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• Commended for Doody's Core Titles 2020 (United States)
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Overview

Framing Healthcare instruction: An Information Literacy Handbook for the Health Sciences is a step-by-step guide to integrating the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy into health sciences librarianship. Although this topic has been touched on briefly in previous publications, this book is dedicated exclusively to the unique considerations of the health sciences. With over fifty case studies describing explicit lesson plans and assessments, health sciences librarians who may be new to the Framework or are looking for ready-made lesson plans will find this guide easy to navigate and to apply to their own educational sessions. Multiple disciplines are covered, including: nursing, medicine, allied health, veterinary medicine, and more. In addition to the practical application of the case studies, the books covers in depth each part of the Framework and how it relates to students in the health science

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Young and Hinton have done it! They've created a theoretical and practical book on information literacy that solo librarians or academic librarians can use to teach their constituents. It is easy to read and easy to apply what they've written anywhere, anytime! -- Jeffrey Coghill, outreach librarian and director, Eastern AHEC Library Services, Laupus Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC and Co-editor, Developing Librarian Competencies for the Digital Age, edited by Jeffrey Coghill and Roger Russell This is a masterful work that will serve as an indispensable tool for any health sciences librarian-from novice to expert-that is involved in and dedicated to vitally important library instruction in information literacy competencies for students in progressively advanced populations (undergraduate, graduate, post-graduate and professional). Well-written and highly readable, this is highly recommended. -- Claire B. Joseph, MS, MA, AHIP Director, Medical Library, South Nassau Communities Hospital

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Elizabeth G. Hinton, MSIS, AHIP, is Instruction and Research Librarian and Assistant Professor at the University of Mississippi Medical Center’s Rowland Medical Library. She is library liaison to the School of Nursing, where she holds a secondary faculty appointment. Ms. Hinton is author or co-author on several peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters and has presented multiple posters and papers. She is active in both the Medical Library Association and the Southern Chapter of the Medical Library Association and is a senior member of AHIP. Her professional interests include systematic reviews, library and educational assessment, and measuring scholarly output. Lauren M. Young, MLIS, MA, AHIP is Associate Librarian and Instruction Coordinator, Reference and Research Services, at Samford University’s Davis Library. Her academic library career has seen equal time spent in technical services and public services roles, specializing in meeting health sciences information needs. Ms. Young has worked actively in library and institutional assessment initiatives, and she taught and evaluated online community college English courses for 10 years. She is a member of state, regional, and national library associations and has been an active contributor to the library scholarly discourse.

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