Resources and Information Services in Professions and Disciplines: Consumer Health Librarianship INFO 220-12

INFO 220-12, Resources and Information Services in Medical & Health Sciences Librarianship, will offer contemporary knowledge and skills on topics such as health sciences library history, medical subject classification, finding quality health information, biomedical database practice, consumer health programming, evidence-based health care, and cooperative medical library organizations and activities. Collaborative learning and assignments are featured.

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Learning Objectives

After completing this course, you will be able to: 

1. Explain the history, current roles, and opportunities for medical and health sciences libraries and librarianship.
2. Describe the need for and benefits of a national medical information infrastructure.
3. Identify primary clientele for health sciences libraries in particular contexts.
4. Identify and assess resources for clinical, research, and consumer health collections.
5. Locate, describe, and compare a variety of biomedical databases.
6. Perform basic searches in biomedical databases.
7. Locate and use subject vocabularies or classification tools and schemes in health specialties.
8. Describe the concept of and potential challenges to ethical behavior in a medical librarian.
9. Describe the principle of best (available) evidence.

Agenda

• Wednesday, August 20, 2025
  • First Day of Fall 2024 Instruction; Receive access to CANVAS for course. Complete instructor survey and submit personal introduction link. Personal introduction to the class using CANVAS Studio or TechSmith Capture, is due by Monday, August 25, 11:59 pm PT.
• Tuesday, August 26 and following Tuesdays through November 18, 2025
  • First optional attendance content lecture will be presented at 5:00 pm PST (8:00 pm EST), as well as on successive Tuesdays, posted as Zoom recordings and PDF for presented slide content. Live attendance by students for any optional lecture event will earn .33points for the students in attendance.
• Monday, October 20, 2025
  • Deadline to declare paper/presentation topic in CANVAS Discussion Forum. (Instructor Topic Approval required before posting)
• Tuesday, November 25 (subject to modification)
  • Zoom Session Expanded for student presentations (all students are expected to attend all of their colleagues’ final presentations, except for unavoidable work or family obligations. Sessions may be reduced or increased based on total class enrollment)
• Monday, December 8, 2025
  • Last Day of Fall Semester Instruction. Final Project Due and all late assignments due,11:59 pm PT, uploaded to the course website.

MLA CE Credits: 24