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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Hello everyone,</span><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">The National Library of Medicine (NLM) has awarded a
<a href="https://www.nlm.nih.gov/news/NNLM_Cooperative_Agreement_Announcement_Statement.html">
new five-year cooperative agreement grant</a> to the University of Washington (UW) Health Sciences Library to lead the NNLM Regional Medical Library (RML) Region 5 serving a six-state region including Alaska, California, Hawaii, Nevada, Oregon, Washington and
U.S. Territories and Freely Associated States. Region 5 is part of the Network of the National Library of Medicine (NNLM), which will include 7 Regional Medical Libraries (RMLs) as of May 1, 2021.</span><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">The core mission of the NNLM is to improve access to the highest level of evidence-based health information, with an emphasis
on reaching the most underserved communities. The NLM grant funds the UW RML’s Region 5 program<i> Reaching More People in More Ways</i> to advance data driven health, health equity and health literacy through community-driven outreach that equitably informs
U.S. researchers, health professionals, librarians, educators, and the public about the NLM’s products, information services, funding, professional development, and training. The program also provides direct funding (grants) to regional partners to improve
access through technology and provide training to equalize and enhance access to health information for everyone – from clinicians to patients and to the general public.</span><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">UW Health Sciences Library has hosted the RML for 5 states in the Pacific Northwest Region (AK, ID, MT, OR, and WA) since the
program’s inception in 1968. The geography of the grant has largely remained unchanged in the last 53 years.</span><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Beginning in May 2021, under the new redistributed geography of this grant, Alaska, Washington, and Oregon will be served by
the NNLM Region 5 Regional Medical Library at the University of Washington Health Sciences Library; and Idaho and Montana will be served by the NNLM Region 4 Regional Medical Library at the University of Utah Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library.
</span><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Region 5 (RML: University of Washington, Health Sciences Library) includes: </span><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Alaska </span><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">California </span><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Hawaii </span><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Nevada </span><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Oregon </span><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Washington </span><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">U.S. Territories and Freely Associated States in the Pacific </span><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Region 4 (RML: University of Utah, Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library) includes: </span><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Arizona </span><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Colorado </span><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Idaho </span><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Montana </span><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">New Mexico </span><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">North Dakota </span><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">South Dakota </span><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Utah </span><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Wyoming </span><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">We appreciate many years of partnership with libraries and organizations in Idaho and Montana and know you will be served well
by our colleagues in Region 4! </span><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Carolyn Martin, MLS, AHIP | Consumer Health Coordinator<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">NNLM Pacific Northwest Region<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">University of Washington Health Sciences Library<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Box 357155<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Seattle, WA 98195-7155<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:martinc4@uw.edu"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#2E74B5">martinc4@uw.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#2E74B5"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://nnlm.gov/pnr"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#2E74B5">https://nnlm.gov/pnr</span></a><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#2E74B5">
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