Hot Sync to This Site: PDAs Playing in Peoria Libraries to the Point of Care

[Lori Bell]

Hotsync to This Site:  PDAs Playing in Peoria
Libraries To the Point of Care!

PDAs are playing in Peoria libraries to the point of
care in two Peoria, Illinois medical libraries, OSF
Saint Francis Medical Center Library & Resource Center
and the University of Illinois at Chicago Library of
the Health Sciences-Peoria.  A website for the LSTA
grant project, funded by the Illinois State Library, a
division of the Office of the Secretary of State, has
been launched at http://pdagrant.osfsaintfrancis.org. 
 The website contains information about the project
and links to resources on handheld computing for
librarians and medical students, residents,
physicians, nurses, and other personnel.  The website
is one of many activities which are part of the
project to provide critical knowledge-based resources
at the point of care or patient bedside through the
use of handheld computing technology.  In addition to
loaning handheld computers with medical resources on
them, the libraries are providing access to electronic
books, interactive databases such as ovid at hand, 
training, and technical support to medical
professionals. The libraries will also host a
conference on pdas for librarians scheduled for June
7, 2002 featuring Mari Stoddard of Arizona Health
Sciences Library as the keynote speaker. For further
information,  hotsync to the site or contact Carol
Galganski, Project Director at
carol.galganski at osfhealthcare.org, (309)655-2268, or
Lori Bell, lori.bell at osfhealthcare.org, (309)655-2269.


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