Community partnerships for health information training: medical librarians working with health-care professionals and consumers in Tennessee.
In Tennessee, several medical library outreach projects have involved collaborative work with health-care professionals, public librarians, consumers, faith-based organizations and community service agencies. The authors are medical librarians who worked as consultants, trainers and project directors to promote health literacy using PubMed medline and other health information resources in the several funding projects described here. We explain the programmes briefly, focusing on lessons learned and suggestions for those who follow us.
Stephenson
Priscilla L
PL
Health Sciences Library, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN 38163, USA. pstephenson@utmem.edu
Green
Brenda F
BF
Wallace
Richard L
RL
Earl
Martha F
MF
Orick
Jan T
JT
Taylor
Mary Virginia
MV
D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D003258:Consumer Behavior; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D006266:Health Education / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D007255:Information Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D020407:Internet; D007993:Libraries, Medical / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010594:Pharmacies; D016730:Program Development; D013714:Tennessee