Roles and Responsibilities of Libraries in Increasing Consumer Health Literacy and Reducing Health Disparities

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.

• Chapter 1. Introduction: Libraries and Librarians as Agents of Health Information Justice; Beth St. Jean, Paul T. Jaeger, Gagan Jindal and Yuting LiaoPublic Libraries/Healthy CommunitiesChapter 2. Consumer Health Literacy, the National Library of Medicine, and the Public Library: Bridging the Gaps; Catherine Arnott Smith, Alla Keselman, Amanda J. Wilson and M. Nichelle MidónChapter 3. Growing Food at and through the Local Library: An Exploratory Study of an Emerging Role; Christine D’Arpa, Noah Lenstra and Ellen RubensteinChapter 4. Opioid Consumer Health Information Literacies in Alabama’s Public Libraries: An Exploratory Website Content Analysis; Bharat Mehra and Baheya S. Jaber Chapter 5. Applying a Health Justice Framework to Examine Health and Social Justice in LIS Course Offerings; Emily Vardell and Deborah H. Charbonneau Health Information AssessmentChapter 6. Consumer Health Information Literacy and Information Behavior of Young Adults; Joan C. BartlettChapter 7. Asking Good Questions: Developing Skilled Health Information Consumers; Heather Brodie Perry Overcoming Barriers to Health Information AccessChapter 8. Making Health Information Accessible for All: The Impact of Universal Design in Public Libraries; Gerd BergetChapter 9. Sexual Education is a Human Right: Information Inequities of K-12 Sexual Education and Librarians’ Roles in Supporting Adolescents’ Sexual Health Literacy; Karina KletscherServing Disadvantaged PopulationsChapter 10. Public Libraries Expanding Health Literacy for Drug Court Participants; Anne M. Dannerbeck Janku, Jenny Bossaller, Denice Adkins and Rachel ThudiumChapter 11. Increasing Health Literacy in Rural Appalachia Tennessee through Outreach, Communication, and Education: How Libraries Can Reduce Health Disparities in their Communities; Kelsey Leonard GrabeelChapter 12. The Health of a Musician: Documenting and Addressing Health Disparities among Performing Musicians; Loriene RoyHealth Information as a Communal AssetChapter 13. (Im)patient Narratives: Peer-to-Peer Health Information Transfer in the LGBTQ+ Community via Zines from the Queer Zine Archive Project (QZAP); Joyce M. Latham and Sarah CookeChapter 14. “When it’s Time to Come Together, We Come Together”: Reconceptualizing Theories of Self-efficacy for Health Information Practices within LGBTQIA+ Communities; A. Nick Vera, Travis L. Wagner and Vanessa L. KitzieConclusionChapter 15. Libraries and Librarians as Agents of Health Information Justice: Concluding Thoughts; Beth St. Jean, Gagan Jindal, Paul T. Jaeger, Yuting Liao and Beth Barnett