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Watch Repairer, Taxi Driver, Librarian: How threatened are our jobs in the digital age?
Get PDFFor 702 different jobs, the Oxford researchers Frey and Osborne examined the degree of susceptibility to computerisation. With a probability of 65%, the occupation “librarian” was calculated as quite good computerisable (1). How does this translates into the reality of our daily work? Do we now all have to be anxious for our jobs? Fearing that our jobs will get lost? That libraries get extinct
Mobile devices change the way medicine is taught, learned and practiced. That’s a great challenge for libraries
Get PDFThe papers in this special issue on mobile technologies have one thing in common. They all agree that “smartphones and tablet computers have become the new cultural ‘norm’ within personal and professional lives” (Fuller & Joynes). Especially tablets are used to enhance teaching, learning and practice of medicine.As you learn in this issue, some European medical schools have already recognized the value of tablet computers in learning and loan them or present them as a gift to students. Six from eight contributions regard tablets, which reflects pretty much the use we all recognize in lectures, libraries, on the ward, on the go
Enhancement or replacement? Understanding how legitimised use of mobile learning resources is shaping how healthcare students are learning
Get PDFThe number of smartphones and mobile applications has increased exponentially over the past five years and are now accepted as a cultural norm. This poses challenges and opportunities for higher education institutions exploring the best use of such technologies to facilitate new ways of supporting learning experiences. Examples of good practice in this arena are emerging, in particular in the training of healthcare students who are often away from the university setting and for whom mobile technologies offer new opportunities to access resources and deliver safe patient care. Keys to the success of such programmes are “legitimately” produced resources, and librarians, who are best placed to be able to develop the key skills students need in order to make best use of the technology available to them
From pilot to practice: iPads at the University of Helsinki Faculty of Medicine
Get PDFThe University of Helsinki Faculty of Medicine started a mobile learning pilot by providing iPads to all incoming medical students in 2013 and 2014. A model describing how technology facilitates learning is used to portray how diversely iPads have been used by the students. After the successful pilot in collaboration with the Medical Library Terkko, iPads have been integrated into medical studies and will be provided to incoming students also in autumn 2015
Sharing literature search blocks: status and ideas for a cooperative solution
Get PDFSharing and reusing search blocks was the theme of the workshop session at EAHIL-ICAHIS-ICLC in Edinburgh, June 2015. Most of the participants used to save and reuse literature search blocks. Several web pages for sharing search blocks were presented. The discussion on quality issues resulted in a list of requirements for sharing search blocks; these data would contribute to a better understanding of the search and the context of it, and therefore a higher confidence when reusing it. The best format for sharing seach blocks was not easy to agree upon. Future work will include setting up a network of initiators for search block sites aiming on finding good and flexible solutions for sharing search blocks
Supporting biomedical research and evaluation: bibliometrics for information specialists
Get PDFSupporting research is one of the most important tasks for biomedical librarians and information specialists. This support can be offered in several ways. Libraries are responsible for acess to information, covered by the more traditional activities as Resources Purchases and Subscriptions Management, Document Supply and Interlibrary Loan Services, or Reference Service. Moreover, Libraries can assist researchers on their needs related to the assessment and evaluation of their scientific research.The aim of the EAHIL workshop session on Bibliometrics was to introduce biomedical librarians to the fundamentals of this discipline and to provide them with tools, techniques and methodologies on this subject in order to improve their services
An introduction to phenomenographic research
Get PDFThis article descibes the structure of the workshop on phenomenography which was presented at the EAHIL+ICAHIS+ICLC workshop in Edinburgh, in June 2015. Phenomenography is a qualitative research approach, used to discover variation in peoples conceptions of a phenomenon. After introducing this research approach, there was a discussion of a phenomenographic study and the workshop finished with participants coding an example transcript as practice for data analysis
Job-shadowing Swiss health librarians observing experienced search specialists and information skills trainers in London
Get PDFAs librarians of the Social & Preventive Medicine Library in Bern, we help researchers perform systematic literature searches and teach students to use medical databases. We developed our skills mainly “on the job”, and we wondered how other health librarians in Europe were trained to become experts in searching. We had a great opportunity to “job shadow” specialists in this area of library service during a 5-day-internship at the Royal Free Hospital Medical Library in London, Great Britain