libraries: your partners for healthy communities
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Presented at the Governor's Public Health Conference, Wichita, KS, April 2013TRANSCRIPT
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
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/
