Full Description
Intended for students interested in careers as health sciences librarians, this insightful book presents a current view of trends and issues in the field of health librarianship from leading scholars and practitioners.
With health care reform and the Affordable Care Act driving up demand for ready access to health and biomedical information by both health care providers and healthcare consumers, health librarianship plays a critical role in facilitating access to that information. Health Librarianship: An Introduction places health librarianship within the health care context, covering librarianship within this specific environment as well as other perspectives relevant to health librarianship.
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 is an outstanding textbook for library and information sciences classes and will also be of interest to those considering a career change to health librarianship.
Contents
CONTENTS
Illustrations
Foreword by Fred Roper
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
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
Index
About the Editors and Contributors
