Established in 1994 ScHARR's Information Resources team has established itself as a key national player in providing information support to health technology assessment and health services research. The team is made up of professional, highly trained Information Specialists who are involved in the forefront of research, teaching, support and development. This is our blog where we talk about the diverse work we do: #Teach #Research #Search #Support
Tuesday, 1 June 2010
Monday, 1 June 2009
EAHIL We Go
Oooooh, excuse the pun, a bit on the cringe-worthy side I know but I just could not resist it. So it's off to the Emerald Isle for EAHIL 2009 at Dublin Castle for myself and Andrew Booth to give a presentation titled ‘Supporting the Health Researcher of the Future’ later this week.
In essence, we will be focussing on the use of Web2.0, in particular Web Portals such as Netvibes and our very own ScHARR Library Portal. Details of the paper and presentation should follow in a later post on this blog.
It’s going to be case of ferries, planes and automobiles as Andrew hits the airport and I drag my family across to Holyhead and then cross the
Our plenary presentation takes place on Friday morning in the main hall of Dublin Castle and after attending the final afternoon of the conference we will be heading down country to Wicklow for a week or so of rest and rehabilitation. It’s a shame that I’m tee-total as I gather the Guinness Factory Tour is pretty good, maybe my wife can go for me.
Photo by Jim Linwood
Posted by Andy
Monday, 2 March 2009
FOLIOz 2009
ScHARR IR Group, in collaboration with ALIA (the Austrailian Library and Information Association), are pleased to announce a new programme of FOLIOz (e-learning for health library and information professionals in Australia and New Zealand) courses in 2009.
The courses are on: promoting & marketing library and information services, supervisory skills for library technicians and/or newly qualified professionals, managing for service quality, and maximising the impact of your service.
For further details, please visit the ALIA website.
Wednesday, 7 January 2009
FOLIO Maximising the Impact of Your Service Course

Registration for the course is now open. There are 50 places available for information professionals serving staff working in the UK NHS. For further information, including instructions on how to book a place on the course, please see our FOLIO Wiki at: http://cpdfolio.pbwiki.com/.
