Medical Library Association Guide to Developing Consumer Health - Collection

This authoritative book 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. It covers all that is involved in developing a new consumer health library.

List of contents

Chapter 1: How and Where to Begin: The Main Ingredients
Chapter 2: Your Neighborhood and Its Effects on the Health of your Community
Chapter 3: Building the Collection
Chapter 4: Grants
Chapter 5: Staff Customer Service
Chapter 6: Library Privacy and Confidentially
Chapter 7: Community Outreach Planning
Chapter 8: Health Literacy
Chapter 9: Multicultural and Inclusive Consumer Health Information
Chapter 10: Where Customers go to Find Health Information: Apps, Social Media and Wikipedia
Chapter 11: Consumer Health Information Programs & Outreach for Every Library

About the author

By Claire B. Joseph

Summary

This authoritative book 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. It covers all that is involved in developing a new consumer health library.

Product details

• Authors: Claire Joseph, Claire B. Joseph
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2018
• EAN: 9781442281691
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-8169-1
• No. of pages: 174
• Series: Medical Library Association Books Series; Medical Library Association Bo; Medical Library Association Books Series
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Book trade, library system; Acquisitions & collection development, Acquisitions and collection development