Libraries are community hubs, including for health information and programming. As community health needs shift and grow, libraries are looking to support topics like consumer health literacy, healthy aging, mental health, food and nutrition, access to healthcare via telehealth, physical activity, and overcoming technological barriers to accessing health information. At the same time, the public health sector is learning that libraries are valuable partners in advancing local health priorities. Join this webinar for an introduction to public health, and hear how public health practitioners and library staff are partnering for success. Learn how to build library staff confidence in providing health information, assess community health needs, and build community partnerships that magnify the role public libraries play as key contributors to community health.

Presented by:

• Megan A. Weis, DrPH, MPH, MCHES ®, Director of Community Engagement, SC Center for Rural & Primary Healthcare, Assistant Professor, University of South Carolina School of Medicine, President-Elect, South Carolina Public Health Association, Member of the ISC Task Force on Rural Health
• QuinTasha Knox, CEO, Foundation for Community Impact & Health Equity, Lee County Library Community Health Hub (SC)
• Dianne Connery, Director, Pottsboro Library (TX) and Telehealth Community of Practice
• Carol Perryman, PhD, Associate Professor, School of Library and Information Studies, Texas Woman's University

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Related Resources and Links

• SC Center for Rural & Primary Healthcare Research and their Library Program
• Coos County Public Health infographic, A Day in the Life of Oregon Public Health
• American Public Health Association video, Healthiest Nation in One Generation
• Public Health "network" graphic, an example of the "egg map" from  the Michigan Department of Health & Human Services
• Resources on Libraries and Homelessness
• Philbin, M. M., Parker, C. M., Flaherty, M. G., & Hirsch, J. S. (2019). Public Libraries: A Community-Level Resource to Advance Population Health. Journal of community health, 44(1), 192–199. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10900-018-0547-4
• Morgan, A. U., Dupuis, R., D’Alonzo, B., Johnson, A., Graves, A., Brooks, K. L., . . . Cannuscio, C. C. (2016). Beyond Books: Public Libraries As Partners For Population Health. Health Affairs, 35(11), 2030-2036. https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hlthaff.2016.0724  
• Morgan, A. U. (2016, November 9). Leveraging libraries'  potential to address population health [Web log post]. Retrieved November 17, 2020, from https://ldi.upenn.edu/healthpolicysense/public-libraries-and-health
• Amanda Aykanian, Peggy Morton, Kathi Trawver, Lane Victorson, Sarah Preskitt & Kimberly Street (2020) Library-Based Field Placements: Meeting the Diverse Needs of Patrons, Including Those Experiencing Homelessness, Journal of Social Work Education, 56:sup1, S72-S80, DOI: 10.1080/10437797.2020.1723757
• Mead, A. (2020, August 25). Rural Libraries Help Communities Access Health Information. Retrieved September 07, 2020, from https://www.ruralhealthinfo.org/rural-monitor/rural-libraries/
• DigitalLearn.org, Online Health Information course
  
• Let’s Move in Libraries including
  
• information on StoryWalks
  
• StoryWalk and Scavenger Hunt
• HEAL (Healthy Eating and Active Living) at the Library IMLS-funded study
• On Graphic Medicine, explores the interaction between the medium of comics and the discourse of healthcare
• Libraries, public health work together on community health: Settings serve as community hubs, The Nation's Health, 2018
• Libraries Transform Health Literacy Toolkit
• OCLC's Public Libraries and the Opioid Crisis, and new resources to come
• REopening Archives, Libraries, and Museums (REALM): A COVID-19 Research Project at oc.lc/realm
• WebJunction's Health Happens in Libraries project:
• Library Profiles and Library Guides
• Supporting Healthy Communities through Health Information and Services (PDF)
• Understanding Ethics and Privacy in Health Information and Services (PDF)
• Developing Health Literacy through Health Information and Services (PDF)
• Community Health Program Worksheet
• Communications Guide (PDF)
  
• Library Heroes Make Health Happen infographic
• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Achieving Health Equity, and video of Fun and fitness in a library parking lot
• Healthy Living at the Library, Noah Lenstra
• Pew Research Center, Most Americans – especially Millennials – say libraries can help them find reliable, trustworthy information, 2017
• MedlinePlus
• Medical Library Association, Consumer Health Information Specialization
• Network of National Library of Medicine/Training
• Bringing Public Health and Public Libraries Together: Collaboration Toolkit, a project between the Network of the National Library of Medicine Greater Midwest Region, the Public Library Association, and the Midwestern Public Health Training Center
• Lee County Library Community Health Hub
• Telehealth Community of Practice
• Launch of Telehealth Kiosk and Device Loaning Initiative Pilot at Delaware Libraries, and Delaware Journal of Public Health - Public Libraries and Public Health
• In Hawaii, Department of Health to bring health/digital navigators and telehealth support services to underserved communities
• Berkeley County Library System offering free COVID-19 test kits at local libraries, The Post and Courier and on Live 5 News
• Team Vittles
• Hunger and Libraries: Snacks, Backpacks and More
• CSLP, Libraries and Summer Food
• Lunch at the Library
• Thinking Outside: Libraries and Placemaking in Pandemic Times
• Bike to Books.com
• Looking for Snowshoes? Head to the Library!
• For more on conducting a Walk Audit and more, see WebJunction webinar with America Walks, One Step at a Time: How Libraries Can Promote Healthy, Thriving, and Livable Communities
• CDC, Provisional Drug Overdose Death Counts
• Additional links shared in chat:
• Waiver and Indemnification Form (pdf) example from Simsbury Public Library, Library of Things
• Public Libraries Respond to the Opioid Crisis with Their Communities, case study: Salt Lake County Library (pdf)
• Naloxone Rescue Kits Available at the County Library
• Advocates for Community Health
• National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health
• Impact of a consumer health information specialization (CHIS) sponsorship program on the ability of public library staff to provide consumer health information  https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34285669/