Hi folks
I've had an enquiry from a UK health librarian, which is also on a topic I
am interested in; basically, what works best in user education re electronic
databases, particularly with technophobic (or at least 'technowary') users.
Plus developing an online tutorial/ training materials.
I am aware that some of you spend most of your working time on this and can
probably give a much more informed response than me. Either on research
evidence and/or examples of relevant teaching materials anyone has produced,
(preferably,but not essentially, freely accessible via the web). I have
requested a search from CILIP but no results so far, tho it was only last
week.
Her query and my reply (both edited)are below. Personally, I would also be
interested in teaching resources available free via the web on other topics
taught in our patch(eg critical appraisal). I'll summarise the results for
the list.
Thanks!
Fiona
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Query: '...USER EDUCATION particularly of electronic databases in both
clinical and health management. They have got access to the newly developed
NHS Scotland e-library but are afraid to use it! I am looking for the best
LIS user education practice articles for the health sector.....I would
suggest they put an online tutorial on their website(I am advising them
about this too!) for information oriented visitors but need to develop a
training package for them.'
Reply:'Its not something I have much experience of... There are a few links
from http://www.nelh.nhs.uk/librarian/info_skills.asp (part
of the NeLH LIS portal at http://www.nelh.nhs.uk/librarian/default.asp) The
RDN materials such as Internet Medic
http://www.vts.rdn.ac.uk/tutorial/medic) are a nice introduction in general,
but not specifically re database searching. I'm guessing something basic may
be handy as they are scared of the Scottish e-Library.
Cochrane has training materials linked from that NeLH page, too.
NeLH has some training materials linked from its home page -see
http://www.nelh.nhs.uk/training/- but probably not anything extra relevant
to Scotland (not sure if you have Clinical Evidence free?)
A lot of search training depends on which host you use, as that affects the
software (eg OVID is very different to DIALOG). Try contacting the company
(eg via their website) to ask for any end-user training materials they
produce?
PubMed has a tutorial, tho its a bit of a fankle, and also a longer training
manual you can download (its what we use on our PubMed courses), tho it
would take a couple of hours to work thru. Links from
http://www.bl.uk/services/information/blmedline.html#training'
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