Free information literacy event in Sheffield

Free Info Literacy research event, 30 March 2007

**Please reply to
p.dokphrom@shef.ac.uk if you wish to attend **

The Department of Information Studies, University of Sheffield, is
holding a free half-day event on information literacy research,
featuring speakers from the Department plus a visiting speaker: Dr
Christine Bruce, Associate Professor, Faculty of Information
Technology, Queensland University of Technology, Australia.

**When
Friday 30th March 2007. Registration from 1.15, programme starts at
1.40 and ends at 4.15.

**Where
Regent Court, Portobello Street, University of Sheffield

**What
Programme consists of: Introduction ( Professor Sheila Corrall,
University of Sheffield); Guest keynote: Information literacy: models
from research (Dr Christine Bruce); Information Literacy research in
the Department of Information Studies, and the UK research agenda (
Sheila Webber and Nigel Ford); Conceptions of information literacy of
UK Chemistry and English academics (Sheila Webber, University of
Sheffield, and Bill Johnston, University of Strathclyde); Mining of
search activity data to support information literacy (Professor Nigel
Ford and Dr Andrew Madden, University of Sheffield, reporting from a
project investigating search behaviour of members of the public).
There will be opportunities for questions and discussion.

**How much
Free

**How to register
Email Ms Phussadee Dokphrom at p.dokphrom@shef.ac.uk

**More information at:
http://dis.shef.ac.uk/sheila/march30.html

Intute survey

Dear all,

this is a message from the Intute's team eliciting feedback on the system. It could be useful to complete and get an idea of how to structure your evaluation strategy - especially for those of you who are going to cover online facilities for Component 4

Susie

** Tell us what you think of Intute **

Intute was launched on 13th July 2006. It is a free online service providing you with access to the very best web resources for education and research. The service is created by a network of UK universities and partners.

Please help us to ensure that it meets your needs by completing this short online survey:

http://feedback.intute.ac.uk/userfeedback


PRIZE DRAW: A £50 Amazon Voucher will be awarded each week throughout March.

distinction between 'competencies' and 'competences'

This URL is from Mary Last (as the blog is playing up again)

It distinguishes between competencies and competences (which I'd been puzzling about)


the site's address is:

http://www.cipd.co.uk/subjects/perfmangmt/competnces/comptfrmwk.htm?IsSrchRes=1

LAST CHANCE TO SAVE YOUR FEMINIST LIBRARY

The Feminist Library

5 Westminster Bridge Road, London SE1 7XW
Email: feministlibraryappeal@gmail.com
Myspace: www.myspace.com/feministlibrary


February 2007

The management committee of the Feminist Library is calling an emergency meeting on Saturday 24th February 2007 to decide on whether to close the library for good. This meeting is a last ditch attempt to rally feminists to support our library and, if we are not able to come up with a solution, to discuss finding another suitable home for the collection. Those of you who have not been in touch for a while might like to know that the collection now also includes 75 boxes of material that was the Women's Health Library that we rescued from being thrown in a skip over the summer.

For a number of years the Feminist Library has existed in a state of permanent emergency, with a dwindling number of volunteers to take part in running the library, a precarious financial situation, uncertainty about its location, and a lack of womanpower to pursue crucial funding applications.

The current group of volunteers is no longer able to sustain the situation, and the library will be forced to close without an injection of new volunteers. Therefore the meeting will have a dual function: to decide on whether or not the library will continue to stay open, and to gather experience, advice and new volunteers to reinvigorate the management
committee, or help the committee find a suitable home for the collection if the decision is taken to close.

The meeting will take place at 11am at the Feminist Library on Saturday 24th February. There will be the opportunity to look around the library and to chat to us, followed by a more formal discussion. The library is wheelchair accessible. Please do let us know if you have any special access requirements.

Please distribute this invitation to attend as widely as possible. Feedback from the many feminist groups and individuals who have an interest in the library is very important to us, as well as the need to get extra help.

As a basis for discussion at the meeting, we are preparing a short document on the library's current plight and what our future options could be. If you would like to receive a copy before the meeting, or have other questions, or
are considering volunteering, please contact us by email (feministlibraryappeal@gmail.com) or post (Feminist Library, 5 Westminster Bridge Road , London SE1 7XW ). If you wish to speak to us by phone, please include your phone number in your message and we will get back to you as quickly as possible, although it may take a few days.

We apologise for the fact that the meeting coincides with a Stop the War Coalition demonstration in London, and really hope that you will be able to come along nevertheless.


RSVP is preferred but not essential.

Yours


Charlotte , Gail, Jess and Polly on behalf of
the current management committee

Registered Charity no. 272410
Copies of our equal opportunities policy and access details are available on
request.

new Internet tutorials for the Health and Life Sciences in the Virtual Training Suite this month

Dear all,

two new Internet tutorials which you might find of interest, I shall add these to the FILE resources folder in the Archive

Susie

Internet for Biosciences
http://www.vts.intute.ac.uk/he/tutorial/biosciences
By Dr Stuart Wilson, former Intute Service Officer, University of Nottingham

Internet for Health and Social Care
http://www.vts.intute.ac.uk/he/tutorial/health
By Frances Singfield, former Service Officer, Intute: Health and Life Sciences, Nottingham University

33 reasons why librarians are still needed ....

Hi all,

please see the following article on 'Are Librarians Totally Obsolete?'

http://www.degreetutor.com/library/adult-continued-education/librarians-needed

Susie

Paper on 'Online information literacy learning for nurses'

Dear all,

the first issue of the Journal of Information Literacy is out, available at:
http://www.informationliteracy.org.uk/Home/JIL/Vol_1_Issue_1_2007.aspx

and it contains a paper by:
Lynch, C. and Perrett, A. (2007) “Online information literacy learning for nurses: exploration of an RCN learning area.” Journal of information literacy, 1(1), 43-48.
http://www.informationliteracy.org.uk/upload/jil/vol1issue1_afp_lynch.pdf

FYI

Susie

Examples of learning outcomes and assessment strategies (24 January 2007, pm session)

In your groups devise a learning outcome and an appropriate assessment strategy – 3 minutes feedback to the whole group

Group 1
Learning outcome
To use the thesaurus mapping option in Medline (Mesh)

Assessment strategy
List three terms and identify the preferred thesaurus term in each case
1: thesaurus term
2: non-thesaurus term (but related)
3: completely different term (so has to identify preferred term)

Group 2
Learning outcome
To use the Cochrane library to search for, locate and interpret a systematic review

Assessment strategy
Worksheet with questions on search strategy used, asking you to locate a specific review, to reproduce the search strategy and make use of the information from the review such as graphs, dates of amendments, etc.


Group 3
Learning outcome
To be able to set up and save a list of favourites (must specify the web browser)

Assessment strategy
Find five examples of URLs, open and save them in the favourite list


Group 4
Learning outcome
To reference journal articles using the Harvard system

Assessment strategy
To reference correctly three journal articles (details taken from a journal extract and bibliographic records) using the Harvard system

Group 5
Learning outcome
To improve GPs information seeking skills on health care provision for refugees

Assessment strategy
At the end of the session check that the right sources are searched and that the relevant references are found (short term) Implementation of improvements to health care provision through enhanced ISB of doctors (long term)

Call for papers for Health Information and Libraries Journal, December 2007

Dear all,

please see the following FYI - Thanks Liz for pointing this out.

Susie

From: UK medical/ health care library community / information workers
[mailto:LIS-MEDICAL@JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On Behalf Of Graham Walton
Sent: 15 January 2007 08:58
To: LIS-MEDICAL@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Call for papers on impact assessment of health library and
information services

WITH USUAL APOLOGIES FOR CROSS POSTING

Call for papers for Health Information and Libraries Journal, December
2007.

In December 2007 the 'Health Information and Libraries Journal'
(http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/loi/hir) will publish its annual themed
issue. In 2007 the title will be 'Assessing the impact of information
services in the health sector', and the issue will be edited by Rowena
Cullen, Associate Professor, Victoria University of Wellington, and Rachel
Esson, Medical Librarian, Wellington Medical School, in New Zealand..

HILJ is the official journal of the United Kingdom's Health Libraries
Group of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals.

Prospective authors across the world are asked to submit a 150-250 word
abstract of their proposed paper to Rowena Cullen
(Rowena.Cullen@vuw.ac.nz) by Friday 2 February 2007. Papers (which should
be from 1000-5000 words in length) should be grounded in research, link
research to practice, and be of value to health information specialists in
assessing the value and impact of their own services and programmes.
Papers with an evidence-based focus will be especially welcome. Case
studies that can demonstrate the impact of services will also be
considered.

Authors chosen for the special issue will be asked to submit manuscripts
by 1 May 2007 for peer review. Authors will receive comments from
reviewers in early June, and will be asked to submit the final version of
their paper by 31 July 2007.

Theme: Accountability is present in many aspects of public services and
private industry. There is pressure to justify to all stakeholders that
the resources needed for an activity are appropriately used and result in
quality outputs that impact in some way on health services. Health library
and information services across the world cannot escape from these
pressures where proof has to be provided that their activities make a
difference. Clinical decision making, learning outcomes, outcomes of
education programmes in information literacy and evidence-based decision-
making, and the economic benefits of services are all areas upon which
health library and information services impact. Impact measurement thus
has a strategic role as it provides an opportunity for the library or
information service to show to the wider organization its contribution and
value. The challenge is to identify, gather and report the information
which shows the scale and level of this impact.

Different approaches are available to measure the value and impact of
health library and information services. These include determining
information needs and uses, bench marking, performance measures and
metrics, cost-benefit analysis and outcomes measurement. In all these
there is a need to understand the steps involved in planning the
evaluation, how the results of the assessment are best organized and
presented, and the strengths and limitations of the chosen approach.

For the purpose of this issue, information services are considered to
include standard library services supporting teaching and healthcare,
instructional programmes, services offered to health administrators,
clinical librarian programmes, services offered on a variety of technology
platforms including web-based services, community health and patient
information services.

various announcements

Dear all,

The summaries of the discussions we had in the first session are now available at: http://www.ilit.org/file/file1.htm

Also do not hesitate to send me drafts of the first component for comments

Susie

Pre-course survey

Dear all,

many thanks to those of you who have done the survey already. I'd like to remind the others that it is important to complete this survey so that I can build a more comprehensive picture of your professional background. Apologies for not specifying the deadline for this in my email correspondence. Ideally I would like to analyse your responses over the Christmas break, so how about a submission date of December 22?

Susie

Welcome to the FILE blog

This blog offers the opportunity to share views on information literacy practice employed by information professionals working within the health sector.

The blog will also be used during the course of FILE to facilitate communication amongst its participants and support some of the assessed components of the portfolio.

Susie