Yorkshire & Humber Information Skills Training Group Presentation to East Midlands Library Trainers’ Forum Tuesday 13 th July 2010

Purpose To be a strategic group that focuses first and foremost upon the information skills training needs of health and social care staff and consequently also the library/information staff that support library users in NHS within Yorkshire and the Humber.

Role (1)  To develop and agree a programme of work and timetable of information skills training priorities across Yorkshire and the Humber  To work towards information skills training programmes that are consistent and transferable within Yorkshire and the Humber.  To investigate the accreditation of information skills training programmes, and link them/embed them within knowledge and skills frameworks.  To identify for the CPD Group those areas of information skills training that library and information staff are having difficulty delivering due to training needs of their own.

Role (2)  To facilitate effective consultation, communication and evaluation of online information resources. Particular attention to be paid to monitoring resources ; most especially with regard to on-going changes and developments related to regionally and nationally procured resources.  To form task and finish groups as required in order to deliver the work programme.

The Group  Mix of managers and trainers  Meets quarterly (or thereabouts)  Reports to Y&H Managers’ Group  Strategic overview  Not primarily about hands-on delivery

Frameworks (1) Agreed by Y&H Managers  That the Yorkshire & Humber Library Managers’ Network adopt the principle of a common consistent regional framework for the design and delivery of end-user training  That the Network endorse the work carried out thus far by the ISTG in developing model course outlines  That the Network adopt these outlines as part of a regional consistency framework  That the Network mandate the ISTG to undertake further work to complete common model outlines across the topic areas identified by the audit as being delivered across the region

Frameworks (2) Model outlines for:  Using the NHS Evidence/Introduction to Athens  Introduction to literature searching  Introduction to evidence-based practice  Finding the evidence: using the Cochrane Library  Critical appraisal

Next steps  Further model outlines  Expand outlines into toolkits:  Model guides/course books  Worked examples  Range of specialty/profession-based searches  Pool of “good” articles for critical appraisal  Links to other sources/resources  A house style  Commitment to keep materials updated

Contact details Paul Twiddy Library & Information Service Manager Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Old Nurses Home Leeds General Infirmary Great George Street Leeds LS 1 3EX Tel: E: