Using Checklists to Train Users to Use the Mosaic of Library Resources and Services

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Abstract

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to create a checklist that could be used in the training of a college of pharmacy faculty so that there were no gaps in their information literacy; to implement the checklist; and to measure the users response to the intervention.

Methods: A checklist was developed that covered the information resources of the library and the information skills needed by pharmacy faculty. All faculty were required to meet with a librarian during the academic year and cover everything on the checklist in one or multiple sessions. Faculty were surveyed as to their responses to the training.

Results: Librarians learned the value of using a checklist. Better relationships were developed with the college of pharmacy faculty. Weaknesses in the libraries training of pharmacy faculty were discovered and remedied. Conclusions: Checklists are used in medicine to obtain quality. Checklists can be used in medical librarianship for the same purpose.

Original languageAmerican English
StatePublished - May 15 2016
EventMedical Library Association - Toronto, Ontario
Duration: May 17 2016 → …

Conference

ConferenceMedical Library Association
Period5/17/16 → …

Keywords

  • checklists
  • library
  • mosiac
  • resources

Disciplines

  • Library and Information Science

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