LAST CHANCE TO BOOK!
The University Health Science Librarians (UHSL) Study Day:
'Making a Difference - Meeting the Challenge: higher education
working with Confederations for the education and training of health
professionals'
Tuesday 21st May 2002
Department of Health, Room 136/137B, Skipton House, London
SE1
UHSL recently commissioned a report from the Information Management
Research Institute at the University of Northumbria investigating the
impact on libraries of the Government's nursing, midwifery and health
visiting strategy as set out in the 1999 document 'Making a Difference'.
This Study Day will look at the key messages contained in the report, the
way in which higher education and regional libraries are beginning to
'meet the challenge' and plan joint strategies for the future.
Programme:
10.30 Coffee and registration
11.00 Welcome and introduction to the day, Liz Fairclough, Chair, UHSL
11.10 'Making a difference: contributions of higher education library and
information professionals to the Government's strategy’.
Maurice Wakeham, Co-author of report and Academic Liaison Librarian,
Anglia Polytechnic University
11.40 Key messages from the report
For Educators: Sheelagh Mealing, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Health,
South Bank University
For Workplace Confederations: David Stewart, Regional Director of
Healthcare Libraries North West Region
12.30 Lunch
1.30 Department of Health presentation
2.00 Working in Tandem: an HE and NHS partnership within the
Durham and Teesside Health Libraries Alliance. Sharon Dobbins, Durham & Tees Valley Workforce Confederation and Iain Baird, Library
& Information Services, University of Teesside.
2.30 Group workshop: planning for the future
3.15 Plenary session.
3.45 Tea and close
COST:
£60
For further information and a booking form please see the UHSL
web site at http://www.uhsl.ac.uk/study.html
or contact Roisin Gwyer
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
phone: 023 9284 3221
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Angela Horrocks, Faculty Librarian,
Learning Resources Centre, Kingston University,
Kingston Hill, Kingston Upon Thames, Surrey KT2 7LB
Email: [log in to unmask]
Tel: +44 (020) 8547 7385; Fax: +44 (020) 8547 7312
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