Journal of Information Organization Pramila M C,Ananthnag K,Dasharath B,Yacob Johnson 14 4 2024 https://doi.org/10.6025/jio/2024/14/4/163-168 https://www.dline.info/jio/fulltext/v14n4/jiov14n4_1.pdf Medical librarianship comprises working on general literacy, informational literacy, and patient education initiatives. These will make librarians and community libraries excellent at gathering resources to further and update health literacy research and practice. The role of the National Medical Library is to develop resources, programs, and collaborative partnerships with medical librarians to serve the health information needs of the community. This article gives an overview of Karnataka’s government health initiatives and literacy efforts. The study identifies different schemes of Karnataka health projects through programs in diverse communities, focusing on service to the special community populations that may suffer from health disparities in Karnataka. The study extends to describing the ‘libraries’ and librarians’ responses to continuously evolving contexts and mediums and meeting community requirements. It also observed the enablers of success, limitations of the existing data, and directions for future research.