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28 HLG Nursing Bulletin

Volume 36, Issue 2, Spring 2017

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In this issue: Patron Driven Acquisition

Developing Subject Guides

Improving Wikipedia Regional contacts Current Awareness and Professional Literature

Supporting Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health

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Bulletin 36 (2) 2017 HLG Nursing


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Contents

Editorial 31

Patron driven acquisition at the Royal College of Nursing library

Rachel Sully

33

Reaching out: regional contacts at Royal College of Nursing Libraries

Philip Segall

42

Introducing subject guides in a specialist library and archive service

Caroline Lynch

45

Be Bold, Not Reckless: Addressing the Gender Gap on Wikipedia

Janan Nuri

56

Libraries for Nursing Bulletin e-archive 59

Current Awareness 62

Contribute to your Bulletin 65

Instructions for authors

66



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.



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



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

https://www.rcn.org.uk/library



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

http://www.proquest.com/



members would have been too complex. It also allowed us time for

testing and for use to grow organically.

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.



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.

Figure 1: Allocation of book budget vs actual spend

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.

Figure 2: PDA use vs physical book stock use

It is pleasing to see that only 162 requests for access were mediated by

the collections team. Figure 3 shows that the majority of loans and

purchases were done so by the members. This has confirmed our

original understanding that members can help develop their collection

seamlessly and without difficulty.

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Figure 3: Mediated vs non-mediated loans and purchases through PDA

Titles and subjects accessed

Table 1 details the top 5 eBooks accessed during the 6 month trial.

Title Use

Communication Skills for Nurses 60

Reflective Practice in Nursing 56

Fundamentals of Nursing Models, Theories and Practice 49

The Royal Marsden Hospital Manual of Clinical Nursing

Procedures

44

Foundations of Nursing Practice : Fundamentals of

Holistic Care

44

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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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.

Subject Use

Medicine 3743

Nursing 1356

Social Science; Health 302

Health; Social Science 268

Medicine; Pharmacy 128

Table 2: Top 5 most used metadata terms

Table 3 details a selection of ‘medical’ tagged titles used by RCN

members.



Title Use

Comorbidity of Mental and Physical Disorders 1

Comprehensive Tracheostomy Care : The National

Tracheostomy Safety Project Manual

2

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.



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]

mailto:[email protected]



Reaching out: regional contacts at Royal

College of Nursing Libraries

Philip Segall

Information Assistant (Customer Services)


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!




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

https://www.rcn.org.uk/get-involved/countries-and-regions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzO-AXyskgY



year. We now also have over 45 Subject Guides for our members to

explore. All of this work is in addition to the efforts undertaken by library

teams in Belfast, Cardiff and Edinburgh to reach staff throughout the rest

of the UK.

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.

https://www.rcn.org.uk/library/subject-guides

https://www.rcn.org.uk/library/contact/rcn-northern-ireland-library

https://www.rcn.org.uk/library/contact/rcn-wales-library

https://www.rcn.org.uk/library/contact/rcn-scotland-learning-hub

https://www.rcn.org.uk/congress




Introducing subject guides in a specialist

library and archive service

Caroline Lynch

Information Literacy Specialist


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




health care assistants in the UK and internationally. Our members work

in a range of health care specialties and settings in the NHS and

independent sectors. We also have members based overseas, and

members who are retired.

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

https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/library/reading-rooms



including key books, database and journals. They are less used by

specialist and professional body libraries.

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

https://www.rcn.org.uk/library/subject-guides/revalidation-subject-guide

https://www.rcn.org.uk/library/subject-guides/revalidation-subject-guide



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

https://www.rcn.org.uk/library/subject-guides



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)



Figure 2: Sepsis subject guide: Books (page continues with more books)



Figure 3: Sepsis subject guide: Journals

Figure 4: Sepsis subject guide: Explore



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)



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



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.



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



Be Bold, Not Reckless: Addressing the

Gender Gap on Wikipedia

Janan Nuri

Information Assistant (Customer Services)


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.




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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedian_in_residence

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Zeromonk

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Zeromonk

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Words_to_watch



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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Swift

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecilia_Anim


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red



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.





COMING SOON!!

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



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.



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.

Johnson, H. A. & Barrett, L. (2016) Your teaching strategy matters: how

engagement impacts application in health information literacy instruction.

Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA. 105 (1), 44-48.

Jones, D. A. & Reilly, B. (2017) Effects of a Change in Hospital Affiliation

on an Academic Medical Center Library. Journal of Hospital

Librarianship. 17 (1), 13-21.

Joseph, R., Fernandes, S., Hyers, L. & O'Brien, K. (2016) Health

literacy: a cross-disciplinary study in American undergraduate college

students. Journal of Information Literacy. 10 (2), 26.

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15323269.2017.1259447

https://www.unboundmedicine.com/medline/citation/28096748/Questioning_reliability_assessments_of_health_information_on_social_media

https://www.unboundmedicine.com/medline/citation/28096748/Questioning_reliability_assessments_of_health_information_on_social_media

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/hir.12159/abstract






https://www.unboundmedicine.com/medline/citation/28096745/Your_teaching_strategy_matters:_how_engagement_impacts_application_in_health_information_literacy_instruction

https://www.unboundmedicine.com/medline/citation/28096745/Your_teaching_strategy_matters:_how_engagement_impacts_application_in_health_information_literacy_instruction



http://ojs.lboro.ac.uk/ojs/index.php/JIL/article/view/PRA-V10-I2-1





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.

McTavish, J. (2017) Negotiating concepts of evidence-based practice in

the provision of good service for nursing and allied health professionals.

Health Information & Libraries Journal. 34 (1), 45-57.










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]




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).

https://www.researchgate.net/home



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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