An opportunity to further develop systematic information search skills, SharePoint design skills and information analysis and reporting skills.
Library, Knowledge and Research Services for Annapolis Valley Health, South Shore Health and South West Health has a log to track services in the form of a SharePoint List with records back to 2002. Log fields capture client demographics, details on the information need or information management need including subject and purpose (patient care, service planning, education, etc.), resources used (staff time, databases, etc.), search results and searcher satisfaction level.
At this time Searchers wish a review of related research to inform redesign of the log to more effectively link services to outcomes (patient outcomes and health service outcomes).
The student will prepare a syllabus and then take a stepwise planned approach to:
- Self-directed reading maintaining an annotated list of completed readings
- Conducting a systematic search of the research literature related to mediated information search services and service outcomes. The search will follow methods as described in Booth et al. (2012). Systematic Approaches to a Successful Literature Review. These will include
- Examine up to four existing commercial search/service log programs to see whether they address service outcomes
- Revise the service log to meet client needs based on search results
- Summarize reading course work as an academic poster.
- the framed search question
- the mapped concept(s) associated with the search questions
- a scoping search report to include charts describing publication timeline and size of the literature by subject domain
- Searches of up to four sources, including commercial databases and grey literature resources
- Documentation of search methods
- Search results organized within a Refworks Refshare folder
This reading course will allow a student to apply and further develop skills gained in INFO 5515 Organization of Information and INFO 5530 Information Sources and Retrieval. These include
- Client engagement
- Service planning, delivery, logging and reporting
- SharePoint 2010 and Reference management software
- Health databases, library and information science databases, grey literature
Please refer to MLIS Reading Courses: Policy and Procedures (INFO 6700/6710) http://sim.management.dal.ca/Courses/MLIS%20Courses%20Offered/Reading_Courses.php, then contact Dr. Jacqueline MacDonald: jacqueline.macdonald@dal.ca for more information.