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Don Lindberg’s outreach legacy at the National Library of Medicine [PDF]

open access: yesInformation Services & Use, 2022
Friends and colleagues of Donald A.B. Lindberg M.D. came together to give tribute to his extraordinary contributions during his tenure (1984–2015) as Director of the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). Dr. Lindberg died in 2019. The book, Transforming biomedical informatics and health information access: Don Lindberg and the U.S.
openaire   +5 more sources

A partnership between academic and public librarians: “What the Health” workshop series

open access: yesJournal of the Medical Library Association, 2019
Background: Public librarians are in a unique position to assist the general public with health information inquiries. However, public librarians might not have the training, detailed knowledge, and confidence to provide high-quality health information ...
Jessica A. Koos   +3 more
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Creating an Academic Library Escape Room Pre- and Post-Pandemic

open access: yes, 2023
An Escape Room encourages patron participation within the library while having a fun and cost- effective experience. Academic librarians who are initially uncertain of trying to create an escape room will find that the benefits far outweigh the ...
Margaret Katembe   +7 more
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Creating an outreach plan that accounts for the seen and unforeseen [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Outreach is a necessary component of an academic library’s operations and often requires extensive time for the planning, approval, execution, and assessment depending on the personnel involved and the scope of the event. Recent literature has started to
Bastone, Zoe, Zoe Bastone
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Your teaching strategy matters: how engagement impacts application in health information literacy instruction

open access: yesJournal of the Medical Library Association, 2017
Objective: The purpose of this study was to compare two pedagogical methods, active learning and passive instruction, to determine which is more useful in helping students to achieve the learning outcomes in a one-hour research skills instructional ...
Heather A. Johnson, Laura C. Barrett
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Applying Misinformation Interventions to Library Instruction and Outreach

open access: yesJournal of New Librarianship, 2023
This narrative review examines what misinformation interventions—both before misconception (prebunking), and after misconception (debunking)—are effective, and how they can be applied to library information literacy instruction and outreach.
Mandi Goodsett
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The Heart of Librarianship: A Literature Review of Outreach in Academic Libraries

open access: yes, 2021
Presentation that provides a summary of the literature on library outreach and indicates how the literature review has impacted outreach developments at the UNT Libraries.
Henson, Brea
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Using Slack to communicate with medical students

open access: yesJournal of the Medical Library Association, 2018
Academic libraries often make use of social networks like Facebook and Twitter to connect with their student users. While the Spokane Academic Library at Washington State University also employs this outreach strategy, the health sciences librarian was ...
Kathryn Vela
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Health Information & Community Outreach [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
While it is widely agreed that information literacy skills should be fostered in institutions of higher education, little is known about attempts to teach about information literacy outside of academia.
Kloda, Lorie A.
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Excel for data visualization in academic health sciences libraries: a qualitative case study

open access: yesJournal of the Medical Library Association, 2020
Background: Data visualization is a growing topic of discussion and area of educational programming in health sciences libraries. This paper synthesizes information on eight institutions’ experiences in offering Excel-focused data visualization workshops
Fred Willie Zametkin LaPolla
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