Presentation at ALA Annual

1. Critical Information Literacy
in Health
Kenny Garcia
Research and Instruction Librarian

2. What does critical information
literacy look like in health?
• Access to information
• Cataloging (MeSH Terms)
• Cultural humility

3. Nursing Standards
• Information Literacy Competency Standards for
Nursing (2013)
– Standard Five
• The information literate nurse understands
many of the economic, legal, and social issues
surrounding the use of information and accesses
and uses information ethically and legally.

4. Challenges
• Critiques of Evidence-Based Medicine
– Limited research on immigrants and communities of color
– Narrow definition of evidence
– Patient autonomy
• Individual Instruction Sessions