Volume 36, Issue 2, Spring 2017
BULLETIN Supporting Nursing, Midwifery
and Allied Health www.librariesfornursing.org.uk @libs4nurs
RCN LIBRARY SPECIAL
In this issue:
Patron Driven Acquisition
Developing Subject Guides
Improving Wikipedia
Regional contacts
Current Awareness and Professional Literature
HLG Nursing is part of the Health Libraries Group, CILIP Registered Charity no. 313014 ISSN 2059 - 3899
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Contents
Editorial 31
Patron driven acquisition at the Royal College of Nursing library 33 Rachel Sully
Reaching out: regional contacts at Royal College of Nursing Libraries 42 Philip Segall
Introducing subject guides in a specialist library and archive service 45 Caroline Lynch
Be Bold, Not Reckless: Addressing the Gender Gap on Wikipedia 56 Janan Nuri
Libraries for Nursing Bulletin e-archive 59
Current Awareness 62
Contribute to your Bulletin 65
Instructions for authors 66
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Editorial
Welcome to the latest issue of HLG Nursing Bulletin, which contains articles on a variety of topics that will be relevant to libraries and librarians, both directly involved in and around nursing, but also (we hope) to the wider community of library and information professionals. This is a special issue highlighting various aspects of the service provided and practices undertaken recently by our friends at the Royal College of Nursing Library and Archive Service.
Patron Driven Acquisition (PDA) is an increasingly used method of libraries figuring out which are the best books to buy for their collections, as, rather than the librarian trying to decide what should be procured, it is the users themselves knowing what they actually want. Rachel Sully discusses the RCN’s PDA project for the purchase of e-books.
The RCN library is a fully national service, thanks to the national nature of the organisation it represents. As a consequence, even though the library service has a handful of bases, the team needs to be out and about to serve the needs of its users. Philip Segall gives an idea of what the RCN team does to facilitate the access to its services to all of its members throughout England.
All library services, whether large or small, are increasingly complex, with an ever expanding range of materials for users to go through to find the best evidence for the topic that they’re after. The RCN is no exception, and so has introduced a series of subject guides that set out key resources in a wide range of clinical and non-clinical topics. Caroline Lynch sets out the process of developing the RCN’s web-based subject guides.
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Wikipedia – the bogeyman of information retrieval. Or perhaps not. We all know that attempts are being made to improve the quality of material on Wikipedia, with the development of the “Wikipedian in Residence” role at many institutions, and the idea of the mass Wikipedia edit, with people shown how to go about editing the site, and then encouraged to go about editing it to improve what is there. Janan Nuri goes into one such event held at the RCN, to improve both the quantity and quality of pages about women on Wikipedia.
There is now an electronic archive of issues of HLG Nursing Bulletin’s predecessors, NIS Newsletter and LfN Bulletin, on the website. But, there are a number of issues missing, so we’d like your help with trying to find them, so that we can have a complete archive for you to peruse.
We’ve reintroduced our current awareness page, with relevant and interesting articles from a number of different sources. If you have seen anything that you think is interesting/useful/relevant, let us know.
As always, we’re on the lookout for articles on all topics. If you were at HLG and would like to write something we’d love to hear your thoughts. Or, if you have a new system in place, have implemented some new training regime, have a book you’d like to review, or just have an opinion on something in the world of nursing and healthcare libraries that you’d like to tell us, we’d love to hear from you. Details of how to contribute can be found at the end of this issue, or on the HLG Nursing website.
Phillip Barlow
HLG Nursing Bulletin editor
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Patron driven acquisition at the Royal College of Nursing library Rachel Sully Collection Development Specialist Royal College of Nursing 20 Cavendish Square London, W1G 0RN Twitter: @rl_sully
Patron Driven Acquisition (PDA) has been a huge success for the RCN library. It has shown us that electronic access to information is a priority for members and that their information needs expand much wider than nursing specific texts. In May 2016, the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) library implemented PDA, a member driven collection development tool. PDA has provided access to over 29,000 pre-selected eBooks to over 435,000 RCN members. This new tool has allowed our members to lead our collection development while giving them more choice. Our experience with PDA has shown that although a large figure is impressive, titles can be irrelevant, inappropriate or out of date. We have learnt that PDA needs continuous development and are now curating the collection to ensure it is and remains relevant to members.
Introduction The RCN library is the world’s largest library dedicated to nursing. We support the whole nursing workforce from healthcare assistants to qualified nurses, academics and beyond. This report will show how we have used PDA to improve subject coverage by providing members
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Bulletin 36 (2) 2017 HLG Nursing access to a large profile of eBooks. As a member led and member funded organisation, we understood PDA as an opportunity to increase member engagement with collection development. Though our members are not aware, by accessing eBooks through our PDA platform, they are participating in building a holistic collection dedicated to nursing and allied health.
During 2015, we invited three suppliers to present their PDA offer and ProQuest was chosen as our supplier for a 3 month trial. The main benefits to using ProQuest were as follows:
- Ease of set up - Choice of licencing options - Choice of rentals and full purchases - Choice of mediated and non-mediated access - Welsh language coverage - Compatibility with our resource discovery tool, Summon - Extensive reporting and analysis - New eBook central platform and developed functionality for users
PDA Setup The initial set up was straightforward and we were well supported by ProQuest. Using metadata terms ‘nursing’, ‘health’ and ‘medicine’, ProQuest produced a list of 29,000+ titles. All of the titles were published in the last 5 years in English or Welsh language. ProQuest provided us files for the selected titles and these were loaded in to our library management system and mirrored in Summon. We decided not to formally launch or publicise PDA as explaining the system to our
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The collection development team chose to provide mediated and non- mediated access to PDA. Members are able to view an eBook for 5 minutes for free. After 5 minutes, non-mediated access allows the eBook to be purchased or loaned without library intervention. Access is mediated if the cost of a purchase or loan is above our top parameters which allows us to approve or reject access to titles. For example, if a request for a short term loan is more than 25% of the RRP, it may be more cost effective to purchase the eBook. After two loans, an eBook will be purchased on its third use to ensure that only eBooks with more than two substantial uses are added to the collection.
The Trial Expenditure The collections team allocated 2% of the book budget for the 3 month trial. Due to the decision not to market PDA, we were confident that this allocation would support access for the trial period. However, usage of PDA was much greater than first anticipated and a third of the budget was spent in week 1. This unexpected high use meant that we had to re- calculate the potential spend and put measures in place to continue with the trial. We decided to limit our book purchasing to core nursing titles and allocate a further 8% of the book budget to PDA.
The high spend made it obvious to the team that PDA was fulfilling a member need. We were interested to see whether spending would plateau over time and so decided to extend the trial period to 6 months.
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To support this financially, we approached the RCN Nursing department who agreed to commit an amount equal to 2.5% of our book budget. Basing our budget calculations on the 3 month spend, we then allocated a further 11.5% of our book budget to PDA. Figure 1 shows that our prediction was much more realistic for these 3 months and we experience a minimal overspend.
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Overall, the RCN library spent 25.4% of its book budget on PDA in 6 months. We noticed that spending slowed down between August and September which are also our quietest months for print book loans and access to services. This is likely due to the academic year beginning late September and goes some way to explain why expenditure increased in October.
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Usage PDA saw 1,978 unique users and eBooks were accessed 8,546 times with 2,886 of these being unique titles. Although we cannot tell where in the country our members were accessing the eBooks from, it is evident that our members require remote access to information. This can be seen when comparing PDA use with the number of print books loaned from our London library. Figure 2 shows that PDA use was a third higher than print loans between May and October 2016.
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Reflective Practice in Nursing 56
Fundamentals of Nursing Models, Theories and Practice 49
The Royal Marsden Hospital Manual of Clinical Nursing 44 Procedures
Foundations of Nursing Practice : Fundamentals of 44 Holistic Care
Table 1: Top 5 titles accessed
Digging deeper, we noticed that one was an old edition and two were copies of a title that we already owned from another supplier. This has told us that we need to spend time editing the PDA collection to remove
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Bulletin 36 (2) 2017 HLG Nursing titles that are identified as such. When PDA was first launched, we noticed a range of inappropriate or irrelevant titles appearing in the collection, ranging from adult to lifestyle titles. These titles were added because they had ‘health’ metadata attached which tells us that classification searching needs to be explored when adding items in the future. Although we did shadow many of these titles in our library management system, with 29,000 eBooks, it was not possible to weed them all. When analysing the title usage, we were happy to see that none of these eBooks were accessed. Although the top 5 eBooks were nursing specific, we were interested to see that the most popular metadata term was ‘medicine’, as shown in Table 2.
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Table 2: Top 5 most used metadata terms Table 3 details a selection of ‘medical’ tagged titles used by RCN members.
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Title Use
Comorbidity of Mental and Physical Disorders 1
Comprehensive Tracheostomy Care : The National 2 Tracheostomy Safety Project Manual
Hypnotherapy : A Handbook 5
Neurobiology of Depression 4
Targeted Therapies for Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer 3
Table 3: Example of medical titles accessed Low use of ‘medical’ tagged titles appears to be common when analysing the usage data. There are many that have been accessed 5 times or less and as a consequence, the number of ‘medical’ titles surpasses ‘nursing’. This tells us that nurses are not only accessing titles core to their profession but also seeking further detail. Members are using titles that are condition or treatment specific which mirrors their changing professional role.
We observed a number of recurring subject themes when reading through the usage reports. Popular subjects include: diabetes, wound care, care planning and mental health. We also saw access to titles on child protection, refugee health care, sepsis and sexual abuse. It is interesting to note the use of these titles as it suggests a response to media attention in 2016. The broad range of subjects confirms that PDA offers members access to titles that may have otherwise been unavailable electronically.
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Conclusion We have learnt that our PDA collection needs to be refined and have already begun work with ProQuest to remove duplicates. Once this work is complete, we will begin to investigate a process for removing old editions. Doing this will benefit our members as we will be providing access to up to date, quality information. Having experienced a range of inappropriate and irrelevant titles in our PDA collection, we now know that we should not rely on metadata when searching for titles to add to the collection. We hope that classification searching will allow for a more considered collection and plan on testing this later this year.
Since the 6 month trial, ProQuest have launched patron analytics. This function has enabled us to ask PDA users which UK region they are from. Collecting this data provides us with evidence to prove that PDA fulfills a member need. At the time of writing this report, we have seen members as far north as the Shetlands and 50% of England users coming from outside of London. As we continue to develop the PDA collection, we look forward to reporting again after a full year.
PDA has been a huge success for the RCN library and we have continued to offer PDA to our membership in 2017. Since launch, members have added 368 eBooks to our collection and we have enabled 2,047 loans, all of which would not have been possible before. Our advice to libraries considering PDA is to overestimate the budget, you’ll need it! Note:
Since submission of this article, the author has left the Royal College of Nursing and is now Librarian Specialist at NHS Wales Informatics Service. For correspondence please contact Diane McCourt, Collection Development Manager, [email protected]
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Reaching out: regional contacts at Royal College of Nursing Libraries
Philip Segall Information Assistant (Customer Services) Royal College of Nursing 20 Cavendish Square London W1G 0RN [email protected]
From Portsmouth to Preston, Salford to Sussex, intrepid staff from Royal College of Nursing (RCN) Library and Archive Services have been out and about over the last few months.
As part of our commitment to Customer Service Excellence (CSE) we have regularly cast aside the homely comforts of our own library premises to champion our services to our members elsewhere. The Library and Archive Services team has been eagerly venturing all over England, assisting at 35 student recruitment events across all of the RCN England regions last year. We were also represented at 43 different conferences and other events. Overall we racked up an impressive 18,788 miles of rail travel from our efforts in 2016!
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Figure 1: Map showing RCN English regions
Each of the RCN’s 9 regions in England is represented by a member of the Library and Archive Services team. Our aim is to highlight the services we have available and to open up opportunities for collaboration. Visits frequently involve liaison with library staff at universities and hospitals too. We present at RCN regional meetings, spreading the word to staff about our fantastic services and resources. These include the easy-to-use Library Search tool we introduced last
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Where appropriate, the team has taken our unique handling collection along to events too. Having physical artifacts and publications there has really helped to encourage discussion and bring nursing history to life! We are pleased to be bringing this collection up with us to Liverpool for this year’s RCN Congress in May. Congress is a major annual event attended by over 4,000 nursing professionals each year.
Figure 2: RCN Congress attendees admire some of the items at the Library and Archive Service’s display RCN Library and Archive Services staff are looking to do even more this year. If you are interested in finding out what RCN Library and Archive Services can do to help users at your nursing library, please contact us at [email protected]. Do look out for all the latest from our most recent regional excursions on Twitter too @RCNLibraries.
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Introducing subject guides in a specialist library and archive service
Caroline Lynch Information Literacy Specialist Royal College of Nursing 20 Cavendish Square London W1G 0RN [email protected] Twitter: @caro_lyn123
This article outlines the implementation of online library subject guides at the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) including development, current progress and way forward. The guides were developed by the Library and Archive Services (LAS) team with input from RCN member nursing communities and key staff including nurse experts, communications and IT. They were integrated within the implementation of a new web site for the organisation. 47 subject guides have been published providing access to key resources, books and journals on nursing topics. The guides have been positively evaluated and further guides are planned. The project has strengthened links between the LAS team, and RCN nursing communities. It has provided RCN members with improved access to information about nursing specialities and key nursing topics.
Background
The RCN is the world’s largest nursing union and professional body. It represents more than 435,000 nurses, student nurses, midwives and
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The subject guides project began in 2015 led by Library and Archive Services (LAS). Caroline Lynch (Information Literacy Specialist) was the project lead and Anna Semmens (Library and Archive Services, Joint Manager) was the project sponsor.
The aim was to provide our members with subject access to information to support their nursing practice and CPD. We aimed to produce one online subject guide related to each RCN forum subject area. Forums are communities of RCN members working in a similar nursing speciality. We also planned guides about broader career related topics and subjects identified as priorities for the organisation and its members.
The guides were planned as online tools providing access to electronic sources of information including e-books and e-journals. As our members are based across the UK and abroad a digital first approach was chosen to meet their needs. Print resources were used only when they were considered essential to a topic we were unable to purchase electronic access.
Development
Subject guides used by other organisations were reviewed for best practice including several university library guides and the Kings Fund online ‘Reading rooms’. They are commonly used in universities, usually providing easy access to resources students need for their courses
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The project was discussed with internal stakeholders including the Head of Nursing, professional leads (RCN leads for specific areas of nursing), and the RCN IT and Communications teams. It took place when the RCN was implementing a new web site. The project lead and sponsor met with the developers and discussed what we wanted to achieve. We worked with them to agree a subject guide template suitable for our audience that would be fully integrated in the new web site.
A pilot guide was developed by the project lead around the topic of revalidation. It was loaded to the test web site and provided a model for other subject guides and an example to show stakeholders.
Implementation
Library subject guides were written by Information Assistants and Information Specialists within the LAS. A process for developing them was provided by the project lead. This included:
Contacting the relevant professional lead and forum for initial discussion Identifying key resources, books, journals and archive material from our collections Suggesting items for purchase by the library Creating library discovery (Summon) searches for books and journal articles on relevant topics Contacting RCN libraries in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales for advice about resources specific to those countries
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Formatting within house style Sending draft list to professional lead and forum contacts for any further comment /review before publishing on the site
Final selection of resources was by the library author taking account of all input received, selection guidance provided by the project lead, and RCN writing for the web guidance. Items suggested by forums and professional leads were purchased for our collection, including two online journals and several eBooks.
Guides were uploaded to the website by three LAS staff. The first library subject guide (Revalidation) was published when the new RCN website went live in December 2015. Subject guides were published throughout 2016 at a rate of 3-4 a month. 47 are now available at: https://www.rcn.org.uk/library/subject-guides. See Appendix 1 for a list of the guides published.
To publicise the subject guides LAS attended nine RCN forum events, speaking to 370 members. We promoted them to staff at regional team meetings. Bookmarks were produced and given out at a range of events. The guides were promoted on Twitter from @RCNLibraries. We asked forums and professional leads to share them with their members.
Format overview
The guides provide:
A taster of some of the RCN Library and Archive resources available related to a subject Details of some of key resources, books and journals
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Searches for books and articles on key topics. These conduct a live database (Summon) search and the information retrieved is always up to date Areas to explore further including our exhibitions, historical and archive collections, learning related games.
Figures 1 to 4 from the Sepsis guide illustrate the format used.
Figure 1: Sepsis subject guide: Key resources (page continues with more resources)
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Figure 2: Sepsis subject guide: Books (page continues with more books)
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Figure 3: Sepsis subject guide: Journals
Figure 4: Sepsis subject guide: Explore
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Evaluation
From January – December 2016 subject guides received 44,060 unique page views (60,492 page views). Page views grew each quarter as more subject guides were published. The top 5 Subject guides with most unique page views in 2016 were:
Revalidation Advanced nursing practice Healthcare assistants and assistant practitioners Mentorship Infection prevention and control
Average time on a page was 1 minute 31 seconds which suggests that people are engaging with the content. Positive feedback has been received from forums, professional leads and other RCN staff:
Having up to date literature which is forum specific will be really helpful to us as advisors (RCN professional lead)
I have had a look at the subject guide and found it useful, easy to navigate and most helpfully uncluttered with good access points to journals and books, including the eBooks. (Forum committee member)
These are really really good and have had a lot of interest on our Facebook page! (Forum committee member)
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Library staff have received positive feedback from RCN members and staff. Users have commented that they find the subject guides easy to use and particularly like the links to eBooks.
Library staff use the subject guides to answer enquiries in the Library and by phone and web chat. They signpost users to them so they can browse and select resources for themselves. Links to subject guides are include with literature searches sent to RCN members and staff.
Subject guides were positively evaluated in the RCN Library and Archive Services survey 2016. 96% of respondents who had used the subject guides indicated they were either satisfied or very satisfied.
One area for improvement was raised by forums around how we acknowledge their input. This is very valuable given their specialist knowledge. There is a link to the relevant forum page from each subject guides. Following discussion a process has been agreed to add an additional acknowledgement.
Way forward
Subject guides will be reviewed annually. Library authors will contact the professional leads and forums to request ideas for new resources. They will also search for new items to add to the guides. Resources that are becoming out of date will be removed. Links will be checked regularly.
Three guides are currently in development:
Rheumatology Sustainability Gastroenterology
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We are planning six further guides on topics prioritised by the RCN. This will bring the total number of guides to 56. Guides with low usage may be disestablished. This will enable us to develop subject guides on new topics.
Conclusion
Library Subject guides have been successfully introduced and embedded as a new product from the RCN. They have received positive feedback and high usage. Developing the guides has increased links between LAS, forums and professional leads. It has helped us to develop our collection by purchasing items suggested by expert user groups. It has provided RCN members with improved access to information about nursing specialities and key nursing topics. LAS will continue to develop and enhance the subject guides to meet the needs of the organisation.
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Appendix 1: RCN Library subject guides
1. Advanced Nursing Practice 2. Books on Prescription 3. Cancer Care 4. Care of Older People 5. Careers 6. Children and Young People: Children’s Endocrine 7. Children and Young People: Medicines Optimisation 8. Children and Young People: Mental Health Promotion 9. Children and Young People: Sepsis 10. Children and Young People: Transition to Adult Services 11. Continence Care 12. Criminal Justice Services Nursing 13. Critical Care and In-Flight Nursing 14. Defence Nursing Services 15. Diabetes 16. District and Community Nursing 17. Doing Your Dissertation 18. eHealth 19. Emergency Care 20. End of Life Care 21. ENT and Maxillofacial Nursing 22. Fertility Nursing 23. Forensic Nursing 24. General Practice Nursing 25. Getting started using the Library 26. Healthcare Assistants and Assistant Practitioners 27. History of Nursing 28. Imaging Nursing 29. Infection Prevention and Control 30. Leadership 31. Learning Disability Nursing 32. Medicines Optimisation 33. Mental Health Nursing 34. Mentorship 35. Midwifery 36. Neurosciences 37. Occupational Health 38. Ophthalmic Nursing Services 39. Orthopaedic and Trauma Nursing 40. Pain 41. Perioperative Care 42. Public Health 43. Revalidation 44. Sepsis 45. Travel Health 46. Using and doing research: a novice’s guide 47. Women’s Health
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Be Bold, Not Reckless: Addressing the Gender Gap on Wikipedia Janan Nuri Information Assistant (Customer Services) Royal College of Nursing 20 Cavendish Square London, W1G 0RN [email protected]
Out of all of the biographies on Wikipedia, only 17% of them are about women. As champions of all things nursing, a profession which even now is comprised of almost 90% women, the Royal College of Nursing embarked on an adventure to help address the imbalance on Wikipedia and to create more pages about important women in nursing history.
The Royal College of Nursing was founded in 1916 by a group led by women including Sarah Swift. At present, if you Google “Sarah Swift”, the first result is a Wikipedia page for her, but not a particularly detailed one. Her legacy at present is only a short sentence stating that there is a ward named after her in St Thomas’ Hospital, London.
Those familiar with nursing history will know that the accomplished Dame Sarah Swift deserves a much longer and detailed entry than that. She is just one example of important and influential women who have fallen short in the “gender gap” on Wikipedia.
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To try and address this imbalance, the WikiProject Women in Red was created in 2015, with the aim to create more pages about women. Considering the RCN’s rich history, filled with inspirational women, it was a logical choice to get RCN staff and members involved in this vital project.
We invited the Wellcome Library’s Wikimedian in Residence, Alice White, to help us host a “Nursing Wikipedia: Editathon” event at our Library and Heritage Centre in London. Alice introduced us to various aspects to Wikipedia, explained how to get started, and went into further detail about the Women in Red project.
Pages on Wikipedia that are linked to other articles appear in blue, as all default hyperlinks do. However if there’s a name or topic on Wikipedia that doesn’t have a page yet, but which perhaps should have a page, the hyperlink appears in red, hence the title “Women in Red”.
Once you’ve made an account on Wikipedia, it’s surprisingly simple to edit a page, and with about 70,000 active contributors to the site around the world, there’s a lot of support available for new users, as well as a welcoming community.
One of the most important ideas which Alice shared with us is “be bold, not reckless”. Be bold enough to start a new page or add information if you see that there’s something missing, but make sure you are measured, that the tone is impartial, and that the page is clear and factual. You can find out more on Wikipedia’s Manual of Style here.
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We began by compiling a list of all RCN Presidents and General Secretaries to add to the main RCN page. All of these figures are important nurse leaders who, again, fell short in this gap in history. When looking at records of the 36 RCN Presidents there have been, only 15 already had pages, and nearly all of those were little stubs, like Sarah Swift’s. Following the event 18 of the RCN’s Presidents now have a page, including our current President, Cecilia Anim. We also now have pages for nearly all of our former General Secretaries.
Using historic nursing journals, contacts within the RCN’s History of Nursing Society, and our archives, we’ve begun creating pages to help tell the stories of these women who are so vital to nursing history. It’s a slow process, but we’re determined to help plug this gap in women’s history, and we aim to raise the profile of nursing on what is one of the largest reference websites in the world.
If you’d like help in contributing to this project, get in touch with Janan at [email protected]
You can find out more about Wikipedia’s Women in Red project here.
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Libraries for Nursing Bulletin e-archive
It’s coming up to three years since the launch of HLG Nursing Bulletin as an electronic publication, which coincided with closing the chapter on our previous incarnation of LfN Bulletin. But, as with all good stories, there’s never really an end, as there’s always a continuation of it somehow and someway. And so it is with LfN Bulletin. It’s a pleasure to announce that we have now set up a digital archive on our website, from which you can access past issues of the formerly print only LfN Bulletin and its predecessor, NIS Newsletter. At present, there is no index or search function, but we will aim to make this part of the long-term, ongoing project.
However, we need your help. At present, there are a significant number of issues that we have not been able to add to the archive, as we do not have copies of them available to digitise – these are primarily from the 1980s and 2000s. So, much as the BBC and ITV have done in appealing for the return of missing television programmes, this is an appeal to our readers, whether individual or institutional. If you have old editions of either NIS Newsletter or LfN Bulletin that you would be willing to either digitise yourself, or have digitised, then please contact the editor. You can see what issues are currently missing, as well as browsing what is available, at goo.gl/HkRi1F.
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How to Demonstrate Impact in 5 Easy Steps Tuesday 27 June 2017 CILIP, London
For more information, keep an eye on our website, follow us on Twitter @ciliphlg, or check the JISC mailing lists
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Current Awareness
Within our profession, we’re always emphasising to our users the importance of maintaining their current awareness of what is going on. And that is no less true for us, so here we present a small sample of recent articles that have caught our eyes. Of course, being a small sample, there is much more out there. So, if you do see something that you think has been of use to you, and would be of use to all of us, let us know and we’ll include it in subsequent issues. Whether it’s a journal article, web page, tweetchat or any other type of media, don’t keep it to yourself. You can find our contact details on the HLG website at goo.gl/JcssfI.
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Carlson, J. (2017) Virtualizing a Solo Library. Journal of Hospital Librarianship. 17 (1), 65-70.
Dalmer, N. K. (2016) Questioning reliability assessments of health information on social media. Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA. 105 (1), 61-68.
Davies, S., Herbert, P., Wales, A., Ritchie, K., Wilson, S., Dobie, L. & Thain, A. (2017) Knowledge into action – supporting the implementation of evidence into practice in Scotland. Health Information & Libraries Journal. 34 (1), 74-85.
Ingram, L. E. & Steelman, S. C. (2017) Academic Health Sciences Center Library Bridges Gap to Non-Medical Life Long Learning Resources Through a Symbiotic Relationship with a Public Library System. Journal of Hospital Librarianship. 17 (1), 30-41.
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Lawton, A., Manning, P. & Lawler, F. (2017) Delivering information skills training at a health professionals continuing professional development conference: an evaluation. Health Information & Libraries Journal. 34 (1), 95-101.
Leslie, S. (2017) Designing an Interactive Web-based Tutorial for Health Sciences Students: A Collaborative Library Project. Medical Reference Services Quarterly. 36 (1), 90-96.
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How to contribute to HLG Nursing Bulletin
HLG Nursing Bulletin is your bulletin and we welcome articles and items for inclusion. It is your chance to get published and share your ideas, experience and research with colleagues in the nursing and health field and the wider profession.
The Bulletin is indexed by CINAHL and the British Nursing Index and soon by Proquest. We are investigating inclusion by both the LISA and LISTA databases.
Some ideas –
Review of electronic sources or books Details of user surveys or other research Report on new initiatives or services Share practice of evidence based library and information practice (EBLIP) Disseminate research findings Conference reports Current awareness User education initiatives / experiences CPD / training activities
Please contact Phillip Barlow for more information about the Bulletin and send articles to:
Phillip Barlow – [email protected]
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Instructions for authors
We welcome articles of any length that would be of interest to fellow health information professionals. We also welcome reviews of books, electronic resources, training events, conferences etc. and training guides or materials.
Formatting Please supply an electronic version of your article Manuscripts should be typed in Arial font, size 14 point and using one and a half line spacing Authors should include their names, current position, work address and email address if applicable. Please include a short abstract c. 150 words for your article
Open Access At present, there is no policy as regards Open Access for HLG Nursing Bulletin. Therefore, if you wish to make your article available on an OA basis, you are free to deposit it in your organisation’s OA repository. If your organisation does not have its own repository, we recommend using a resource such as Research Gate as a way of allowing open access to your article (https://www.researchgate.net/home).
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Get yourself published!
Write a short, medium or long article on any topic, for example:
Reviews of electronic resources Details of user surveys New initiatives Introduce your service to the Libraries for Nursing community Conference reports
Please contact Phillip Barlow for more information about the Bulletin or send any articles to: Phillip Barlow [email protected]
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