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HealthInfoQuest: Pathfinders to Common Consumer Health Questions |
The National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM) is pleased to announce the availability of a web-based tutorial for librarians and others who provide information on consumer health questions: HEALTHINFOQUEST <http://www.nnlm.nlm.nih.gov/healthinfoquest/>.
HealthInfoQuest was developed with funding from the National Library of Medicine under a subcontract with NN/LM (Pacific Northwest Region). It is a response to requests from public libraries across the country for web-based training on how to find authoritative and reliable health information on the World Wide Web.
Pathfinders are a time-honored tradition in public libraries. HealthInfoQuest pathfinders are designed for public librarians and health information specialists whose learning style is primarily visual or graphic. HealthInfoQuest pathfinders encourage users to practice finding answers to common consumer health and complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) questions while reinforcing information-seeking processes which will assist them in similar situations in the future.
HealthInfoQuest is the result of a collaboration between Maureen Carleton, Medical Reference Specialist with the King County Library System, and Barbara Macfadden, Instructional Technology Developer at the University of Washington's Health Sciences Center for Educational Resources. They have created a series of Web-based pathfinders designed to offer an intuitive interface to health information which can be accessed at the point of need for independent learning or review. The CAM pathfinders were created by Jane Saxton, Reference Librarian at Bastyr University Library, located in Kenmore, Washington, an accredited, private institution, internationally recognized as a pioneer in the study of natural medicine.