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Hospital Collaboration With A Public Library, Margot Malachowski Mls
Hospital Collaboration With A Public Library, Margot Malachowski Mls
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Baystate Health is a teaching hospital located in Springfield, MA. Our city’s population is 52% White; 22% Black; 39% Hispanic (regardless of race). Nearly 24% of our families speak Spanish at home. Poverty rates are 27%, as compared with 10% statewide. These populations are less likely to use the internet to find health information. The Dept of Health & Human Services draws a correlation between internet-based information seeking and the status of people experiencing disease, finding inverse relationships between internet use and incidence of asthma, diabetes, heart disease and other conditions. Libraries play a role in Healthy People 2020 by …
Reflecting On Our History: Digitizing Materials For Hospital Archives, Margot Malachowski Mls
Reflecting On Our History: Digitizing Materials For Hospital Archives, Margot Malachowski Mls
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The Ithaka Report 2006 investigated trends in the valuation of library functions by faculty. Faculty placed high values on library functions as purchaser and archive even as the valuation of information gateway declined. This poster demonstrates an effort toward expanding the archive function of a hospital library. We will describe our pilot program to digitize historical documents and photographs.