Webinar: Health Literacy in Libraries

Are you ready to enhance your library’s role in promoting health literacy? Working in a library, you play a unique role in advocating for accessible, easy-to-read health materials and offering vital information literacy instruction. Be prepared to help your patrons by joining this webinar to gain valuable insights and tools that address the diverse health information needs of your community.

Join editor, author, and library science instructor Emily Vardell for an updated look at various types of health literacy—personal, organizational, and more—helping you become even more responsive to the needs and literacy levels of your patrons. Don’t miss this chance to expand your impact and make a difference in the health outcomes of your community.

What to expect:

• A panel of health literacy experts with practical, evidence-based approaches for public libraries
• Strategies to promote health literacy through reading clubs, digital health education, and partnerships
• Tools to help you combat health misinformation and build capacity for health literacy work in public libraries

In this webinar, you will

• Identify ways to enhance equity in health literacy within your community
• Explore opportunities for health literacy initiatives, including partnerships and reading clubs
• Consider sustainability of programming and dissemination of health-related information

Guest presenter Emily Vardell is an associate professor in the School of Library and Information Management at Emporia State University. She teaches courses on the foundations of library science, reference, research methods, and health sciences librarianship. Her research interests focus broadly on information behavior, including health insurance literacy and infertility information practices. She also studies library science education best practices and trends. Emily is co-editor of the recently published Health Literacy and Libraries.
 

If you are interested in learning more about health-related topics in libraries, check out these recorded trainings at your convenience...

• Answering Questions about Health in the Library | RECORDING | Watch now
• Health Programming at Your Library: Project Ideas, Resources and Opportunities | RECORDING | Watch now
   

EVENT NOTES

Registration Details | Not sure you can make it to a live webinar? Register anyway, and we’ll send you a link to the recorded version when it is available. Registration is limited. Deadline for registration is five days prior to the event. Webinar access information will be emailed to registrants prior to the event.

Recording | When you participate in a SCKLS webinar, a photographic, video or audio recording may occur. If you want your image or voice removed from the webinar recording, you must notify in writing SCKLS Training Specialist Katherine Hughes at least 24 hours in advance of the webinar. Absence of written notification grants SCKLS all rights to the webinar recording for educational purposes.