From pressno@u.washington.edu Fri Jun 8 08:59:58 2001 Received: from mxu2.u.washington.edu (mxu2.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.9]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.11.2+UW01.01/8.11.2+UW01.04) with ESMTP id f58Fxt062276 for ; Fri, 8 Jun 2001 08:59:55 -0700 Received: from mxout1.cac.washington.edu (mxout1.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.5]) by mxu2.u.washington.edu (8.11.2+UW01.01/8.11.2+UW01.04) with ESMTP id f58FxsK07662 for ; Fri, 8 Jun 2001 08:59:54 -0700 Received: from mailhost1.u.washington.edu (mailhost1.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.2]) by mxout1.cac.washington.edu (8.11.2+UW01.01/8.11.2+UW01.04) with ESMTP id f58Fxs106061 for ; Fri, 8 Jun 2001 08:59:54 -0700 Received: from u.washington.edu (D-128-95-163-224.dhcp.washington.edu [128.95.163.224]) by mailhost1.u.washington.edu (8.11.2+UW01.01/8.11.2+UW01.04) with ESMTP id f58Fxsi24786 for ; Fri, 8 Jun 2001 08:59:54 -0700 Message-ID: <3B20F67A.9103F6C2@u.washington.edu> Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 08:59:54 -0700 From: Nancy Press X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Health Information for the Public Advisors Subject: NLM Announces: Funding for Consumer Health Information Outreach for Minority Organizations Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit "Consumer Health Information Outreach for Minority Organizations" http://www.nlm.nih.gov/oam/oam.html (scroll to the bottom of page and select RFQ-NLM-01-126/SLS) The National Library of Medicine (NLM) has announced the availability of purchase orders to design local programs for improving information access for minority health consumers. Emphasis is on providing information or access to health and medical information in a way meaningful to the target community. Development of connections with local health sciences libraries to obtain use of their collections, to procure interlibrary loan services, or to develop local appropriate collections of materials is one of the information access categories that is suggested. Health sciences librarians may want to partner with one of the organizations below and encourage them to apply. With this purchase order NLM is targeting community based organizations, patient advocacy groups, faith based organizations, service organizations, and non-profit organizations. Proposal Deadline: 2pm, July 16, 2001. ************************************** Forwarded by: National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Pacific Northwest Region University of Washington nnlm@u.washington.edu NN/LM PNR 800-338-7657 Box 357155 206/543-8262 Seattle, Washington 98195-7155 206/543-2469 (FAX) .