BUILDING PARTNERSHIPS BUILDING PARTNERSHIPS FOR THE FUTUREFOR THE FUTURE

Health and public libraries

Nottingham

16 June 2006

Inspire EnglandInspire England What is Inspire ?

Why Inspire ?

Context for Health Libraries - What contribution can libraries make to the health and wellbeing agenda?

What participation could mean for Health Libraries, health related staff and for users

How Health Libraries can get involved

What is Inspire?What is Inspire?

Inspire is a national programme that seeks to support learning at all levels by providing easy access to libraries regardless of sector or of geography

Inspire Partners and Steering GroupInspire Partners and Steering Group

The British Library (BL) CILIP (Chartered Institute of Library and Information

Professionals) MLA Council + regional MLACs Society of Chief Librarians (SCL) SCONUL (Society of College, National and

University Libraries)

Inspire Directors: Andrew Green (SCL & Coventry City Council)

Mary Heaney (SCONUL & University of Wolverhampton)

Innovation

Libraries knowledge

information

Recreation

Cultural identity

Social Inclusion

Local, regional and national

economy

Learning

EmploymentCitizenship

Creativity

Health and well-being

… but many libraries are invisible or inaccessible

So - the aim of Inspire isSo - the aim of Inspire is

to harness the resources of libraries and the skills of library staff to support learning in its widest sense

to make them visible to all those who can benefit from them

How will Inspire achieve these aims?How will Inspire achieve these aims? Creation of a coherent national offer based on a set

of kitemarked criteria for participation and managed access

Enrolment of all public and HE libraries in England to these criteria and encouragement of other sector libraries to join

By supporting registering libraries by providing: a staff training package publicity materials for local use

Creation of a user-friendly online gateway to resources showing which libraries can provide what information and giving access details

Inspire and the Health Library sectorInspire and the Health Library sector

What contribution can libraries make to What contribution can libraries make to the health and wellbeing agenda?the health and wellbeing agenda?

Kennedy Report: focuses on access to knowledge / information and availability of this information to patients and the public

Government publications: “Choosing health: Making healthier choices

easier” 2004 “Better information, better choices, better health:

Putting information at the centre of health” 2004 “Our health, our care, our say”

What contribution can libraries make to What contribution can libraries make to the health and wellbeing agenda?the health and wellbeing agenda?

Key Issues: Informed choice - better information for

patients and the public Personalisation - increased support for

individuals to make choices about their lives Working in partnerships - looking for new

channels of delivery

All rely on good quality information

Choosing HealthChoosing Health

Effective partnerships are required to help individuals make healthy choices

“The key to success will be effective local partnerships led by local government and the NHS working to a common purpose & reflecting local need.”

Executive Summary

Delivery mechanisms for Health infoDelivery mechanisms for Health info Online and phone eg: NHS Direct and Equip But - there is a need for more effective

working in local communities to disseminate health information

Other channels of delivery already exist: Public Libraries – can provide links to other

community services FE, HE and workplace libraries

Such links would demonstrate the value of partnership working

How can working with Inspire help? How can working with Inspire help?

Inspire provides a ready-made forum for developing partnerships with other libraries

Inspire’s largest links are with Public and HE libraries but also with other libraries in FE and the workplace

Inspire’s model is supported by a national offer which enables a strategic overview

but it is delivered locally

Encourages reciprocal access and support

Filters enquiries through referred access process

Creates structure for staff support and staff development

Benefits for health librariesBenefits for health libraries

Participation can contribute to the goals of healthcare libraries through supporting: patient and community access to health information access for community based staff to professional information access for clinical staff to a wider range of collections health library workforce development by enabling staff to

provide an improved standard and range of services to core users

It can raise the profile of the library service within the organisation

Reduce isolation and provide opportunities for Health libraries to be represented in regional and national fora

Benefits for Pubic Libraries and the public Benefits for Pubic Libraries and the public

Participation would provide: A route for quality assessed health information to be

channelled directly to the public through community based libraries

Referred access to specialist health resources and expertise previously unavailable to them both regionally and nationally

Additional knowledge for public library staff who could be supported to provide health information for the public

Access to health information through the Findit gateway

How Health Libraries might get involvedHow Health Libraries might get involved Look at examples of NHS libraries already

involved in co-operative agreements (West Midlands, Cumbria, Kirklees, Milton Keynes)

Consider the benefits to the service your libraries could offer to library users and staff

Consider the Kitemark criteria: could all / some / a few Health libraries sign up to them?

Get in touch with LIEM or with me to discuss any aspect of participation.

Some interesting links websitesSome interesting links websites

EQUIP http://www.equip.nhs.uk

Welcome! In Kirklees: Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Trust http://welcome.hud.ac.uk/nhs

AddLib Cumbria: NHS North Cumbria & Morecambe Bay (6 libraries) http://www.addlibcumbria.co.uk/nhs_cumbria.htm

For more information:For more information:

Inspire England

Sally Curry, National Partnerships Manager

Tel: 0191 222 8655 Email: sally.curry@ncl.ac.uk

Inspire website www.inspire.gov.uk

Inspire East MidlandsInspire East Midlands

Lynn Hodgkins

Regional Librarian

Libraries and Information East Midlands

Tel: 01773 835064

Email: lynn.hodgkins@derbyshire.gov.uk

Inspire kitemark criteriaInspire kitemark criteria

Inspire has created a set of kitemark criteria to which libraries registering with Inspire must agree. This is the foundation of the coherent ‘national offer’ Inspire will provide for learners and libraries alike.

The criteria have been endorsed by: British Library MLA Council SCL SCONUL

Inspire “kitemark” criteriaInspire “kitemark” criteria As a minimum, library users are given reference

access to hard copy resources Library service plans should reflect commitment

to co-operative working with Inspire partners Inspire to be publicised within the library and

information service and to the wider community Collection strengths to be promoted via the

Inspire web site/portal Monitoring Inspire usage to demonstrate impact

by gathering statistics and/or written comment or verbal feedback is required

Inspire “kitemark” criteriaInspire “kitemark” criteria

All staff to receive information about Inspire Selected staff to receive in-depth Inspire

training Trained staff to:

cascade training to others provide information on collection strengths promote information on collection strengths as an additional

resource

Inspire to be included in induction and update training