UMBC’s Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery is exploring how best to use its resources to respond to the current public health crisis. In this poster, we present our newly formed health literacy working group. The working group’s mission is to improve the health of library employees and patrons by making health information easy to understand and use. Learn about the initiatives implemented by the working group: creating a charter, co-sponsoring a health literacy article discussion, publishing an online semesterly newsletter and implementing a health literacy lecture series. We also discuss our reasons for creating an in-house working group rather than depending on campus resources, our experiences after the first semester of this working group being active, and our plans for the future.
