Digital Liberary Access-Rural Taylor County, Kentucky

描述（由申请人提供）： 肯塔基州泰勒县农村数字健康图书馆访问合作伙伴关系的长期目标是为泰勒县医院、县公共图书馆和县公共卫生部门的农村医疗保健专业人员和公众提供在线访问可靠的医疗信息的机会。医院医学图书馆是迫切需要的，因为没有数字，印刷，或缩微胶片信息资源，在医院提供给农村卫生专业人员和患者。该县没有一个有学位的医学图书管理员。目标1：在医院、公共图书馆和公共卫生部门购买和安装12台公众使用的个人电脑和软件以及3台打印机，并为图书馆和卫生部门升级因特网接入。目标二：为了提供在线访问免费数据库和电子资源，如NLM的MEDLINE和订阅数据库，如奥维德，MDConsult，肯塔基州虚拟图书馆，和统计！参考肯塔基州泰勒县的35名医生、护理人员、患者和公众。目标3：为三个社区网站做广告，促进获得基于网络的健康信息，然后为35名医生、45名护士、一名公共图书管理员、一名医院教育主任和一名社区健康护士提供10个两小时的培训课程，这些护士将反过来培训公众。目标4：通过用户评价、对医务人员的调查以及计算用户和下载文章的数量，检查所有三个网站在线医疗资源的有用性和使用情况，以评估项目的成功。该项目包括一名医学图书管理员作为顾问，一个提供全方位服务的城市医院图书馆作为泰勒县孤独博士的联系人，以及赠款期间和之后的培训课程。已承诺为继续这一伙伴关系提供可持续的资金，并提供有经验的计算机支助人员提供桌面服务。通过电话访问肯塔基州虚拟图书馆和医学图书馆员将补充本提案中要求的数据库，并将为图书馆用户提供进一步的支持。泰勒县医院为新的医学图书馆翻新了一个带有互联网连接的大房间。现在，泰勒县农村的22，000名公民将拥有一家医院，一个图书馆和一个公共卫生部门，其中包括一个数字医学图书馆，以提供在线实践指南，药物信息，主要文献和医学教科书。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The long-term objective of the Digital Health Library Access Partnership for Rural Taylor County, Kentucky is to provide online access to reliable medical information for rural healthcare professionals and the public at Taylor County Hospital, the county public library, and the county public health department. A hospital medical library is urgently needed because no digital, print, or microfilm information resources are available in the hospital for rural health professionals and patients. The county does not have a degreed medical librarian. Aim 1: To purchase and install 12 public-access personal computers and software and 3 printers at the hospital, public library, and public health department and to upgrade Internet access for the library and the health department. Aim 2: To provide online access to free databases and electronic resources such as NLM's MEDLINE and to subscription databases such as OVID, MDConsult, the Kentucky Virtual Library, and Stat!Ref for 35 staff physicians, nursing staff, patients, and the public of Taylor County, Kentucky. Aim 3: To advertise the three community sites and promote access to Web-based health Information and then provide 10, two-hour training sessions for 35 physicians, 45 nurses, a public librarian, a hospital education director, and a community health nurse who will, in turn, train the public. Aim 4: To evaluate the success of the project by examining usefulness and use of online medical resources at all three sites by user evaluations, surveys to medical staff, and by counting the number of users and articles downloaded. The project includes a medical librarian as a consultant, a full-service urban hospital library as the Lonesome Doc contact for Taylor County, and training courses both during and after the grant. Sustainable funding has been pledged for the continuation of this partnership, and experienced computer support people are available for desktop services. Access to the Kentucky Virtual Library and to medical librarians by phone will supplement the databases requested in this proposal and will provide further support for library users. Taylor County Hospital has renovated a large room with Internet connectivity for the new medical library. Now, the 22,000 citizens of rural Taylor County will have a hospital, a library, and a public health department with a digital medical library to provide access to online practice guidelines, drug information, primary literature, and medical textbooks.