Facilitating Rural Access to Quality Health Information through Little Free Libraries

This webinar is part of the Rural Health Webinar Series in November 2024.

This webinar addresses a NNLM grant-funded community partnership between a public library and a university health science library to add health education components to 30 new public library-sponsored Little Free Libraries built on rural county properties. The project goals were to improve rural residents’ health literacy skills, increase access to quality health information for diverse populations, and raise awareness of NIH’s All of Us Research Program. 

Speaker Bios:

Margaret Ansell, AHIP is the Nursing & Consumer Health Liaison Librarian at the University of Florida’s Health Science Center Libraries, and the Associate Chair of the Health Science Center Library in Gainesville.  She has been the liaison to the College of Nursing since 2014 and leads and participates in projects related to consumer health on campus and in the Gainesville community. 

Jane Morgan-Daniel, MLIS, AHIP is the Community Engagement and Health Literacy Liaison Librarian at the University of Florida’s (UF) Health Science Center Libraries. She is also the Liaison Librarian for UF’s Departments of Health Education and Behavior, Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy, and the Rehabilitation Science Program. 

 Lauren Adkins, MLIS, AHIP is the Assistant Librarian at the University of Florida’s (UF) Health Science Center Libraries. She is also the liaison for the UF College of Pharmacy and the Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics in the College of Medicine. She also participates in consumer health outreach events on campus and in the Gainesville community.