IFLA Volume 45 Number 3 October 2019 IFLA Contents Special issue: Health information transforming lives Guest editor: Maria G. N. Musoke Assistant editors: Martin Morris and Shane Godbolt Introduction Special issue: Health information transforming lives 185 Maria G. N. Musoke Articles Transforming lives: Combating digital health inequality 187 Bob Gann Towards new ways of assessing the impact of local medical journals: A proposal and call for change 199 Christine Wamunyima Kanyengo, Mercy Wamunyima Monde and Akakandelwa Akakandelwa Health information literacy awareness and capacity building: Present and future 207 Terri Ottosen, Nandita S. Mani and Megan N. Fratta The importance of public libraries in education for health literacy: A case study on diabetic patients 216 Hamed Pirialam, Maryam Kazerani, Maryam Shekofteh and Zahra Razzaghi Health information services: Engaging women in cervical cancer screening awareness in Nigeria 224 Ngozi P. Osuchukwu and Ngozi B. Ukachi Advancing scholarly publishing through open access biomedical repositories: A knowledge management perspective 233 Lisa Kruesi, Kerry Tanner and Frada Burstein The role of the university library in creating inclusive healthcare hackathons: A case study with design-thinking processes 246 Bethany McGowan Abstracts 254 Aims and Scope IFLA Journal is an international journal publishing peer reviewed articles on library and information services and the social, political and economic issues that impact access to information through libraries. The Journal publishes research, case studies and essays that reflect the broad spectrum of the profession internationally. 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IFLA Introduction International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions 2019, Vol. 45(3) 185–186 Special issue: Health information ª The Author(s) 2019 Article reuse guidelines: transforming lives sagepub.com/journals-permissions DOI: 10.1177/0340035219859168 journals.sagepub.com/home/ifl Maria G. N. Musoke Kyambogo University, Kampala Uganda and Chair IFLA HBS The Health and Biosciences Libraries Section (HBS) other sections of society, but also about the many of the International Federation of Library and Infor- health disparities that are likely to exist. For those mation Associations (IFLA) is the IFLA ‘voice’ on who may be members of more than one traditionally health and biosciences information and libraries. The underserved community, this may also involve under- HBS, therefore, acts as a forum for special libraries standing and navigating multiple layers of discrimi- concerned with all aspects of information manage- nation and their effect on the person’s health, on their ment and services in relation to the medical, health sources of information, health information needs as and other biological sciences. The HBS aims include: well as their information behaviour. the implementation of and support for better manage- Long viewed as safe places and spaces, libraries ment and provision of health care information to serve as hubs of information services for students, health practitioners, researchers, academics and con- researchers, academics, practitioners and the entire sumers; facilitating the development and application society including underprivileged communities. In of new technologies relevant to the health and bios- both the developed and developing countries, new ciences libraries; supporting the next generation of ideas and services keep emerging, some simultane- health information professionals; strengthening and/ ously and others adapted and contextualised as or initiating the cooperation between HBS and related being more appropriate for a developing country libraries, organisations, institutions and associations setting. This Special Issue includes specific exam- at national, regional and international levels. The ples of innovative projects that have been imple- HBS, therefore, focuses on Sustainable Development mented by health information professionals Goal number 3. As part of its activities, HBS has an reaching out to the hard-to-reach areas, giving evi- active research programme and has just concluded a dence of what was learnt and demonstrating that a study on the educational needs for health librarianship specified group of people was reached and sup- in the East, Central and Southern Africa region. The ported. The contribution of public librarians to HBS recently sponsored a Special Interest Group on health information provision is also highlighted in Evidence for Global and Disaster Health, which in two papers. The successful projects reported in this addition to SDG 3, addresses SDG 6 and 11. issue can be replicated in other areas in line with In view of the above, the HBS has prepared this IFLA’s Global Vision of ‘powering literate, special issue of the IFLA Journal on the theme of informed and participative societies’. ‘Health information transforming lives’. The issue Furthermore, this Special Issue has explored and highlights the transforming effect of health informa- demonstrated alternative ways of measuring impact tion in society. For example, library outreach, in all its beyond traditional scholarly metrics. Conventional forms, requires that the librarians leave their own tra- bibliometric analysis of output can indeed be comple- ditional space, enter someone else’s space, learn mented by metrics that assess the dissemination and about the people occupying that space and create a impact of medical/health research through social connection between the two. For health librarians media, usage of biomedical devices, disease wishing to connect with traditionally underserved and hard-to-reach populations, this requires not only Corresponding author: learning about and appreciating the cultural differ- Maria G. N. Musoke, Kyambogo University, Kampala, Uganda. ences that may distinguish those populations from Email: [email protected] 186 IFLA Journal 45(3) epidemiology, and/or other methods that engage the Declaration of Conflicting Interests public to improve health. Hence, new roles underta- The author declared no potential conflicts of interest with ken by health information professionals in supporting