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The U.S. National Library of Medicine's (NLM) Environmental Health Information Partnership (EnHIP) collaborates with Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and other minority-serving academic institutions to enhance their capacity to reduce health disparities through the access, use, and delivery of environmental health information on their campuses and in their communities.

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The U.S. National Library of Medicine's (NLM) Environmental Health Information Partnership (EnHIP) collaborates with Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and other minority-serving academic institutions to enhance their capacity to reduce health disparities through the access, use, and delivery of environmental health information on their campuses and in their communities.

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Library workers' personal beliefs about childhood vaccination and vaccination information provision.

J Med Libr Assoc

July 2014

, Senior Social Science Analyst, Division of Specialized Information Services, US National Library of Medicine, 6707 Democracy Boulevard, Suite 510, Bethesda, MD 20892-5467; , Associate Professor, School of Library and Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Room 4217, Helen C. White Hall, 600 North Park Street, Madison, WI 53706; , Contractor, Center for Public Service Communications, 10388 Bayside Drive, Claiborne, MD 21624.

This is a report on the impact of library workers' personal beliefs on provision of vaccination information. Nine public librarians were interviewed about a hypothetical scenario involving a patron who is concerned about possible vaccination-autism connections. The analysis employed thematic coding.

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In the era of growing concerns about human-induced climate change and sustainable development, it is important for the schools to prepare students for meaningful engagement with environmental policies that will determine the future of our society. To do this, educators need to face a number of challenges. These include deciding on the science knowledge and skills needed for informed citizenship, identifying teaching practices for fostering such knowledge and skills, and finding ways to implement new practices into the tightly packed existing curriculum.

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