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Informationen zum Autor M. Sandra Wood, MLS, MBA, is Librarian Emerita, Penn State University Libraries, and a Fellow of the Medical Library Association. Ms. Wood is founding and current editor of Medical Reference Services Quarterly (in its 34th volume). She was a librarian for over thirty-five years at the George T. Harrell Library, Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Pennsylvania State University, specializing in reference, education, and database services. Ms. Wood has written or edited more than 12 books, the latest two entitled Health Sciences Librarianship and Successful Library Fundraising: Best Practices (both with Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2014). Klappentext Consumer Health Information Programs and Services: Best Practices presents examples of successful and long-standing library programs and services that provide health information to consumers-the general public, patients, and families or patients - who seek information about health and diseases. This best practices volume brings together library programs and services currently offered in hospital libraries, public libraries, academic health sciences libraries, and standalone consumer health libraries, covering a range of topics and special programs.Advice and best practices provided by these experienced CHI librarians will help readers who are planning a new consumer health information service, or who are looking to upgrade and expand their current program or service.This best practices book will highlight successful library consumer health information programs and services, offering advice and tips about all aspects of providing health information to the general public and patients, from planning and establishing a CHI program, to offering specialized services to special populations. Readers will find both solid, tried-and-true methods for providing these services, as well as guidance on using newer, updated techniques to reach persons needing health information. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of IllustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsChapter 1. A Most ResourceFULL Consumer Health Information CenterCara MarcusChapter 2. The University of Tennessee Medical Center's Preston Medical Library and Health Information Center StorySandy Oelschlegel, Martha Earl, and Kelsey LeonardChapter 3. Health InfoNet of AlabamaKay Hogan SmithChapter 4. Consumer Health Information Service in the Public LibraryBarbara M. BibelChapter 5. Rewards and Challenges of Children's Health Education: An Ongoing Community Partnership to Reach Local PreschoolersDeidra Woodson and Donna F. TimmChapter 6. Collaborative Outreach Between a Hospital Library and a Public LibraryMargot Malachowski, Anne Gancarz, and Ellen BrassilChapter 7. Consumer Health and the Department of Veterans Affairs Library NetworkPriscilla L. Stephenson, Teresa R. Coady, Diane K. Kromke, Laurie A. Barnett, and Cornelia E. CamererChapter 8. The Learning Center: A Cancer Consumer Health Library at MD Anderson Cancer CenterElizabeth BrackeenChapter 9. The Big Health Library Umbrella: Our Mandate to Provide Information for All Literacy AbilitiesJackie DavisIndexAbout the Editor and Contributors...
