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Question: Do direct, face -to-face, in -person contacts b etween a library liaison and faculty members both increase usage of library resources/service by these contacted fa culty members and prompt these faculty members to have a more positive view of the library due to these contacts? Population: All full -time faculty members at the Unive rsity of New Mexico College of Nursing, excluding the dean and two associate deans. Setting: Academic health sciences center. A survey was sent to all full-time College of Nursing faculty members, excluding the dean and the two associate deans, via email attachment and campus mail. All responses were tracked to individual faculty members even though the survey was strictly confi dential. Respondents’ names were stratified by faculty rank: instructor/assistant professor, associate professor, or professor. These respondents’ names were placed in a hat and their names pulled out of the hat until an equal number of study and control names were identified per each faculty rank. Method: Randomized controlled trial. Intervention: Faculty members randomly selected to be part of the study group were visited by the new Nursing Librarian for 30 -60 minutes. Although some questions were structured into the meeting, there were numerous opportunities for the faculty member to direct the discu ssion. Results: We will report our results at the time of the a nnual meeting. Conclusions: We will report our conclusions at the time of the annual meeting. 2nd Place Systematic Training for Patient Support Groups Margaret Anderson, Graduate Student, University of North Texas School of Library & Information Science , Denton, TX, and Will Olmstadt, Education Librarian, University of Texas/Southwestern Medical Center Library, Dallas, TX Abstract: Purpose: This paper describes a project that provided i nstruction for finding consumer health information to 5 patient support groups in the Bryan/College Station, Texas area, and disc usses the background, partnerships, materials, and evaluation for this training. Purpose: This paper describes a project that provided i nstruction for finding consumer health information to 5 patient support groups in the Bryan/College Station, Texas area, and disc usses the background, partnerships, materials, and evaluation for this training. Setting/Participants/Resources: Bryan/College Station, Texas, is a metropolitan area in central Texas of over 143,000 people. St. Joseph Regional Health Center (SJRHC), in B ryan, Texas, serves 7 counties in central Texas. The Texas A&M University Medical Sciences Library (TAMU MSL) provides contract library services to SJRHC and 9 of its facilities in rural central Texas. SJRHC supports and organizes 15 support groups for p atients with a variety of specific diagnoses. In conjunction with SJRHC, the instructors identified 11 appropriate support groups and contacted their leaders, offering brief demonstrations about locating quality health care info rmation on the Internet for their monthly meetings. Brief Description: From January – April 2002, the a uthors provided demonstrations to 5 different patient groups, which reviewed key strategies for finding reliable health care info rmation on the Internet. The sessions showcased the TAMU MSL as a local resource and highlighted MEDLINEplus as an example of an aggregator of high-quality patient information. Online demonstrations were included in all 5 sessions. Instructors distributed special brochures that targeted the public and described relevant TAMU MSL services.

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