Evidence based approach to engaging users in a journals review project
1. An evidence-based approach
to engaging healthcare users
in a journals review project
Anne Murphy BA DLIS MSc
Head Librarian
Tallaght Hospital
35th UKSG Conference, 27th March 2012
2. Tallaght Hospital, Dublin
Provide tertiary service to 400,000 people in 3 counties
National referral centre for some clinical specialities
3. “Academic libraries have
always operated in a fairly
economically disadvantaged
environment and are
frequently the first to suffer
budget cutbacks in times of
difficult financial
circumstances.”
Fallon, MP 2011. The status of the Irish Research eLibrary. World Libraries. 18(2)
http://www.worlib.org/vol18no2/fallonprint_v18n2.shtml
4. Health libraries in Ireland
“Within the health
sector, library
services, like all other
areas, are struggling
with reduced
budgets, loss of expert
staff and increased
demand from users.
The network so
carefully built is now
under serious threat.”
SHELLI Report, Health Sciences
9. ‘equitable,
expedient and
affable’
Carey R et al. An evidence-based approach for gaining faculty acceptance in a serials cancellation
project. Collection Management, 2006. 30(2)59-72.
10. Project Objectives
Retain the most relevant, valued and
used journals
Protect good relationship with staff
Meet the budget target
11. Journals
Secure funding
9%
Package
8%
Core
1%
For review
82%
286 journals in total
236 for review
12. User survey
Rating scale:
1. Essential
2. Cancel only if necessary
3. May be cancelled
4. Cancel
Surveyed 500 senior clinical and
management staff using 43 standardised
forms adjusted for each department
27. User survey 2012
Leaner and cleaner
Increased the number
surveyed to 550 and
decreased the number of
customised forms to 31
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Consider all these titles as core reading
Two specialist journals is a minimum
Two [...] journals for a teaching hospital is a
disgrace
31. Baseline of 300 Journals in 2009
31
Retained
Cancelled in 2010
73
182 Cancelled in 2011
Cancelled in 2012
14
Total of 118 cancelled titles in 3 years
33. Midpoint of 2012 Project
Report back to hospital
staff in April 2012
Leverage staff advocacy
for their information
needs to be met
Survey staff about their
use of the published
literature, discovery
methods and their
experience of the
research publishing
process
34. Supply on demand?
Did not
indicate a
preference
28%
Yes
No 46%
26%
Source: AMNCH Library survey, November 2010
35. Photographs by kind permission of Tommy Walsh, Clinical Photographer, Tallaght Hospital