Education Guides: Events 2022

July 14, 2022

Presenter: Bennie Finch

Description: This one-hour webinar will provide an overview of the resources available on MedlinePlus, go over basic navigation on MedlinePlus, and will touch on basic health reference and other helpful resources to support your work.

Learning Objectives:

After taking this tour, you should be able to:

• Explain why MedlinePlus is an authoritative source of health information for consumers and patients 
• Identify how to find specific health topic information or tools in MedlinePlus
• Identify how to find specific drugs, herbs and supplements information in MedlinePlus

June 9, 2022

Presenters: Lynn Gitlow, Jeff Boles, and Kate Hooks

Description: Lynn, Jeff, Kate (and service dog Gem) visited five libraries in the SCRLC region to conduct accessibility audits, with a focus on digital inclusion. They will share an overview of the audit process and some of their top findings and recommendations for each library to make their buildings and, in particular, their digital spaces more inclusive.

Learning Outcomes:

• Learn more about the accessibility audit process
• Gain ideas for things you can implement quickly to make your library and your computers more accessible and inclusive
• Think long-term about library accessibility construction projects

January 25, 2022

Donna Eschenbrenner and Eve Snyder of The History Center in Tompkins County will talk about The History Center's unique photo collections and their use in the innovative program HistoryForge, where images, maps, and census data merge to tell the story of Ithaca's built environment and the people who lived there. 

September 20, 2022

Presenter: Sean Corning

Description: How are health communication and health literacy connected? How can you be more effective in providing health information to consumers, patients, clients, library patrons and your community? This 1 hour webinar introduces the concepts of health literacy and health communication, outlines components of clear health communication, and identifies online resources from NLM, government agencies and other recognized resources for health literacy and health communication.

Learning Objectives:

• Define health literacy​
• Describe universal precautions for health literacy​
• Name 3 components of clear health communication ​
• Identify 3 online resources you can use as tools to promote health literacy​​​

June 15, 2022

Description: Gaelynn Lea will share her personal experience of living, learning, loving, and working as a touring artist with a disability. She will discuss the barriers disabled artists and audience members still face and highlight activism and social efforts that can help further the goal of equality for all. Gaelynn will discuss why disability education, coupled with inclusion in the arts are so important, and how the concept of Disability Pride can help transform our culture. She will close the workshop by sharing how the arts can be made more accessible online and off in order to facilitate this cultural shift.

May 23, 2022

Presenter: Krista Macy

The presentation provides basic level introduction to the concept of universal design for those with little or no prior knowledge of the concept. The presentation includes:

1. Overview of the IDEA Center (the premier Research & Development center on accessibility and

   universal design in the United States.)

2. Differences between Universal Design and Accessibility

3. The 8 Goals of Universal Design

   1. Beneficiaries of Universal Design

   2. The business case for Universal Design

4. Examples of Universal Design in Libraries

   1. ADA Issues in Libraries

   2. Library Design Case Studies

5. Resources to implement Universal Design

6. Q&A