Medical Library Association Health Information Literacy Project
Congratulations to Martha Prescott at Berkshire Medical Center Health Sciences Library in Pittsfield, MA for being chosen as a pilot site for the MLA Health Information Literacy project. Martha will be the first librarian in our region to pilot a new health information literacy curriculum designed to increase health care providers’ knowledge of health information literacy. The project aims to increase provider’s use of NLM consumer resources
and promote the role of librarians as key providers of this information. The curriculum is part of MLA’s Health Information Literacy Research Project which is studying hospital-based health care providers’ and administrators’ awareness and understanding of health information literacy and its value in support of patient care. The project is funded by the NLM.
Congratulations to Martha Prescott at the Berkshire Medical Center for receiving this honor!
For a list of other pilot sites throughout the country:
http://www.mlanet.org/resources/healthlit/hil_project_pilot.html
