Consumer Health Collection Management On-Demand

This 4 credit-hour, on-demand class reviews collection management principles, resources and considerations for health-related collections in public libraries. Explore how to evaluate your own library’s health collection and consider how you can improve your health-related materials to better serve your community by working through 4 modules and 2 assignments. The assignments are reviewed by the course instructors. Expect to spend up to 4 hours learning through activities.

Courser URL: https://www.nnlm.gov/training/class-catalog/consumer-health-collection-management-demand

Learning Objectives:

• Explain and provide justification of the library’s health information collection design.
• Locate and use community health data to manage or develop the library’s health information collection.
• Assess the quality of the library’s current health information materials and identify any collection gaps
• Identify (and select) authoritative health information resources, in a variety of formats, for the library’s collection to meet the health information needs of the community.

Agenda:

• Module 1 Reading: Collection Management Policies and Procedures
• Module 2 Reading: Understanding the Library’s Community Health Information Needs
• Module 2 Assignment: Know Your Community
• Module 3 Reading: Evaluating and Assessing a Collection
• Module 4 Reading: Selecting Health-Related Materials
• Module 4: Final Assignment

MLA CE Credit: 2