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Jun
27
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The information below is from the Disaster Information Management Research Center (DIMRC) “Long viewed as guardians of safe spaces for children, library staff members have begun taking on the role of first responder in drug overdoses,” CNN reported last week (“The opioid epidemic is so bad that librarians are learning how to treat overdoses,” by… Read More »
Posted in: News from NLM, Public Health, Public Libraries
Jun
14
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Join us for the next PNR Rendezvous webinar where Kate Orville, Co-director of the Washington State Medical Home Partnerships Project for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs, will be our presenter. Learn how primary health care providers and clinics are changing to become “patient-centered medical homes” and the opportunities this opens up for libraries,… Read More »
Posted in: Health Literacy, Public Libraries, Training & Education
May
19
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One of the more exciting recent trends in communicating about health care and medicine is that of “graphic medicine”. As Dr. Ian Williams, who coined the phrase, writes: “It has long been known that comics are “not just for kids”… comics and graphic novels [can] be used as a resource for health professionals, playing… Read More »
Posted in: Health Literacy, News From NNLM PNR, Public Health, Public Libraries, Training & Education
May
11
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The next PNR Rendezvous webinar session, TRAILS and The Small but Powerful Guide – Management and Advocacy Toolkits for Rural, Native and Tribal Libraries, will introduce the American Library Association’s Rural, Native, and Tribal Libraries of All Kinds Committee’s (RNTLOAK) 2 newly revised toolkits, “TRAILS (Tribal Library Procedures Manual)” and “The Small but Powerful Guide… Read More »
Posted in: Public Libraries, Training & Education
May
01
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The theme for the 2017 Older Americans Month is “Age Out Loud”. Originally called Senior Citizens Month when established in 1963 by President Kennedy, only about 17 million Americans had reached age 65. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, as of July 2014 the number of Americans age 65 or older was 46.2 million and… Read More »
Posted in: Health Literacy, Health Observances, Public Libraries