How we got involved at UW

In brief:
I heard about the CTSA concept at a School of Medicine planning retreat where I had dined with one of the planning team. He mentioned the time and place of the next planning meeting (early morning on the next Saturday). I spoke to the PI and went to the meeting. The reception by the group was very positive and we were shortly after working with the writers of the informatics section. We are written into the grant, but not with any designated funding.

I think one of the ways we contributed to the success of the grant request was by talking to the other campus libraries connected to the involved Schools (Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Engineering, Vet Med) and having an agreement that the Health Sciences Library would be the lead for this.

Post award, several already existing library connections with the Schools have been absorbed into the ICTR (Institute for Clinical Translational Research) as various units have become either a part of the ICTR of related to it. Instruction, research support, community academic partnership support, and membership form design have library components -- and most of them are outside the original proposal's "library" piece.