Committee for Health Information Access (CHIA)

Scope: Striving to educate the public on how to access high quality, reliable healthcare information
resources, and provide opportunities for library workers in Western New York to learn more about health
information.

Charge:

• To actively represent the interests of Western New York library workers providing health
  information services
• To assess, promote, and facilitate health information access to health consumers in the WNYLRC
  region
• To encourage collaboration, coordination, and cooperative ventures that strengthen existing
  information resources in the region and to identify and develop new ones as needed
• To further the HLSP goals and objectives as stated in the current five-year WNYLRC Plan of
  Service

updated 11/16/2021

CHIA LibGuide 

Committee Chair: Michelle Brancato