NCompass Live: Expanding the Health Information Landscape In Your Public Library
Channel: Nebraska Library Commission
Date: 2022-04-07

Recorded on April 6, 2022
NCompass Live - http://nlc.nebraska.gov/ncompasslive/

Answering your patrons’ health questions can be daunting. It requires expertise and being able to break through literacy and language barriers. However, as the past two years have shown us, libraries’ involvement in health education has never been more important than it is today. As a Catalysts for Community Health Fellows through the Institute of Museum and Library Services and The University of Missouri-Columbia, we’ve spent the last two years developing knowledge of community health resources for Nebraska public libraries and researching ways to support public library staff with health reference and education to their communities.

With the guidance of Region 3 of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, we’ve developed a tool-kit for Nebraska public libraries containing free health resources for you and your library. These include posters, brochures, social media slides, tutorials, and multi-lingual health information. In addition, the tool-kit expands on further training for your staff, funding opportunities, and how to tap in to regional medical librarians and community health data to continue to support your patrons’ health needs. We’re excited to share this tool-kit with all of you and make it freely available to webinar participants to use and share as they wish.

Presenters: Melanie Newell and Kimberly Rothgeb are IMLS Catalysts for Community Health Fellows at the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Information Science and Learning Technologies (SISLT). Melanie is a Lincoln City Libraries employee, and Kimberly works for the University of Nebraska Medical Center.