Clinical Librarian Programs May Lead to Information Behaviour Change

The information Services Librarian*

Libraries appear to be in a period of great change and the major reason for this has been the increasing availability of machine-readable data bases and the information retrieval systems based on these. A number of data bases producers have established networks on national and international level in order to make services from these data bases widely available. The fact that few individual inst...

Designing to change users ' information seeking behaviour : a case study

Hypermedia systems allow information to be created, stored, accessed, and manipulated in a variety of ways. One example of such a system is a digital library (DL). DLs are typically difficult to learn and to use. One aspect of learnability is that novices should be able to learn how to search effectively; one approach to this is having the system provide context-relevant help. We report on two ...

Changes in information behavior in clinical teams after introduction of a clinical librarian service.

OBJECTIVES The eighteen-month evaluation of a clinical librarian project (October 2003-March 2005) conducted in North Wales, United Kingdom (UK) assessed the benefits of clinical librarian support to clinical teams, the impact of mediated searching services, and the effectiveness of information skills training, including journal club support. METHODS The evaluation assessed changes in teams' ...

To the instruction cave, librarian!: Graphic novels and information literacy

Approaches to evaluating clinical librarian services: a systematic review SPEAKERS

Introduction: Surveys in the UK have established a wide variability in clinical librarian (CL) service models and previous systematic reviews have suggested that there is little evidence of effectiveness or limited evidence of impact. The evidence that exists is mainly descriptive and comprises poor quality studies. To improve the evidence base and demonstrate the value of clinical librarian se...