Dear LIS-MEDICAL members
We would like to publicise a new JISC Mail list, the impetus for which
was provided by the very well attended and lively Clinical Librarian
conference, held at Leicester earlier this year. Discussions following
this event yielded the view that there would be a place for a list,
separate from LIS-MEDICAL, relating specifically to issues encountered
by those who work with clinicians in the clinical environment.
The Clinical Librarian mailing list is proposed as a forum for the
dissemination of information about and discussion between librarians who
work directly with clinicians in the clinical environment. It is aimed
at Clinical Librarians (and those with similar roles but different job
titles!), who are usually based either in teaching hospital libraries
(HEIs) or NHS libraries. We are hoping it may develop nternationally,
although in order to satisfy JISC Mail's conditions, its stated purpose
has to be primarily to benefit UK HE/FE and research based
practitioners.
We are aiming to provide a forum to discuss everyday practicalities, for
example, training opportunities, specific sources of information,
document supply, collection of statistics, project evaluation and more,
as the list evolves. Our hope is that it will be a very immediate and
pragmatic source of help and will enable the exchange of ideas as well
as the provision of professional support.
The list proposal has been developed collaboratively between the four
signatories of this e-mail (although, of course, it can only be sent by
one for technological reasons). If you have comments, criticisms, ideas
to make or require any further information before we go ahead and set
the list up, please feel free to be in contact with any of us.
An e-mail will be sent to LIS-MEDICAL detailing how to join the new
list, which will probably be called CLIN-LIB, as soon as it is set up
and able to take registrations.
Thank you.
Helen Carter, Clinical Librarian, Cairns Library, John Radcliffe
Hospital, Oxford
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John Sheehan, Learning Resource Manager, United Bristol Healthcare Trust
Education Centre
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Linda Ward, Clinical Librarian, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS
Trust
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Donald Mackay, Enquiry Services Manager, Cairns Library, John Radcliffe
Hospital, Oxford
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