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Beyond an Apple a Day: Providing Consumer Health Information at Your Library
Want to improve your consumer health collection and services? Interested in improving your reference skills for providing health information for the public? Then this class is for you. Starting with a discussion about the information seeking behaviors of consumers, the class focuses on the provision of consumer health information services for the public. We will also cover health literacy, planning the service, the reference interview, consumer health online, collection development, collaboration, community partnerships, outreach and marketing. Students will also learn about how to stay up to date on consumer health librarianship.
- Keywords
- Consumer health; health literacy; reference interview; collection development, collaboration; community partnerships; outreach; marketing.
- Languages
- English
- Contents
- MEDLINEplus
- ClinicalTrials.gov
- Consumer Health
- Internet/World Wide Web
- Formats
- Class
- Audiences
- Information Professionals
- Contacts
- Eberle, Michelle : Author
- Ottosen, Terri : Author
- Publication Date:
- December 1, 2008
This record was added on August 9, 2004 and last modified on December 19, 2008.