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I am writing you as Public Library members of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, South Central Region. I need to let you know about two benefits of membership for which you are eligible if you are interested.
1) MedlinePlus has a section of its website (under Other Resources) that is called “Find a Library” (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/libraries.html). If you would like to be included in this section because you are willing to use your resources and reference staff to help people find health information, please e-mail me back and let me know and we will add you to this list. MedlinePlus gets approximately 4 million unique visitors per month (they won’t all be calling you, but it is a good way of getting your library’s name out).
2) The National Network of Libraries of Medicine has an online service entitled “Find a library that can help you with health information.” (http://nnlm.gov/members/adv.html) All of you are listed in this service because you are members. However, if a searcher selects “Reference Services for the Public” or has “Consumer Health Collection” in the advanced search, your library will not appear unless you have given us permission to include you in these categories. This is a policy set up primarily for medical libraries who might not help the public, and who might not have consumer health collections.
If someone is using this search to find libraries in your area that will help them with health reference, they won’t find you unless you e-mail me back and tell me that you would like to be listed as a) a library that provides health information to the public; and/or b) a library with a consumer health collection. It is entirely up to you if you would like to be listed that way.
MedlinePlus and NNLM.gov are two completely separate websites. You are entitled to be listed on one and not on the other if you would like.
Feel free to call me at 800-338-7657 if you have any questions.
Thank you very much! Karen Vargas +++++++ Karen Vargas, MS Consumer Health Coordinator NN/LM South Central Region HAM-TMC Library 1133 John Freeman Blvd. Houston TX 77030-2809 713.799.7198 800.338.7657 (AR, LA, NM, OK, TX Only) 713.790.7030 (F)
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