libraries: your partners for healthy communities

Libraries: Your Partners for Healthy Communities

Rachel Vukas, MLSKansas/Technology Coordinator

National Network of Libraries of Medicine, MidContinental RegionA.R. Dykes Library - University of Kansas Medical Center

rvukas@kumc.edu

Governor’s Public Health ConferenceApril 29, 2013

Objectives

  The participants will be able to

recommend quality online health resources to their clients.

The participants will have an increased awareness of the role of public libraries and how they might collaborate with them on health information programming.

Kansas Public Libraries - 328

KS Public Libraries

Kansas Libraries

Total Circulation:27+ million items

15+ Million Visitors

72% are card holders

Of the 50 states and D.C. Kansas ranks

2nd - registered borrowers 2nd - public-use Internet

computers 8th - total circulation 14th - library visits

Kansas Libraries

Best Small Library in America 2012: The Independence Public Library, Kansas

Kansas Libraries

Role of Libraries

77% - libraries are “important to me and my family”

46% - libraries are “very important”

• 81% - household income less than $30K

Pew Research Center Internet & American Life Project – January 2013

Role of Libraries

“It is very important to provide free library access to computers and the internet.”

92% - African American86% - Hispanic72% - White73% - Rural

Kansas Public Library Internet Computer Uses – 2011

 4,302,762 times

Virtual Supermarket

Baltimore Public Library Virtual Supermarket

Consumer Health Information at the Library

affects health care decisions better understanding of

information reduces anxiety about

health issue prompts positive action

National Network of Libraries of Medicine

nnlm.gov

Group Exercise

Select a health issue Decide on a project How will you involve the public

library? What resources or ideas from today

would support your program?

Online Health ResourcesAIDSInfo - http://aidsinfo.nih.gov/ American FactFinder – http://factfinder2.census.gov/ American Indian Health - http://americanindianhealth.nlm.nih.gov/about.html Baltimore Virtual Supermarket - http://baltimorehealth.org/virtualsupermarket.html Baltimore Virtual Supermarket video - http://vimeo.com/15051410  Bringing Health Information to the Community (BHIC) Blog - http://nnlm.gov/bhic/ Google Scholar - http://scholar.google.com/  Grants.gov - http://grants.gov/

Online Health ResourcesGuides for Developing a Community-based Health Information Programhttp://nnlm.gov/outreach/community/guides/index.html Household Products Database - http://hpd.nlm.nih.gov/ Kansas Regional Library Systems - http://systems.mykansaslibrary.org/ Medline Plus - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ National Library of Medicine, Databases - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/ National Network of Libraries of Medicine – http://nnlm.gov NIH SeniorHealth - http://nihseniorhealth.gov/ NLM Mobile -http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mobile/   

Online Health Resources

NN/LM Heath Information On the Web - http://nnlm.gov/hip/ PHPartners.org - http://phpartners.org/  Public Health Subject Guide - University of Kansas Medical Center. http://guides.library.kumc.edu/publichealth State and County QuickFacts - http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/index.html State Data Center, Library Statistics - http://www.kslib.info/government-information/kansas-information/state-data-center/library-statistics.html State Library of Kansas - http://www.kslib.info/

Thank You!

Rachel Vukasrvukas@kumc.edu