(via Helen Spielbauer, National Network of Libraries of Medicine – Greater Midwest Region)
October is Health Literacy Month. The American Library Association (ALA) and the National Network of Libraries of Medicine have created a Health Literacy Month toolkit for the “Libraries Transform” campaign. Join Amanda J. Wilson (NNLM) and Jeff Julian (ALA) as they discuss NNLM’s mission to support health literacy efforts in libraries and explain how to use the key messages, data, and marketing materials to promote health literacy at your library. More information about the presenters is below.
Amanda J. Wilson is the Head, National Network Coordinating Office for NLM’s National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NNLM). From 2006-2016, Wilson served as Director, National Transportation Library (an all-digital library), focusing on building collections, data curation, increasing awareness of NTL collections and services, and coordinating the national network of transportation libraries. She has previous experience at The Ohio State University Libraries as a Metadata Librarian. Wilson is also an adjunct professor at The Catholic University of America Department of Library and Information Science.
Jeff Julian is the director of the Public Awareness Office for the American Library Association, which oversees the Libraries Transform public awareness and advocacy campaign, media relations, and crisis communications. Julian previously served as the executive director of communications at Elgin (Ill.) Community College. In this position, he was responsible for leading strategic media and public relations programs, projects and campaigns to promote, enhance, and protect the image, reputation, and brand of Elgin Community College, a public community college serving approximately 12,000 students in a 360-square-mile district.
To register for this webinar, which will take place from 1:00 to 2:00 PM CST on Thursday, September 14, please go here. The class is worth 1.0 hour of continuing-education credit from the Medical Library Association.