Updates to the UHL CL website

I've been very slack lately in keeping the Clinical Librarian Bibliography up to date, and I hadn't (until this morning) added links to the presentations from the Study Day in October either. However, I have done it now, and everything should be there to view.

I do worry about the bibliography, I wonder how useful it is, and if I am managing to capture everything. Thankfully, many people are happy to blow their own trumpet & let me know what they've published! I am grateful for that. I do have a lot of alerts set up through HDAS and PubMed, but I know I miss things.

At UHL we use articles about clinical librarianship as inspiration for what we could achieve, and as evidence to pass to our managers to prove our value. Do others do this?

We leads me to wonder if we should publish more, and if so, what? The day job is busy enough keeping on top of the searches and the current awareness, as well as the admin tasks we all have. Do we also have a responsibility to be writing and publishing and practising what we preach on evidence based practice?

Bibliography updated

At long last I've found the time to wade through all of my Pubmed search alerts, and my frankly quite flaky NHS HDAS search alerts & update the Clinical Librarian bibliography on our web site.

We also have a link to do a quick Pubmed search from the site, so even if I've been slack, you can see what's been published recently in the field. It's not the most sophisticated search, so if you have comments or suggestions, feel free to let us know!

http://www.uhl-library.nhs.uk/cl_research.html

Article with T-shirt potential!

My colleague Sarah Sutton, has co-authored the paper published today with clinicians working in A&E at University Hospitals Leicester NHS Trust. She's especially proud as she didn't have to prod her co-authors on the title, it was all their work. She's now threatening to put this on a t-shirt. I feel a design competition coming on.


In an emergency-call the clinical librarian!
T J Coats, S Sutton, C Vorwerk and M W Cooke
Emergency Medicine Journal 2009;26:321-323; doi:10.1136/emj.2008.065011 © 2009 BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and the College of Emergency Medicine.

Clinical Librarian Study again! And NEW on our web site

Don't forget about 8th May at George Eliot Hospital, Nuneaton.

http://www.uhl-library.nhs.uk/pdfs/cl_study_day_app_2009.pdf

Also, I spent Friday afternoon updating the Clinical Librarian bibliography. I'd be interested to hear of any unpublished studies that I can add to the list.