Public Library Spotlight: Sue Simenz Title:   Reference Librarian, Brown County Library, Green Bay, WI

Name:  Sue Simenz Title:  Reference Librarian, Brown County Library, Green Bay, WI Education:  BA in Communication Arts (Radio-TV-Film), University of Wisconsin-Madison, MLS, University of Wisconsin-Madison How did you become interested in focusing on Health and Wellness? I’ve been in this job (reference and collection development) for a long time, so I’ve always been cognizant of the need for a quality physical collection and keeping it up to date.  Our health sections get evaluated/weeded more frequently than other areas and I’m doing that for our branches too.  Around 20 years ago I helped one of the local hospitals when they were setting up a consumer health circulating library.  Around the same time, I wrote some grants for Alzheimer’s and diabetes materials.  Requests for health information have been a constant at the reference desk.  I was aware that I was not as familiar with MedlinePlus and other resources as I’d like to be, so I was very interested in a program at the Wisconsin Public Library Association that Bobbi Newman presented last April.  She spoke about getting public libraries involved in providing health literacy information and the certification process through the National Libraries of Medicine. I was more excited about this than anything in a long time!  I started taking classes through NLM in the summer and I’m very close to getting my Consumer Health Information Specialist Level II Certification.  I was especially interested in t...
Source: The Cornflower - Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Tags: Public Libraries Public Libraries Spotlight Brown County Library Source Type: news