The UIC Library of the Health Sciences was awarded $46,501 by the National Network of Libraries of Medicine for a public health project in collaboration with UIC's College of Nursing (CON) and two Chicago Department of Public Health clinics serving Chicago's Lower West Side and South Lawndale.
The SALUD Public Health Information Pilot Project: Spanish Access to Literature/Uso Directo will train staff and patients at the Lower West Side Neighborhood Health Center and the South Lawndale Maternal and Child Health Center to find and use online health care information. The project team will install computers and printers in the clinics, teach staff to search online databases and other electronic resources, and create Web sites with patient education materials in Spanish.
The project will be a model that demonstrates how to develop a cadre of community health nursing students well educated in accessing and evaluating health education materials; to increase patient health education with language-appropriate materials; and to increase access to health information by health care practitioners in the clinics.
Carol Scherrer, Information Services Librarian, is the principal investigator; Kristin Hitchcock, Resident Librarian, is the project manager and co-principal investigator; Margaret Cassey, Clinical Instructor in the CON is the clinical consultant and co-principal investigator; and Ann Weller, Interim Head of Special Collections, is the consultant.
