Dear David,
This is a suggestion on behalf of librarians working in
Community/Primary Care/Mental Health Trusts, and may also be applicable
to librarians working in combined Trusts.
What about improved access to social care databases? Documents from the
Dept. of Health are encouraging partnerships and closer working between
health and social care. I wondered if librarians might welcome
regionally discounted subscriptions to any of the following:
sociofile, caredata, social science index, social science citation
index, ASSIA, etc.
I have in mind the following comment from Katherine Palmer (1999),in
Signposts to information for community mental health workers -
"Psychiatric nurses were perceived by librarians to require a
particularly wide range of information since they deal with the whole
person, including social aspects, and hence require psychological and
sociological as well as healthcare information."
Perhaps OVID or Optology could include a social care database at their
Christmas demonstration? (as well as BNI).
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norma blackburn
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