Adult Patrons' Use of Public Libraries to Find Health Information
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- February 28, 2019
- Creator
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White, Kristin K.
- Affiliation: School of Information and Library Science
- Abstract
- The need for health information is universal, but with limited time to spend with health care professionals and the increasing amount of health information available online, people often have trouble finding quality health information that they can understand. Public libraries are perhaps a solution to this problem, as they provide access to resources and help with searching for information. This study seeks to understand how people use public libraries for finding health information. Patrons from three libraries were surveyed about their reasons for choosing the public library to find health information, the types of resources they used while there, and their satisfaction level with the information they found. Reference librarians were interviewed about the services they provide and the types of resources available to users. Findings indicate that most users come to the public library to use medical books available there and that many prefer print sources over online sources.
- Date of publication
- April 2010
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- In Copyright
- Advisor
- Gollop, Claudia
- Degree granting institution
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Language
- Extent
- 43
- Deposit record
- abb1808a-3405-4d7b-866b-f35807dc08b2
- Access right
- Open access
- Date uploaded
- March 6, 2013
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