Hi,

I meant to comment on this a while ago but time slips by……

Literature searches, training and journal clubs is such a limited, last-century view of what clinical librarians do.   We’ve moved beyond journal clubs into blogs and Twitter feeds, for example.    We don’t do literature searches, we answer enquiries and may synthesise the results into a short review or even an email.    The literature search is part of the process, not the outcome.  Our last classroom training session was a long time ago.   If this survey wants to capture the true impact, it needs to look a lot wider.   Or is it just me?

Regards

 

Mike

 

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Do you provide quality assured information to health professionals at the point of need to support clinical decision making¹?
Does your library service deliver any of the following to health care staff?

• Literature searches
• Training
• Journal Clubs

Would you like to measure the direct and potential impacts of these services on outcomes within your organisation using a survey and interview template?  

If you've answered yes to the above then we'd love to hear from you.

As a result of some of the work within the Knowledge for Healthcare Quality and Impact group (QIG), we are aiming to use the tools developed by Brettle et al and used in the North West to measure the impact of clinical librarian services.

We are looking for as many Library/Knowledge Services as possible to take part, so we can get a detailed picture of the impact we have nationally.

We would like to create a fantastic bank of evidence which can then be used to demonstrate the intrinsic value of your service to your organisation, create business cases to secure funding for service developments, and generally shout about the benefits of LKS within health care settings. 

We’re starting the process of now in June with an online survey and then at a later date with interviews. You can just contribute to the survey but it would be great if supported both the survey and interviews.

If you’d like to find out more about the original project then you can read Alison Brettle’s blog post.

If you're interested in taking part, then please contact one of the following:

South of England
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London & South East of England
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Midlands & East of England
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North of England
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Australia
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Hill, P. Report of a National Review of NHS Funded Library Information Services in England. Warwick: National Institute for Innovation and Improvement, 2008.

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