Morningcrest Health Library: A Clinic-Based Approach to Health Information Literacy Services

Health literacy and libraries: a literature review

“…Medical librarians have designed health literacy efforts focused on each of these needs using traditional and nontraditional approaches. Health literacy outreach to patients is traditionally delivered by medical librarians via hospital or consumer health libraries in the form of training on the use of medical databases and consultations about a variety of health topics (Burnham and Peterson, 2005;Duhon and Jameson, 2013;Neal and Brower, 2013). A survey of academic health sciences libraries revealed that 86 per cent of libraries affiliated with hospitals or medical centers reported participating in health information outreach, compared to 49 per cent of academic libraries unaffiliated with healthcare centers and 28 per cent of general academic libraries (Duhon and Jameson, 2013).…”

Library instruction and information literacy 2013

“…The medical library literature this year includes descriptions of collaborative information literacy and evidence-based practice efforts (Blake and Ballance, 2013;Clairoux et al, 2013;Maranda et al, 2013), discussions of health literacy initiatives (Loos, 2013;Neal and Brower, 2013;Whitney et al 2013) and analyses of health information seeking among young people (Rasmussen-Pennington et al, 2013) and the elderly (Hallows, 2013). Finally, a number of new and intriguing studies looking at information usage among unique populations, such as refugees (Lloyd et al, 2013), retired investors (O'Connor, 2013) and web designers (Abdi et al, 2013), appeared in 2013.…”

“…The librarians hope to apply this model of information literacy instruction to other medical classes. Neal, R.E. and Brower, S.M.…”