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Talking about professional failure: what can we learn from each other?
Get PDFThis article presents a brief overview of the literature about professional failure, impostor syndrome, perfectionism, burnout, and resilience, literature which also informed a workshop at the EAHIL Conference held in Cardiff, UK, on 12 July 2018. The workshop brought together 20 participants from across Europe who ranged in age and in career experiences. It aimed to enable participants to feel comfortable talking about and sharing their experiences of professional failure for medical or health librarians and information professionals, and drawing out solutions to those failures. This article shares the outcomes of the workshop, and includes suggestions for ways to manage professional failure
Health libraries: sharing through gaming
Get PDFInformation science is a fast-changing field, and medical librarians need to develop their roles to meet the users’new requirements. The professional development becomes a major challenge, not only regarding the core activities, but also in the way librarians and users can learn in a more innovative way. In order to invent new tools for training, a group of librarians with different backgrounds decided to create a game inspired by the “Bucket ofdoom”, which is described as a “Card game that meets storytelling with a sprinkling of comedy”. This adapted version for health libraries will face players with real professional situations. To overcome each challenge and have fun, librarians must use their experience and imagination with a high dose of creativity and humour