Librarians as Information Responders

National Library of Medicine [National Institutes of Health]. 05/2018 This 17-minute presentation explains the role of librarians in disaster information management, and provides details about training from the U.S. National Library of Medicine Disaster Information Management Research Center (DIMRC) to become a disaster information management specialist. It discusses why librarians and libraries think of themselves as information responders, and how, when disasters or public health emergencies occur, decisions made by first responders, emergency managers, public health department workforce, healthcare providers, and others all rely on the information they have at hand. (Video or Multimedia)
Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Source Type: news