Promoting Individual and Community Health at the Library

Flaherty, Mary Grace. Promoting Individual and Community Health at the Library. ALA Editions, 2018. ISBN: 978-0-8389-1627-8

Description
Public libraries can play an important role in supporting library users in their health information seeking efforts. This book shows how to guide library users to high quality health information by relying on up to date, authoritative sources. She also demonstrates why taking the initiative to offer health promotion programming can be a valuable form of community outreach, serving community needs while increasing visibility.

Table of Contents 
Chapter 1    Introduction
Chapter 2     Public Libraries and Consumer Health: A Historic Perspective
Chapter 3    Health Information Provision in Public Libraries
Chapter 4    Health Programming in Public Libraries
Chapter 5     Reaching out to the Community: Opportunities for Wider Engagement
Chapter 6    Looking Ahead: Future Opportunities
Chapter 7     Onward and Upward

Health Librarianship: An Introduction

Huber, Jeffrey T. and Feili Tu-Keefner (eds.) Health Librarianship: An Introduction. Libraries Unlimited, 2014. ISBN: 978-1-61069-321-9

Description
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 will be of interest to those considering a career change to health librarianship.

Table of Contents

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

Libraries and the Affordable Care Act: Helping the Community Understand Health-care Options

Goldsmith, Francisca. Libraries and the Affordable Care Act: Helping the Community Understand Health-care Options. ALA Editions, 2015. ISBN:  978-0-8389-1288-1

Description
Libraries that are still trying to find an appropriate role in their community for supporting Affordable Care Act enrollment activities may benefit from reviewing this book. Written specifically for library staff, it offers best practices, advice, and examples of library responses from the first open enrollment period (October 2013-March 2014). The authorncourages a pragmatic approach through the inclusion of “to do” lists at the end of each chapter and provides strategies and tools for building community healthcare awareness.

Table of Contents
A detailed table of contents is available at the publisher's site: http://www.alastore.ala.org/detail.aspx?ID=11191

Answering Consumer Health Questions

Spatz, Michele. Answering Consumer Health Questions. NY: Neal Schuman, 2008. 025.527661 Spatz. isbn 1-55570-632-0

Practical tips and tools for every health reference desk! Patrons seeking medical information are often trying to gain control following an upsetting diagnosis working with them can be rewarding and difficult. In this practical, readable guide, consumer health reference expert Michele Spatz, gives you an understanding of the psychology of those seeking medical information and the skills necessary to respond usefully and appropriately. Spatz outlines the most common inquiries and behaviors of health information searchers and the most useful go-to resources. Sample librarian-patron interactions in every chapter give you useful strategies and scripts. Dozens of templates and forms and tips on everything from setting up the reference desk to encourage confidential inquiries to using body language to signal your availability will help you create a welcoming, empowering atmosphere in your library. Chapters on ethics and potential legal issues guide you through the nitty-gritty of what constitutes practicing medicine without a license, confidentiality requirements, and more. Sections on email, virtual, and telephone reference will help you establish clear guidelines, and creative tips on marketing to healthcare providers will help you forge valuable new partnerships.