Health promotion, collaboration, and outreach: Creating space for health literacy at a specialized, academic research library

Tringali, Billy

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Title

Health promotion, collaboration, and outreach: Creating space for health literacy at a specialized, academic research library

Author(s)

Tringali, Billy

Issue Date

2021-09-13

Keyword(s)

• health promotion
• outreach and engagement librarianship
• collaboration
• built environment
• academic libraries
• law libraries

Abstract

In the current cultural climate, the ability to engage with and understand health resources is more important than ever. Health literacy, broadly, describes an individual’s ability to process health information and use it to make sound medical choices. In relation, health promotion adapts health literacy to focus on people’s ability to lead healthy lives. While many public librarians are actively engaged in health literacy services to their patrons, far fewer academic librarians report such engagement. This paper aims to demystify health literacy and health promotion for a library audience, along with providing real world examples of collaborating with health experts and turning a library into a built environment that encourages the growth of health literacy skills.

Series/Report Name or Number

Journal of Library Outreach and Engagement, vol. 1, issue 2

Type of Resource

text

Language

en

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.21900/j.jloe.v1i2.805

Copyright and License Information

• Copyright 2021 Billy Tringali
• This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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