Tuesday 7^th October, 9.00 a.m.- 5.00 p.m.  Staff House, Birmingham University

Thursday 11^th December, 9.15 a.m.– 1.00 p.m. Education Centre, Birmingham Children’s Hospital

Purpose

The workshop is aimed at library staff bands 5 and 6, in particular Outreach and Training Librarians.

The purpose of the workshop is to provide skills for carrying out effective questionnaires for the purpose of service evaluation and identifying information needs.

Outcomes

• Provide an overview of evaluation
• To be able to prepare effective questionnaires
• Identification of strategies to improve response rates
• To be able to analyse questionnaires both quantitative and qualitative information.

Content

Please see the attached draft programme. The Principles and Practice of Questionnaire Design 2008 Timetable

An activity will be set to be completed before the second day. Please see programme for more details.

KSF Dimensions

Core 4  Service Improvement Levels 2 and 3

G2 Development and Innovation Level 3

G5 Service and Project Management Level 3

Trainer: Prof David Wall

Venue: 

7^th October Staff House, Birmingham University http://www.bham.ac.uk/documents/b2661-edgbaston-red-zone.pdf

11^th December Education Centre, Birmingham Children’s Hospital  directions-bch-education-centre

Places: 15

Registration:  To register for this event please complete the following registration form  Registration Form Questionnaire Design Workshop

This workshop follows the successful Principles and Practice of Evaluation workshop delivered April and September 2007.  This workshop just concentrates on the questionnaire design element of the previous workshop. 

Birmingham Medical Institute

facilitation-skills-workshop

Purpose:

This workshop is aimed at senior library staff and managers.  The purpose of the day is to provide skills to facilitate meetings and group work effectively.  These skills will be particularly important in supporting the implementation of the National Review of Library Services and the NSF

Outcomes:

What is facilitation?

How to work with dysfunctional groups, cope with dominant characters, and manage conflict

New and different techniques for facilitating groups

Running focus groups

Knowledge Skills Framework:

Core dimension 1: Communication levels 3 and 4  - facilitating meetings,  overcoming communication barriers

Core dimension 4: Service Improvement levels 3 and 4 – effectively engage service users in discussion on values and service delivery

Dimension G5: Services and Project Management levels 3 and 4 – to effectively manage groups and lead meetings.

Trainer: Aileen Wood

Venue: Birmingham Medical Institute  http://www.bhsea.org.uk/directns.htm

Places: 20

Registration: To register for this event please complete the following registration form 

registration-form-facilitation-training

FOLIAGE- Clinical Question Answering Skills for Librarians

Foliage has been developed in partnership with ScHARR, NLH and the West Midlands.  It builds on the APPLE programme modules.

Foliage is a brand new combined e-learning and face-to-face course designed for 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. Based on the highly successful FOLIO series of courses, Foliage will provide you with a range of skills essential to developing evidence-based answers to clinical questions, such as filtering, appraising and digesting high-quality literature.

The course is open to anyone who is interested in developing these advanced searching skills. The course will also be useful to anyone who is developing a clinical question and answer service and for the provision of a clinical librarian role

Materials will be delivered via the ‘Moodle’ virtual learning environment and ‘rest days’ are built in. This unique, flexible online format will enable participants to work at their own pace and to fit their learning around their working patterns. Face-to-face workshops will take place across the country to ensure they are as accessible as possible.

For more information and to register go to the following website

This event will take place on Thursday 22nd May 10.00 – 4.00 at Staff House, University of Birmingham

The main objectives of the day have been identifeid from outcomes and issues you would like to see addressed:

• Start to develop a network approach to delivery of the Review recommendations
• Discuss the implementation plan for the roll-out of the NSF
• Opportunity for information exchange

For more information and a copy of the agenda please access the WiSH Knowledge Worker’s Wiki http://wish.wikispaces.com/NLH+Library+Review+and+NSF

Learning and Development Group minutes Dec 07

West Midlands Library Development Unit successfully obtained CILIP Seal of Recognition in June 2007.  All learning and development events and courses will now be accredited by the Seal.

 APPLE and Knowledge Discovery.

It has been agreed by the group to postpone running APPLE and Knowledge Discovery until September 2008.  There are a couple reasons for this decision:

• There was low uptake (and drop-out!) of the modules over 2007
• The searching modules and workshops will require revision once the new databases and NLH Search 2 is available in April.

Owing to these factors, cost, and the fact that the Library Unit now has CILIP Seal of Recognition, the group is considering no longer accrediting either APPLE or Knowledge Discovery through the OCN.  The quality assurance systems of OCN will however still be applied to the development and delivery of the course.  By no longer accrediting with OCN we will be able to take a more flexible approach in the delivery of the two programmes, particularly allowing time between each module, the intensive nature of the course has often been a cause for candidates to drop out of the programme.

If you have any comments on this please can to the comments on this blog message

 TNA and Training Calendar. 

We received a 60% response to the TNA which we carried out over the summer.  The results of the TNA have been analysed used SPSS and we have lots of useful information regarding training needs.

The Learning and Development Group analysed the results at our last meeting, 18^th December.

We have identified a list of priorities which will be supported by range of different learning methods:

• Workshops – West Midlands, NLH, Other e.g. HLG
• E-learning materials
• Signposting to resources

The attached spreadsheet provides a basic overview of the priority areas we are considering.

Training Need Priority areas

We will be putting together a training calendar, up to March 2009 and we will be issuing this and the results of the TNA by the beginning of February.

I attended an e-learning seminar last month.  The event included various presentations, covering the national picture, the strategy of the South West, and several case studies discussing good practice within individual trusts.

Libraries and librarians were mentioned in several of the presentations.  Librarians had been involved in e-learning projects in various ways: cataloguing e-learning objects, developing e-learning materials and providing drop-in sessions to learn about the managed learning environment used within a trust. 

If anyone is currently involved in an e-learning project or interested in e-learning, then it’s worth taking a look at the presentations, the link is above.  If you have any feedback or questions about the presentations/issues they raise, then please feel free to comment on this page.

1. Individual level
2. Team level
3. Network level
4. Pan SHA/national leve
5. Career development pathway
6. Service delivery level

Full details can be found at:

http://nlhcms.library.nhs.uk/nlhdocs/NLH_STG_NLH_Development_Framework_full_version.doc

The first documents that have been completed underpin the sections on Individual level and Career development pathway.  A full list of the documents can be found at http://www.library.nhs.uk/forlibrarians/staffdevelopment 

The West Midlands Learning and Development Group have agreed that the framework is valuable to the development of West Midlands Health Library staff  and can be used in a variety of ways:

·         To prepare an individual for their appraisal and personal development planning

·         To provide manager’s with information on development and career pathway opportunities to support staff appraisal

·         To provide advice for individual’s with their own career planning.

To help to promote and develop the tool across the West Midlands I would appreciate your comments on the Framework and also examples your experience of using the Framework.  If you would like to contribute to this discussion please add a comment to this page.

 We also have plans to incorporate the framework into our West Midlands Learning agenda:

·         Where possible we will include any local links of relevance to the framework documents.

·         We also intend to identify how any of the West Midlands learning and development initiatives and training fit into this framework as well as the Knowledge and Skills Framework.

We will keep you up-to-date with all local developments on the framework and we look forward to receiving your discussion comments and case studies.

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Attached are the minutes of the Learning and Development Group held on 18th September 2007

Library Shadowing Scheme application pack - shadow

 Attached is an updated application pack for the library shadowing scheme.  Libraries who are interested in becoming host libraries can still apply.  An application form for host libraries is also attached.  Any feedback about the scheme most welcome.