1. Emerging from SHeLLI
– one year on
Aoife Lawton, Chair, Health
Research Group
Anne Murphy, Chair, SHeLLI
Working Group
Health Science Libraries Group Annual
Conference 11th
April 2013

2. Outline
 Background
Scope, context
 SHeLLI Working Group
 Framework for Implementation
 Call to action

3. Context
 Previous reports MacDougall (1995)
& Standards (2005)
 Four areas of concern:
• Professional development
• Advocacy
• Research
• Networking and cooperation

4. Origins
 HSLG Strategic Action Plan 2010-2013
Goal 4: “To research the development of the health
library professional and health library using an evidence-
based approach. “
 WHY?
 Oct. 2006 67.26
 Oct. 2008 55.47
 Oct. 2010 49.93
HSE Library FTEs example “Losing 1/3 of our staff in 4 years”
A profession under threat

5. Strategic Action
Plan 2009-2013

6. The implementation process
Date Event
Q1 2010 First meeting of HSLG Research Group
Q2 2010 Information gathering & sharing
Q3 2010 First draft of tender document
Q4 2010 Tender published & sent to 4 LIS schools
Q4 2010 Interviews held, contract awarded
Q1 2011 HSLG Conference 1 day on future proofing
Q2 2011 LAI/CILIP conference 2011 Interim report
presentation

7. Continuous Buy-in
 2011-methods of research including survey,
focus group, interviews= buy in from
librarians.
 LAUNCH – Jan 2012 Dissemination of results
 2012 - Conference SHeLLI workshop.

8. Dissemination
 Advocacy
 May 2012 EAHIL presentation best practice in
our field (Australia doing it too) & leadership-
willing to expose strengths & weaknesses
openly.
 May 2013 Medical Library Association US
presentation

9. “Alice came to a fork in the road. ’
Which road do I take?’ she asked.
‘Where do you want to go?’ responded the Cheshire Cat.
‘I don’t know,’ Alice answered.
‘Then,’ said the Cat, ‘it doesn’t matter.”
--Lewis Carroll

10. International trends/best practice
 “Without recognizing and measuring their own productivity,
librarians cannot capably defend themselves against charges
of inefficiency and dysfunction, or against incursions by other
information services vendors into their once-protected turf.
(Hammer, 1990)
 Libraries and organizations that have engaged in serious
strategic planning over the past decade will find it easier to
apply the principles of re-engineering than will those
operating in the “business-as-usual” mode. (Florance &
Matheson, 1993)
 “Streamline services and establish new partnerships with
individuals and groups.” (Bayley & McKibbon, 2012)
 Australian health librarians, could play a role in supporting
the introduction of electronic health records integrated with
evidence-based information for the clinician and the
consumer at the point of care. (Browne, 2012)

11. Emerging from SHeLLI
 Establishing the Working Group
 The Implementation Challenge
 Recommendations: build framework
 Outcome
 Framework for Implementation
 You!

12. About Me...
 2011 Focus Group participation
 Jan 2011 Survey of health librarians
 Jan 2012 SHeLLI Launch
 Feb 2012 HSLG Committee
 Mar 2012 UKSG 2012

13. Establishing a Working Group
 Principles of good governance
Firebreak between the group who
commissioned the research and the group
who would implement the Report
recommendations
 Working Group
Set the Terms of Reference
Report to HSLG Committee
Call for expressions of interest
 First meeting 4th
Sept 2012

14. Terms of Reference
 Objective is to implement the SHeLLI
recommendations
 Prepare a communication plan to inform
about work of the WG
 Membership and roles
 Current LAI member
 Took time to convene and settle
 Chair and Secretary
 Term of Service
 Two years

15. SHeLLI Working Group
 Anne Murphy, Chair
 Niamh Lucey, Secretary
 Louise Bradley, IPH
 Jane Burns
 Michelle Dalton
 Brian Galvin
 Aoife Lawton
 Jean McMahon

16. The Implementation Challenge
How to convert the list of
recommendations into a
programme of work?

17. Finding SHeLLI
 Knowledge gap
 What recommendations are most
important?
 Consideration as to WG remit to [t]ask
responsible entities with implementing the
recommendations
 But, start with the HSLG Committee
formally adopting the SHeLLI Report in
Sept 2012

18. SHeLLI Chapter 5
 5 goals
“The recommendations are ... a route for
achieving the goals outlined ... in Section 5.2”
 30 recommendations
 22 in the Executive Summary - differ in wording and
extent
 3 dimensions
 3 strategic areas – and 9 subthemes
 5 responsible entities
 3 time frames
 Anomalies
 3 assigned to more than one entity
 2 unassigned by theme or timeframe

19. The Full Turtle
 Establish a body of evidence – 11
 Body of Evidence - 9
 Standards - 2
 Identify champions and promote visibility - 8
 Dialogue with government - 1
 Identify champions - 2
 Promote visibility - 5
 Staff and Service Development - 11
 Body of Evidence - 1
 Electronic resources - 5
 Services - 1
 Staff development – 4
 Unassigned - 2

20. Constructing our SHeLL(i)
 Break into 3 Subgroups: A, B, and C
 Each took 1 strategic theme
 Criteria for turning into a programme of work
 Achievable
 Not achievable
 Identify gaps
 Suggested timeframe
 Desired outcome
 SubGroups report back to Working Group
 Working Group review SubGroup work and
consensus on review outcome
 HSLG Committee ratifies the WG proposal

21. SHeLL Up...
Establish a Body of Evidence Identify champions and
promote visibility
Staff and Service Development
Short
term
Medium
Term
Long
Term
Short
term
Medium
Term
Long
Term
Short
term
Medium
Term
Long
Term
Librarians   
 
 
Libraries   

     
HSLG             
HIQA 
DoHC  
Not assigned and no timeframe    HSLG Conference 2012 Workshops

22. Shell-ter and (Scale) Clustering
Establish a Body of Evidence Identify champions and
promote visibility
Staff and Service Development
Short
term
Medium
Term
Long
Term
Short
term
Medium
Term
Long
Term
Short
term
Medium
Term
Long
Term
Librarians   
 
 
Libraries   

       
HSLG                
HIQA 
DoHC  
 New Not to be pursued by the SHeLLI
WG
 HSLG Conference 2012
W/shops

23. A Scale’d View
 Establish a body of evidence – 7 of 11
 Body of Evidence – 7 of 8
 Standards – 0 of 2
 Identify champions and promote visibility –
8 of 8
 Dialogue with government – 1
 Identify champions - 2
 Promote visibility - 5

24. Shaken, not SHeLLI’d
 Services Development - 9 of 10, + 2 new
Clinical Librarian Services – 2 of 2
Research Support Services – 1, + 1 new
Electronic Resources – 3 of 4
Apps and Web 2.0 - 1
 Staff Development
LIS Education for health sciences librarians -1
CPD – 1 new
Mentoring Scheme - 1

25. Scales for Librarians
 Identify champions
2 short term
 Promote visibility
3 short term
 Clinical Librarian
1 medium term
 Research Support Librarian
1 medium term

26. Librarians Sing the Scales:
Identify champions
 Health librarians should seek to identify one or
more senior clinical or managerial staff within
their organisation with whom partnerships could
be built, to raise the profile of the library and
demonstrate its worth in practical applications.
Recommendation 3.4.1.
 All health librarians should identify both a clinical
and a corporate champion in their workplace,
and engage with these individuals to promote
the value of their service more widely throughout
their institution. Recommendation 2.1.2

27. Librarians Scale the Heights:
Promote visibility
 Health librarians should undertake marketing of
specialist information and search services to
Irish hospital managers and health care
stakeholders Recommendation 2.2.4
 All health librarians should promote and market
their information literacy skills to other
professions within the academic health and
health service environments. Recommendation
3.3.2
 Health librarians should market their expertise in
EBM to clinicians, managers and other
stakeholders. Recommendation 2.2.1

28. Librarians Polish Their Scales:
Clinical Librarian
 Hospital librarians should consider how such services
might operate in their own circumstances, and whether
redefining roles to allow for greater involvement in
clinical meetings and ward rounds would be possible
within existing financial parameters. Recommendation
2.2.3
Research Support Librarian
 Irish health librarians should identify clinical research
opportunities in all sectors, and pro actively offer their
information and knowledge skills to the research team.
Recommendation 3.5.1

29. Libraries MarSHeLL their Energies
 Establish a Body of Evidence
 4 short term
 Promote visibility: online presence
 1 short term
 Clinical Librarian
 1 medium term
 Research Support Librarian
 New 1 medium term
 CPD support for new roles: teacher ; researcher
 New 1 short term
 Electronic Resources
 3 medium term

30. HSLG Committee – Sure and SHeLLI
 Establish a Body of Evidence
 3 short term
 3 medium term
 Dialogue with Government
 1 short term
 Promote visibility
 1 short term
 Clinical Librarian
 1 short term
 Electronic Resources
 1 medium term
 1 long term - not to be implemented by WG
 Staff Development
 1 medium term
 CPD support for new roles: teacher ; researcher
 New 1 short term

31. Scale’d Down
 HSLG should look to the academic library sector
internationally for best practice exemplars of data
collection and monitoring Recommendation 4.2.1.
 Health library standards in Ireland should be reviewed in
light of the changing health care and information
environments, and the more recent standards published
in other countries, notably Canada, Australia and the
USA. Recommendation 4.1.1
 The reviewed LAI standards should be adopted by the
DoHC, and library performance against them monitored
by HIQA, in line with other developments in the health
services where outcomes are being measured routinely.
Recommendation 4.1.2.

32. Turtle’d Out
 The hospital sector and the university sector
should go further than merely forming a
purchasing consortium and conduct a feasibility
study of the provision of integrated information
services within defined geographical areas.
Recommendation 3.4.3.
 HSLG should work towards defining a core
collection, to be promoted and available in all
health libraries. Recommendation 3.2.3.

33. Waxing, not Waiving...
 Health libraries to provide advisory services for
researchers in getting published, open access
publishing issues, article processing fees,
researcher id, copyright, raising profiles using
social media, lodging research publications in
Institutional Repositories
 HSLG and health libraries to continue to support
the CPD needs of health librarians to equip them
with the knowledge and skills to provide services
in new/developing roles including, but not limited
to, the teacher librarian and the researcher
librarian.

34. Ready, SheLLI, Go!
 We have the SHeLL
 Implementation planning begins May 2013
Engage
Organise
Assign
Co-ordinate
Report / Communicate
 Communicate

35. How can I get in the Current?