Apologies for cross posting
Dear all
I recently came across the Notes of a meeting of the Museums and Archives
Council's Health Research Project Steering Group. [Gripping first sentence].
It seems that as part of their discussion they raised the question of who is
providing the national vision for libraries' contribution to health.
My immediate thought was that this should be cilip or possibly its Health
Libraries Group. However as Chair of that Group's Ideas and Advocacy panel I
am aware of the limitations of that thought. I am also aware that there are
large numbers of library related groups around, some national and some
regional or local (LFN, IFMH, SHALL, CHILL, UHMLG - I'm sure you know
others). It occurs to me that all of these groups must have aims, objectives,
visions or simply purposes which determine what they do and how they
contribute to the overall work that libraries do in the cause of health. I
thought it would be a useful thing to do to try to gather those together in
order to share them between groups and see how they overlap. It may even help
the profession to focus the work it does in this area in the longer term.
The purpose of this email therefore is to ask any members of committees of
these organisations to send me their visions, aims, purposes or whatever so
that we might see what we are all trying to do. If you are in sympathy with
this idea feel free to respond and circulate this email further afield. I
will pull the responses I get together and circulate the information at a
later date.
My intention is not to clutter up discussion lists (much) so you can send the
information to me but maybe this will prompt some broader discussion within
the lists, for example what to do with such information as might be gathered
or what to do about generating a health vision for libraries, if anything.
It wasn't my intention but it occurs to me that this might tie in with some
of what cilip is promoting as one of its six priorities in the forthcoming
election - the co-ordination of public health information provision.
http://www.cilip.org.uk/get-involved/advocacy/manifesto/Pages/public-health.a
spx
Maurice
Maurice Wakeham
HLG Ideas and Advocay Panel
Tel 0845 196 3766
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