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The Medical Library Association Guide to Developing Consumer Health Collections
Medical Library Association Books Series
By (author)
Claire B. Joseph
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The Medical Library Association Guide to Developing Consumer Health Collections guides both library graduate school students and seasoned librarians from academic, health sciences, and public libraries, to develop, maintain, nurture, and advertise consumer health collections.
This authoritative guide from the respected Medical Library Association covers all that is involved in developing a new consumer health library including:
*Conducting community needs assessments and forging community partnerships
*Concerns about physical space, computers, and materials
*Funding, budgeting, and staffing
*Privacy and confidentiality concerns
*Publicity and advertising
This book guides both graduate library school students and seasoned librarians from all types of libraries-academic, health center, hospital, public, and school--to develop, maintain and nurture not only consumer health collections, but also community partnerships and outreach programs. Examples of librarians' innovative and creative consumer health initiatives are included.
Chapters include all that is involved in developing a consumer health collection including conducting community needs assessments; concerns about physical space, computers, and materials; budgeting, licensing, and staffing; privacy and confidentiality concerns; and community partnership and outreach. New & Used
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What Reviewers Are Saying
Joseph does a good job of writing for and providing examples from all three types of libraries. These types of libraries are quite different from each other, but as consumer health libraries vary significantly themselves, the differences in setting are less important. . . I recommend this book to those interested in beginning work on or improving on consumer health information resources and services in their library. * Journal of the Canadian Health Libraries Association * This book is the new core text for any librarian building or recreating their consumer health collection. This book steers librarians & their patrons to top notch information, with the end goal of improving your community's health and building with them a positive and helpful relationship. -- Becca Billings, leadership team member, Health InfoNet of Alabama The Medical Library Association Guide to Developing Consumer Health Collections provides a perfect starting point for any library that is beginning or updating their collection. It provides comprehensive and practical ideas as well as examples from libraries that can serve as models. Important topics that impact collection decisions, such as health literacy and multiculturalism are discussed and resources are listed where the reader can learn even more. This is a valuable contribution to the consumer health literature at a time when patient education and engagement in their health care is of particular importance in the environment of health care reform. -- Sandy Oelschlegel, director and associate professor, Health Information Center, Preston Medical Library The lists of online resources, including links to pages on where to find print and multi-media resources, make this more than a guide useful to public, academic, and health sciences librarians alike, but a valuable reference. Plenty more information on finding resources, taking into account the problems with health literacy, is provided, as well. . . . The book ends emphasizing that not only should each and every library be involved with providing consumer health information, but that as service providers, "Librarians with consumer health collections should be on a proactive mission to get their much needed information to their community." * Consumer Connections *