Consumer Health Information Services and Programs : Best Practices.

Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. A Most ResourceFULL Consumer Health Information Center -- Chapter 2. The University of Tennessee Medical Center's Preston Medical Library and Health Information Center Story -- Chapter 3. Health InfoNet of Alabama -- Chapter 4. Consumer Health Information Service in the Public Library -- Chapter 5. Rewards and Challenges of Children's Health Education: An Ongoing Community Partnership to Reach Local Preschoolers -- Chapter 6. Collaborative Outreach between a Hospital Library and a Public Library -- Chapter 7. Consumer Health and the Department of Veterans Affairs Library Network -- Chapter 8. The Learning Center: A Cancer Consumer Health Library at MD Anderson Cancer Center -- Chapter 9. The Big Health Library Umbrella: Our Mandate to Provide Information for All Literacy Abilities -- Index -- About the Editor and the Contributors.

Consumer Health Information Programs and Services: Best Practices presents examples of successful and long-standing library programs and services that provide health information to consumers--the general public, patients, and families or patients - who seek information about health and diseases. This best practices volume brings together library programs and services currently offered in hospital libraries, public libraries, academic health sciences libraries, and standalone consumer health libraries, covering a range of topics and special programs.

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