[Baynet] Reminder of Infopeople's webinar on June 19

[Linda Rodenspiel]

A reminder of the next Infopeople webinar.  Please let your friends and
colleagues know about this event!

 

Title:  I Do Not Give Medical Advice: I Dispense Quality Health Information
- Session #5 of the Health e-Shows Series

Date and time: June 19, 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 June 19 webinar, go to
http://infopeople.org/training/webcasts/webcast_data/242/index.html 

In the day-to-day work of the reference librarian, the health reference
interview presents one of the most challenging scenarios. The reasons are
many, and each interaction is unique. The user might be distressed or
emotional, or may want advice. Low health literacy can be a problem,
regardless of the user's education or socio-economic status. The question
might refer to a serious diagnosis or life-threatening condition, in which
case the reference interaction becomes even more serious and significant. 

What determines a successful outcome, both for the library user and the
librarian? Is the experience better, worse, or simply different for public
librarians as compared with hospital or medical librarians? This interactive
webinar will present the differences between regular reference and health
reference, with a focus on consumer health reference services in both
medical and public library settings. Librarians will learn from the
expertise and experience of their colleagues about dispensing quality health
information! 

NOTE: Your input is requested! The format of this session takes advantage of
the features of the webinar software Horizon Wimba, allowing for
participation by attendees. Participants will have opportunities to
contribute their ideas, discuss issues and challenges they face, and provide
strategies and best practices for example scenarios. In preparation for the
session, we are asking for your input in a pre-survey to identify specific
challenges and concerns about providing health information, which will help
to guide the discussion. Public and medical librarians or others who provide
consumer health information to members of the public are invited to
participate.  <http://tinyurl.com/6eglhq> http://tinyurl.com/6eglhq The
survey will be available until 5pm PST Friday, June 13.

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.

 

Infopeople's funding limits attendance at live webinars to anyone in the
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:

 

http://www.infopeople.org/training/webcasts/list/archived 

 

Please do not cross post this announcement to any national list.

 

Webinar:  I Do Not Give Medical Advice; I Dispense Quality Health
Information

Date: June 19, 2008

Time:  12pm - 1pm

Speaker: Kelli Ham

 

 

 

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