Clinical Librarian Award – On the Web!
It has been delightful to find the award being announced on the MLA International Cooperation Section website, Dynamed's Twitter posting and the Medical Library Association Blog,
An International Award – thanks to the support & good wishes from ALL of you!
Coinciding with the launch of the blog, I am delighted to share some great news with all of you! I have won an international award, which has been established this year and I am a proud "first winner". A huge big thanks to all of you on behalf of my QMed Team (this award is as much theirs for all their behind the scenes work) and from me. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Announcement: The International Clinical Librarian Conference Organising Committee are proud to announce that Ms. Vasumathi Sriganesh is the winner of the International Clinical Librarian Conference Evidence into Practice Award for 2013. …
Miles to go before we sleep: education, technology, and the changing paradigms in health information
Cleveland AD Miles to go before we sleep: education, technology, and the changing paradigms in health information* J Med Libr Assoc. 2011 January; 99(1): 61–69 The author discusses the urgent need to upgrade health information based degrees where she stresses that while the important principles of library science need to be taught, the curriculum should now include concepts of healthcare as well as other information centred disciplines. In India, it is not about "upgrading", as we do not have a health information degree; we have Library & Information Sciences as a broad discipline. What we need for our medical colleges…