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Items not submitted in time for the notes for publication deadline will be published contributors in the following edition.

1. Articles and news items are Guidelines for contributors are also welcome from all members of Lihnn, available on the Lihnn website. including support staff and staff in higher education institutions. contributions should Lihnn members are actively encouraged to write up accounts be submitted to: of events and courses attended. Articles on new developments and Kathy Turtle, Librarian, projects successfully managed are Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, also welcome. Postgraduate Education Centre, Chorley Hospital, Preston Road, 2. News items and short pieces, Chorley PR7 1PP which can range from factual to amusing, are also welcome. Tel: 01257 245607 Fax: 01257 245623 3. All items can be submitted in print Email: [email protected] or electronic format. Lihnn is on the web via Aditus at www.aditus.nhs.uk. Click on Communities, then please abide by By Profession, to the Lihnn link. the following points:

Don’t forget your name, location, title of article and date of article. LIBRARY AND INFORMATION HEALTH All acronyms should be written out in NETWORK NORTHWEST full for the first occasion they are used NEWSLETTER in the text. Please give full details of events, courses and conferences EDITORIAL BOARD attended. This should include: Kathy Turtle (Chair) ■ The name of event and location Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

■ Date of event Rachel Bury University Hospital Aintree ■ Name of organizing or sponsor- Suzanne Kelly ing body Health Care Libraries Unit

■ Details of how support materials Hannah Gray can be obtained (where necessary) Mersey Care NHS Trust

■ Kieran Lamb Full references to any published Fade, reports, articles, etc.

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by Health Libraries, For Health Libraries ISSUE 15 AUTUMN 2004

From Belfast to... Santander?

In a truly international issue we experiences of presenting their paper travel to Belfast, Santander, ‘Integrating National, Regional and Local IN THIS ISSUE and erm... Warrington for conferences, Electronic Resources in a Hybrid Library courses and briefings. Environment’ at The Conference of the Errors and Omissions European Association of Health Information Kathy Turtle 2 The North West was well represented at Libraries (EAHIL). They reveal the main Three Articles from The Health Libraries Group (HLG) themes of the conference to be e-resources Health Libraries Conference: Conference in Belfast. Bernie Hayes and the importance of communication highlights presentations on Lifelong with other partners. For abstracts (posters Health Libraries Conference Learning, Knowledge Sharing and and presentations coming soon) go to Belfast September 2004 Quality standards whilst Sarah Lewis- https://ibio.humv.es/ biblioteca/eahil/ Spice and the City Newton and Joanne Thompson share Bernie Hayes 2 the experience of being presenters as Now to London and a CILIP course Variety is most definitely well as attending sessions on Training, ‘Producing and editing a newsletter’ the spice of life! concept mapping and our very own which Christie’s Collette Gleghorn Sarah Lewis-Newton 4 Rachel Bury’s WebCT and Expertease describes as a very valuable and HLG Conference session, not to mention various extra extremely well delivered session. Sarah Glover 5 curricular activities! East Lancashire’s Sarah Glover describes interesting Last but not least it’s good old Warrington A report from the 9th sessions on both the NLH and Agenda for and for those who missed it and those in Conference of the European Change. Go to www.cilip.org.uk/ need of refreshment (not the Belfast kind!) Association of Health Information Libraries - groups/hlg/conf2004/programme.html read on for a very useful update of From Altamira until now: to view the presentations. September’s LIHNN/HCLU briefing. Information Transference ways Riz Zafar & Anne Webb 6 It seems like all our contributors had a great HLG Conference 2004, not only in Hannah Gray CILIP Workshop formal sessions but around the city too – ‘Producing and Editing I think the photos say it all! a Newsletter’ Colette Gleghorn 9 From Belfast to Santander, Riz Zafar LIHNN/HCLU Briefing Notes and Anne Webb describe their Michele Hilton Boon 10 LIHNNK*15 autumn'04 v4 10/12/04 9:28 am Page 3

Spice a

to recognise that they also have a responsibility to share knowledge. We should also take the broad view in relation to professional knowledge - our role is to support lifelong learning, not just workplace learning and practice and we should:-

■ Not forget our professional values ■ Make the time to reflect on our practice ■ Use networks and mentors to help ■ Get involved with research and other initiatives outside the library ■ Share what we learn with others ■ Keep up our core skills and knowledge

I find it easy to lose sight of a sense of social responsibility, given the day-to- day demands of work, and I appreciated L-R: Chris Thornton, Melanie Hinde, Helen McEvoy, Katy Woolfenden (behind Helen), This was my first visit to Margaret getting the conference started Mandy Beaumont, & Linda Riley Belfast &, having searched on an idealistic note. in vain for an up-to-date travel guide to the city, I wasn’t Many of the presentations from the quite sure what to expect (but I conference are available to download at definitely didn’t expect to find a www.cilip.org.uk/groups/hlg/conf2004 tree called Brian, more of that later!). /programme.html so I won’t repeat the Errors and I can’t remember what I expected details here, but just pick out the session Omissions from my first HLG Conference that I found most useful, namely Sue either, but my experiences of both Thomas’ presentation on using quality standards to demonstrate effectiveness to In the summer edition of Lihnk Up city and conference were positive, the following errors and omissions thought-provoking and enjoyable. stakeholders and customers. Sue’s occurred: presentation was based on her experiences working to achieve Charter Mark status The Lihnn/HCLU Briefing Notes should have My personal highlight, in terms of the been credited to Norma Blackburn, Michele conference (this year entitled Variety is for the National Assembly for Wales Hilton Boon, and David Stewart the Spice of LIFE), was the Keynote Health Promotion Library. I found this presentation particularly valuable Dawn McGowan’s article on Alzheimer’s speech by Margaret Haines, President of Awareness Week was held at Mersey Care CILIP. Margaret said that we should be because the information presented was Knowledge and Library Sevice, and not developing ourselves, our users and our based on experience gained over time, North Mersey as stated in the editorial. organisations, but we should also take developing a service with an ongoing commitment to making quality “an Apologies from the Editor to all concerned. another look at core values, such as intellectual freedom, and consider the integral part of service delivery, and not impact we can have on our society. We an ‘added extra’”. Some of the practical Kathy Turtle are not very good at coaching our users advice from the presentation-:

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■ Feedback can come in many guises!

■ Don’t follow us and ignore the ‘informal’ responses on ‘post-it notes’ ‘compliment slips’ etc. These are invaluable!

■ SAVE ALL feedback however received!

■ It takes TIME to achieve regular feedback.

I can’t do justice to the presentation here, so take a look for yourself.

Wednesday lunchtime arrived all too soon Left to right: David Stewart, Jean Williams, Linda Riley, Steve Glover, Sarah Glover and Mandy Beaumont and I was sorry that I hadn’t had chance to have a proper look at all the poster presentations, but I had lots of food for thought to take away and wish to thank HCLU and LIHNN for giving me the opportunity to attend my first (and hope- fully not my last) HLG Conference.

As for Belfast, I will definitely go back. There was an air of calm that I’ve never before experienced in a city and, cliché though it is, the people were really friendly. Belfast City Hall was a great setting for the conference dinner and the open-topped bus tour of the city is a must. LeAnn Rimes’ concert at the Waterfront Hall was In full swing...! excellent (even if it did hold up HLG preparations).

And finally… I was delighted to have bumped into one of my long-time idols, Brian Kennedy (the singer, not the tree of the same name spotted by Kieran!).

Bernie Hayes 5 Boroughs Partnership NHS Trust

Linda Riley and David Stewart

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Variety is most definitely the spice of life! Sarah Lewis-Newton, Assistant Librarian Marie Curie Cancer Care

I was extremely nervous her team. The talk given by Eve Hollis provided information leaflets on at the prospect of this whose humorous look at teaching different medicinal routes to take. years HLG conference, rang a few bells with those of us She was also put in contact with not only because I did not trying not to laugh when the users roll Marie Curie Nurses, and MacMillan know Belfast well and I had the mouse over the monitor. The high- nurses who provided further information to navigate it on my own, but light of the conference for me was the and choices within the West of because myself and my session given by Anne Parkhill Scotland. The end result was that the colleague Joanne Thomson, entitled “Train quickly, educate patient fully recovered, and had taken were having to stand up and patiently”. The interaction with full advantage of help and advice put ourselves on the line and colleagues was well run. When split within the surrounding area. Proving present in front of a group of up into different groups, each had a that indeed Library and Knowledge our fellow professionals. question to answer, other peoples services have a role to play in providing experiences from within and outside effective patient information. Now as we all know, this situation is the NHS was varied and interesting. almost always guaranteed to produce It forced me to question, why I was We all know what a good job health quivering knees, sweaty palms and teaching, how I was teaching and if it librarians do, whatever their job title, the “this computer is bound to break was appropriate or effective. wherever they work and whatever down” feeling that inevitably precedes user group they serve. I did not know any presentation. I would like to say My colleague with whom I presented however that they could drink so now, thanks mainly to my colleague on the first day asked me to include much!!! No report of the conference and the friendly faces in the crowd we her thoughts on what she enjoyed could be complete without mentioning got through it and even got a clap… most, so courtesy of Joanne Thomson the “extra-curricular activities” well… although that could be because we here we go! Belfast was a marvellous host city had finally finished speaking… I suspect for the conference. The people were we will never know! One of the highlights for me was friendly, the venues for both the Annette Thain’s look at concept mapping conference and the dinner were The conference overall was excellent. to support Library and Knowledge excellent and the band who enter- There was plenty of opportunity to Services effective collaboration to tained us were… well the least said tailor your workshop choices to your meet user needs. As it was tailored to about them, the better! interests. I personally tended towards the Scottish system, it was in a context the information literacy and I could easily relate to. Annette used effectiveness areas because of current an example of a patient in the West All in all a great conference! A BIG developments within my organisation. Coast of Scotland, who had been Thank you is due to all at HCLU who Of course Rachel Bury’s overview of diagnosed with breast cancer to show provided me with this opportunity. webct and the development of how collaborative working in the It is an experience I’ll remember! Expertease, an online information health care setting can be of an skills tutorial was excellent, as I work advantage for a patient. The patient with students studying at Edge Hill, first attended the doctors surgery, my students are now beginning to see where she was put in touch with the the benefits! - Thanks to Rachel and local hospital, who after consultation

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HLG Conference 6-8th September 2004 Sarah Glover, East Lancashire Hospitals

Having never visited This was very useful in explaining In no time at all it was the final day Belfast before I wasn’t what NLH is and how it will develop, and I took the opportunity to have a sure what to expect, as I personally felt that the look at the posters as well as getting but armed with my guidebook developments and discussions about some more freebies. I was determined to do it had passed me by. The added some sightseeing before the incentive for attending was the Over the 3 days I had collected lots of conference started. promise of orange juice, coffee and information, ideas and literature croissants. Another interesting and which would be useful for both my Saturday afternoon was spent on an valuable session on Tuesday covered own library and my application for open top sightseeing bus that took in Agenda for Change. Trevor McIlroy Chartership. Belfast and the all areas of the city and provided a who is a project manager for the Job Waterfront were both excellent commentary. It was interesting to see Evaluation Panel gave this presentation. venues and I would definitely return. the areas affected by the ‘Troubles’ It was useful to hear him explain the Although this was not my first and the Peace Wall really brought process of job matching and conference, it was my first HLG and it home the divisions that still exist was an excellent opportunity to see within the city. The bus tour was how other professionals are working followed by a guided tour of City hall and they ideas they are taking where we were having the conference forward. It has also given me the dinner. Sunday was a walk up to opportunity to learn about and Queen’s University and around the understand the wider issues affecting Botanical Gardens. the profession and our sector.

The conference started with a keynote speech from Maggie Haines that My thanks to HCLU for providing me reminded us of our values and with the opportunity to attend. responsibilities as a profession. There was a good representation of librarians from the Northwest and the evaluation, as well as having the coffee and lunch breaks were a good chance to clarify some of the rumours opportunity to meet colleagues and that have been circulating. put a few faces to names! The opening of the exhibition provided an The magnificent Belfast City Hall was opportunity to have a few glasses of the setting for an excellent conference wine and some nibbles, as well as dinner with great food, however the procuring some freebies from the after dinner entertainment left a little exhibitors. to be desired!

I decided to get up bright and early for the NLH (National Library for Health) breakfast meeting on Tuesday.

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A report from the 9th Conference of the Europea From Altamira until now: Info

(Or “Santander looks interesting, isn’t t ha

By Riz Zafar & Kostoris Medical Library C

The European seemed a long way off. Since then librarians) have in educating and Association much has happened and, “with a lot of supporting healthcare professionals for Health planning and hard work, our mission from their student days to retirement. Information and Libraries has been accomplished and we can Fernando Rodriguez Alonso, past (EAHIL) held their 9th report back on our exploits! Director of BIREME (Brazil), delivered European Conference of a keynote speech at the ceremony on Medical and Health Libraries The conference was held at the Hotel the old and new challenges of “on the 20-25 September, in Santemar in the Bay of Santander Santander, Spain. It was at (i.e. lots of beach activity nearby) and this beautiful location that we was attended by approximately 400 arrived to present our paper delegates, mainly from Europe but entitled Integrating National, there were also attendees and Regional & Local Electronic speakers from Australia and the US. Resources in a hybrid library environment: challenges to The conference included a programme librarians and users. of continuing education courses, a scientific programme of presentations As long ago as September 2003 and poster sessions covering topics Anne can remember a conversation such as: the future of medical along the lines of “Santander looks libraries; scientific publication and interesting, isn’t that where the ferry evaluation; information and people; goes to in Spain?” hybrid and digital libraries. At the outset we aimed to attend as many Little did we imagine, that from the presentations as we could between us moment we first looked at the EAHIL and then expend any surplus energy website, we would actually be going by participating in the lively social to Santander to share our experiences programme! of developing a hybrid library service. Santillana del Mar, host town for the Conference Initially fired up by the prospect of an The conference’s official language interesting conference, in what looked was English, although there was a to be a lovely location, we promptly strong Spanish contingent and during information management. He submitted our abstract and awaited the opening ceremony five of the emphasised the need for obtaining the outcome. Imagine the stir it caused eight speakers spoke in Spanish - we quality information from the web by when in January we heard that it had have been promised translations of using new and existing tools for been accepted for presentation - we the speeches!! The Dean of Cantabria organising and disseminating quality were excited but also in shock! Medical School did speak in English medical literature, such as digital Looking back to January the prospect and was keen to stress the fundamental libraries, and he quoted NeLH as an of some late September sunshine role that health libraries (and example.

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ean Association of Health Information Libraries - formation Transference ways t t hat where the ferry goes to in Spain?”)

ar & Anne Webb ry Christie Hospital NHS Trust

In contrast to this there was a developing networks of representatives audience, who, because of the tight presentation the following day on the”and champions to raise awareness of programme schedule, resulting in importance of utilising traditional NeLH – a network which potentially only an hour for a three course lunch, methods for obtaining information could be adapted and applied to all had rapidly downed their desserts e.g. hand searching to locate a large libraries seeking to promote their and coffees! It was a challenge in amount of clinical trial literature not services. In later sessions the UK was itself adapting our presentation at indexed on MEDLINE. A study also also well represented with speakers very short notice, accommodating a discussing the future of medical later start, keeping within our time libraries and information literacy and then ignoring the late arrivals skills. As well as the future of medical from lunch as they entered the libraries, the importance of the past session! (Anyway Anne, who was was not forgotten. Historical papers presenting the paper, somehow such as the history of nursing and the managed to cope and it all went fan- history of the Hamburg Medical tastically well!) Association Library - which survived war and a city-wide fire through the Another recurring theme throughout dedication of its own librarians and the conference was the need for book donations from librarians communications at all levels- between world-wide – were presented. librarians, library users, publishers, suppliers and all the other groups that As illustrated by these few examples we need to interact with. The use of there were a variety of presentations library portals was well debated, as but one of the themes running was enhancing the end-user throughout the conference was the experience. It was also interesting to use of a wide array of E-Resources glimpse the impact that developments and the issues and opportunities in genomic medicine may have on involved. These included its impact on information management. services e.g. e-journals and the reduction of document supply Unfortunately we can only give a related the geographic biases and requests; organising and accessing snapshot of the many exciting projects differences of journal coverage in information e.g. portals, PDAs etc underway, however the official EAHIL MEDLINE and EMBASE, mainly in and the training and promotion of site https://ibio.humv.es/biblioteca/ relation to Spanish journals but also these relevant e-resources to users. eahil/ currently displays abstracts for reiterating the importance of sourcing the conference and we have been more than one database for information. This was particularly highlighted in reliably told that the proceedings with There were also some familiar UK the hybrid and digital libraries’ parallel posters and presentations will be faces including Alison Turner (NeLH). sessions. It was in this category that published on there ‘soon’! Alison delivered a presentation on we delivered our paper to a well fed continued over...

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...continued The EAHIL conference was an enjoyable and educational experience and it The Venue and was both interesting and enlightening Social Programme to meet librarians from different countries, cultures and organisations An interesting or amusing point who all face the same challenges and (depending on your sense of humour) opportunities in the ever- changing about the conference was that there world of health information. was also another conference held at the same hotel; the conference of the We would particularly like to thank: Patronal Nacional de Servicios the NeLH and Paterson Institute of Transference ways Transference Funerarios which translates as the Cancer Research for their support National Employers Association of and sponsorship to make this

Information Libraries - Funeral Services. A library and a experience possible, and Steve funeral conference held at the same Glover (the master of persuasion) for hotel, one can only imagine the his encouragement and support in stereotypes the hotel guests must have allowing us to present conjured! some of the work we

European Association of Health all do in the library Santander itself is a beautiful part of service at the Christie. Northern Spain with pristine beaches From Altamira until now: Information and crashing waves - popular with surfers who, incidentally, undress out A report from the 9th Conference of of their wetsuits by their vans at the roadside! We of course averted our eyes and tutted loudly every time we ” saw this occur. There was a trip to Santillana del Mar, a picturesque well preserved medieval village, with lots of little shops selling all manner of quirky things. We also visited the Altamira Museum which houses a Riz and Anne at the Conference centre huge replica of the14,000 year old Caves of Altamira and their cave paintings (now closed to the public). And finally, at the end of the conference dinner, Spanish and Belly dancing was performed spectacularly by superb professionals (professional dancers that is not professional librarians, although some of them may have been both I suppose!)

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CILIP Workshop ‘Producing and Editing a Newsletter’

RIDGMOUNT STREET, LON DON 28 SEPTEMBER 2004 COLETTE GLEGHORN:ENQUIRY SERVICES LIBRARIAN, CHRISTIE HOSPITAL NHS TRUST

Many of us librarians are involved, Swindon. I was one of only two followed and a couple of the more at some time or other, in newsletter northerners though, with Salford energetic delegates took advantage production or preparation. The University providing the other. of CILIPs close proximity to Oxford repeated chasing of contributors, Street – I was not one of them, searching for news and gathering of The morning session focused on however, preferring to exhaust the information is probably all too analysing the audience, reader CILIP coffee maker. familiar to many of us. research and newsletter identity. Workshop leader Chris Wells was Anticipating the slumberous symptoms But has your newsletter become a ball particularly vocal in emphasizing two of the graveyard slot, Chris restarted and chain around your neck? Do you points – the importance of knowing at 1 o’clock with analysing and dread the mere mention of it? Are you your audience and secondly, writing prioritizing content, which he cleverly tired of seeing your handiwork used for that audience only. delivered as a hands-on session with as a coffee coaster? If so, then you discussion and debate actively should look out for the biannual CILIP After coffee we moved on to editorial encouraged. The final session looked (Chartered Institute of Library and at design features including captions, Information Professionals) course, photographs, desktop publishing “Producing and Editing a and printing. Newsletter.” Having recently been threatened with pending newsletter A busy day, but the earlier than duties, I travelled down to CILIPs planned 4 pm finish, allowed me London base on 28th September two hours to stroll around the 2004 for the one-day workshop. wonderful British Museum, which is only a stone’s throw from CILIP. The workshop, aimed at anyone involved in newsletter production, The workshop – restricted to promised, “To help participants 25 places – was very valuable towards producing a newsletter and extremely well delivered that their readers will want to read by Chris Wells, who is also a from cover to cover.” And so, lecturer in copywriting, editing, equipped with the mandatory skills and writing audience hookers, and preparing strategies and stationery and soft mints, I arrived otherwise known as headlines. Chris’ proposals, and it is certainly one I for 9 o’clock registration. experience and sharp wit made this a would recommend to any newsletter very entertaining session. In particular, hack looking for inspiration. The delegates, who represented a his talk on clarity and ambiguity in diversity of institutions such as the writing was useful and it was Army, The Law Office and Surrey peppered with humorous bloomers County Council, had travelled into the such as – I used your soap two years capital from areas including Brighton, ago; since then I have used no other! Cambridge, Birmingham and A lengthy and lavish lunch break

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LIHNN /HCLU Briefing Notes has offered £50,000 in non- ■ NHS Job Evaluation Handbook recurrent funding, with strings Approximately 50 people Second Edition (October 2004) attached to Map of Medicine attended the briefing on http://www.dh.gov.uk/Publications training. This is not confirmed yet. September 29 in Warrington AndStatistics/Publications/Publications ■ Cheshire and Merseyside SHA & enjoyed presentations on PolicyAndGuidance/Publications have funded £208,000 recurrent Agenda for Change, RSS and PolicyAndGuidanceArticle/fs/en?C to develop primary care library current awareness, Infocandy, ONTENT_ID=4090845&chk=jZS4ev services. As this development ■ Health Informatics Community and Binleys, along with the involves setting up new posts, the LIHNN and HCLU updates. Below Agenda for Change News spend is slow. Accordingly, HCLU please find a brief summary of http://www.informatics.nhs.uk/ can use approximately £50,000 what you missed, or refresh news/afc.html for Cheshire and Merseyside your memory if you were there! bids. Total bids received amounted to over £300,000. Agenda for Change – Linda Kieran Lamb – RSS Feeds and Ferguson Current Awareness Services ■ David is doubtful that any major Linda has already circulated a copy RSS stands for Really Simple amounts of money will become of her presentation on the LIHNN Syndication or Rich Site Summary. available at the end of December. list; if you missed it, please login to Or RDF Site Summary. Well, don’t We can still place bids at the end JISCmail and view the archived worry too much about what it of December/first two weeks of copy of her message at: stands for. RSS is used to create January, but there is no guarantee http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgibin/ news feeds that allow for easy that money will be available webadmin?A2=ind0409&L=lihnn& redistribution of current information before 1 April. T=0&F=&S=&P=25976 on the web. Under NLH, a current Single search environment: testing Linda has been working on draft awareness service with a primary begins October 11, led by Fran job profiles for library and information care focus is being developed using Wilkie. Please assist. workers. Within the draft profile existing RSS feeds at TIN in Trent. structure, the profile names are The current focus is practice LKDN statistics: please check your deliberately different from common management, but people are needed income stats to ensure you have job titles, following the principle to provide more content and included your staff costs. If the that job profiles are not job contribute to the TIN database. This income total does not equal the descriptions or person specifications. is a chance for the North West to expenditure total, please explain. The profiles will be finalised at the influence NLH development. The North West has the best return end of November and published so far in the whole of England. The afterwards on the Department of USEFUL SITES: LKDN stats are an important ■ See RSS in action at TIN Health web site. Linda urged us to element of the NLH funding survey read the Job Evaluation Handbook http://www.tin.nhs.uk/welcome/ that is being carried out. Report from and to ensure that our person spec keeping-up-to-date this suvey is due in the New Year. covers all of the factors in the ■ NeLH Help on XML and RSS Handbook. We should ensure that http://www.nelh.nhs.uk/xmlhelp.asp New Head of Knowledge Management research, auditing, and effort factors for Cheshire and Wirral Mental are included. Everyone thanked Health Partnership is Martin Dowler, Linda for her hard work at both HCLU Update – David Stewart who will be based at St Catherines regional and national levels. Funding news: in Birkenhead. ■ Greater SHA is offering £50,000 in recurrent funding USEFUL SITES: The HCLU Stakeholder Group, to ■ (not yet in writing, however). Job profiles whom HCLU is accountable, met This is the first new funding from http://www.dh.gov.uk/PolicyAndG recently and it looks like the stake- in two years. uidance/HumanResourcesAndTrain holders (the LIHNN Committee, ing/ModernisingPay/AgendaForC ■ The Deputy Chief Information three SHAs, Trusts, and two hange/AgendaForChangeArticle/ Officer of Greater Manchester Postgraduate Deans) will sign up to fs/en?CONTENT_ID=4079277&ch k=KCeZ3I 10 LIHNNK*15 autumn'04 v4 10/12/04 9:28 am Page 12

a permanent contract with HCLU with five-year reviews. LIHNN Update – Norma Blackburn Marie Ford and Norma are ■ Lucy Anderson and Debra Thornton Approximately 300 delegates attend- completing their terms on the LIHNN attended CASP at Oxford and are ed the HLG conference in Belfast. committee. Hannah Gray from preparing cascade training sessions See http://www.cilip.org.uk/groups/ Merseycare, Mary Hill from Stepping for next year. hlg/ for photos, posters, and abstracts Hill in Stockport, and Tracy Owen ■ Meetings of the Trainers Group if you missed it. from FADE now join the committee. are open to all.

David proposed the following Marie and Norma established a changes to the structure of meetings working group to revise Helping Infocandy Presentation in the North West. Hands, an introduction to librarian- Johan Tengstrand, Head of UK Sales ship in the NHS for new staff. The for Infocandy and one of the company’s 1. Retain the LIHNN-HCLU Briefings new edition should be ready to founders, provided a service overview. on a quarterly basis. These are launch at Christmas Study Day. Infocandy is one of the NHS preferred open to all health library staff / or suppliers for subscription products. library staff serving the needs of Speaking of which – if you have Infocandy’s appeal to supplies health staff and students. suggestions for presentations and departments is its claim that it can events for Christmas Study Day, 2. Establish a new meeting for NHS reduce procurement costs by 80%, please contact Mick Heaton or David Library Managers. This would principally by providing e-procurement. Stewart. LIHNN sub-groups are enable NHS Library Managers The appeal to libraries was not encouraged to participate in a poster and HCLU to meet to discuss / addressed by the presentation. display. work on NHS-related issues. This would be a half-day meeting in the morning, twice a year. Binley’s Presentation Sub-group Updates Nigel Wickersham provided a lively 3. Establish a new meeting for staff Copyright and Data Protection Group run-through of Binley’s online, a involved in Knowledge Management ■ The copyright booklet is now database of NHS organisations, across the north west. This would ready; by now you will have seen documents, and people. The Binley’s enable attendees to share a copy in your brown envelope. homepage has a news feed and approaches, information etc around ■ news index, which provides links to KM. This would not neccessarily The group will reform under the about three weeks’ worth of NHS- be made up of librarians - though name Information Governance. related news stories. Nigel showed librarians leading on KM would ■ New members are welcome; us how to use the advanced search attend. This would be a half day please contact Marie Ford. function and how to search the full meeting, twice per year. This Heritage Group text of documents. Users can also meeting would follow on from the create personal directories of library managers meeting. ■ The Heritage experts have received frequently contacted people and their training from IS Oxford and 4. Discontinue the meeting of the organisations. have prepared materials, which Knowledge and Library Co-ordinators are in the process of being added Forum. Michele Hilton Boon to Aditus. Information Scientist, ■ Live training sessions are to take David welcomes your views on these National Prescribing Centre place in October. proposals; please pass them on by the end of October. ■ Meetings of the Heritage Group are open to all. Trainers Group ■ Aditus has a publicity poster for training sessions that you can modify and use, as well as sample , training evaluation forms. o o

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