Health Librarianship: An Introduction: An Introduction

With health care reform and the Affordable Care Act driving up demand for ready access to health and biomedical information by both health care providers and healthcare consumers, health librarianship plays a critical role in facilitating access to that information. Health Librarianship: An Introduction places health librarianship within the health care context, covering librarianship within this specific environment as well as other perspectives relevant to health librarianship.

The book addresses the basic functions of librarianship—for example, management and administration, public services, and technical services—within the health care context as well as issues unique to health librarianship like health literacy, consumer health, and biomedical informatics. This book is an outstanding textbook for library and information sciences classes and will also be of interest to those considering a career change to health librarianship.

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Health Librarianship: An Introduction: An Introduction

With health care reform and the Affordable Care Act driving up demand for ready access to health and biomedical information by both health care providers and healthcare consumers, health librarianship plays a critical role in facilitating access to that information. Health Librarianship: An Introduction places health librarianship within the health care context, covering librarianship within this specific environment as well as other perspectives relevant to health librarianship.

The book addresses the basic functions of librarianship—for example, management and administration, public services, and technical services—within the health care context as well as issues unique to health librarianship like health literacy, consumer health, and biomedical informatics. This book is an outstanding textbook for library and information sciences classes and will also be of interest to those considering a career change to health librarianship.

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Overview

With health care reform and the Affordable Care Act driving up demand for ready access to health and biomedical information by both health care providers and healthcare consumers, health librarianship plays a critical role in facilitating access to that information. Health Librarianship: An Introduction places health librarianship within the health care context, covering librarianship within this specific environment as well as other perspectives relevant to health librarianship.

The book addresses the basic functions of librarianship—for example, management and administration, public services, and technical services—within the health care context as well as issues unique to health librarianship like health literacy, consumer health, and biomedical informatics. This book is an outstanding textbook for library and information sciences classes and will also be of interest to those considering a career change to health librarianship.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781610698870
Publisher: ABC-CLIO, Incorporated
Publication date: 08/26/2014
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 295
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Jeffrey T. Huber, PhD, is director and professor in the School of Library and Information Science at the University of Kentucky.

Feili Tu-Keefner, PhD, is associate professor in the School of Library and Information Science at the University of South Carolina.

Table of Contents

CONTENTS

  • Illustrations

    Foreword by Fred Roper

    Preface

    Acknowledgments

    Introduction

  • Chapter 1: Overview of Health Sciences Libraries and Librarianship

    Katherine Schilling

    Chapter 2: Overview of the Healthcare Environment

    Fay J. Towell

    Chapter 3: Situating Health Librarianship Within the Healthcare Environment

    Anna Getselman and Sandra G. Franklin

    Chapter 4: Evidence-Based Healthcare / Evidence-Based Practice

    Connie Schardt

    Chapter 5: Government Agency and Professional Association Resources and Services

    Keith Cogdill

    Chapter 6: Health Librarianship: Management and Administration

    Gerald Perry

    Chapter 7: Technical Services in Health Sciences Libraries

    Susan Swogger

    Chapter 8: Public Services in Health Sciences Libraries

    Melissa De Santis

    Chapter 9: Information Retrieval

    James E. Andrews and Denise Shereff

    Chapter 10: Historical Collections in Health Sciences Libraries

    Michael A. Flannery

    Chapter 11: Interpersonal Skills to the Fore: Consumer Health Librarianship

    Mary L. Gillaspy

    Chapter 12: Health Literacy

    Robert Shapiro

    Chapter 13: Outreach Services

    Julie K. Gaines and Meredith Solomon, AHIP

    Chapter 14: Special Populations

    Michele A. Spatz

    Chapter 15: Health and Biomedical Informatics

    P. W. Dalrymple and D. L. Varner

  • Index

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