Cultivating a community of practice: the evolution of a health information specialists program for public librarians.

ABSTRACT:

Background

To help improve the culture of health in Oklahoma-a state that frequently ranks poorly on multiple measures of health and wellness-faculty librarians from an academic health sciences library sought to create a collaborative network of health information professionals in Oklahoma's public libraries through the implementation of the Health Information Specialists Program.

Case presentation

Health sciences librarians offered a variety of consumer health information courses for public library staff across the state of Oklahoma for three years. Courses were approved by the Medical Library Association for credit toward the Consumer Health Information Specialization. A total of seventy-two participants from public libraries attended the courses, sixty-five achieved a Lev

SUBMITTER: Clifton S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5490704 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature