This month's report from the RCN R&D Co-ordinating Centre is about how the centre is used from the Welsh perspective. Angela Perrett, RCN Wales Librarian and Information Services Manager, writes about the co-ordinating centre's development in Wales, and Helen Nethercott, a practice development nurse at the Pembrokeshire and Derwen NHS Trust, recounts her experience of the interactive Internet workshop.
This article explores the development of an online learning area including context and process of the development. Key features of the learning area are outlined. An analysis of the information needs of nurses highlighted a demand for information literacy training. The development of the learning area was a collaborative process involving library staff and lifelong learning staff. The learning area uses a variety of techniques to appeal to a range of learning styles. Feedback about the learning area has been obtained and ongoing development of the learning area is planned.
The article 'How to write a perfect essay' (students, 7 December) advises readers to 'make the library your friend'. However, it is not the library that students or researchers need to befriend, it is the library staff.
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