Taking Health Information to the Next Level: Strategic Partnerships Between NLM and Public Libraries

Promoting rural residents’ participation in clinical trials: clinical trials basics programming and training for rural public librarians

“…Training public librarians to increase the health literacy skills of the community members they serve is essential to ensure that patrons have access to reliable health information written at a level they can understand, and which they can use to make informed and appropriate decisions regarding their health. Health literacy partnerships with public libraries have allowed opportunities for public librarians to learn more about health literacy and finding consumer health information for their patrons [13,14,15].…”