Skills for the millennium ‐ The Librarian of the 21st Century

Palmer, Judith

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“…Mnzava and Katabalwa (), for instance, point out their role in promoting health literacy; Chipungahelo, Haruna, Ndege, & Lujenje () note that they promote public resources for health. Furthermore, health information professionals assist library users to use evidence based information to support evidence informed decisions (Palmer, ). This requires that users have skills, which are achieved through evidence based information trainings, workshops, exchange visits, training in systematic review, critical appraisal and searching.…”

Section: The Role Of Health Libraries In Tanzania In the 21st Centurymentioning

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Tanzanian health libraries in the 21st century: initiatives and challenges

Chande‐Mallya

2019

Health Info Libraries J

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This article is part of a series in this regular feature, which looks at new directions in health science libraries. It highlights the initiatives health science librarians in Tanzania are implementing to ensure that their service meets users’ needs. To succeed, libraries must take steps to ensure that staff have access to education, training and professional development. Partnerships and collaborations are also vital to make the best use of scarce resources and to identify sources of funding. This article highlights the various challenges facing the library service and the opportunity for librarians to be recognised for the new roles they are taking on. J.M.

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Section: The Role Of Health Libraries In Tanzania In the 21st Centurymentioning

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Tanzanian health libraries in the 21st century: initiatives and challenges

Chande‐Mallya

2019

Health Info Libraries J

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“…Since the advent of evidence based approaches, librarians have required an increasing array of skills, translating into a need for continuing professional development. Responses to these demands included the Anglia and Oxford Librarian of the 21 st Century Programme (Palmer 1996;Palmer 1997;Palmer et al 1997;Palmer & Streatfield 1995), the University of Sheffield ADEPT Programme and the West Midlands Project Apple (Whittlestone, Low, & Pope, 1999).…”

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Evidence‐based Practice for Information Professionals:A Handbook

2005

Journal of Documentation

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Librarians working in healthcare in the late 1990s had the considerable privilege, and indeed pleasure, of witnessing and participating in, a revolutionary paradigm which was to place information management, its associated skills and technologies in centre stage in the delivery of appropriate and effective care. That paradigm, variously identified as "evidence based medicine", "evidence based healthcare" or "evidence based practice" placed a premium on the retrieval of rigorous and reliable evidence to inform clinical decision making.Had this been the full impact of this new model for ongoing discovery and lifelong learning then you, the reader, likely working in an information sector outside healthcare, would have no need to even open this edited book on evidence based information practice. The fact that you have opened this book bears testimony to the migration of the "evidence based" model to other sectors including education, social work and management. It also attests to an increasing interest in the evidence base for our own practice. Although much of the trail has been blazed from within the healthcare sector, and is necessarily represented as such in this book, we contend (and many colleagues agree) that this model is equally valid for the sector within which you are working. What is required is the application of the tools and techniques to your specific area of practice, be it in libraries, museums or archives, and its sensitive adaptation to your local culture and environment.We, the editors, would like to invite you to examine this model with an open mind and attempt to identify its potential usefulness wthin your specific context. In doing so we would encourage you to challenge, to criticize and, even, to combat! "No stimulation without irritation" has long been a rallying cry from Muir Gray, one of the leading proponents of evidence based practice. In producing the light that only the generation of heat can occasion we believe that the cause of evidence based practice will be better advanced than through some uneasy and artificial consensus.We would like to take this opportunity to thank both our spouses and families for their patience, forbearance and encouragement as we oversaw the progress of this work from idea to realization.

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“…Strong links have been shown to exist between the presence of staff with effective levels of training and successful implementation of electronic library service (Rodwell 2001;Palmer 1996;Kajberg 1997;Popp & Fazle Kabir 1990: 77) or even with the success or failure of the information service in general (Friend 1990: 121). Given that the major budget item of most public libraries is salaries, optimising skills through development and effective training is a critical issue.…”

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Through the looking glass for librarians: a training lens to improve and fast track learning of databases

Williamson¹,

Bannister²

2003

The Australian Library Journal

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Through the looking glass for librarians sample group and the investigation of self-perceived skills and training needs in the same group. The paper concludes with the outline of the training modules which are proposed. These modules will use a 'lens' to improve and fast track learning of databases. The researchers believe that, with the aid of the 'lens', librarians can master any new database, including its idiosyncrasies, very quickly. In this way, librarians should gain more confidence in working with databases, and feel less stressed by the constant proliferation of interfaces and formats. Alternatively, the modules can be used to train new reference staff on the use of databases in general.

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Skills for the millennium ‐ The Librarian of the 21st Century

Cited by 13 publications

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Tanzanian health libraries in the 21st century: initiatives and challenges

Tanzanian health libraries in the 21st century: initiatives and challenges

Evidence‐based Practice for Information Professionals:A Handbook

Through the looking glass for librarians: a training lens to improve and fast track learning of databases

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