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SEaGAIL (Southeast Georgia AIDS
Info Link) is a
National Library
of Medicine (NLM) AIDS Information Community Outreach Project.
This NLM program provides support to design local programs for
improving information access for AIDS patients and the affected
community as well as their caregivers.
Partners in this project include the
following:
Center for Rural Health and Research, Georgia Southern University,
Comprehensive AIDS Resource Encounter, Inc.,
Magnolia Coastlands Area Health Education Center,
Ohoopee Regional
Library System,
Rainbow Partners (Waycross, GA),
Southeast Georgia
Communities Project,
Southeast Health
District,
Statesboro Regional Library,
Student Health Services, Georgia Southern University,
Wayne
County Public Library, and
Zach
S. Henderson Library, Georgia Southern University.
SEaGAIL will increase access to
HIV/AIDS related resources in Georgia. The project offers training
to librarians, health professionals, staff of community-based
organizations (CBOs), and Spanish-speaking clients of CBOs on how to
access quality HIV/AIDS resources and information using online
databases.
Electronic and print collections of
consumer oriented HIV/AIDS materials in both English and Spanish are
being developed and made available to the community. |
