Workshop for e-Library Users
10.30 am- 3.30 pm 20th June 2008
St Leonard’s Hall 18 Holyrood Park Edinburgh EH16 /
Background
Since its launch in 2002, the NHS Scotland e-Library has expanded significantly in:
- Range of content available – now some 11 million records, drawing upon content provided by NHS, voluntary sector, education and healthcare publishing.
- Diversity of interfaces tailored to the needs of different audiences – over 20 Portals are now available, including groups in NHS, social care, and “expert patients”.
- A growing portfolio of support for communities and networks in creating and sharing tacit knowledge – eg the Shared Space, tagging, personal profiles and webspaces.
- New search and indexing technology, enabling quicker retrieval, more integrated access and organization of information and learning resources.
- Efforts to support development of information literacy– ie the skills of defining questions, finding, evaluating and sharing information and translating it into practice.
- Recognising the need to make closer links with online systems for planning, managing and recording learning, eg e-KSF, Learning Management Systems, etc.
Aims
This workshop will give e-Library users the opportunity to contribute to redesign of the e-Library and its subject Portals for end of March 2009. We will be looking at how e-Library interface and services can best be reconstructed, using the opportunities presented by new technology, to fulfil the core commitments of NHS Scotland Knowledge Services. This means supporting:
- Decision-making – clinical, managerial, and shared decision-making by patients and professionals.
- Collaboration – sharing information and knowledge within and across communities of health and social care staff, patients and carers; and opening up access to information resources across organizations and sectors.
- Empowering patients and staff through openness and choice in access to information and knowledge and developing the skills and confidence to use it effectively.
- Facilitating learning – Self-directed and social learning by all partners in care as well as mandatory and curriculum-based learning.
Workshop format
Practical demonstration, group discussion of options, hands-on exercises using a range of sample systems
Who should attend?
- Practitioners and managers in NHS, local authority and voluntary sectors interested in improving access to, and use of, information and learning resources and tools to support the above goals.
- Information and knowledge managers interested in contributing to design and content of a coordinated knowledge management system.
Please complete the following form if you would like to attend the e-Library Redesign Workshop:
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Email address…………………………………………………………………………………….
Phone number……………………………………………………………………………………
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Please send the completed form
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By post to:
Lorraine Keenan
NHS Education for Scotland Knowledge Services
Ground floor, Clifton House
Clifton Place
GLASGOW
G3 7LN
Or
By fax to:
Lorraine Keenan
NHS Education for Scotland Knowledge Services
0141 352 2800
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