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The Medical Library Association Guide to Developing Consumer Health Collections

Claire B. Joseph

The Medical Library Association Guide to Developing Consumer Health Collections 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.

This authoritative guide from the respected Medical Library Association covers all that is involved in developing a new consumer health library including:

  • Conducting community needs assessments and forging community partnerships
  • Concerns about physical space, computers, and materials
  • Funding, budgeting, and staffing
  • Privacy and confidentiality concerns
  • Publicity and advertising

This book guides both graduate library school students and seasoned librarians from all types of libraries—academic, health center, hospital, public, and school--to develop, maintain and nurture not only consumer health collections, but also community partnerships and outreach programs. Examples of librarians’ innovative and creative consumer health initiatives are included.

Chapters include all that is involved in developing a consumer health collection including conducting community needs assessments; concerns about physical space, computers, and materials; budgeting, licensing, and staffing; privacy and confidentiality concerns; and community partnership and outreach.
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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 174 • Trim: 6¼ x 9⅜
978-1-4422-8169-1 • Hardback • March 2018 • $99.00 • (£76.00)
978-1-4422-8170-7 • Paperback • March 2018 • $44.00 • (£35.00)
978-1-4422-8171-4 • eBook • March 2018 • $41.50 • (£35.00)
Series: Medical Library Association Books Series
Subjects: Language Arts & Disciplines / Library & Information Science / Collection Development
Claire B. Joseph is director of the Medical Library at South Nassau Communities Hospital, Oceanside, Long Island, New York. She has been a librarian for more than 40 years and a health sciences librarian for nearly 30 years. She is active in the Medical Library Association, serving as Chair of the Hospital Libraries Section, Chair-Elect of the Nursing and Allied Health Resources Section, Secretary of the Consumer and Patient Health Information Section, and Chair of the New York—New Jersey Chapter, along with serving on a variety of committees. In addition, she is Book Review Editor for the Journal of Hospital Librarianship.
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
With over 40 years of library experience and as longtime book review column editor for the Journal of Hospital Librarianship, Joseph shares her evidence-based library practice expertise in the latest volume of the Medical Library Association’s book series. The series showcases current topics in health sciences librarianship in a way that appeals broadly to the general library field by describing practical approaches and resources relevant to any library setting. Though the title implies a focus on collection development, the book covers the gamut of library consumer outreach from conducting community needs assessments and writing grants to planning community activities and developing multicultural collections to serve a variety of specialized populations. Of particular interest is a chapter describing where consumers often locate health information with recommendations on guiding library patrons in finding and evaluating health information judiciously. This text is most appropriate for practicing health sciences librarians and for public librarians interested in consumer health information and/or community outreach programming.



Summing Up: Recommended for practicing librarians.
— Choice Reviews


Joseph does a good job of writing for and providing examples from all three types of libraries. These types of libraries are quite different from each other, but as consumer health libraries vary significantly themselves, the differences in setting are less important. . . I recommend this book to those interested in beginning work on or improving on consumer health information resources and services in their library.
— Journal of the Canadian Health Libraries Association




The lists of online resources, including links to pages on where to find print and multi-media resources, make this more than a guide useful to public, academic, and health sciences librarians alike, but a valuable reference. Plenty more information on finding resources, taking into account the problems with health literacy, is provided, as well. . . . The book ends emphasizing that not only should each and every library be involved with providing consumer health information, but that as service providers, “Librarians with consumer health collections should be on a proactive mission to get their much needed information to their community.”
— Consumer Connections


If a library is considering creating a consumer-focused collection, this is the book for you! It is not only a guidebook on how to set up a collection, but also on how to train staff to be gatekeepers of information resources that patrons may not even know they are looking for. Anyone looking for information on the different aspects of creating a collection and services that will be useful to the patrons of an institution and that enables staff to fill a possible gap in resources, will find that this book gives librarians the framework to do so.
— Journal of Hospital Librarianship




This publication represents the new standard in creating or revitalizing consumer health collections and services . . . This book is highly recommended for any health sciences, academic, public, school, or special library developing any consumer health collection, service, or out-reach. University libraries supporting schools of information science, public health, or health education may also find it valuable.
— Journal of the Medical Library Association


This book is the new core text for any librarian building or recreating their consumer health collection. This book steers librarians & their patrons to top notch information, with the end goal of improving your community’s health and building with them a positive and helpful relationship.
— Becca Billings, leadership team member, Health InfoNet of Alabama


The Medical Library Association Guide to Developing Consumer Health Collections provides a perfect starting point for any library that is beginning or updating their collection. It provides comprehensive and practical ideas as well as examples from libraries that can serve as models. Important topics that impact collection decisions, such as health literacy and multiculturalism are discussed and resources are listed where the reader can learn even more. This is a valuable contribution to the consumer health literature at a time when patient education and engagement in their health care is of particular importance in the environment of health care reform.
— Sandy Oelschlegel, director and associate professor, Health Information Center, Preston Medical Library


Chosen as a Doody's Core Title for 2023.


—


• Commended, Doody’s Core Titles 2022

The Medical Library Association Guide to Developing Consumer Health Collections

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Summary
Summary
  • The Medical Library Association Guide to Developing Consumer Health Collections 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.

    This authoritative guide from the respected Medical Library Association covers all that is involved in developing a new consumer health library including:

    • Conducting community needs assessments and forging community partnerships
    • Concerns about physical space, computers, and materials
    • Funding, budgeting, and staffing
    • Privacy and confidentiality concerns
    • Publicity and advertising

    This book guides both graduate library school students and seasoned librarians from all types of libraries—academic, health center, hospital, public, and school--to develop, maintain and nurture not only consumer health collections, but also community partnerships and outreach programs. Examples of librarians’ innovative and creative consumer health initiatives are included.

    Chapters include all that is involved in developing a consumer health collection including conducting community needs assessments; concerns about physical space, computers, and materials; budgeting, licensing, and staffing; privacy and confidentiality concerns; and community partnership and outreach.
Details
Details
  • Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
    Pages: 174 • Trim: 6¼ x 9⅜
    978-1-4422-8169-1 • Hardback • March 2018 • $99.00 • (£76.00)
    978-1-4422-8170-7 • Paperback • March 2018 • $44.00 • (£35.00)
    978-1-4422-8171-4 • eBook • March 2018 • $41.50 • (£35.00)
    Series: Medical Library Association Books Series
    Subjects: Language Arts & Disciplines / Library & Information Science / Collection Development
Author
Author
  • Claire B. Joseph is director of the Medical Library at South Nassau Communities Hospital, Oceanside, Long Island, New York. She has been a librarian for more than 40 years and a health sciences librarian for nearly 30 years. She is active in the Medical Library Association, serving as Chair of the Hospital Libraries Section, Chair-Elect of the Nursing and Allied Health Resources Section, Secretary of the Consumer and Patient Health Information Section, and Chair of the New York—New Jersey Chapter, along with serving on a variety of committees. In addition, she is Book Review Editor for the Journal of Hospital Librarianship.
Table of Contents
Table 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
Reviews
Reviews
  • With over 40 years of library experience and as longtime book review column editor for the Journal of Hospital Librarianship, Joseph shares her evidence-based library practice expertise in the latest volume of the Medical Library Association’s book series. The series showcases current topics in health sciences librarianship in a way that appeals broadly to the general library field by describing practical approaches and resources relevant to any library setting. Though the title implies a focus on collection development, the book covers the gamut of library consumer outreach from conducting community needs assessments and writing grants to planning community activities and developing multicultural collections to serve a variety of specialized populations. Of particular interest is a chapter describing where consumers often locate health information with recommendations on guiding library patrons in finding and evaluating health information judiciously. This text is most appropriate for practicing health sciences librarians and for public librarians interested in consumer health information and/or community outreach programming.



    Summing Up: Recommended for practicing librarians.
    — Choice Reviews


    Joseph does a good job of writing for and providing examples from all three types of libraries. These types of libraries are quite different from each other, but as consumer health libraries vary significantly themselves, the differences in setting are less important. . . I recommend this book to those interested in beginning work on or improving on consumer health information resources and services in their library.
    — Journal of the Canadian Health Libraries Association




    The lists of online resources, including links to pages on where to find print and multi-media resources, make this more than a guide useful to public, academic, and health sciences librarians alike, but a valuable reference. Plenty more information on finding resources, taking into account the problems with health literacy, is provided, as well. . . . The book ends emphasizing that not only should each and every library be involved with providing consumer health information, but that as service providers, “Librarians with consumer health collections should be on a proactive mission to get their much needed information to their community.”
    — Consumer Connections


    If a library is considering creating a consumer-focused collection, this is the book for you! It is not only a guidebook on how to set up a collection, but also on how to train staff to be gatekeepers of information resources that patrons may not even know they are looking for. Anyone looking for information on the different aspects of creating a collection and services that will be useful to the patrons of an institution and that enables staff to fill a possible gap in resources, will find that this book gives librarians the framework to do so.
    — Journal of Hospital Librarianship




    This publication represents the new standard in creating or revitalizing consumer health collections and services . . . This book is highly recommended for any health sciences, academic, public, school, or special library developing any consumer health collection, service, or out-reach. University libraries supporting schools of information science, public health, or health education may also find it valuable.
    — Journal of the Medical Library Association


    This book is the new core text for any librarian building or recreating their consumer health collection. This book steers librarians & their patrons to top notch information, with the end goal of improving your community’s health and building with them a positive and helpful relationship.
    — Becca Billings, leadership team member, Health InfoNet of Alabama


    The Medical Library Association Guide to Developing Consumer Health Collections provides a perfect starting point for any library that is beginning or updating their collection. It provides comprehensive and practical ideas as well as examples from libraries that can serve as models. Important topics that impact collection decisions, such as health literacy and multiculturalism are discussed and resources are listed where the reader can learn even more. This is a valuable contribution to the consumer health literature at a time when patient education and engagement in their health care is of particular importance in the environment of health care reform.
    — Sandy Oelschlegel, director and associate professor, Health Information Center, Preston Medical Library


    Chosen as a Doody's Core Title for 2023.


    —


Awards
Awards
  • • Commended, Doody’s Core Titles 2022

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