[Baynet] Infopeople's webinar "Beyond MedlinePlus"

[Linda Rodenspiel]

Please print and post or route this message to staff and colleagues who
might be interested in this webinar.

Title:  Beyond MedlinePlus: Resources That Answer Those Other Tough Health
Reference Questions - Session #4 of the Health e-Shows Series

Date and time: May 14, 2008, 12pm - 1pm

This webinar will last approximately an hour. There is no charge for this
Infopeople webinar.  Pre-registration is not required.

For more information and to participate in the May 14 webinar, go to
http://infopeople.org/training/webcasts/webcast_data/241/index.html 

For health-related questions, knowing the best resource is a key component
of providing exceptional reference services. MedlinePlus is a great place to
start for many questions, but where do you turn for those other difficult
questions? For example, library users might want to know about specifics
about how a medication will affect breastfeeding and if there are better
alternatives. They may ask to see new research studies on experimental
treatments for cancer. Or a question might be about toxic substances in
plastic bottles, or the likelihood of whether a particular disease will be
passed on to children. At times, librarians will be asked to search for a
full-text article from a medical journal that can be printed right at the
library. 

This webinar will provide a look at free, high-quality resources that will
answer these and many other difficult health-related questions. The session
will be useful for public librarians and staff, hospital librarians, health
educators, nurses and anyone who provides health information to members of
the public. Learning about these resources will provide attendees with a
robust "bag of tricks" to take your reference services to the next level. 

Speaker:  Kelli Ham. Kelli has over twelve years of experience working in
corporate, public and biomedical libraries. Since May 2005, Kelli has been
the Consumer Health Coordinator for the National Network of Libraries of
Medicine (NN/LM), Pacific Southwest Region (PSR), based at the UCLA Louise
M. Darling Biomedical Library. She is responsible for planning and
coordinating consumer health programs and activities for public libraries
and community-based organizations in the Region. Outreach activities focus
on meeting the health information needs of the diverse population groups in
the Pacific Southwest Region.

 

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California library community.  If you are outside California, please do not
view the live event.

 

However, you are welcome to see the archived version the day following the
webinar.  Check our archive listing at:

 

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Webinar:  Beyond MedlinePlus: Resources That Answer Those Other Tough Health
Reference Questions

Date: May 14, 2008

Time:  12pm - 1pm

Speaker: Kelli Ham

 

 

 

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