PCOM receives award to gear library toward community outreach

Source: nnlm.gov

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.