Information Access:
Enhancing Rural Healthcare in North Dakota

Funded by the National Library of Medicine under a contract (NO1-LM-6-3523) with the University of Illinois at Chicago. The project received funding from March 1, 1997 to January 31, 1999. The final report was published in May of 1999.

There were two main intents of this project.

The first was to improve the level of access to information available to healthcare providers in the rural areas of the state of North Dakota.

The second was to improve the information seeking skills of the healthcare providers throughout rural areas of the state.

The following activities were related to this project:

Displays at professional healthcare conferences.

Classes in several communities on accessing healthcare information on the Internet and searching NLM databases:

Internet Grateful Med,

PubMed,

AidsLine, and

a variety of health information databases.

MEDSTAR program on searching the MEDLINE databases.

Publications outlining services available.

Identification and development of future services.

If you would like to have more information about this project please feel free to contact the Harley E. French Library of the Health Sciences or Barbara Knight at bknight@medicine.nodak.edu.

Classes and Exhibits

 

Members of the Outreach Project team are available to give demonstrations, teach hands-on classes or do exhibits related to access to health care information. For more information please contact one of the team members listed below. They are continuously scheduling events.

 

Instructional Materials

The Outreach project team developed a set of "instructional materials" available in the form of "Fact Sheets". If you would like more information on instruction or availability of materials, please contact one of the team members listed below.

Who to Contact for more Information

This project involved several health science librarians in the state of North Dakota. Please feel free to contact the librarian listed below that provides library service in your quadrant of the state.

Project Team
	Project Director: Lila Pedersen, Director Harley E. French Library of the Health Sciences Grand Forks 701-777-3993 lpederse@medicine.nodak.edu
	NE Site: Barbara Knight, Reference & User Ed Librarian Harley E. French Library of the Health Sciences Grand Forks 701-777-2166 bknight@medicine.nodak.edu
	SW Site: Leeila Bina, Director Q & R Medcenter One Library Bismarck 701-323-5390 lbina@mohs.org
	NW Site: Karen Anderson, Director Angus L. Cameron Library Minot 701-857-5435 karen_anderson@und.nodak.edu