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Topics: HAM-TMC Library to host Regional Medical Library (RML)
Directors’ Meeting; Family to Family Connection Grant Award; NIH Senior Web
Site; Library Holiday Hours.
HAM-TMC Library to host Regional Medical Library (RML)
Directors’ Meeting
The HAM-TMC Library is the home of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, South Central Region (NN/LM SCR). This year the Library will have the honor of hosting the RML Directors’ Meeting on December 4-5.
Directors and Associate Directors from the eight Regional Medical Libraries and key National Library of Medicine (NLM) staff will meet to discuss issues regarding programs and services supported by NLM which impact the Network. The HAM-TMC Library presentation during this meeting will highlight Library grant projects and community health initiatives.
The Library will also host the NLM Regional Advisory Council
(RAC) Meeting on December 12. Network
members will meet to discuss topics of regional interest.
Family to Family Connection Grant Awarded
Beginning September 1, 2003, the Library received funding from the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, for a planning grant to support the Family to Family Connection project. This project is will provide health education resources to Texas families with children who suffer from chronic illness and/or disabilities. Funds from the award are initially being used to conduct an information needs assessment among these families.
This is a collaborative effort involving the
HAM-TMC Library, Texas Woman's University, and the Family to Family
Network. For more information, please
contact Jeffrey T. Huber, Ph.D., Associate Director for Research, Houston
Academy of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library. jhuber@mail.twu.edu
NIH Senior Health Web Site
The National Institute on Aging, the National Library of Medicine, and the National Institutes of Health have launched a new web site on senior health. This site provides informational resources to people 60 years and older who would like to learn more about health and aging.
Information about diagnosis, causes, risk factors, prevention, treatment and symptoms is available on a variety of subjects
To access the NIH Senior Health Web site go to:
Library Holiday Hours
The HAM-TMC Library will be closed on Thursday Nov. 27 in observance of Thanksgiving. The library will be open on Friday Nov. 28 from 8:00 – 5:00. Reference services will not be available. Regular hours resume on Saturday Nov. 29.
For a complete list of Library holiday hours go to:
http://www.library.tmc.edu/hourshol.html#holidays
Friends of the Texas Medical Center Library
The Friends of the Texas Medical Center
Library is a separate non-profit 501(c)(3) organization which contributes to
the Houston Academy of Medicine-Texas Medical Center (HAM-TMC) Library.
Donations to The Friends of the Texas Medical
Center Library can be made care of Ms. Delores B. Scott, Friends' Coordinator
at 1133 John Freeman Blvd. Houston, Texas 77030 or please telephone
713-799-7108. Donors will receive a gift receipt denoting the value of the gift
for tax reporting purposes.
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