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to the UK North West Clinical Librarian Systematic Review and Evaluation Group
2012. This is an Open Access article
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Congratulations to the UK North West Clinical Librarian Systematic Review and Evaluation Group who
have won the Practitioner Researcher Excellence Award which has been
awarded by the UK LIS Research Coalition.
The group comprises a 15 member team of clinical librarians who work at
a range of organizations across the UK NHS.
In the first instance the librarians conducted a systematic review to
determine how best to evaluate clinical librarian services. In a follow up project, they conducted a
region-wide evaluation which put the recommendations of the review into
practice to demonstrate how clinical librarians make an impact on a wide range
of organizational outcomes. Interim
results of the project were presented at EBLIP6. The group was mentored by Alison Brettle of Salford University and
the project is an excellent example of evidence based library and information
practice. The award will be presented at
the DREaM conference on 9th July
2012.
Further information about the prizewinners and the project is available
at
http://www.salford.ac.uk/nmsw/research/health-technologies-and-evidence
Further
information about the DREaM conference, which may
well be of interest to EBLIP readers, is available at
http://lisresearch.org/dream-project/dream-event-5-conference-monday-9-july-2012/