The recent fundamental transformation in government policy on the National Health Service has far-reaching implications for all types of health-care information provision and use. This paper highlights the new opportu...
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The recent fundamental transformation in government policy on the National Health Service has far-reaching implications for all types of health-care information provision and use. This paper highlights the new opportunities, as well as the major issues, these developments have generated.
The idea of evaluation, or the measurement of a person, a service or a programme against some type of yardstick, has been around for a long time. In everyday language, the term evaluation is used to refer to everythin...
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The idea of evaluation, or the measurement of a person, a service or a programme against some type of yardstick, has been around for a long time. In everyday language, the term evaluation is used to refer to everything from employee performance appraisal, to informal opinions about whether a particular service appears to be working well, to carefully planned and executed programmes of evaluation. In the past, librarians have tended to rely on their own professional judgement as a primary means of informal evaluation, and as long as the librarian was considered competent by others in the organization, this method seemed to work reasonably well. In the rapidly changing fiscal climate of the 1990s, greater demands for accountability are altering the standards of evaluation, and informal methods based on professional judgement are less and less likely to be seen as adequate. Formal evaluation is becoming even more important as management strategies, such as total quality management (TQM) and continuous quality improvement (CQI), are adopted--strategies that rely on gathering and using data for measuring service quality. Although programme jargon such as TQM and CQI may change in the future, it is likely that the evaluation process inherent in these approaches will continue to be an important management tool for deciding on the allocation of scarce resources.
This paper describes cooperation between European libraries: what EAHIL hopes to achieve, and how it may be done. Since its founding in 1987, EAHIL has been working for professional development and to improve cooperat...
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This paper describes cooperation between European libraries: what EAHIL hopes to achieve, and how it may be done. Since its founding in 1987, EAHIL has been working for professional development and to improve cooperation and exchange of experience amongst its members. In 1995 a working programme entitled 'EAHIL--Aims towards year 2000' was approved, and it consolidates some of the most important aims of EAHIL. In this paper, only three of the six aims are referred to: conferences and workshops arranged by EAHIL, the development of an efficient network system in order to increase communication and information among members, and the establishment of agreements for cooperation with medical and health science libraries in Eastern and Central Europe in particular.
The results are presented of a survey of current provision for educating library and information staff in the health care sector. The number and nature of available courses offered is described and possible future dev...
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The results are presented of a survey of current provision for educating library and information staff in the health care sector. The number and nature of available courses offered is described and possible future developments for students and practitioners are outlined.
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