Libraries reaching out with health information to vulnerable populations: Guidance from research on information seeking and use

Journal of the Medical Library Association

Volumn 93, Issue 4 SUPPL., 2005, Pages

  Dervin, Brenda ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; ELECTRONICS; ETHNIC GROUP; HEALTH SCIENCE; HUMAN; INFORMATION SCIENCE; LIBRARY; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; POPULATION RESEARCH; RACE DIFFERENCE;

COMMUNITY-INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; LIBRARY MATERIALS; LIBRARY SERVICES; MEDICALLY UNDERSERVED AREA; ORGANIZATIONAL OBJECTIVES; PROGRAM EVALUATION; UNITED STATES; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

EID: 28244481103     PISSN: 15365050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (3)

1. DERVIN B. What we know about information seeking and use and how research discourse community makes a difference in our knowing [background paper prepared for Health Information Programs Development, National Library of Medicine, October 22, 2001]. [Web document]. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University, [cited 2 March 2005] 〈http:// communication.sbs.ohio-state.edu/ sense-making/art/ artabsdervin01nlm.html〉.
2. DERVIN B. Human studies and user studies: a call for methodological inter-disciplinarity. Info Res [serial online]. 2003 Oct;(1);paper 166. [cited 15 Jan 2005]. 〈http:// informationr.net/ir/9-1/paper166.html〉.
3. DERVIN B, CONNAWAY LS, PRABHA C. Sense-making the information confluence: the whys and hows of college and university user satisficing of information needs [proposal for project funded by the Institution of Museum and Library Services and in-kind contributions from Ohio State University and Ohio Computer Library Center]. [Web document]. 2003. [cited 15 Feb 2005]. 〈http:// imlsosuoclcproject .jcomm.ohio-state.edu〉. (The study, now under way, is funded by the Institute for Museum and Library Services of the US Government, Ohio State University (OSU), and the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC), Brenda Dervin (OSU) is principal investigator; Lynn Silipigni Connaway and Chandra Prabha (OCLC) are coinvestigators.)