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May/June 1998Lister Hill Staffers Head Project to Train Rural Healthcare ProfessionalsLister Hill Library has joined an exciting new project to help healthcare professionals in several rural Alabama counties improve their skills using computer equipment, thereby providing them with better ways to access information and do their jobs more effectively. This project was offered by the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Southeastern/Atlantic Region (NN/LMSE/A) and will be funded by the National Library of Medicine under a contract with the University of Maryland, Baltimore. Joan Lukins, Kay Hogan and Jack Smith joined this effort last November and plan to work hard to make sure doctors in such counties as Bibb, Chilton, Greene, Hale, Perry, Pickens and Sumter are well trained in the latest computer equipment. Their work will continue into the spring of the year 2000. According to Lukins, two complete sets of computer equipment, printers, and fax machines will be purchased and used to train the rural healthcare professionals on the Internet Medline database, through PubMed and Internet Grateful Med. Doctors in each county will be trained to use the equipment over a period of 60 days with periodic follow-up visits by Lister Hill staffers to make sure everything is going as planned. Lukins said a listserv will be established to encourage the sites to ask questions and share information with the other sites, as well as the staff at Lister Hill Library.
Lukins had many reasons for joining this project. First, she said, there is a great need for programs such as this in rural areas. Lukins said, "Many rural physicians can't get important information over the Internet because they don't know how to use it. It would make their jobs a lot easier if they did." Lukins said she is optimistic about the program's success and plans to keep in touch with many dental, nursing and hospital associates and clinics, to make sure everything is running smoothly and on schedule. Lukins agreed that it will be a tough job, but she is sure it will be well worth it in the end. |
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