Progress Against Project Plan Initial site visits completed – Jan-Feb 08

1. Project for Electronic Awareness and Resources PEARSteve Glover, Anne Webb: Christie Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Cheryl Dagnall: Wrightington, Wigan & Leigh NHS Trust, Liz Farrell: Salford PCT, Jean Williams: Bolton Hospitals NHS Trust, Colin Brodie: Manchester PCT, John Bramwell: Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, James Allen, Jo Bate: Stockport NHS Foundation Trust, David Stewart: North West Health Care Libraries Unit. The Project for Electronic Awareness and Resources (PEAR) has been established to provide aid to a number of Greater Manchester NHS Libraries which are unable to employ an Electronic Services Librarian. The project has been commissioned by 9 Greater Manchester NHS Trust library services. The overarching vision of PEAR is to design, develop and implement mechanisms that will utilise the latest RSS, blogging, and relevant web technologies to promote and exploit remote services for each participating Trust. The electronic services and resources that are developed and implemented should be such that they can be easily maintained by staff at each participating library after the initial 18 month period. The Delivery Team Project Objectives To Design and Develop: • Mechanisms to promote library services • Current awareness services • Linking facilities to electronic content • Cascade training to permanent staff at each library • Documentation for librarians • Christie Hospital NHS Foundation Trust • The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust • Stockport NHS Foundation Trust To Provide: • Guidance on the acquisition of electronic resources • Guidance on the delivery of the electronic library services The Clients • Ashton, Leigh and Wigan NHS Primary Care Trust • Bolton NHS Primary Care Trust • Bolton Hospitals NHS Trust • Bury NHS Primary Care Trust • Greater Manchester West NHS Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust • Manchester NHS Primary Care Trust • Oldham NHS Primary Care Trust • Tameside and Glossop NHS Primary Care Trust • Salford NHS Primary Care Trust • Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Trust Progress Against Project Plan Initial site visits completed – Jan-Feb 08 Wiki implemented – Jan 08 PCT Dialog E links completed - Feb 08 Google Reader accounts established – Mar 08 Google subjects set up – Mar 08 PubMed Linkout accounts – May 08 MyNCBI accounts – Mar 08 Second round of site visits – May - July 08 PubMed generated CAS via email May 08 RSS from journals at WWL – May 08 NLH Link Resolver completed – Jun 08 Next: • Documentation • Training and guidance • Marketing and promotion • Site visits • Push content • Pull users onto library websites • Assessment The PEAR project has been funded by the North West Health Care Libraries Unit The Project Wiki - http://gm-pear.pbwiki.com