[PSR-News] 10 more days left to "Take 10"

[heidits at library.ucla.edu]

Network Colleagues,

We're counting on you to take 10 minutes of your time to respond to 
the 
Survey of Hospital Libraries!  The information gathered will assist 
us, NLM and MLA in providing services and resources that address your 
most critical needs.

Thanks for your assistance!

Heidi

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If you direct a hospital library and have not yet participated in the 
Survey of Hospital Libraries currently being conducted by the Medical 
Library Association (MLA) and the MLA Hospital Libraries Section, we 
strongly encourage you to do so.  The survey is collecting data 
concerning the state of hospital libraries and librarianship today. No 
national survey of this kind has been done since 1990. This Survey of 
Hospital Libraries is part of a larger initiative by MLA to determine 
the current status of health sciences librarians who work in 
hospitals.  
The information gathered will assist the National Library of Medicine 
and the NN/LM in providing services that meet the needs of hospital 
libraries and also take advantage of their strengths. 

The survey should take less than 10 minutes to complete.  You will 
need 
some basic information about your hospital--bed size, inpatient 
admissions, and outpatient visits--to complete the survey, so you may 
want to collect this information before starting.  Institutional and 
library statistical information will be kept confidential and used for 
aggregate statistical reporting only.  The aggregate survey results 
will be made available to survey respondents, the health sciences 
library field, and other interested parties and will be used for 
future strategic initiatives. 

Visit the survey now at 
http://www.zoomerang.com/survey.zgi?p=WEB224YH5DENE3 
http://www.zoomerang.com/survey.zgi?p=WEB224YH5DENE3 

Please take the time to complete this survey by MARCH 15, 2006. MLA 
members who have already filled out the survey do not need to respond 
again. 

Direct any questions to Carla Funk at MLA Headquarters, 
funk at mlahq.org. 
Your participation is essential to help make this project a success 
and 
we thank you in advance for assisting us in this important initiative. 

Sincerely, 

Betsy L. Humphreys, AHIP 
Deputy Director, National Library of Medicine 

Angela B. Ruffin 
Head, NN/LM Network Office, National Library of Medicine 

M. J. Tooey, AHIP 
President, Medical Library Association 

Katherine Stemmer-Frumento, AHIP 
Chair, MLA/Hospital Libraries Section 

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Heidi Thiessen Sandstrom
Associate Director
National Network of Libraries of Medicine
Pacific Southwest Region
(310) 794-6572    
heidits at library.ucla.edu