Healing Through Collaboration: Completing health information access in Oregon

About This Grant

Healing Through Collaboration will complete the Portland health libraries' consortium catalog by integrating bibliographic data from the Oregon College of Oriental Medicine (OCOM) with the shared catalog used by Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU), National College of Natural Medicine (NCNM), and Western States Chiropractic College (WSCC). Each college brings unique holdings to this collection, including OCOM's exceptional resources on acupuncture and Oriental medicine. This project will facilitate better resource sharing among all of the institutions on the consortium catalog.  By making these resources available to all patrons of the institutions and reciprocal libraries via interlibrary loan, there will be an increased awareness of oriental medical literature, thus opening up potential for better informed health practitioners and patients.