Available Courses

• Professional Development

  

  These resources will explore how you can make the most of professional development opportunities through appraisals and learning logs. You will also consider how CILIP and other relevant professional bodies can support you in this.

• Introduction to Searching Skills

  

  These resources provide an introduction to searching skills and finding information on the Web.  Working through the resources will help you develop the ability to ask the right questions, ensuring that the search time is effective and gets the right information.  The resources also cover an introduction to health information databases. 

• Searching For Evidence

  

  The skills and knowledge to find the relevant evidence are essential to health library and information work. Knowing which sources to use, how to search them and whether to apply the results,

• Foliage- Clinical Question Answering skills

  • Teacher: Andrew Booth

    

  Foliage resources are aimed at NHS library and information professionals who are skilled in literature searching and who wish to build on these skills to develop a high level of competency in clinical question answering. 

  Working through the resources will introduce you to a range of skills essential to developing evidence-based answers to clinical questions, such as filtering, appraising and digesting high-quality literature.

• Quality Improvement for Librarians

  

  To provide library managers with and introduction to improvement skills and knowledge

  
  To enable library managers to make improvements to their service according to the NSF
  

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