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, 29 January 2013
Information Resources Stategy Day!
Today is our bi-annual strategy day. There's a plan , but as always with these things we could end up tearing that up and going in a totally different direction... One thing is for certain there will be coffee and there will be cake. Bring it on!
Wednesday, 23 January 2013
LIRG Research Scan Award 2012/13
Helen Buckley Woods and Andrew
Booth have been awarded the LIRG Research Scan Award 2012/13.
The idea of the award is to address
a current urgent issue in Library and Information Science, by generating a
summary of relevant literature. The question under investigation for this award is “What do
LIS practitioners want from research?”
The team will conduct a
scoping review of practitioner engagement with research with a focus on current
literature. Diverse evidence sources will be included such as social media
in order to give a more complete picture of practitioners’ relationship with
research.
A draft report will be completed by
15th June and the findings will be presented at a LIRG Pre-Umbrella
conference event on 1st July. The report will be used to inform
LIRG/CILIP research policy.
LIRG (Library and Information
Research Group) is a special interest group of CILIP (Chartered Institute of
Library and Information Professionals). For
more information about LIRG and the Research Scan Award, please see: https://sites.google.com/site/lirgweb/home/awards/lirg-scan-award
Tuesday, 22 January 2013
Friday, 18 January 2013
Latest Take Five Update (January 2013)
Wednesday, 16 January 2013
Talking of the Cloud at The British Library Digital Conversations Series
On Friday I will brave the weather to make the long trip down South to the Big Smoke and give a talk at The British Library as part of their Digital Conversations Series on our experiences at Sheffield in stepping into the Cloud - especially the shift to Google. Previous talks have come from ScHARR Library favourite Mendeley, Artfinder, Karen Blakeman, The Guardian and the BBC to name but a few, so I'm in esteem company. #lookingforwardtoit
Tuesday, 15 January 2013
And I would view 10,000 slides and IIIIIIII would view 10,000 more...
Congratulations to IR's Andy Tattersall on NOT ONLY making the homepage of the web's No.1 slide-sharing site, SlideShare, but also reaching a magnificent 10,000 views of his uploaded presentations so far!
He's such a caring, sharing guy!
Posted by Claire
Latest Research Funding Update: Projects & Programmes (January 2013)
Monday, 14 January 2013
Snow falling on...ScHARR Towers!
Created with cinemagr.am
As you can see, its been snowing here at ScHARR Towers (a.k.a Regent Court). Alas its not amounting to much, but its nice just to watch it fall...
Posted by Claire
Tuesday, 8 January 2013
Latest Research Funding Update: Fellowships & Studentships (January 2013)
Minute Mendeley - Videos to Help you Reference Better
At
ScHARR we teach all of our students the excellent and freely available
Mendeley reference management software. As previously mentioned we've
also taught students in other faculties and several 100s of students
down the line we've not had too many complaints, well nothing we cannot rectify. The response from our students, who are mostly International has been overwhelmingly positive - we think it is a real game changer. Mendeley is a superb
piece of software that not only manages your references, cites as you
write and creates bibliographies, but it is a social network, a database
of references and a place for collaboration. To help all of our
students, I have made a few short informal videos, under the banner 'Minute Mendeley' - sadly the hope of making these videos in just a minute were short-lived, so in reality they should be called Minute and 40 Seconds Mendeley, but it just doesn't roll of the tongue, does it? I've also added other official Mendeley videos, so virtually everything you wanted to know about Mendeley is here in one place.
Here is one of the videos below on annotating PDFs online, for more go to the Minute Mendeley website.
Monday, 7 January 2013
Video saved the library star!
Information Resources' Andy Tattersall and Claire Beecroft have recently been published in Panlibus magazine. They were commissioned to write the article as a result of tweeting a short video about their presentation at the 2012 Internet Librarian International conference. Check out their article in full, for free at:
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