basic scanner so that we can deliver our interlibrary loans electronically.
Recipient: University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Harley E French Library
Project Director: Joan Bares
Project Title: Equipment Upgrade for UND School of Medicine and Health Sciences Southwest
Amount: $4,474
Phone: 701-323-5391
Description: Project will update the equipment available to the SW Clinical Campus Librarian of the University of North Dakota (UND) School of Medicine and Health Sciences. As the SW Clinical Campus Librarian, I am responsible for outreach to health care providers throughout the SW quadrant of the state which includes Bismarck, Dickinson, Bowman, and Hettinger. Bowman and Hettinger are in Bowman County and Grant County. They are both designated as frontier counties and as underserved. There are also public libraries in this quadrant of the state. Each of these libraries would be contacted with the offer of a consumer health presentation for their staff and users. Receiving this award will allow me to perform my duties as an outreach librarian in a more effective and efficient manner with less worry of relying on the technical equipment and capabilities of others. In addition, the equipment will be used for local presentations and exhibits in Bismarck as well as in the rural areas of Hettinger, Bowman, and Dickinson. I also provide instruction to UND associates, medical students, residents and clinical faculty on the use of databases available to them from the Harley E French Library website and from the National Library of Medicine. When opportunities arise, I staff exhibits at local conventions and present to local organizations in the area. These types of exhibits and presentations involve the demonstration of NLM consumer health databases such as MedlinePlus. In addition, I will be assisting with the Go Local North Dakota project and may be creating a database of health services and resources in the SW quadrant of the state. In order to be compatible with the other databases, my equipment needs to be upgraded.
Recipient: VA Illiana Health Care System, Danville, IL
Project Director: Sherrie Kuzian
Project Title: Tandberg Tele Video Desktop Unit for Remote Access
Amount: $4,900
Phone: 217-554-5207
Description: A televideo unit would provide library education material via DVD, VHS, PowerPoint and interactions to both veterans and employees who are remote. We would be able to provide services to the five (5) outpatient clinics that do not have access to "hands on" library material for patient education and staff education. Placing a video unit in the library would enable remote clinic staff to schedule viewing for patients of education media materials not immediately available. It would also enhance access of library materials to remote employees.
Recipient: Riverside Medical Center, Anderson Medical Library, Kankakee, IL
Project Director: Lou Miller
Project Title: Anderson Medical Library Electronic Cataloging/Internet Access for Patrons
Amount: $3,055
Phone: 815-937-7966
Description: To eliminate the outdated card catalog and replace with a fully automated electronic cataloging system that contains 100% of the Anderson Medical Library’s holdings.
Recipient: South Bend Medical Foundation, South Bend, IN
Project Director: Kristina Flora
Project Title: Creating a Virtual Electronic Medical Library
Amount: $3,467
Phone: 574-234-4176
Description: The South Bend Medical Foundation provides quality and cost effective laboratory and blood banking services to hospitals, physicians, and patients in Indiana, Michigan, Kentucky, Ohio, and Illinois. The Foundation Library exists to provide answers to the information needs of physicians within the institution and community, prospective clients, and more than 850 employees who include microbiologists, chemists, toxicologists, and phlebotomists, etc. The Library provides literature searches, access to article and book requests through its’ own collection as well as inter-library loan service through DOCLINE® Freeshare. Purchasing a PC and all-in-one printer/scanner/copier will enable the Foundation library to enhance electronic document delivery.
Recipient: Graham Hospital Association, Medical Staff Library, Canton, IL
Project Director: Daneen Richardson
Project Title: Enhancing Library Services through Digitization
Amount: $4,816
Phone: 309-647-5240
Description: By purchasing the cameras, laptop and scanner, we would be able to provide better services to our patrons. The library has stepped in as the school and hospital archivist with our digital imaging and preservation project and oral history project. We want to provide the means for all library patrons to borrow a camera to capture the activities of the students, library and school. A laptop will provide us with the flexibility to move to a quiet area when recording verbal instructions within a tutorial and the means to attend an online training or meeting. The tutorials that are developed will be available via our webpage when appropriate and free for other librarians to use, as they need. It will also provide a visual aid to our word processor when she attempts to transcribe our oral histories. The large bed scanner will allow us to scan our oversized scrapbooks and documents and to send oversized interlibrary loan documents via email in a one-step process. Our historical documents and pictures will be available through our membership with Digital Past, an Illinois historical website.
Year One - May 2006 to April 2007
Recipient: Ingham Regional Medical Library - Greenlawn, Lansing, MI
Project Director: Judith Barnes
Project Title: Electronic Document Delivery of Journals Archived in
Amount: $2,595
Phone: 517-334-2270
Description: This request is for the funds to purchase an "Image-Mouse" digital retrieval system to enable this library to fill interlibrary loan and document delivery requests from its microfiche collection.
Recipient: Henry Ford Hospital, Sladen Library, Detroit, MI
Project Director: Nandita S. Mani
Project Title: Library On The Go: Utilizing Innovative Technology to Provide Educational Programming
Amount: $4,900
Phone: 313-916-5335
Description: The Library On The Go project will focus on the delivery of instruction on resources such as PubMed®, MEDLINE®, and MedlinePlus®, as well as other library databases, to Henry Ford Health System (HFHS) employees and consumers. The award funding will be used to create a mobile, wireless computer lab comprised of an instructor's tablet PC, ten laptop computers, and a wheeled storage cart. Using up-to-date technology will allow us to expand our educational programming, which is essential in supporting the practice of evidence-based health care and promoting patient safety. Due to the limited training space available on the HFHS campus and the time constraints placed on health care professionals, it is imperative that we provide instructional services in an innovative, customer-focused manner. The Library On The Go service will allow us to take our programming directly to our patrons - where and when they need it. The service will raise the library's visibility, promote various NLM resources, and support the hospital's education and patient care missions. The proliferation of electronic resources and end-user searching has made it essential that libraries are at the forefront in educating their patrons on effective search techniques. This award will give us the tools we need to achieve this vital goal.
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