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Defining a Paradigm for the Dissemination of Health Information to Immigrant Populations at the Fletcher Free Library
Connolly, Kristen DeWitt, John Gardner, Juli Lopreiato, Joseph Novinger, Leah Plante, Timothy Wong, Uni Gaster, Amber Pasanen, Mark Jemison, Jill
Connolly, Kristen
DeWitt, John
Gardner, Juli
Lopreiato, Joseph
Novinger, Leah
Plante, Timothy
Wong, Uni
Gaster, Amber
Pasanen, Mark
Jemison, Jill
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Abstract: In recent years, the surge of refugee families to the greater Burlington area has lead to a significant increase in the minority population of the city. The Fletcher Free Library (FFL) represents a potential health information resource for this population; it is, however, little utilized. Our project sought to target one of these minority populations, the Somali Bantu, and to diminish the barriers to the use of the FFL’s resources within the Somali population itself. To reduce barriers to access of health information by the Somali Bantu population, we educated the FFl’s reference librarians on Somali culture, developed a compendium of health information in both English and Somali for inclusion within the library’s collection, and staged a one-day intervention at the Community Health Center of Burlington to present the FFL as a potential source of health information for refugee populations. Somali Bantu use of the library, as well as reference librarian confidence in serving this minority population,was objectively assessed via pre- and post-interventional surveys.
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2008-01-21