Clinical
Digital Libraries Project
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The
Clinical Digital Libraries Project was established as a
research, teaching, and service effort led by the University of
North Texas and the University of Alabama Schools of Library and
Information Sciences. The development of the CDLP started with
a grant from Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
through the Department of Family Medicine at the University of North
Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth.
The purpose of the CDLP is to
create a clinical digital library model that provides
clinical and patient information, in a standardized, Web-based
format, at the point of care.
http://www.cdlp.org
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| Recruitment and Education
of Biomedical Sciences Information Professionals
Texas A&M University - Medical
Sciences Library
University of North Texas-School of
Library and Information Sciences |
The Texas A&M
University (TAMU) Medical Sciences Library and the University of North
Texas (UNT) School of Library and Information Sciences, received a
three-year grant ($401,000) from the Institute of Museum and Library
Services to develop an innovative recruitment and teaching model
designed to educate biomedical sciences information professionals for
the 21st century. The principal investigators of the grant
are Drs. Ana D. Cleveland and Philip M. Turner from UNT-SLIS and
Martha Bedard and Dr. Gale G. Hannigan from TAMU Medical Sciences
Library and . Ms. Bedard is a member of the SLIS Board of Advisors,
and Dr. Hannigan has served as an adjunct faculty for the SLIS Health
Informatics Program for the last four year.
The project
includes the collaboration of the undergraduate Pre-Med program with
Dr. Debrah Beck, undergraduate Health Promotion and Dr. Chwee Chng
from the Kinesiology Department at UNT and the undergraduate
Biomedical Sciences and Health and Kinesiology departments at Texas
A&M University.
The grant
supports development of an undergraduate course to introduce students
to careers in biomedical sciences information management and
fellowships for graduate studies in the field. The undergraduate
course, taught by Drs. Cleveland and Hannigan, will be offered at TAMU
and UNT in Fall 2004 and Spring 2005, and the majority of the course
will be web-based using WebCT with three videoconferencing meetings.
From this course, 10 fellows will be recruited for the SLIS Health
Informatics Program.
After
entering the SLIS master’s program, the 10 fellows will be linking
their classroom knowledge to health professional practice through the
Information Advisor On-Call, an innovative program pairing UNT-SLIS
students with graduate health students.
The project
includes the participation and collaboration of a number of
information professionals and experts in the bioinformatics field.
We have great
expectations for this creative partnership to educate biomedical
sciences information professionals.
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Texas
Center for Digital Knowledge
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The
Texas Center for Digital Knowledge is a research, development and
consulting service enterprise that brings together top researchers
in information science, criminal justice, business information
systems, and technology and cognition to provide a collaborative
framework for enhancing the relationships between individual
knowledge workers and the technology-based environments in which
they work to advance today's global economy.
http://www.txcdk.org
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Department
of Family Medicine
UNT
Health Science Center at Fort Worth
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The Department of
Family Medicine works in collaboration with the Health Informatics
Program to provide medical informatics training for the faculty and
residents of the Department. In addition, the Health
Informatics Program has conducted information-seeking behavior
studies of primary health care providers with the help of the
Department.
http://www.hsc.unt.edu/departments/familymed/
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