2013 LAUNC-CH Conference - True Collaborations: Creating New Structures Services and Breakthroughs
Morning Sessions - 11:20am - 12:00am
Windflower Room
Radio, Libraries and Blogs, Oh My! Collaboration with Your Health Radio
Librarians at Carolina's Health Sciences Library and physicians in the Department of Family Medicine are collaborating to enhance the value and impact of Your Health Radio, a consumer health radio show. To make the show's website (yourhealthradio.org) more interactive and the content better available and more discoverable, librarians recommended using the WordPress.com platform to create a blog/website and the vocabulary from MedlinePlus to index content. Librarians index content and provide links to consumer health information to augment the weekly radio shows. Project benefits include the show reaching a larger audience and the Library receiving recognition for its contributions. Presenters will share the origins, benefits and challenges of this project.
Lee Richardson, Barbara Renner & Robert Ladd
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Redbud Room
Doing our Part to Create Scholars Ready for the World: A Program Model for Outreach and College Preparedness in an Academic Library
The outreach program at UTK Libraries is designed for recruiting, retaining and supporting potential students in the state of Tennessee. Through interaction with the university libraries high school students are instructed in how to improve the quality of their research through the use of scholarly resources and other library services. This presentation will describe the libraries' ongoing efforts and collaborative programs and partnerships across academic disciplines that prepare high school students for a more intellectually challenging college experience. Presentation participants will be able to identify tools and resources to assist high school students; outline the information literacy process; and understand academic libraries' role in developing standards for student success.
Ingrid Ruffin, Thura Mack & Caroline Redmond
University of Tennessee at Knoxville