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Roles and Responsibilities of Libraries in Increasing Consumer Health Literacy and Reducing Health Disparities (Advances in Librarianship #47) (Hardcover)

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By Beth St Jean (Editor), Gagan Jindal (Editor), Yuting Liao (Editor)
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Description


This volume brings together librarians, LIS students, educators, and researchers, to discuss the many ways that information professionals and libraries serve as agents of securing health information justice.

About the Author


Beth St. Jean is an Associate Professor in the College of Information Studies, Associate Director of the Information Policy & Access Center (iPAC), and an affiliate faculty member of the Horowitz Center for Health Literacy, at the University of Maryland, USA. Gagan Jindal is a Qualitative User Experience Researcher at Facebook, Inc. She recently received her PhD from the University of Maryland College of Information Studies. Yuting Liao is a PhD candidate in the University of Maryland College of Information Studies. Paul T. Jaeger is Professor and Diversity and Inclusion Officer at the College of Information Studies and Co-Director of iPAC at the University of Maryland, USA.

Product Details
ISBN: 9781839093418
ISBN-10: 1839093412
Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
Publication Date: November 30th, 2020
Pages: 328
Language: English
Series: Advances in Librarianship