SHANEIL Workshop

I found the workshop very valuable and I think it has given the project a real boost. Best things about the workshop:
- Excellent presentation/facilitation - your enthusiasm is very infectious Susie.
- The training has a very clear aim/outcome and we definitely need to create something as a result of it!

Things to improve - only one really and this one was already recognised during the session. The section on qualitative evaluation was a little rushed. It would have been nice to be able to absorb this at a more leisurely pace but you can't have everything.

Thanks very much

Joanne

As promised - your answers to the Search 2.0 exercise from April 2nd

Hi all,

As promised, below are each group's answers to the hands-on exercise you did as part of my IL activity last week. I've recorded your answers in blue, and haven't added any comments of my own, but I can do if you think it would be helpful - let me know.

Cheers, best of luck with C5...

Ruth


Group 1 – Thesaurus searching

In Medline, run a thesaurus search on ‘bereavement’.

View the scope note, then hide it. Please comment about any difficulties or issues with doing this, or any other relevant observations.

Scope note cannot be hidden once it is displayed. Clicking Cancel removes the original search query. The possibility of using the browser’s Back button was suggested but the group did not actually try this out.

Select the term Bereavement, exploding it and choosing Major descriptor.
Now repeat the above search, but this time also select the term Aged, then deselect it BEFORE clicking Search. What happens? Can you find a solution to this?

Although the second term is deselected, the search engine still includes it, combining it with the first term using OR. No satisfactory solution was found other than re-running the first search and ensuring no mistakes are made when selecting thesaurus terms.

Group 2 – Thesaurus searching

In Medline, run a search on ‘eczema or atopic dermatitis’, mapping to thesaurus. What happens?

A message is returned saying ‘Unable to retrieve thesaurus’.

Can you suggest a way of getting round this problem?

Do each part of the search separately and combine steps using OR.

Any other comments?

Surprisingly little overlap between terms – surprised there weren’t more records in common. Not many thesaurus headings returned. Scope notes not good.

Group 3 – Using limits

In Medline, run a search on ‘eczema or atopic dermatitis’ in title and abstract.

Run a search on ‘corticosteroid*’ in title and abstract.

Combine the two searches with AND. Is it obvious how to do this?

Quite straightforward and intuitive. The only unexpected behaviour was the title and abstract field selection in the first search reverting to title only every time a new search was started.

Now apply the following limits: Preschool child (2-5 years); Publication type: Clinical Trials, all

Is it obvious how to do this? Please list any difficulties or unexpected behaviour you found and any solutions you came up with.

Seemed quite obvious.

Switch off the limits.
Again, please list any difficulties or unexpected behaviour you found. How did you solve these?

It wasn’t really apparent how to turn the limits off as opposed to just hiding them.

Blog headers for free

Hi all,

Blog Headers Downloaded for free: is an article in Smashing Magazine which might be of interest

Susie

In the Know

Hi all

Wow what a day yesterday, i learnt more in 5 minutes than a lifetime of training would have taught me, scary, but a good way of learning about yourself.

The title at the top is from a new paper you might be interested in its from the Audit commission:

http://www.audit-commission.gov.uk/Products/NATIONAL-REPORT/77C7B4DB-0C48-4038-A93F-DFE3E645A26E/In%20the%20know_report.pdf

Audit Commission : In the know. using information to make better decisions. 2008
For public services but may link to comments in the Hill Review? [I haven't read it yet!]

If you are getting good feedback from the hill review, this also goes along way to helping too.

have a Happy Easter, thanks sue jennings,

Tag clouds

Hi all,

Thanks for the post Andy, looks really interesting. I read most of that book a couple of years back for my course and found it quite thought-provoking. Sadly at the time I was on the most intensely techy course I've ever been on and what I needed was a way of learning html, JavaScript, PHP and MySql in a month so I had to give up on Morville and Rosenfeld...

Anyway, what I logged in to post was the details of the tag cloud site I mentioned -http://tagcrowd.com/ It's a very cool site that will let you create a 'cloud' of tags like this http://del.icio.us/tag/ - only for whatever document you like! I've just done it for the results of the CLIST survey and it picks out the key points really quite nicely, but I can't paste it in here.

The main things to think about are the 'stopwords' (removing the 'noise' - eg does the fact that the word 'user' was mentioned 4 times add anything to the data compared to say 'workload') and the context - there's a big difference between 'user-friendly' and 'it would help if it was more user-friendly' and that may need picking out manually. Looks really very cool in a report etc though and a handy little analytical tool to save you doing all the counting yourself.

Anyway, I've just realised how sad it is that I'm posting this at 9.45 on a Friday night (it gets worse, I've just applied for an ISA online - how rock'n'roll are my Friday nights?!) so I'm going to go now, but hope you're all having a nice weekend.
Louisa

My Library Hero!!!

Afternoon everyone

Just thought I'd share some links with you all on a Library/Info Science hero of mine.
Peter Morville.

Two links worth visiting are:
http://www.findability.org/
and
http://semanticstudios.com/

Additionally, you may want to check out his partner in crime and
other 'Library hero': Louis Rosenfeld (also see his homesite).

Both worked on the highly influential book 'Information Architecture for the World Wide Web'.

Lou now runs a publishing business producing books on all aspects of information which is well worth an ocassional visit.

Cheers all

Andy ;-)

New competition from HEA-ICS

Hi all,

this might be of interest (NB click on the title of this entry to access the site containing the full details of this competition)

Susie

"What makes a good lecturer?"
Win £250 and have your work published

Are you a Computing or Library and Information Science student? Would you like the chance to win £250 and have your work published? If so, then take this opportunity to express your views on what makes a good lecturer.

To enter this competition all you need to do is write 900-1,100 words on what makes a good lecturer?

Prize Available

The finalist will have their essay published on the Information and Computer Sciences Subject Centre website and be invited to attend the Higher Education Academy 2008 Annual Conference in Harrogate in July 2008, all expenses paid. There, you have a chance to become the overall winner of all the Subject Centres attracting a top prize of a Toshiba laptop.

How to enter

Submit your entry to Hazel White (email: h.white1@ulster.ac.uk) by 28th March 2008. The email should have the subject line "Student Award 2008", and must include your name, place of study, Course title, Year of Study, Term address and Home address, Contact telephone number and Contact email address.

HLG Conference Bursaries for Students

Hi all,

2 bursaries available to fund attendance tot he CILIP Health Libraries Group Conference in Cardiff on 21-22 July. For further information see the HLG website

Susie

Useful google tutorial

Dear all,
This is the url for the google health tutorial I mention last week



Mandy

Additional References re Google

Hi all,
As promised here are several papers which refer to Google, relevant I thought in the context of our recent discussion:

Googling for a diagnosis—use of Google as a diagnostic aid: internet based study BMJ 2006;333:1143-1145 (2 December), doi:10.1136/bmj.39003.640567.AE (published 10 November 2006)
PubMed citation: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17098763?dopt=Abstract

"I'll Google that" in AORN Journal, vol. 86, Iss. 6, 2007, p. 933-5 written by Lois Hamlin, Senior Lecturer, Facility of nursing, Midwifery & Health, at University of Technology, Sydney.

And more recently, a report I came across today:

Information behaviour of the researcher of the future
A CIBER Briefing Paper [11 January 2008]
http://www.bl.uk/news/pdf/googlegen.pdf

Richard

Hi to all on the new course

Hi just to say it was nice to meet you all on wednesday.

Here is the address of my blog at lancashirecare

http://lancashirecare.wordpress.com/

If you are interested in keeping up to date with mental health information this is a good port of call.

thanks sue

Component 1 examples and article on FILE

Hi all,

thanks Andy and Louise for posting the references discussed in session 1

as promised here is the paper Are you FIT for FILE?

and the examples of Component 1 of the portfolio.

Example 1

Example 2

Example 3

Susie

Books mentioned at session on Wednesday 16 Jan 2008

Hi Folks

As you may recall, I mentioned a couple of books at the session yesterday.

The titles are:

1) Ambient Findability
2) Libraries and Google (You can look inside this one!!)

Will post once I come across anything else.

Cheers
Andy ;-)

Google Scholar article as promised

As we discussed yesterday, here is the reference for an interesting article about the usefulness of Google Scholar.

Wilson, V. (2007) Evidence summary: a content analysis of Google Scholar: coverage varies by discipline and by database. Evidence based library and information practice 2(1), 134-136

I've scribbled a few notes on my copy on particular points I found relevant:

• Variation by subject re inclusion as compared to standard databases in the field – medicine does quite well (76%) though some subjects are as low as 10% (humanities in particular)
• Bias toward English-language publications
• Approximate 15-week (four-month) delay in uploading new articles (compared to PubMed and BioMed)

See you all soon, Louisa

Now booking: FILE: Facilitating Information Literacy Education

Please see the message from Liz below and circulate to colleagues, thanks.

From: Liz Osborne [mailto:liz.osborne@nhs.net]
Sent: 10 September 2007 13:57
To: 'londonlinks@mailtalk.ac.uk'
Subject: Now booking: FILE: Facilitating Information Literacy Education

Dear all

The LHL Learner Support Programme Steering Group is pleased to announce the next six day FILE: Facilitating Information Literacy Education course. (See attached flyer for details). The course is validated by London Metropolitan University as a post-graduate module of 20 credits.

There are 12 places and they will be determined on a first come, first served basis. If the course is oversubscribed your explanation of why you would like to do the course will be taken into account before places are finally allocated.

Before talking to your manager about attending, please be aware that all applicants must be able to:

attend all six sessions
actively participate in a small group of 12 people
take part in a group presentation in session three, give an individual presentation in session five and deliver a short training session in session six
complete the assessed portfolio
share the learning and teaching resources they produce during the course with a wider audience via a dedicated web site
Trainer: Susie Andretta, Senior Lecturer, Department of Information Management, London Metropolitan University

Venue: London Metropolitan University, Ladbroke House, (Highbury and Islington railway station and Tube)

Dates: 16 January, 30 January, 20 February, 5 March, 19 March, 2 April 2008

If you would like to attend this event please complete the booking form attached and return it to me by Monday 15th October. The course is free to all healthcare staff working in London.

If you have got any queries about the course please feel free to get in touch

Best wishes

Liz
Chair, Learner Support Programme

Liz Osborne
Knowledge Services Manager
Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
Greater London House
Hampstead Road
London
NW1 7QY

Tel: 020 3214 5883
Fax: 020 3214 5892
Email: liz.osborne@nhs.net

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Evidence-based Library and Information Practice

The full set of papers from the recent Evidence-based Library and Information Practice conference is available on the EBLIP4 website. Please visit http://www.eblip4.unc.edu/ to download excellent works by Suzanne Grefsheim, Denise Koufogiannakis, and many others - and keep checking back, because we're working to make podcasts of keynote speakers (including Andrew Booth, Jonathan Eldredge, and more available through the conference site.

Also for the papers on EBLIP 3 in 2005 see http://conferences.alia.org.au/ebl2005/conferencepapers.html

New Internet tutorials for health and life sciences

Intute has just released three new FREE Internet tutorials for the Health and Life Sciences in the Virtual Training Suite.

The tutorials teach Internet research skills for university students and are ideal for use in undergraduate courses.

1) Internet for Dentistry and Oral Health

http://www.vts.intute.ac.uk/he/tutorial/dentist

By Claire McCarthy, Lecturer in Dental Hygiene & Research Hygienist, The Dental Institute, Kings College London and Laurian Williamson, Intute: Health and Life Sciences, University of Nottingham

2) Internet Pharmacist

http://www.vts.intute.ac.uk/he/tutorial/pharmacist

By Robert Abbott, an information scientist based at Intute: Health and Life Sciences, University of Nottingham, building on the original tutorial by Fawz Farhan, Editorial Director, Mediapharm, consultant to HEA Health Sciences and Practice, and visiting lecturer in pharmacy practice at King's College London

3) Internet for Allied Health

http://www.vts.intute.ac.uk/he/tutorial/allied

By David Brunt, Intute Service Officer for Nursing, Midwifery & Allied Health, University of Nottingham and Nicola Smart, former Service Officer, Intute Health and Life Sciences, University of Nottingham UK.

The tutorials offer advice on using the Internet for research for university work, offering a guide to some of the key academic websites for the subject, advice on Internet searching and on critical evaluation of information found on the Internet. "Success Stories" in each tutorial illustrate how the Internet can be used effectively to support education and research.

All the tutorials are free to access on the Web as part of the JISC-funded Intute service:

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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,
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**When
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**Where
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**What
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Intute survey

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