Caucus News: Enhancing Patient Experience through Patient-Centered Library Services
Editor’s Note: Republished and edited with permission from the September 2019 Consumer Connections, volume 35, issue 3, pages 3–4.The Bedford Veterans Administration (VA) provides multiple…
Caucus News: Book Review
Editor’s Note: Republished and edited with permission from the September 2019 Consumer Connections, volume 35, issue 3, page 6. Elaine Birchall and Suzanne Cronkwright. Conquer…
Consumer Health: Emotional Health in the Library: Part I: Trauma-Informed Libraries
Meghan Harper, professor at Kent State University, presented a class on “Trauma-Informed Libraries.” Emotional and psychological health issues can be overlooked in service professions, both…
Medical Library Education: Celebrating Health Sciences Libraries!
Medical library education—and all forms of librarianship really—revolve around, as well as depend upon, the universal goodwill of core stakeholders to help foster positive patron…
Consumer Health: Plain Language Is Not for Dummies!
Editor’s Note: “Plain Language Is Not for Dummies!” by Ruti Volk, AHIP, was originally published in Consumer Connections, the Consumer and Patient Health Information Section…
Consumer Health: Consumer Health Information Specialization, Part II
Monique Mason, AHIP, Science & Technology Division, Akron-Summit County Public Library, at a recent Ohio Health Sciences Library Association meeting. Photo by Donald Pearson, AHIP…
Announcing the NNLM Spring 2019 Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon!
When was the last time you used Wikipedia? With more than 7 billion views a year on over 155,000 health topic pages, Wikipedia may be…
Consumer Health: Consumer Health Information Specialization, Part I
Between 6% and 20% of public library reference questions are health-related [1], but some librarians feel inadequately prepared to answer them [2]. In 2001, MLA…
Medical Library Education: Design Thinking
Librarians who are engaged in medical library education are often called upon to provide instruction on a host of topics in various surroundings before diverse…
Consumer Health: Mutualistic Collaboration
Elizabeth Kiscaden, AHIP, and Jacqueline Leskovec at the Midwest Chapter of MLA 2018 conference in Cleveland, OH. Kiscaden and Leskovec work for the National Network…
NMLM Feature: Paws to Read @ the Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital – Family Resource Center Library
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Consumer Health: Institute for Healthcare Advancement Annual Health Literacy Conference
Submitted by Ophelia Morey, Health Sciences Library, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY; edited by Christine Willis, AHIP May 2018 marked the 17th year that the…
FYI: Laughter
Laughter is medicine, right? A source for vibrancy, pep, and well-being, agreed? Sources across the gamut of communication tend to think so… and say so.…
How the National Library of Medicine Can Add Evidence to Your mHealth App, Part 3
This is the third article in a three-part series about how the free, evidence-based, online resources from the National Library of Medicine (NLM) can be…
How the National Library of Medicine Can Add Evidence to Your mHealth App, Part 2
This is the second article in a three-part series about how the free, evidence-based, online resources from the National Library of Medicine (NLM) can be…
How the National Library of Medicine Can Add Evidence to Your mHealth App, Part 1
This article is the first in a three-part series about how the free, evidence-based, online resources from the National Library of Medicine (NLM) can be…
FYI: Stress
Do you go home unable to forget or leave at work: the confrontations, contagions, constraints the consternations, contentions, condemnations the conundrums, consternations, convictions any or…
FYI: Barbara Alice Ringer
Remember the reportage here in June of 2017 that the House of Representatives in DC had approved a bill to take from the librarian of…
Consumer Health: Achieving Healthy Communities through Collaboration with Libraries
Submitted by Yingting Zhang, AHIP, Robert Wood Johnson Library of the Health Sciences, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey–New Brunswick; Zachary Taylor, Healthier Middlesex;…
Consumer Health: LibGuides on Disabilities That Have Accessibility in Mind
Edited by Christine Willis, AHIP There are many websites about different disabilities, but they are often not aggregated in one easy-to-find and easy-to-access place. The…