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February 05, 2007

HSL involvement with "Give Kids a Smile"

Saturday, Merle, Anna and I were able to distribute information about MedlinePlus.gov and the American Dental Association to over 55 families as part of the School of Dentistry's "Give Kids a Smile" day. Merle created a very nice, color printed flyer highlighting MedlinePlus and ADA web pages, with a header of "University of Michigan, Health Sciences Libraries". This flyer, along with the MedlinePlus trifolds, bookmarks, and pens were activitely distributed as people were in line to register and wait for their appointment with the Dentistry teams for x-rays, cleanings and simple fillings.

A delightful part of our participation was meeting a 5th grader interested in starting a 'health club' at her school. She is so interested in the health club idea, that she came back a second time to talk with us. She left us with her Principal's name in hopes that arrangements could be made to talk at her school about health information.

Thanks to Anna, Merle, Nancy A, Patricia and Pat M. for their willingness to move this community outreach opportunity along. Thanks also to Jane for alerting us to this Dental School program and helping with the contacts.

A 'news release' of this successful outreach activity has been sent to a number of sources: Taubman and HSL News Blogs, Library Newsletter, UMHS Bulletin, School of Dentistry publicity office, and Liene Karels.

--Deborah

Posted by dlauseng at February 5, 2007 04:49 PM

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