[Baynet] Infopeople's webinar on Easy-to-Read and Multilingual Health Information

[Linda Rodenspiel]

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

Title:  Finding Easy-to-Read and Multilingual Health Information for your
Patrons

Date and time: December 1, 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 December 1 webinar, go to
http://infopeople.org/training/webcasts/webcast_data/245/index.html

Do you serve people with low reading skills or limited English language
proficiency? For these library users, health information may look like a
jumble of complicated words, technical jargon and difficult instructions.
Studies show that about a third of adult Americans have trouble
understanding basic medical information. Quality health information is
essential for making good healthcare decisions, but much of the readily
available health information is written at a reading level that is too
difficult for many to understand. For patrons who need information in other
languages, the problem is even worse. 

 

This webinar will identify appropriate sources for quality multilingual
health information and understandable health information that is written in
plain English, plus search strategies for finding specific topics in these
formats. Attendees will hear new ideas for targeting specific user groups
and enhancing services through innovative community partnerships. The
webinar content will be useful for public and hospital librarians, library
staff and anyone who provides health information to members of the public
with these special information needs. 

 

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:  Finding Easy-to-Read and Multilingual Health Information for your
Patrons

Date: December 1, 2008

Time:  12pm - 1pm

Speaker: Kelli Ham

 

 

 

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