Outreach librarians at large – conferences in 2011

Weds AM meeting7th Sept 2011

ICLC 2011

• International Clinical Librarians’ Conference 2011

• Birmingham Botanical Gardens • 13 – 14 June • DAY ONE: Eli and Owen attended (and Eli gave

presentation)• DAY TWO: Eli, Amanda and Liz attended

Highlights of Day One AM

• Newly created! Association of Clinical Librarians and Informationists: http://www.aclionline.org/

• Fiona Godlee – BMJ Editor – open access; the “urgent need to get evidence into practice”; impact of evidence on patient safety. (And sales spiel about BMJ products eg Clinical Evidence etc).

Day One AM

• Pip Divall – Clinical Librarian Service manager, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust – new database to record their literature searches, the Clinical Information Search System; development of a career structure for Clinical Librarians at UHL.

• Anne Woods – Chief Nursing Officer from Wolters Kluwer Health, US – how to get clinicians (etc) to use the evidence (by using Ovid products!).

Day One PM

• Jon Brassey – TRIP Database – Talked about the State of the Evidence and how to find answers to clinical questions; argued that clinicians STILL don’t search ‘properly’ to find answers, instead they ask colleagues; need to prioritise research eg systematic reviews and primary research, because “less is more” when there is so much data out there.

• Blitter – TRIP’s new curated list of clinicians’ blogs and tweets that you can search to find out what people are talking about.

Day One PM

• Yongtao Lin – Librarian at University of Calgary, Canada – embedded research librarianship model: Argued that ‘embedded’ librarians are good to enhance education for users/readers/etc, increase research efficiency and effectiveness, and improve the quality and quantity of research.

• They help their readers with bibliographic management, ‘brainstorming’, citation verification, current awareness, literature searching, and research skills.

• All very similar to what we do!

My presentation

Day Two AM

• Katie Adams – User Research Analyst for NHS Evidence – described new features of NHS Evidence.

• Sarah Sutton – Clinical Librarian at University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust – gave us highlights from MLA 2011, eg. “Medical Librarians are like Google, because we create tools to solve problems” [Ruth Holst, MLA presidential address].

Day Two AM

• Sara Clarke – now a Specialist Librarian in Oslo- development of clinical librarian service in Norway, which is rich because of oil, so can afford to have national subscription to UpToDate.

• All librarians in Oslo hospital libraries are professionals, to ensure that all staff members can do lit searches as well as document supply!

Day Two PM

• Jane Surtees – Deputy Head of Library Knowledge Service at Royal Derby Hospital – review of their clinical librarian service.

• Sent out questionnaire with letter to all staff on wards. Had 110 Q’aires returned out of 496.

• Findings included eg: Nurses need information for patient care, teaching, CPD; people made use of the web, textbooks, databases, and… library staff to find information.

• Interviewed 27 staff members to find out more details, eg that yes, clinical librarians are “perceived favourably” and contribute to patient care!

Discussion Point

• The use of images in conference presentations: Do the lolcats images enhance the presentation, or do they look a bit odd in context?

• http://www.uhl-library.nhs.uk/ICLC%20Presentations/Jane%20Surtees.ppt

Tweets from the conference…• pipdivall Librarians embedded in development of clinical "procedures"

in Norway. #iclc11• sueclayton1 have discovered Librarians are terrible gossips #iclc11• pipdivall Norway have a free to access National Library for Health!

National subs to UpToDate. #iclc11• pipdivall Is owning a laptop and leaving the library the key to being a

CL? #iclc11• ainerice Very pleasant walk through Birm Botanic Gardens glasshouses

to #iclc11 conference• pipdivall What has more impact? Lit searching vs. current awareness

vs. training? #iclc11• pipdivall Interesting that a blog needs inclusion and exclusion criteria.

What is best, push (email) or pull (blog) for current awareness? #iclc11

UMBRELLA 2011

Biennial CILIP bash at the University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield http://www.cilip.org.uk/umbrella2011/

12 – 13 July 2011