Using Human and Electronic Networks to Support End-User Training in Finding the Evidence

Brice, Anne; Tomlin, André

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“…Supplementary events were held on marketing, negotiation, and selling skills, and on evaluation. Joint programmes were developed with the Critical Appraisal Skills Programme (CASP) (Brice and Tomlin, 1999) which emphasized the integration of transferable skills in identifying and searching the knowledge base within other educational programmes. A training needs analysis carried out in 1998 was used to develop further continuing professional development strategies for the local health libraries network, which identified particular needs for work-based and supported learning.…”

Section: The Librarians Of the 21st Century Programmementioning

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The knowledge workout for health

Maynard

2002

Journal of Librarianship and Information Science

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The results are reported for the Training Needs Census of NHS Library Staff, the first systematic survey of the training needs of NHS library staff. The survey was undertaken by LISU (Library and Statistics Unit) and was commissioned by the NHS Executive, together with the Regional Librarians Group (RLG). The study involved all librarians working in NHS libraries and was conducted at the end of 1999. The full text of the survey report is available at the NHS Regional Librarians Group Web site (http://www.nthames-health.tpmde.ac.uk/rlg/documents/TNA_commentary.doc). The UK response rate was 53 per cent (represented by 1017 replies out of an estimated potential 1902). Of the respondents, 48 per cent were in the 36-50 age group with 27 per cent over 50 years and 84 per cent were female. Most were employed by a NHS Trust (65 per cent), 17 per cent worked in a Higher Education Institution, while 40 per cent worked part time. With regard to Personal Development Plans, 73 per cent did not have a PDP at the time of the survey and 79 per cent believed they would not have a plan by April 2000. The tasks most frequently undertaken were circulation desk activities, dealing with requests for information, training library users in information skills and CD-ROM/internet/database searching. Few participants are currently involved in developing or managing web sites, intranets or know-how systems. Most respondents highlighted training needs connected to using electronic resources, with 76 per cent receiving training in internet searching but a relatively high number wanting more training in this and in related areas such as information retrieval, CD-ROM and online database searching. The survey attempted to stimulate respondents away from the tradition of 'going on a course' to learn by asking about preferred training methods. The most popular training style was hands-on practice (60 per cent), followed by workshop/seminar (33 per cent). The same three training methods (external local courses, work-based training and in-house off work training) were the most popular across the UK. Concludes that there are several challenges for management that emerge from this study: to stimulate the desire to be trained by developing appropriate incentives; to skill and reskill people adequately for the demands of the electronic workplace; and to nurture people's interest in acquiring a much broader perspective of the work they do and where they do it.' ... we need to have an image of education which is like a double helix where two things are wound around each other -one is work and the other is education and training -and all one's life long from the beginning to the end, this double helix operates and interacts in a way that makes it almost impossible to pull them apart. ' Shirley Williams (1987) Sally Maynard is the Research Associate for the Library and Information Statistics Unit (LISU), based at Loughborough University. She recently completed her PhD with the

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Section: The Librarians Of the 21st Century Programmementioning

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The knowledge workout for health

Maynard

2002

Journal of Librarianship and Information Science

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Evidence-Based Librarianship

Eldredge

2000

Medical Reference Services Quarterly

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This paper discusses the challenges of finding evidence needed to implement Evidence-Based Librarianship (EBL). Focusing first on database coverage for three health sciences librarianship journals, the article examines the information contents of different databases. Strategies are needed to search for relevant evidence in the library literature via these databases, and the problems associated with searching the grey literature of librarianship. Database coverage, plausible search strategies, and the grey literature of library science all pose challenges to finding the needed research evidence for practicing EBL. Health sciences librarians need to ensure that systems are designed that can track and provide access to needed research evidence to support Evidence-Based Librarianship (EBL).

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Using Human and Electronic Networks to Support End-User Training in Finding the Evidence

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