Library and Informatics Skills Competencies Statements from Major Health Professional Associations

Eldredge, Jonathan D.; Morley, Sarah; Hendrix, Ingrid; Carr, Richard D.; Bengtson, Jason

doi:10.1080/02763869.2012.641839

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“…Information skills training includes educating NHS staff on the effective use of resources such as online databases and e‐books, and critically appraising research articles . Information literacy skills are recognised as a core skill set for health care staff …”

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Measuring the impact of information skills training: a survey of health libraries in England

Ayre

Barbrook²,

Engel

et al. 2014

Health Info Libraries J

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Background: The lack of robust research measuring the impact of NHS based information skills training prompted the West Midlands Regional Trainers' Forum to conduct a post-training survey. Methods: This is a multi-centred study which collected data from over 60 separate organisations. Survey questionnaires were completed by learners a few weeks after the training event.Results: Five hundred and thirty-four responses were received. 82% of information skills training recipients indicated that they had implemented learning or changed practice as a result of the training. 70% of recipients indicated there had been an impact on patient care. Discussion: The beneficial results from information skills training manifest in a multitude of ways. The results of this study indicate that the learning from information skills training is being used to reduce problems and address the key issues in modern health care. Conclusion:The results clearly demonstrate the value of information skills training and its beneficial impact on patient care, lifelong learning and other key NHS functions. This study shows information skills training as an important activity which supports the information literacy agenda, and has a positive impact across the four key functions of library and knowledge services within the NHS.

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“…2 Information literacy skills are recognised as a core skill set for health care staff. 3 Evaluating the effectiveness of such training is clearly vital to justify the investment in it. However, there is no standard evaluation method currently in use across the NHS.…”

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Measuring the impact of information skills training: a survey of health libraries in England

Ayre

Barbrook²,

Engel

et al. 2014

Health Info Libraries J

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“…Eldredge and colleagues 10 compared library and informatics skills competency statements from major health professional associations. Absent from this study were informatics skills for food and nutrition practitioners.…”

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Nutrition Informatics Competencies across All Levels of Practice: A National Delphi Study

Ayres¹,

Greer-Carney²,

McShane³

et al. 2012

Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics

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“…For example, at the University of Montreal, the health library is integrated in the core curriculum for biomedical sciences and participation in its workshops is 'generally mandatory… most assignments are graded and represent 5 or 10% of the course's final mark' (Clairoux et al, 2013, p.203). Although many collaborative partnerships result in multi-year or multi-phase collaborations over the span of an entire degree programme (Craig & Corrall, 2007;Eldredge et al, 2012;Haines & Horrocks, 2006;Leasure et al, 2009;Spring, 2018;Tagge, 2018), the literature trends toward partnerships between librarian and faculty for building IL into a specific assignment (Diaz & Walsh, 2018;Franzen & Bannon, 2016;Innes, 2008;Janke & Rush, 2014;Sin & Bliquez, 2017) or course (Funnell, 2015;Hamilton, 2013;McCulley & Jones, 2014;Muellenbach et al, 2018;Munn & Small, 2017;Xiao, 2010).…”

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Re-visioning library support for undergraduate educational programmes in an academic health sciences library

Smith

2019

JIL

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McMaster University’s Health Sciences Library (HSL) began to transition to a new liaison service model in early 2018. One of its librarians sought to understand how an academic health sciences library can optimise its support for academic undergraduate programmes. This scoping review of the literature was pursued with the aim to submit an informed recommendation to HSL’s new Education and Lifelong Learning team, so the library could shift its approach to information literacy instruction in a manner that would optimise its outcomes for students and improve relationships with faculty staff. The author searched seven databases: Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA), ProQuest ERIC, OVID Embase, EBSCO CINAHL, OVID Medline, Web of Science and PapersFirst. She developed a robust and comprehensive search strategy that used a combination of subject headings and keywords to describe information literacy, metaliteracy, libraries and health sciences education. The author also hand-searched bibliographies of seminal publications to broaden her search for relevant literature. The findings in this review indicate that metaliteracy as a concept has not been intentionally implemented into information literacy training at academic health sciences libraries. The review finds that it is preferable to integrate information literacy skills directly into course or programme curricula and align those skills with the evidence-based practice skills undergraduates are already learning. Further, establishing a programme that builds on these skills gradually throughout the duration of the academic programme, rather than one-shot library instruction, is also preferred. To achieve success, libraries must build strong collaborative relationships with faculty staff. The author provides recommendations for practice that reflect the findings of this review. Other academic health libraries may benefit from this review by taking into consideration its findings and subsequent recommendations.

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Library and Informatics Skills Competencies Statements from Major Health Professional Associations

Cited by 8 publications

References 9 publications

Measuring the impact of information skills training: a survey of health libraries in England

Measuring the impact of information skills training: a survey of health libraries in England

Nutrition Informatics Competencies across All Levels of Practice: A National Delphi Study

Re-visioning library support for undergraduate educational programmes in an academic health sciences library

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