Grace and Harold Sewell

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Welcome to the home page for the Grace and Harold Sewell Memorial Fund for medical and health care librarians.  Enjoy learning more about the fund at this site!

Two learning partnerships are well underway for our 2007-2008 Learning Partnership Program.  The Learning Partnerships are at Johns Hopkins University and at Seattle Biomedical Research Institute.  For more information on this, keep reading!

"Wonderful program. There are not enough such immersion opportunities for librarians."  
                                        – Neil Rambo, UW Health Sciences Libraries, 9/22/06

Our Mission

The mission of The Grace and Harold Sewell Memorial Fund is to increase librarians’ identification with medical, pharmaceutical, and health care professionals. Medicine for the 21st Century underlines the key role of information resources in raising the quality of health care.(1) Librarians experienced in managing knowledge and teaching informatics can supply quality information by becoming ongoing members of the health care team. Immersion in the health care environment is necessary for librarians to understand how health care professionals solve problems individually and through consensus.

To help us achieve our mission, we are focusing on programs in two major areas:

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Learning Partnerships.  The most significant program is the Learning Partnership Program.  This fellowship or sabbatical program has been designed to provide funding for librarians (including information scientists) to spend six months to a year in the environment of their clients, working to identify with and further the goals of the health information professional hosts.  <For more information on this program, click here...>
 

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Stipends.  The more expedient program reaching a greater number of librarian/information specialists in terms of total individual impact and susceptible to immediate implementation is the Stipend Project for librarians and information specialists to attend the national professional meetings of their clients.  The initial fund President, Winifred Sewell, had already had years of experience with these activities through supplying stipends to librarian attendees at the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy meetings and providing such stipends to librarians/information professionals for attendance at the American Public Health Association. <For more information on this program, click here...>

 

(1) Institute of Medicine. Crossing the quality chasm: a new health system for the 21st century. [Web document]. Washington, DC; National Academy Press, 2001. http://www.nap.edu/books/0309072808/html/).

 

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