information roles

Change Responsiveness Creativity Resilience

Roles for information professionals Records Research Education Reference Publishing Technology Clinical team Management General public service Resource management Resources development Library operations and services

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Nature of work for health sciences librarians Public service Technical services Administration Information technology services Knowledge management

1. Understand the health environment 2. Manage people, services and organizations 3. Serve user needs 4. Work with different formats of information 5. Technology skills 6. Teach 7. Understand research Core competencies for Health Librarians, 1

Core competencies for Health Librarians, 2 1. Understand the health environment 2. Manage people, services and organizations 3. Serve user needs 4. Work with different formats of information 5. Technology skills 6. Teach 7. Understand research

Lifelong learning Jeff disagrees here

MLA Code of ethics Society Clients Institution Profession Self

2 Biomedical informatics professionals

Competencies for biomedical informatics, 1 Based on recommendations on education and research in health and medical informatics

Competencies for biomedical informatics, 2

Competencies for biomedical informatics, 3

Competencies for biomedical informatics, 4 part 1

Competencies for biomedical informatics, 4 part 2

Activity Which are the most important competencies? What would you add to the competencies?

Informationist

Defining your job

Boundary spanners

Marketing and promotion

Jobs activity Here are some job ads in health informatics and libraries Pick a few and read them Would you take this job? Why or why not? What skills are necessary? If you had to take this job, how would you prepare for this job? How do you think this job will change over time? Consider boundary spanning? Is this job too narrowly defined? How would you expand it or restrict it?

Readings See references throughout slides