ICON is a consortium of health science librarians in the Omaha area.
Health librarians from several ICON institutions carry out this project called VirtuWellness. VirtuWellness goals are to assess the consumer health information needs of the region served, build a web of health resources to address those needs, train public librarians how to find and assess quality health web sites, and support several public libraries with web access workstations for consumer health information. VirtuWellness was built by personnel funded by this subcontract. The budget for this project includes support for personnel, equipment for demonstrating and teaching, and marketing. ICON has currently distributed three mini-grants to public libraries to develop resources and services.