1 / 15

The SHeLLI Project The Status of Health Libraries and Librarianship in Ireland

The SHeLLI Project The Status of Health Libraries and Librarianship in Ireland Dr. Janet Harrison, Department of Information Science, Loughborough University. SHeLLI The Project Team. Dr. Janet Harrison Claire Creaser Helen Greenwood Sonya White Department of Information Science.

walker
Download Presentation

The SHeLLI Project The Status of Health Libraries and Librarianship in Ireland

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. The SHeLLI Project The Status of Health Libraries and Librarianship in Ireland Dr. Janet Harrison, Department of Information Science, Loughborough University

  2. SHeLLIThe Project Team Dr. Janet Harrison Claire Creaser Helen Greenwood Sonya White Department of Information Science

  3. Project tender

  4. Value to HSLG - Intrinsic & extrinsic Value to health library service Value for health librarians - Empowerment and ownership Value of the Project

  5. Value of the Project • Value for money • Existing research infrastructure • Well established team • Delivery to deadlines • Dissemination of project findings into practice and publication

  6. Project proposal

  7. SHeLLIThe Whys • To identify international practice • To identify best Irish practice • To share all best practice • To develop and plan for the future

  8. SHeLLI • The need to make the profession and services visible • Valuable to others

  9. SHeLLI Methodology orHow are we going to do this? • Mixed methods • Quantitative • Qualitative

  10. Qualitative:What are we doing? • Interviews with key players • HSE • Department of Health and Children • HIQA • Voluntary sector • Users - Nurses/Doctors • Librarians

  11. What we know so far... • Diverse landscape • Inequality of access for users across academic/health service boundary • Lack of voice at national health service level • Determined professional leadership • Resurgence of library champion at DoH

  12. Quantitative:What will we be doing? • Survey of health library personnel • All members of HSLG • Snowball methodology

  13. SHeLLI Survey • About you • About your library • About your work • Your opinions

  14. SHeLLI Survey • Make your voice heard • We want a comprehensive view to build the future! • Live at: https://www.survey.lboro.ac.uk/health/ Until 18 February!

  15. Thank you - Questions?

More Related