Technology mediator: a new role for the reference librarian?

Howse, David; Bracke, Paul; Keim, Samuel M.

doi:10.1186/1742-5581-3-10

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“…In the current study, only 113 (33.3%) of total HPs were computer literate. This figure was much lower as compared with study findings from Ibadan, Nigeria [26] where 93% of physicians were computer literate. It was also slightly lower compared with the study findings from Addis Ababa hospitals and health centres [19,25] where 46.7% of respondents were computer literate.…”

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confidence: 72%

“…The major identified reasons for the presence of high computer illiteracy rate (66.7%) in the study area include limited access to computer system 136 (60.2%) and time shortage 51(22.6%). These figures were larger than study findings from Nigeria [26]; only 7% computer-illiterates with similar reasons as our study. It was also quite different from study findings in Addis Ababa [19], where computer illiteracy rate was 53.3% with the same reasons.…”

Section: Discussioncontrasting

confidence: 64%

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Information needs and seeking behaviour among health professionals working at public hospital and health centres in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia

Andualem

Kebede

Kumie

2013

BMC Health Serv Res

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BackgroundUniversal access to information for health professionals is a need to achieve “health for all strategy.” A large proportion of the population including health professionals have limited access to health information in resource limited countries. The aim of this study is to assess information needs among Ethiopian health professionals.MethodsA cross sectional quantitative study design complemented with qualitative method was conducted among 350 health care workers in Feburary26-June5/2012. Pretested self-administered questionnaire and observation checklist were used to collect data on different variables. Data entry and data analysis were done using Epi-Info version 3.5.1 and by SPSS version19, respectively. Descriptive statistics and multivariate regression analyses were applied to describe study objectives and identify the determinants of information seeking behaviours respectively. Odds ratio with 95% CI was used to assess the association between a factor and an outcome variable.ResultsThe majority of the respondents acknowledged the need of health information to their routine activities. About 54.0% of respondents lacked access to health information. Only 42.8% of respondents have access to internet sources. Important barriers to access information were geographical, organizational, personal, economic, educational status and time. About 58.0% of the respondents accessed information by referring their hard copies and asking senior staff. Age, sex, income, computer literacy and access, patient size, work experience and working site were significantly associated with information needs and seeking behaviour.ConclusionsThe health information seeking behaviour of health professional was significant. The heaklth facilities had neither informationcenter such as library, nor internet facilities. Conducting training on managing health information, accessing computer and improving infrastructures are important interventions to facilitate evidence based descions.

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confidence: 72%

Section: Discussioncontrasting

confidence: 64%

Information needs and seeking behaviour among health professionals working at public hospital and health centres in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia

Andualem

Kebede

Kumie

2013

BMC Health Serv Res

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“…Storage of the "new" data demands specific data center capabilities and brings the new role to the academic librarians in large research universities -as research advisors. Academic libraries are well placed to take on such a role, because librarians can offer their expertise about funding opportunities and guidance during the exploratory stage of research (Howse et al, 2006). Consequently librarians may advise patrons about OD processing -from most suitable data storage through sharing and re-use.…”

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confidence: 99%

Changes in academic libraries in the era of Open Science

Tzanova¹

2020

EFI

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In this paper we study the changes in academic library services inspired by the Open Science movement and especially the changes prompted from Open Data as a founding part of Open Science. We argue that academic libraries face the even bigger challenges for accommodating and providing support for Open Big Data composed from existing raw data sets and new massive sets generated from data driven research. Ensuring the veracity of Open Big Data is a complex problem dominated by data science. For academic libraries, that challenge triggers not only the expansion of traditional library services, but also leads to adoption of a set of new roles and responsibilities. That includes, but is not limited to development of the supporting models for Research Data Management, providing Data Management Plan assistance, expanding the qualifications of library personnel toward data science literacy, integration of the library services into research and educational process by taking part in research grants and many others. We outline several approaches taken by some academic libraries and by libraries at the City University of New York (CUNY) to meet necessities imposed by doing research and education with Open Big Data – from changes in libraries’ administrative structure, changes in personnel qualifications and duties, leading the interdisciplinary advisory groups, to active collaboration in principal projects.

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“…Although librarians at our institution had been active with EBM efforts for several years, a specific team was constructed to develop an educational search tool to integrate reference and system librarian expertize while allowing user control of query formulation and result evaluation (Howse et al 2006). The actual federated search tool was programmed, relatively simply, using commonly available software and hardware.…”

Section: Tool Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%