The Trust librarian and I were at a briefing with our previous chief exec a few years ago and asked him where he got his info from as we hadn't seen or heard from any of the upper echelons, he said the "G" word!
I think this is a big problem at many health libraries, feeling like you are on the outside looking in, instead of being at the centre of the information flow.
SO,I am considering doing my dissertation on why libraries find themselves in this situation and how it can be changed. I hope you'll come and visit me in my padded cell when I've finished it.
Kind regards
Beverley Walsh ACLIP
Assistant Librarian
West Suffolk Hospital
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From: UK medical/ health care library community / information workers [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Perry Rowena
Sent: 15 July 2010 09:37
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Subject: Re: Government Spending Challenge
Our clinical librarian met the chief exec yesterday at Trust nursing conference - he has not a clue what we do, she was trying to explain to him about her service to which he said 'the patients must really like that' - not sure whether to laugh, cry or eat chocolate!
but at least he registered for the library!
Many thanks,
Rowena Perry
Library Services and E-Learning Manager
Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust
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-----Original Message-----
From: UK medical/ health care library community / information workers [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Andrew Booth
Sent: 15 July 2010 09:21
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Subject: Re: Government Spending Challenge
I cannot argue that librarians have a multitask brain - at least the 90% who are not chromosomally challenged as I unfortunately am (XY!).
However I am not sure I would WANT a surgeon to work with one hand on the cup of tea and the other on the computer mouse while having a chat with a colleague - unless he was studying in an otherwise deserted library that is! Or perhaps he could graft on a third arm for his bit part performance in the theatres?
[And that apparently is my 0.1% worth of your working day for today (assuming of course that you simply read my message, don't think or stew on it (very likely!) or reply to it and that I don't use poor statistical analysis to multiply it up by the number of list members.
And oh dear, by making this last point I have exceeded the 0.2% of my working day allocated to composing my reply :-) ]
Best wishes
Andrew
Angélique Mattioli wrote:
> The truth is that unlike surgeons we librarians are able to work with
> one hand on the cup of tea and the other on the computer mouse while
> we are having a chat with a colleague. We have a multitask brain ;-)
>
> Angélique Mattioli,
> Bibliothécaire-Documentaliste.
>
> IRSPG asbl,
> Bibliothèque,
> avenue Georges Lemaître, 25,
> 6041 Gosselies
> Belgique
>
>
>
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