Collaborating with Public Librarians to Promote Emergency Preparedness and Safety Awareness

Gediminas Paulaitis; Emily Vardell; Jennifer Shipley

doi:10.1080/15398285.2011.623556

Collaborating with Public Librarians to Promote Emergency Preparedness and Safety Awareness

Gediminas Paulaitis, Emily Vardell, Jennifer Shipley

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Abstract

The Louis Calder Memorial Library received an Express Community Day Award from the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM) to partner with the Miami-Dade County Public Library librarians to promote emergency preparedness and safety awareness. Named Safety Fair: Keep Your Family Safe - Emergency Preparedness at Home and Away, the events improved the public librarians' knowledge of NN/LM resources, such as TOXNET, MedlinePlus®, ToxTown®, ToxMystery®, and WISER®, as well as university-created resources. A train-the-trainer program was also implemented for the public librarians.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	313-321
Number of pages	9
Journal	Journal of Consumer Health on the Internet
Volume	15
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/15398285.2011.623556
State	Published - Oct 1 2011

Keywords

Emergency preparedness
health sciences libraries
medical libraries
MedlinePlus
outreach
public libraries
safety awareness

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Health(social science)

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