Reaching Out to All: Medical Informatics as Service to Diverse Populations in an Academic Medical Center

Abstract

As an academic health sciences library in an urban area, the Himmelfarb Library is challenged to provide outreach services to a diverse user population and to the surrounding community. To respond to this challenge the librarians provide outreach services and programs to accomplish the following goals: Provide additional education to user groups within the medical center; provide focused services at the point of need within the curricula and the hospital; reach out to the surrounding health care community, offering medical information and consumer education; promote consumer resources to underserved populations.