Academic Health Sciences Library Outreach and a State Cancer Coalition: Collaborative Efforts in the Cancer Battle

摘要

The University of Virginia's Claude Moore Health Sciences Library Southwest Virginia Outreach Program provides information services and resources to health organizations, health professionals, students, patients, health consumers, and community coalitions. Extending the Outreach Program partnership to a broader level has allowed the Outreach Librarian to work with a state coalition, the Virginia Cancer Plan Action Coalition. This enhanced program has included provision of information services, leadership, research, documentation, and networking activities. While serving as the Coalition's Treatment Action Team Chair, the Outreach Librarian has assisted with special projects and coalition goals. Projects have included identification of cancer Web resources and identification of cancer patient navigation programs.