Michelle Eberle

Office: Shrewsbury campus
Phone: 508-856-2435
Email: Michelle.Eberle@umassmed.edu
Curriculum Vitae

Title

Consumer Health Information Coordinator

Department

Regional Medical Library Office

Brief Biography

Michelle L. Eberle, MS LIS, is the Consumer Health Information Coordinator (CHIC) for the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, New England Region. With a position with a really neat acronym, she travels around New England educating librarians, health professionals and consumers about National Library of Medicine resources and services. In 2000, Michelle earned a Masters in Library and Information Science from Simmons College in Boston, MA. Elizabeth Eaton's Medical Librarianship course inspired Michelle to purse a career in the field. In 1997, Michelle graduated from Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut with a Bachelors of Arts in Social Work with a Music Minor from a brief stint at Juilliard studying viola performance. After graduating from Simmons, Michelle worked as the Medical Librarian at Somerville Hospital. At Somerville Hospital, she discovered her passion for consumer health librarianship by serving on the patient education committee and her interest in instructional librarianship by offering educational programming for nurses and residents.

Areas of Interest and Expertise

Consumer health, information literacy, health literacy, wellness, complementary and alternative medicine, mental health, multilingual health information, grant and proposal writing, distance learning

Teaching and/or Research

• MedlinePlus.gov and PubMed.gov: Your Connection to Quality Online Health Information
• The Healthy Librarian: Cultivating Wellness in the Workplace
• Grant and Proposal Writing
• Going Green with the National Library of Medicine: Environmental Health and Toxicology Information
• The Savvy Senior Health Information Searcher
• From Snake Oil to Penicillin: Evaluating Consumer Health Information on the Internet
• PubMed for the Rest of Us: Searching the Medical Literature for the Non-Expert
• Beyond an Apple a Day: Providing Consumer Health at the Public Library
• ¿No Comprende? Spanish Health Information Resources for English Speaking Librarians
• Will Duct Tape Cure My Warts? Examining Complementary and Alternative Medicine
• Caring for the Mind: Providing Reference Services for Mental Health Information
• An Ounce of Prevention: Quality Online Resources for Children's Health

Publications

• Eberle ML. Librarians' perceptions of the reference interview. Journal of Hospital Librarianship. 2005; 5(3): 29-41.
• CHICChat column,NN/LM, New England Region NER'estah Blog

Presentations

Over the past five years, Michelle has taught over 150 presentations at library conferences, health professional conferences and regional library systems.

Honors and Awards

• Served on CDC Expert Panel on Health Literacy of Older Adults, Dec 2007
• Panelist on the Medical Library Association WebCast, Finding Work Life Balance: Strategies for You and Your Institution, March 25, 2009