Search Smart for Your Health - A Statewide Health Literacy Campaign.

The Georgia Health Sciences Library Association (GHSLA) and the Georgia Alliance for Health Literacy (GAHL) partnered to educate residents about reliable health information online to raise health literacy awareness across the state of Georgia. The two groups received a gubernatorial declaration designating October as Health Literacy Month in Georgia. Information was posted online and demonstration workshops were held.

Library services for persons with disabilities: twentieth anniversary update.

In recognition of the twentieth anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), this survey updates the progress and reflects on the status of academic health sciences library services for people with disabilities since the Nelson study in 1996. The results of this survey extend beyond academic libraries to hospital libraries and include areas where all libraries can improve disability access. Based on a 24% response rate, libraries have addressed accessibility of technology in cost-effective and relatively easy ways.