Apologies for cross posting :
> Dear All
> Feeling a little bit bruised at the moment and fearing I may be 'letting
> down the side' in our profession....... I'm new in post in the NHS -
> aware of issues around firewalls etc but really coming up against it in
> ways I feel would be irresponsible of me not to admit to a lack of
> knowledge. Please don't think it isn't exciting within the challenge here
> at GSTT!!
>
> New Knowledge and Information Centre - work finally began yesterday - due
> to open in the New Year.
> Building a team - bit solitary at the moment....
> Upgrading the library management system (ALICE) and creating web pages -
> here lies the rub!! I'm not a cataloguer and the expectation of such
> skills being 'second nature' is why I need help and advice from anyone and
> everyone please... with some urgency too.
>
> KIC website will be used by 2 distinct groups of users :
> 1. Trust staff - to be hosted internally on KIC server
> 2. Public (patients, visitors etc) - to be hosted externally
>
> My real difficulty at the moment is the apparent need to use the catalogue
> as the gateway to all resources (even where it will sit isn't clear - have
> we got a LAN or a WAN!!!) and how feasible is it to catalogue all possible
> web sites (remembering they need to be agreed through clinical governance
> before being recommended to patients..) so a user can have a seamless
> searching facility. I'm upgrading to a web based ALICE with migratory
> possibilities to Liberty 3 at a later stage.
> Web sites can be catalogued with an appropriate bit of extra software but
> I understand we will still need 2 levels of key word enquiry. First usual
> key word and then the search facility within the chosen site eg patientuk.
> ALICE are working on a web wrapping facility that will be powerful, fancy
> and expensive but in the meantime I can't see how this will be useful for
> users and favour the web site as a gateway to resources linking to the
> catalogue (password protected if necessary) for books, journals, Trust
> info, patient printed stuff etc and web links through nationally approved
> quality sites (NELH, NHSDirect etc) as a first stage.
>
> I'm having massive pressure to be ground breaking but maybe I'm just being
> ignorant. Do you all catalogue web sites? and how do you cope with the
> appropriate searchable fields? How do you weight sites like NELH so it
> comes up for virtually every search? How on earth do you ensure quality
> and currency? how do you keep up and tell me why it's even necessary when
> teams of people work on NMAP, EQUIP etc?
>
> I'm not feeling too proud to be asking such exposing questions - but
> please give me some answers. My line manager (not a librarian) tells me
> he will not be persuaded against this so I have to find a way of
> understanding what exactly is possible.
> Hoping for lots of supportive replies - please.
> liz
>
> Liz Fairclough
> Knowledge and Information Centre Manager
> St Thomas' Hospital
> Lambeth Palace Road
> London SE1 7EH
>
> tel : 020 7928 9292 x2707
> Email : [log in to unmask]
>
>
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