The evaluation of the North Wales clinical librarian project (18 months, October 2003-March 2005) aimed to provide the evidence for the planning of health library services that would actively support improved patient care. ...

1.0 Executive Summary 1.1 The project required a rapid evaluation of resources aimed at supporting the production of high quality health information for patients and the public. The resources were: • The Toolkit for producing ...

Executive summary The aim was to provide an overview of the status of the Specialist Libraries around 12 months after the commissioning exercise of March 2003 that saw the creation of new Specialist Libraries, as well as ...

The purpose of this paper is two-fold: to examine three models of subject indexing (i.e. expert-led indexing, author-generated indexing, and user-orientated indexing); and to compare and contrast two user-orientated indexing ...

In the article by Beckstead and Beckstead (this issue) one approach to the mapping of a discipline and its influences is discussed. Multi-dimensional scaling (MDS) is used to position nursing theorists in relation to their ...

A knowledge of palaeography, the study of old handwriting, is essential for anyone wishing to identify, read and interpret records from earlier centuries. Palaeography is a subject offered by Aberystwyth University to ...

This article explores informal information exchange in social care, and discusses implications for formal monitoring with an electronic social care record (ESCR). Six homecare settings were studied over 14 months between ...