Health Library Services Research Articles

The Talking Cure: The Science Behind Psychotherapy • Psychotherapy With "Impossible" Cases: The Efficient Treatment of Therapy Veterans • Psychological Mindedness: A Contemporary Understanding

The Talking Cure: The Science Behind Psychotherapy • Psychotherapy With "Impossible" Cases: The Efficient Treatment of Therapy Veterans • Psychological Mindedness: A Contemporary Understanding

Personal knowledge: a clinical perspective from the value and evince projects in health library and information services

The progress of initiatives concerned with implementing evaluated clinical research (such as evidence based medicine and clinical effectiveness) is dependent on the way individual health professionals actually acquire, use and value clinical knowledge in routine practice. The findings of two research projects, the Value and EVINCE projects, are compared with studies of the consolidation and application of clinical knowledge in clinical decision making. The Value project was concerned with the ways in which information from NHS libraries might be used in present and future clinical decision making. EVINCE was a similar impact study for nursing professionals. Both studies confirmed the importance of personal clinical knowledge. Health information services need to use a variety of strategies and knowledge management skills to ensure that the evaluated research evidence is assimilated and implemented into practice.

Informed Health Library Services: using research to shape our practice. Joint LfN/UHSL study day at University of Northumbria at Newcastle (UNN), 20 November 1997

Informed Health Library Services: using research to shape our practice. Joint LfN/UHSL study day at University of Northumbria at Newcastle (UNN), 20 November 1997

Are We Agreed? Service Level Agreements for Health Library Services. IFM Healthcare study day, ScHARR, University of Sheffield, 13 June 1997

Are We Agreed? Service Level Agreements for Health Library Services. IFM Healthcare study day, ScHARR, University of Sheffield, 13 June 1997

Library access--access route.

In this the final week of Nursing Standard's Libraries Access Cairpaign, Gabby Fennessey reviews our progress over the past few months and leaves us with some thoughts about the future of health library services

Approaching equity in consumer health information delivery: NetWellness.

The growing public interest in health and wellness information stems from many sources, including social changes related to consumers' rights and women's health movements, and economic changes brought about by the managed health care revolution. Public, hospital, and medical center libraries have been ill-equipped to meet the increasing need for consumer-oriented materials, even though a few notable programs have been established. The "Information Superhighway" could be an effective tool for sharing health information if access to telecomputing equipment and training were available to those with an information need. The University of Cincinnati Medical Center, with its libraries in the leading role, is delivering NetWellness, an electronic consumer health library service, to residents of 29 counties in three midwestern states. Users connect directly through the Internet, through regional Free-Nets, and by visiting one of 43 public access sites where networked workstations have been installed. The continued success of the project depends on developing partnerships, providing quality content and maintaining fair access.

Children of performing arts, the economic dilemma: The climbing costs of health care and education

It is thirty years since William Bowen and I (1966) first reported our analysis of what we called the "cost disease of the performing arts," with its profoundly disturbing presage of the future. Soon after, we realized in general terms that it applied to a variety of other services (we now call them "stagnant services" including health care, education, restaurant services, library and legal services, police protection, auto repair and a number of other services). The cost predictions that flowed from the analysis have been amply confirmed by subsequent developments. This is noted here not in order to gloat over the accuracy of our depiction of the future (though I cannot deny that it is a source of some uneasy satisfaction). Indeed, we even denied at the time that we were providing a forecast. Still, the course taken by the economy since then, as it had for so long a period before, has followed disturbingly closely the gloomier of the scenarios that our model suggests and undertakes to explain. Since then, while the analysis has continued to play a role in policy debates related to funding of the performing arts, the advent of political and economic pressures for governmental stringency, sometimes amounting to niggardliness,

Implementing UNICORN at the UK Department of Health

Department of Health (DH) Library and Information Services (LIS) exist to meet the operational and strategic information needs including training, education and material which promotes awareness of work‐related matters of approximately 5,500 Department of Health staff, including the National Health Service Executive staff in multiple sites across the country. Four libraries in London and Leeds are stocked with approximately 200,000 books and pamphlets and 2,000 current periodicals on key areas of Departmental interest covering health service management, public health and the personal social services. There are 28 staff in these libraries. Frequently‐used online search services include Justis Parliament, Knight‐Ridder DataStar, Dialog and Medline services, HMSO and FT Profile. These remote search services are supported by locally held CD‐ROMs including Parliamentary Database, Medline, Eurolaw, UKOP, HMSO and Global Bookbank. Departmental staff are linked by a mature Office Information System (OIS) which runs on a server platform of 90 or so Netware 3.11 servers. As well as Windows‐based, location‐independent access to standard Wordperfect, Route400 e‐mail and a bespoke Staff Location Database, individual users or groups of users have network access to a variety of products including spreadsheets, desktop publishing and statistical/financial modelling packages. Concurrently with the UNICORN implementation, work was in progress elsewhere in DH to put up a Press Index Service, a Hansard SumMary Service, and Electronic Directory of Business as well as ongoing efforts to network successfully CD‐ROMs.

Yet more evidence … effective health library and information services—the role of research

Yet more evidence … effective health library and information services—the role of research

Thriving amid chaos: health care and library services in the 1990s

Describes the fundamental structural changes taking place in the NHS and health care education and how these affect the provision of library services. Defines the strategies adopted by librarians to take advantage of changes by raising their profile, using the new market mechanisms, and reshaping the professional agenda to meet new challenges. Describes individual initiatives with a special emphasis on the importance of the Cumberlege seminars and their outcomes. Concludes that library services are indeed thriving amid chaos, but that it does not always feel that way.

In the right vein? How adequately are departments of information and library studies educating for health care information management and library services in a changing health service?

The results are presented of a survey of current provision for educating library and information staff in the health care sector. The number and nature of available courses offered is described and possible future developments for students and practitioners are outlined.

Security in health service libraries--a survey in North West Thames Region.

My aim is to discuss the results of a survey of health service libraries in North West Thames Region undertaken in November 1990 as part of a more detailed study of library security. Widely varying patterns of losses were discovered. The ways in which librarians have tried to resolve these problems are described and a number of possible solutions are proposed. A brief review of the literature is also included.

Getting together with compact disc: a regional MEDLINE CD-ROM initiative for libraries.

An initiative by the North West Thames Regional Information Technology Agency has resulted in the provision of some 30 CD-ROM drives and copies of the MEDLINE database in National Health Service libraries. The development of the scheme and its implementation are described and future developments outlined.

Seminario sobre Bibliotecas de Ciencias de la Salud (Seminar on health service libraries), March 1989, Granada, Spain.

Health Libraries ReviewVolume 6, Issue 4 p. 226-227 Free Access Seminario sobre Bibliotecas de Ciencias de la Salud (Seminar on health service libraries), March 1989, Granada, Spain. Fiona Mackay Picken, Fiona Mackay Picken Regional Librarian, North West Thames.Search for more papers by this author Fiona Mackay Picken, Fiona Mackay Picken Regional Librarian, North West Thames.Search for more papers by this author First published: December 1989 https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2532.1989.6402215.xAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Volume6, Issue4December 1989Pages 226-227 RelatedInformation

The health system and medical information services in Sri Lanka

Set against the background of the geographical, social and economic conditions of the country this paper outlines the structure of the health‐care system in Sri Lanka and describes the development of a health‐information system to support the information needs generated. Current developments including the role of the Health Literature, Library and Information Service (HELLIS; Sri Lanka) network and services are discussed, and problems enumerated. In conclusion the paper argues for the designation of one library, capable of being developed as a centre of excellence and with staff trained to exploit the new technologies, particularly CD‐ROM, to provide a central core facility for the country as a whole.

The Net Book Agreement and Health Service libraries

Can Health Services libraries obtain from the Publishers' Association a library licence and thereby receive, from the booksellers they choose to name on their licence, a discount of 10%? Furthermore, can an ‘umbrella licence’ be obtained which covers a group of libraries within one region? The answer to both these questions is now ‘yes’, following a series of negotiations between the North West Regional Health Authority and the Publishers Association.

LIBRARY RESOURCE SHARING IN THE NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE: BENEFITS AND LIMITATIONS

The United Kingdom library system has a two‐tier resource sharing network, with the regional library services operating at local level and the BLDSC at national level. Taking the National Health Service libraries as a basis, the author discusses regional co‐operation from the organizational, service and economic viewpoints. Interlibrary resource sharing is valuable not only for its tangible benefits, but also (provided it is reliable and economically sound) because it provides a basis for the sharing of specialist subject knowledge, searching skills and ideas, and it also permits more general professional interaction, thus frequently bearing unexpected fruit. Several ideas have been put forward for the extension of inter‐regional co‐operation, but the importance of cost‐benefit analysis when evaluating any such scheme cannot be over‐stressed. The true cost of staff time is an item often overlooked: an appendix here gives a method of calculating the economic benefit of a resource sharing scheme by comparing the cost of co‐operative interlibrary photocopying using a union list of serials with that of using prepaid BLDSC forms.

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The 9th SEAMIC Seminar held at Surabaya, Indonesia on 26-31 of August, 1981 is reported. The SEAMIC (Southeast Asian Medical Information Center) is one of the main projects which the International Medical Foundation of Japan is executing under the subsidy of the Japanese Government. SEAMIC's purpose is to contribute to the promotion of health planning in the region of the Southeast Asia by providing, exchanging and generating information on a multilateral basis. 16 persons from Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, Japan and WHO discussed the theme of the Seminar, “Multilateral Collaboration on SEAMIC Health Sciences Documentation and Library Services Activities” through technical papers and country reports. The technical papers, country reports of the state of the arts and recommendations for the SEAMIC are summarized. The main recommendations are: 1) Book Donation Program is satisfactory, however, the list can be further improved to make it more balanced in subjects and publication countries as well. 2) Interlibrary lending service is recommended to be carried out more between SEAMIC member countries rather than relying solely on SEAMIC Tokyo. 3) It is recommended that PHLOSEA (Periodical Holdings in the Libraries of Southeast Asia) be expanded into a Union List of Serials in Medical and Health-related Subjects to facilitate interlibrary loans. 4) Each country is urged to prepare a bibliography of national bibliographies on medical and health-related topics for possible collation and publication by SEAMIC. 5) Active collaboration is expected of Advisory Committee on Publication in each country. 6) A joint training program by SEAMIC and other agencies, hosted by SEAMIC member countries on a rotational basis is proposed. 7) SEAMIC is requested to explore the possibility of collaboration with other agencies working in this region in all activities possible.