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  • Health

  • from MEDICINE
  • Edited by Ray Lester
  • Book:
    The New Walford Guide to Reference Resources
    Published by:
    Facet
    Published online:
    08 June 2018
    Print publication:
    18 May 2004, pp 466-506

  • Summary

    Introductions to the subject

    The Oxford companion to the body

    C. Blakemore [et al.], eds See entry no. 3535

    Understanding biotechnology

    A. Borém, F.R. Santos and D.E. Bowen See entry no. 5011

    War or health?: a reader

    I. Taipale, ed. Zed Books, 2001, 672pp. Foreword by Kofi Annan, £16.95. ISBN 1856499510.

    http://zedbooks.co.uk [DESCRIPTION]

    70 articles specially commissioned by the organization now known as Physicians for Social Responsibility.

  • ■ Physicians for Human Rights www.phrusa.org. Founded 1986: promotes health by protecting human rights.

  • ■ Physicians for Social Responsibility www.psr.org. US-based organization ‘committed to the elimination of nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction, the achievement of a sustainable environment, and the reduction of violence and its causes’.

    • Dictionaries, thesauri, classifications

    International classification of functioning, disability and health

    World Health Organization See entry no. 3768

    An introduction to medical terminology for health care: a self-teaching package

    A. Hutton 3rd edn, Churchill Livingstone, 2002, 341pp. $19.99. ISBN 0443070792.

    A very basic introduction, but well laid-out and surprisingly enjoyable to work through.

    Medical terminology made easy

    J.T. Dennerll See entry no. 3771

    NAL Agricultural Thesaurus: NALT

    National Agricultural Library See entry no. 2928

    Laws, standards, codes

    American Health Lawyers Association

    www.healthlawyers.org

    ‘The nation's largest, nonpartisan, 501(c)(3) educational organization devoted to legal issues in the healthcare field.’ Wide range of useful resources: News and analysis; Publications; Health law websites; etc.

    Health Professions Council [UK]

    www.hpc-uk.org

    ‘We are a new regulator and our job is to protect the health and wellbeing of people who use the services of the health professionals registered with us. At the moment, we register members of 13 professions. However, we may register members of other professions in the future. We only register people who meet our standards for their professional skills, behaviour and health.’

    The 13 professions are: Arts therapists; Biomedical scientists; Chiropodists/podiatrists; Clinical scientists; Dietitians; Occupational therapists; Operating department practitioners; Orthoptists; Paramedics; Physiotherapists; Prosthetists and orthotists; Radiographers; Speech and language therapists. Details about all these.

  • Tools for Information Professionals

  • from Tools for Information Professionals
  • Edited by Ray Lester
  • Book:
    The New Walford Guide to Reference Resources
    Published by:
    Facet
    Published online:
    08 June 2018
    Print publication:
    18 May 2004, pp 705-726

  • Summary

    Introductions to the subject

    The internet under the hood: an introduction to network technologies for information professionals

    R.E. Molyneux Libraries Unlimited, 2003, 328pp. $40.00. ISBN 1591580056.

    ‘Providing a clear and comprehensive introduction to network applications and concepts, this practical text covers the Internet; IP addresses; network operating systems; routing; domain names; servers; file formats; and more. It also includes information about the economics of the Internet, privacy, intellectual property, and legal issues.’

    ‘Molyneux provides a readable and often engaging primer for setting up your library, organization, or home office network.a valuable guide for the information professional who either is new to networking or who seeks greater understanding of these technologies and their applications.’ (Public Libraries)

    Science and technology research: writing strategies for students

    T. Neville, D. Henry and B. Neville Scarecrow Press, 2002, 232pp. $24.95. ISBN 081084429X.

    Contents are: Entering the library world; Getting focused; The first step: dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other readyreference resources; Getting down to business; Composing your search strategy; Advanced on-line searching; Moving along: locating books; Locating information in journals, conference proceedings, and newspapers; Locating quality information on the World Wide Web; Government resources; What have I found?; Evaluating information; Where do I go from here? Appendices: Ten tips for efficient library research; Sample research strategy.

    ‘The book is an excellent introductory textbook for library technicians and library staff being trained to provide research assistance services. The principles of research are concisely presented and the writing is very accessible. Those looking for in depth coverage of science and technology research sources and skills should look elsewhere.’ (E-STREAMS)

    The semantic web: a guide to the future of XML, web services, and knowledge management

    M.C. Daconta, L.J. Obrst and K.T. Smith Wiley, 2003, 281pp. $35.00. ISBN 0471432571.

    An easily read introductory overview with very good coverage of: the semantic web as a concept; XML; web services; RDF (Resource Description Framework); taxonomies; ontologies. There is a helpful last chapter Crafting your company's roadmap to the semantic web.

  • Technology

  • from TECHNOLOGY
  • Edited by Ray Lester
  • Book:
    The New Walford Guide to Reference Resources
    Published by:
    Facet
    Published online:
    08 June 2018
    Print publication:
    18 May 2004, pp 509-522

  • Summary

    Introductions to the subject

    Global shift: reshaping the global economic map in the 21st century

    P. Dicken Sage Publications, 2003, 632pp. £60.00. ISBN 0761971491.

    Exceptionally good, very well presented and readable introduction. ‘My basic argument is that globalization is not some inevitable kind of end-state but, rather, a complex, indeterminate set of processes operating very unevenly in both time and space … It is vital to understand the longterm, underlying processes of global economic change.’

    18 chapters in four parts: The shifting contours of the geo-economy; Processes of global shift (including Technology: the ‘great growling engine of change’); Global shift: the picture in different sectors; Winners and losers in the global economy. ‘It is utterly repellent that so many people live in such abject poverty and deprivation whilst, at the same time, others live in immense luxury. This is not an argument for levelling down but for raising up. The means for doing this are there. What matters is the will to do it …’ ‘If there was a word beyond definitive, then that would be the word I would be using here.’ (Nigel Thrift, University of Bristol)

    A history of engineering and technology: artful methods

    E. Garrison 2nd edn, CRC Press, 1998, 347pp. $79.95. ISBN 084939810X.

    From the earliest builders through antiquity, renaissance, industrial revolution, 20th century, to new technology and the future.

    History of technology

    I. Inkster, ed. Continuum, 2004, 256pp. £75.00. ISBN 0826471870. ‘The technical problems confronting different societies and periods and the measures taken to solve them form the concern of this annual collection of essays. It deals with the history of technical discovery and change and explores the relationship of technology to other aspects of life – social, cultural and economic – showing how technological development has shaped, and been shaped by, the society in which it occurred.’

    Series: History of Technology, V. 25.

  • ■ History of technology and science S. Collins; Carnegie Mellon University . www.library.cmu.edu/Research/Humanities/History/hots.html. Very good example of briefly annotated resource list created by a university reference librarian (and updated January 2005). Well worth checking university library websites for such lists (though their quality and longevity varies considerably).

  • 3 - Planning the project

  • from Part 2 - The project life cycle, systems and processes
  • Barbara Allan
  • Book:
    Project Management
    Published by:
    Facet
    Published online:
    08 June 2018
    Print publication:
    18 May 2004, pp 37-60

  • Summary

    Introduction

    The purpose of this chapter is to introduce the project planning process and to highlight the importance of planning to successful project management. Project planning involves researching the project, thinking ahead and identifying what needs to be done, the people who will carry out the work and the cost. In addition it involves identifying potential problems and developing contingency plans.

    The structure of this chapter is based around the three stages of the project planning process: researching the project, detailed planning, and finally documenting and communicating the plan.

    Researching the project

    Researching the project involves both an external and internal analysis of the project environment. The external environment will help you to identify relevant political, economic or social factors that may have an impact on your project. In addition it will enable you to identify and learn from current good practice within the library and information profession. Information practitioners have extensive experience in a wide range of projects and, in general, they are very willing to share it. Sources of general information and advice include professional literature, conferences, networks and individual practitioners. E-mail discussion lists provide an important source of practical help and advice and these are considered in Chapter 7. Visits are often a useful way of finding out how other practitioners have tackled the same situation as shown in the following example.

    Example Installation of an access control system in a university library

    The following quotation demonstrates the value of taking time to visit other ILS that have tackled a similar project to your own.

    ‘Linda Dixon, the Lending Services Librarian, organized two visits, one to the Economics Library at Oxford University and the other to Salford University. These visits were vital to our understanding of how the whole system would work and began to answer some of our questions relating to staffing, integration with our LMS and procedures for visitors. Although the Economics Library is a much smaller operation the principles behind the system are the same and it was extremely useful to see it working and hear from the staff how easy it was to operate.

  • Pre-clinical Sciences

  • from MEDICINE
  • Edited by Ray Lester
  • Book:
    The New Walford Guide to Reference Resources
    Published by:
    Facet
    Published online:
    08 June 2018
    Print publication:
    18 May 2004, pp 399-425

  • Summary

    Introductions to the subject

    Basic medical sciences for MRCP Part 1

    P. Easterbrook 3rd edn, Churchill Livingstone, 2005, 448pp. £25.99. ISBN 0443073260.

    Forthcoming new edn organized: Recommended Reference Books; 1. Genetics and molecular medicine; 2. Microbiology; 3. Immunology; 4. Anatomy; 5. Physiology; 6. Biochemistry and clinical chemistry; 7. Statistics and epidemiology; 8. Clinical pharmacology.

    2nd edn 1999.

    Cells, tissues, and disease: principles of general pathology

    G. Majno and I. Joris 2nd edn, Oxford University Press, 2004, 1005pp. £120.00. ISBN 0195140907.

    Excellent well presented overview. 34 chapters in five parts: Cellular pathology; Inflammation; Immunopathology; Vascular disturbances; Tumours.

    1 st edn Blackwell Science, 1996.

    Clinical laboratory medicine

    K.D. McClatchey, ed. 2nd edn, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2002, 1693pp. $99.00. ISBN 0683307517.

    Very useful wide-ranging overview. 11 major sections: General laboratory; Molecular pathology; Clinical chemistry; Medical microbiology and urinalysis; Cytogenetics; HLA typing; Haematology; Coagulation; Microbiology; Immunopathology; Blood bank transfulsion medicine.

    Dictionaries, thesauri, classifications

    Biotechnology from A to Z

    W. Bains See entry no. 5012

    Concise dictionary of biomedicine and molecular biology

    P.-S. Juo See entry no. 1904

    Dictionary of biomedical sciences

    P.J. Gosling See entry no. 1906

    Research centres & institutes

    National Institute of General Medical Sciences [USA]

    www.nigms.nih.gov

    ‘Primarily supports basic biomedical research that lays the foundation for advances in disease diagnosis, treatment, and prevention. The Institute's training programs help provide the most critical element of good research: well prepared scientists.’

    Four Divisions: Bioinformatics and computational biology; Cell biology and biophysics; Extramural activities; Genetics and developmental biology; Minority opportunities in research; Pharmacology, physiology and biological chemistry.

  • ■ Coriell Cell Repositories http://locus.umdnj.edu/ccr. NIH funded and maintained by the Coriell Institute for Medical Research. Provides ‘essential research reagents to the scientific community by establishing, verifying, maintaining, and distributing cells cultures and DNA derived from cell cultures’.

    • Associations & societies

    American Council of Independent Laboratories

    See entry no. 4563

    European Federation of Biotechnology

    See entry no. 5023

    GAMBICA

    See entry no. 1775

    Portal & task environments

    Deutsches Institut für Medizinische Dokumentation und Information: DIMDI (German Institute of Medical Documentation and Information)

    www.dimdi.de/en/dimdi

    Host offering access to wide range of online databases concentrating on medicine, drugs, and toxicology. Includes major internationally available offerings but especially useful for their German region datasets.

  • Earth Sciences

  • from SCIENCE
  • Edited by Ray Lester
  • Book:
    The New Walford Guide to Reference Resources
    Published by:
    Facet
    Published online:
    08 June 2018
    Print publication:
    18 May 2004, pp 112-200

  • Summary

    Introductions to the subject

    Building planet earth: five billion years of earth history

    P. Cattermole Cambridge University Press, 2000, 292pp. £30.00. ISBN 0521582784.

    Illustrated and accessible account of earth's history, geology, and climate: a good overview of its evolution. 128 colour plates. Useful appendices: bibliography; glossary of terms; Data for the earth and planets; index. General and undergraduate readership.

    The Cambridge guide to the earth

    D. Lambert; Diagram Group Cambridge University Press, 1988, 256pp. ISBN 0521336430.

    Still valuable introduction, especially helpful for those with no previous knowledge of the subject. 12 chapters: 1. Sizing up the earth; 2. The restless coast; 3. Fiery rocks … 7. How rivers shape the land; 8. The work of the sea … 11. The last 600 million years; 12. Rocks and man. 1-page bibliography. Index. Large typeface and many diagrams, figures.

    The earth: an intimate history

    R.A. Fortey Harper Collins, 2004, 501pp. £25.00. ISBN 0002570114.

    An impressive blend of travel, history, reportage and science, creating a picture of the earth over the last four billion years. Descriptions of many of its parts are used to illustrate how geology informs our lives today in many varied ways. Clear and accessible scientific expositions. An important easy-toread resource, making earth sciences accessible and relevant to the general public.

    ‘This is not a book for people who like science books. It is a book for people who love books, and life. [Fortey] has written a wonderful book.’ (Guardian)

    The earth: its origin, history and physical constitution

    H. Jeffreys 6th edn, Cambridge University Press, 1976, 574pp. ISBN 0521206480.

    Classic text. 12 chapters: 1. The mechanical properties of rocks … 3. Observational seismology; 4. The theory of the figures of the earth and moon … 9. The age of the earth … 11. The origin of the earth's surface features. Appendices A–H (G. Statistical methods). Bibliography and author index, pp 535–66. Undergraduate readership.

    First published 1924.

    Earth story: the forces that have shaped our planet

    S. Lamb and D. Sington British Broadcasting Corporation, 2003, 240pp. £12.99. ISBN 0563487070.

    Broad coverage of the topic. Describes the forces that formed and shaped the world from four billion years ago to the current time. A wide range of geological issues is tackled. Would appeal to a general readership.

    Originally published 1998 to accompany the television series Earth Story.

  • 10 - Working on projects

  • from Part 3 - Projects and people
  • Barbara Allan
  • Book:
    Project Management
    Published by:
    Facet
    Published online:
    08 June 2018
    Print publication:
    18 May 2004, pp 165-178

  • Summary

    Introduction

    Project work provides library and information workers with an opportunity to develop their skills and experience by contributing to new and innovative activities. Projects often involve working at the ‘cutting edge’ of professional practice, working with technological developments and innovations, and also experiencing new and different ways of working. In many respects the project work of the last decade has become the standard practice in current library and information work, which means that getting involved in projects also provides project workers with the opportunity to be involved in creating the future. This can be extremely exciting as well as challenging.

    The purpose of this chapter is to explore working on projects. Project workers may be employed solely on project work, often on a contract basis, or they may be working on a project in addition to their ‘full-time’ library or information role. In both of these situations individuals are faced with a range of issues that they need to tackle if they are to be effective in their role(s). This chapter looks at both types of worker. Finally the chapter considers the effective project worker and this is explored using the following themes: managing yourself, learning from experience, time management, gaining personal and career support, and using projects for career development.

    The rise of the contract project worker

    In line with the rise in the allocation of government and other funds through competitive tendering for projects, there has been a rise in the number of library and information staff working on fixed-term contracts. These project workers represent library and information professionals at different stages in their careers: some project workers will be at the start of their careers and use temporary relatively short-term project contracts as a means to progressing into more permanent employment; many self-employed information workers use project work as a means of building their portfolio of work and also developing their knowledge and skills; in contrast ‘retired’ or ‘semi-retired’ library and information workers may become involved in project work as a means of supplementing their income and also keeping in touch with professional activities.

  • Mathematics

  • from SCIENCE
  • Edited by Ray Lester
  • Book:
    The New Walford Guide to Reference Resources
    Published by:
    Facet
    Published online:
    08 June 2018
    Print publication:
    18 May 2004, pp 60-83

  • Summary

    Introductions to the subject

    1089 and all that: a journey into mathematics

    D. Acheson Oxford University Press, 2002, 184pp. £12.99. ISBN 0198516231.

    http://home.jesus.ox.ac.uk/∼dacheson [COMPANION]

    A rewarding and enjoyable introduction.

    ‘Parts of this book are extremely funny … [It is] an ideal stocking filler … An ideal present for friends and relatives who are not mathematicians, but have enough curiosity to spend a gentle afternoon trying to find out what mathematics is about … Buy this book.’ (London Mathematical Society Newsletter) ‘There are a few mathematicians who succeed in writing popular accounts of their craft without being superficial or condescending. With this book Acheson has joined the best of them.’ (Times Higher Education Supplement)

  • ■ Mathematics: a very short introduction T. Gowers Oxford University Press, 2002, 143pp. £6.99. ISBN 0192853619. A pleasant inviting read.

    • The A to Z of mathematics: a basic guide

    T.H. Sidebotham Wiley, 2002, 474pp. $69.95. ISBN 0471150452.

    ‘Makes math simple without making it simplistic’. Good reliable introductory guide for ‘the millions of people who would love to understand math but are turned away by fear of its complexity’.

    Conversations with a mathematician: math, art, science and the limits of reason: a collection of his most wide-ranging and non-technical lectures and interviews

    G.J. Chaitin Springer, 2002, 158pp. £14.99. ISBN 1852335491.

    ‘G. J. Chaitin is at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in New York. He has shown that God plays dice not only in quantum mechanics, but even in the foundations of mathematics, where Chaitin discovered mathematical facts that are true for no reason, that are true by accident. This book collects his most wide-ranging and non-technical lectures and interviews, and it will be of interest to anyone concerned with the philosophy of mathematics, with the similarities and differences between physics and mathematics, or with the creative process and mathematics as an art.’

    ‘This book is wonderful in both senses of the word … superlatively good and full of wonder. Nonmathematicians could read it, too, but as I read it I felt glad (and proud) to be a mathematician!’ (The American Mathematical Monthly)

    Development of mathematics 1950–2000 J.-P. Pier, ed. Birkhäuser, 2000, 1372pp. £147.50. ISBN 3764362804.

  • Special Topic (A) Provision of a current awareness service for research staff (Guideline)

  • from Part 3 - Using the evidence base in practice
    • By Robert Kiley, Head of Systems Strategy at the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine
  • Edited by Andrew Booth, Anne Brice
  • Book:
    Evidence-based Practice for Information Professionals
    Published by:
    Facet
    Published online:
    08 June 2018
    Print publication:
    15 March 2004, pp 159-163

  • Summary

    Scenario

    As a recently appointed librarian at an academic institution you are asked to investigate the potential for a current awareness service (CAS) for research staff. Conscious of the need to provide an effective service – balancing cost with the needs of the researchers – you look at evidence to answer the question: ‘In a library serving the research community (Population) what are the optimal criteria for implementing a current awareness service (Intervention) from the perspective of the users and management (Outcomes)?’

    This guideline is aimed at academic, special and health librarians.

    Introduction

    All researchers need to be aware of the latest peer-reviewed research. For health professionals, ‘among the many challenges physicians face, keeping our personal fund of medical knowledge up-to-date is one of the most difficult’. General physicians wishing to keep up-to-date need to read 19 articles a day, 365 days a year.

    To manage this problem – and ensure researchers are alerted to new research – librarians offer current awareness services. This guideline examines evidence for providing an effective service.

    Trends in current awareness services

    Current awareness services appeared in three distinct phases:

    Phase 1: analogue services

    The need for CAS to keep researchers abreast of developments in their field was recognized as early as 1978. At this time, CAS were typically limited to photocopying, distributing tables of contents and producing accession lists, bulletins, displays and newspaper clippings.

    Phase 2: databases and diskette services

    By the 1990s, CAS were more sophisticated (but more expensive), with the development of electronic commercial services, such as Current Contents on Diskette and the British Library's CASIAS product. Online database vendors (OVID, Dialog, etc.) introduced SDI services that allowed librarians to define (and store) various search profiles. These could be run when the database was updated and new ‘hits’ mailed to the researcher. Literature from this period typically compares one alerting service with another. Bandemer and Tannery compare four different alerting services, whilst Davies et al.6 attempt a more comprehensive survey of over 25 different services.

  • Foreword

    • By Andrew Booth, School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR), University of Sheffield, Anne Brice, Head of Knowledge and Information Sciences, in the Public Health Resource Unit, Oxford
  • Edited by Andrew Booth, Anne Brice
  • Book:
    Evidence-based Practice for Information Professionals
    Published by:
    Facet
    Published online:
    08 June 2018
    Print publication:
    15 March 2004, pp vii-viii

  • Summary

    Librarians working in healthcare in the late 1990s had the considerable privilege, and indeed pleasure, of witnessing and participating in a revolutionary paradigm, which was to place information management, its associated skills and technologies at centre stage of the delivery of appropriate and effective care. That paradigm, variously identified as ‘evidence-based medicine’, ‘evidence-based healthcare’ or ‘evidence-based practice’ placed a premium on the retrieval of rigorous and reliable evidence to inform clinical decision making.

    Had this been the full impact of this new model for ongoing discovery and lifelong learning then you, the reader, probably working in an information sector outside healthcare, would have no need even to open this edited book on evidence based information practice. The fact that you have opened this book bears testimony to the migration of the ‘evidence-based’ model to other sectors including education, social work and management. It also attests to an increasing interest in the evidence base for our own practice. Although much of the trail has been blazed from within the healthcare sector, and is necessarily represented as such in this book, we contend (and many colleagues agree) that this model is equally valid for the sector within which you are working. What is required is the application of the tools and techniques to your specific area of practice, be it in libraries, museums or archives, and its sensitive adaptation to your local culture and environment.

    Each Part of the book employs a different approach according to its subject content:

  • • Part 1 contains comprehensive overview chapters, which represent state-ofthe- art thinking in relation to evidence-based practice with a special focus on the implications for information work. Each chapter is comprehensively referenced to allow access to writings from the wider paradigm.

  • • Part 2 comprises practically oriented how-to-do-it chapters outlining the process of evidence-based information practice from initiation to evaluation and review.

  • • Part 3 explores each of the six domains of evidence-based librarianship identified by Crumley and Koufogiannakis, to demonstrate the application of evidence-based information practice to a practical decision-making context. Each chapter begins by reviewing the types of question that might inform each area of professional practice. It then reviews sources of evidence to be used to answer these questions before proceeding to identify some major study-types in each domain.

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