Peay Wayne J, Rockoff Maxine L
Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library, University of Utah, 10 North 1900 East, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112-5890, USA.
J Med Libr Assoc. 2005 Oct;93(4 Suppl):S4-9.
This paper introduces the special supplement to the Journal of the Medical Library Association (JMLA) that documents the proceedings of the "Symposium on Community-based Health Information Outreach" held on December 2 and 3, 2004, at the National Library of Medicine (NLM). The goal of the symposium was to explore new models of health information outreach that are emerging as technology dramatically changes the abilities of medical and health services libraries to provide resources and services beyond their traditional institutional boundaries, with particular concern for consumer health information outreach through community-based organizations. The symposium's primary objectives were to learn about successful and promising work that had already been done as well as to develop a vision for the future that could inform the NLM's next National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM) contract. Another objective was to review and assess the NLM's Strategic Plan to Reduce Health Disparities with special emphasis on Native Americans.
The paper describes the background events and rationale that led to the NLM's decision to convene the symposium and summarizes the supplement's ten other papers, some of which were presented at the symposium and some of which were written afterward to capture the symposium's working sessions.
The symposium convened approximately 150 invited participants with a wide variety of perspectives and experience. Sessions were held to present exemplary outreach projects, to review the NLM's Strategic Plan to Reduce Health Disparities, to summarize the research underpinnings for evaluating outreach projects, and to provide a futurist's perspective. A panel of community representatives gave voice to the participants in outreach projects, and sixteen posters describing outreach projects were available, many of them with community representatives on hand to explain the work.
This JMLA supplement provides a comprehensive summary of the state of the art in community-based outreach and a jumping-off point for future outreach efforts.
本文介绍了《医学图书馆协会杂志》（JMLA）的特别增刊，该增刊记录了2004年12月2日至3日在国立医学图书馆（NLM）举行的“基于社区的健康信息推广研讨会”的会议记录。该研讨会的目标是探索新的健康信息推广模式，随着技术的巨大变革，医学和健康服务图书馆提供资源和服务的能力已超越其传统的机构界限，尤其关注通过社区组织进行的消费者健康信息推广。研讨会的主要目标是了解已经完成的成功且有前景的工作，并为未来制定愿景，以为NLM的下一份全国医学图书馆网络（NN/LM）合同提供参考。另一个目标是审查和评估NLM的《减少健康差距战略计划》，特别强调美国原住民。
本文描述了导致NLM决定召开该研讨会 的背景事件和基本原理，并总结了增刊中的其他十篇论文，其中一些在研讨会上发表，一些是会后撰写的，以记录研讨会的工作会议。
该研讨会召集了约150名受邀参与者，他们具有广泛的观点和经验。举行了会议，介绍了示范性推广项目，审查了NLM的《减少健康差距战略计划》，总结了评估推广项目的研究基础，并提供了未来主义者的观点。一个社区代表小组表达了推广项目参与者的意见，还有十六张描述推广项目的海报可供展示，其中许多海报有社区代表现场解释相关工作。
这份JMLA增刊全面总结了基于社区的推广的现状，并为未来的推广工作提供了一个起点。
