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How Peer Specialists Can Enhance A Library’S Services, Sine Rofofsky
How Peer Specialists Can Enhance A Library’S Services, Sine Rofofsky
Urban Library Journal
Peer Specialists work with others with lived experiences similar to themselves. Drawing on experiences in academic, public, school, and special libraries this article explores how skills and training of a peer specialist can enhance the services offered by a library and the work of any library staff member.
An Interprofessional Public Library-Academic Partnership For Community Outreach On Women's Health, Lyndonna Marrast, Eun Ji Kim, Danielle Ezzo, Joseph Conigliaro
An Interprofessional Public Library-Academic Partnership For Community Outreach On Women's Health, Lyndonna Marrast, Eun Ji Kim, Danielle Ezzo, Joseph Conigliaro
Urban Library Journal
This article describes a collaboration between a branch of the Queens Public Library in NY and an academic medical center that delivered a women’s health educational program with an interprofessional team of faculty, trainees, and students. The team delivered interactive 1-hour long monthly sessions in a Question and Answer format guided by a Powerpoint presentation. The overall goal was to deliver health education workshops on common medical conditions (i.e. diabetes, heart disease) and concerns of interest to women across the lifespan (i.e. infertility, dementia) to improve the health literacy of local community members. We outlined the steps in establishing this …
Complementary Therapies In Libraries: A Future Perspective, Kellie Sparks
Complementary Therapies In Libraries: A Future Perspective, Kellie Sparks
Urban Library Journal
Academic libraries can assist in the efficacy of student learning by offering specialized programming, spaces, and knowledge opportunities that delve into the use of complementary practices and techniques. By regularly offering resources that may be considered non-traditional such as meditation and yoga, libraries can assist students in gaining a greater awareness of themselves and their environment. Libraries can provide these services at the point of need and not limit these methods to only particular times of the academic year. Libraries can also become spaces for further research since much is still being examined regarding the effects of complementary practices on …