Working with K-12 Audiences

Yamila El-Khayat – Outreach Services LibrarianArizona Health Sciences Library

Success!

Collaboration

Team Work

Partnership

high schools

• Collaboration• BIOTECH Project – University of Arizona

• http://biotech.bio5.org/ • KEYS Program (Keeping and Engaging Youth in Science)

• https://keys.pharmacy.arizona.edu/ • Med Start

• https://diversity.medicine.arizona.edu/med-start

BIOTECH Project

• The UA BIOTECH Program– What is it?

• Dual Enrollment

– How did we get involved• Partnership with

– Pima County JTED – Biotech programs– Arizona Health Sciences Library

• Brings students on campus– Library piece

• Learning how to effectively search for Health/ Science Informational Resources

– Evaluation Component

KEYS

• KEYS– What is it?– How we got involved?

• Summer Internship Program– Application process

• One whole session is dedicated to the library– How to search PubMed– Why?– Evaluation Component

Med Start

• Med Start– What is it?– How we got involved?

• Summer Program for 11th graders• Library Session– Identifying a community facing Health Disparities– Running research about this community

K-8

• Collaboration • Pharm Camp

– http://www.pharmacy.arizona.edu/topics/outreach-activities

• Health Professions Fair– http://clas.arizona.edu/health-professions-expo

• BIOTECH Program– http://biotech.bio5.org/

• New Initiatives• School Gardens• Presentations about Mobile Applications

Pharm Camp

• Pharm Camp– What is it?• Aimed at middle school students

– How did we get involved• Library Session– Consumer Health Information– Extreme Googling

Health Professions Fair

• What is it?• How we got involved?

• Library session– Medical Librarianship– Consumer Health Resources– Evaluation Component

New Initiatives

• School Gardens• Partnership– TUSD

• Grant Applications– Health and Nutritional Concepts– Tours of the current Food Hub/ Kitchen/

Greenhouse

NLM Mobile Applications

NLM Mobile Applications List

• Guide to NLM Mobile• AIDSinfo Mobile• AIDSinfo HIV/AIDS Glossary• DailyMed• Digital Collections• Drug Information Portal Mobile• Embryo• HazMap Mobile• Health Hotlines• LactMed• MedlinePlus Mobile

• NLM Native Voices• PhPartners• PubMed Mobile• PubMed® for Handhelds• Radiation Emergency Medical

Management (REMM)• Reunite• TOXNET Mobile• Turning the Pages Mobile• Water Emergency Response for Libraries• Wireless System for Emergency

Responders (WISER)

Yamila El-KhayatArizona Health Sciences Library

520-626-6770yme@ahsl.arizona.edu

Thank you