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…
Consumer Health: Comics in the Medical Library
Edited by Christine Willis “Comics are a gateway drug to literacy.” Art Spiegelman There is perhaps no better quote to illustrate the value of comics…
Eight Lessons Learned While Developing a Health Information Class for Family Caregivers
Approximately 43.5 million adults in the United States provided unpaid care to an adult or child in 2015 [1]. How can librarians reach this enormous…
FYI: Changes
The “battle” over copyright Who has the right to settle copyright? A battle on the subject is materializing in the Capital pitting opponents against each…
Consumer Health: Reaching out to the “T”: A Medical Library’s Experience Providing Outreach and Consumer Health Resources to the Transgender Community
Submitted by Francisco J. Fajardo and Jorge E. Perez, Herbert Wertheim Medical Library, Florida International University–Miami; and Hector Perez-Gilbe, AHIP, Ayala Science Library, University of…