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' ...

Background and aims: The rapid growth and specialization in Medical Sciences increase the volume of information and therefore make physician problems and difficulty to access reliable information. Physicians can`t decide only according to selfknowledge, and should refer to the new texts and references. Clinical librarian role as a key chain in evidence-based medicine can`t be ignored. Clinical ...

Importance of ICT in library can be realized from ICT application catalogues and audio/visual services. ICT has a great importance in each and every sphere of life; now libraries are not left apart from the impact of ICT it dependence upon the attitude of librarian and the library professional. Thus attitude of library professional have very much importance in the context of ICT application in ...

Do we think enough about what we are doing as information literacy (IL) practitioners? The relationship between reflection and IL development is well documented in academic and professional literature, particularly in the context of teaching librarians using reflective activities to enable learners to think critically about their IL abilities. Parallel literature from education and other fields...

For the last decade and a half the business community has seen what appears to be one fad after another. To a surprising (and greatly under-recognized) degree, however, those fads, that these enthusiasms are facets of, constitute one major theme – the importance of information and its skillful use to the success of the modern corporation. Librarianship is about the organization and the use of i...

OBJECTIVE A critical element in conducting a systematic review is the identification of studies. To date, very little empirical evidence has been reported on whether the presence of a librarian or information professional can contribute to the quality of the final product. The goal of this study was to compare the reporting rigor of the literature searching component of systematic reviews with ...

abstract background and objectives: study of clinical competence in nursing helps determine the quality of health care delivered to patients. given the priority of observance of principles over caretaking and necessity of spirituality existence at the core of health care provision, this study was conducted to investigate clinical competence and its relationship with professional ethics and spir...