{"id":32352,"date":"2023-06-09T11:58:22","date_gmt":"2023-06-09T17:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_4\/?p=32352"},"modified":"2025-06-09T17:50:02","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T00:50:02","slug":"reproductive-health-and-the-reference-desk-how-libraries-can-provide-information-in-a-post-roe-country","status":"archive","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_4\/reproductive-health-and-the-reference-desk-how-libraries-can-provide-information-in-a-post-roe-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Reproductive Health and the Reference Desk: How libraries can provide information in a post-Roe country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_4\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/06\/Reproductive-Health-and-the-Reference-Desk.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-32353\" src=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_4\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/06\/Reproductive-Health-and-the-Reference-Desk-300x251.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"693\" height=\"580\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_4\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/06\/Reproductive-Health-and-the-Reference-Desk-300x251.png 300w, https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_4\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/06\/Reproductive-Health-and-the-Reference-Desk-768x644.png 768w, https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_4\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/06\/Reproductive-Health-and-the-Reference-Desk.png 940w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 693px) 100vw, 693px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It has been over 1 year since the U.S. Supreme Court repealed Roe v. Wade. Abortion is now illegal in a significant portion of the country. What does this mean for information access? This webinar will discuss reproductive health as an information access concern, introduce the Reproductive Justice framework, and offer ideas for how libraries can provide create environments that are supportive of sexual and reproductive health information.<\/p>\n<p>Barbara Alvarez is a PhD student in Information Science at University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison with a focus on reproductive health. Barbara is the author of\u00a0<em>The Library\u2019s Guide to Sexual and Reproductive Health Information<\/em>\u00a0with ALA Editions. She is a 2022 Library Journal Mover &amp; Shaker and a 2011 Spectrum Scholar.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nnlm.gov\/training\/class\/reproductive-health-and-reference-desk-how-libraries-can-provide-information-post\" data-loopstyle=\"link\">Register Here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been over 1 year since the U.S. Supreme Court repealed Roe v. Wade. Abortion is now illegal in a significant portion of the country. What does this mean for information access? This webinar will discuss reproductive health as an information access concern, introduce the Reproductive Justice framework, and offer ideas for how libraries&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_4\/reproductive-health-and-the-reference-desk-how-libraries-can-provide-information-in-a-post-roe-country\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6,40,9,11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32352","post","type-post","status-archive","format-standard","hentry","category-community-collegeacademic-libraries","category-health-interest","category-health-sciences-libraries","category-public-k12","category-all-members"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32354,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32352\/revisions\/32354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}