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Center of Research and Education

CORE Vision and Mission

To top of page Vision:

CORE will be the definitive source for high quality information and resources that meet the educational needs of health information professionals anywhere, anytime.

To top of page Mission:

CORE fosters excellence in the health information education activities of health sciences libraries, information professionals, other providers of health information, and students. CORE helps individual librarians achieve lifelong learning goals; helps libraries to be learning organizations for their staff and clientele; and helps promote effective collaboration among institutions and associations that want to part of the learning community. This community shares people's health information education expertise and talent, while preserving their unique perspectives; expands educational access to those who need it; and helps attract the best new recruits to our workplaces, helping them to be successful health information professionals.

To top of page CORE Goals (DRAFT)

  1. Enhance the educational enterprise of MLA by providing access to quality content, services and expertise that supports lifelong teaching and learning.
    • Identify the existing content, services and expertise of MLA that already support teaching and learning
    • Identify and test a web-based infrastructure that supports the collection, organization and delivery of member-generated content to support teaching and learning
    • Collaborate with the MEB to test the feasibility of using the Scout Professional Toolkit software to create a CORE Toolbox
    • Foster the development of MLANET, as the premier vehicle for providing access to educational content, services and expertise
    • Work with MLA committees and sections to collect existing content and identify expertise within the MLA membership
    • Develop linkages to similar educational databases (e.g. HEAL, NNLM Educational Clearinghouse)
  2. Develop a plan for the continuation of the CORE project.
    • Develop methodologies and strategies for evaluating the use and effectiveness of CORE educational resources
    • Develop standards and protocols for assuring a high level of quality for CORE resources
    • Identify funding sources for maintaining CORE
    • Identify a MLA member or body to maintain editorial review of CORE
    • Develop a long-term strategy for maintaining the CORE infrastructure and database integrity
  3. Extend the educational enterprise of MLA by targeting new audiences and increasing potential users.
    • Identify stakeholders that would benefit from the content, services and expertise of CORE
    • Develop collaborative relationships with stakeholders to share content and linkages to databases
    • Develop collaborative relationships with Library Schools to offer and deliver CE and academic courses to the MLA membership and other health information professionals

To top of page CORE stakeholders

MLA members/Health Sciences Librarians:

CORE must meet the needs of the membership first; it's who we are; helps with "buy-in" and justifies the time and energies that the membership will put into developing the CORE; we later expanded "MLA" to include all health science librarians

Instructors:

there was some concern over possible overlap with content providers; instructors were defined as the person delivering the content, who may or may not be the content provider

NLM/NNLM:

seen as a content provider, primarily for specific programs related to NIH; need to link with the NNLM training database

Content providers:

provide the content; can be commercial or non-commercial; could be membership

Library Schools:

source for mentoring instructors and recruiting new health sciences librarians; There was some concern that Library Schools might not have an interest in CORE because they deal with the professional degree and CORE deals with lifelong learning; however, there are examples of Library Schools collaborating with MLA to provide educational opportunities that satisfy both needs

Employers:

this is seen as institutions that employ librarians and therefore may be consumers for training courses; employers may not know that they need CORE; there is a need to relate training to competency plans which are part of JCAHO requirements in hospitals; issues of employee recognition for training

General Public:

at first it was stated that they are not a priority because their needs are being met by other organization, mechanisms, etc.; but it was pointed out that the consumer portion of MLANET is the 6th most popular site; and that the general public is imbedded in the vision of MLA to "influence the quality of health in the world".

Other information and health professionals
  • Health sciences programs
  • Other library associations
  • Other professional associations

Their roles as stakeholders may vary depending on whether it is the individuals or the institutions as recipients of education or as course developers.


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