Crossing the Boundaries: The Role of Academic Libraries in Improving IL in Health Care Community
Type of Presentation
Individual paper/presentation (20 minute presentation)
Target Audience
Higher Education
Location
Room 1005
Proposal
See presentation description.
Short Description
The presentation will focus on an outreach initiative run by Jack Tarver Library Mercer University to highlight the benefits of building sustainable partnerships between academic libraries and non-profit community organizations. The participants may expect to learn innovative strategies to design outreach projects, understand the importance of working together with health care providers to increase information literacy in the non-conventional segment of library users, and identify funding opportunities from various government agencies to ensure further dissemination of essential information resources.
Publication Type and Release Option
Presentation (Open Access)
Recommended Citation
Trembach, Stan, "Crossing the Boundaries: The Role of Academic Libraries in Improving IL in Health Care Community" (2011). Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy. 27.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/gaintlit/2011/2011/27
Crossing the Boundaries: The Role of Academic Libraries in Improving IL in Health Care Community
Room 1005
See presentation description.
