Is your library or organization seeking guidance to start a consumer health collection or wanting to build on an already existing collection? You may find that what would seem straightforward about a consumer health collection is not always so straightforward. Like any health information, there\u2019s a lot out there but discerning what is good research-based information isn\u2019t always easy. Most likely your budget isn\u2019t limitless either. NNLM has a couple of resources to help you.<\/p>\n
We recently updated a class focusing specifically on this topic. Register for Consumer Health Collection Management,<\/a> an on-demand class eligible for 4 Medical Library Association CE credits and meeting four of the CHIS<\/a> (Consumer Health Information Specialization) core competencies. Go ahead and register and then you can “attend” the class when it fits in your schedule.<\/p>\n Additionally, we have a section on Consumer Health Collection Management in our Resources for Public Libraries Guide<\/a> with links to resource lists and reviewed websites.<\/p>\n Being equipped with these tools will aid you in establishing and maintaining a quality consumer health collection for you and those you serve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Is your library or organization seeking guidance to start a consumer health collection or wanting to build on an already existing collection? You may find that what would seem straightforward about a consumer health collection is not always so straightforward. Like any health information, there\u2019s a lot out there but discerning what is good research-based… Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[316,457,320,324,11,5],"tags":[440,199,119],"class_list":["post-21770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumer-health","category-consumer-health-minute","category-education","category-library-staff","category-public-libraries","category-training-education","tag-classes","tag-collection-management","tag-consumer-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21770"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21771,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21770\/revisions\/21771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}