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This is the third in a series of articles exploring international trends in health science librarianship in the first decade of the 21st century. The invited authors carried out a survey of librarians in Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland to identify common developments in their countries. A focus on pedagogy was seen as the most important trend. Recipients could choose between strongly agree, somewhat agree, don't agree, cannot say. Additionally, they could make comments and suggest other trends. We received 133 answers in total -38% came from Sweden, 23% from both Finland and Norway, and 16% from Denmark. The responses were quite equally divided between university/education librarians and hospital librarians. Looking at those response alternatives where respondents endorsed strongly agree/somewhat agree, three trends stand out: Focus on pedagogy, EBM/EBN and Open access. More than 90% of respondents agreed that these were important trends, with pedagogy the most important. Open URL Link Server, E-books and Reference software were also considered important, together with Internationalization/networking, E-learning and Library building/space. Our respondents did not consider Books are no longer of interest to our users to be important -only 7% said it was. We also asked 'If you had to choose one trend, which one, in your opinion, was the most important over the last decade'. Again Focus on pedagogy was considered most important, with EBM/EBN second. To complete the picture, we asked respondents to tell us of other trends we might have missed. A shift from paper journals to e-journals, 'googlization' 1 and acquisition consortia were mentioned as important. 2The common trend: Focus on pedagogylibrarian's role as guide/trainer/teacher/coach In all four countries, the trend 'Focus on pedagogy' came out as most important; the role of

Librarians in Sweden are facing huge challenges in meeting the demands of their organisations and users. This article looks at four key areas: coping with open science/open access initiatives; increasing demands from researchers for support doing systematic reviews; understanding user experiences in Swedish health science libraries; and the consequences of expanding roles for recruitment and continuing professional development. With regard to changing roles, there is an increasing shift from the generalist towards the expert role. The authors raise the issue as to how to prepare those new to the profession to the changing environment of health science libraries.

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Objective -The objective of this study is an investigation of the relationship between students' self-assessment of their information literacy skills and their actual skill level, as well as an analysis of whether library anxiety is related to information skill attainment.Design -Quantitative research design (Information Literacy Test (ILT), Library Anxiety Scale (LAS), pre and post surveys).Setting -Florida State University, United States. Subjects -Students, incoming freshmen.Methods -Information literacy skills were measured using the Information Literacy Test (ILT), presenting subjects with 65 multiple choice items designed around four of the five ACRL information literacy standards, in which students were expected to: 1) determine the nature and extent of the information needed; 2) access needed information effectively and efficiently; 3)