17 Diciembre 2012
Call for papers Health & Biosciences Libraries: “Libraries as Partners for Better Health Outcomes”
17-23 August 2013, Singapore
Colleagues from around the world are invited to submit an abstract for consideration for the Open Session sponsored by the Health and Biosciences Libraries (HBL) section.
Aim and Scope of the Session
Partnership is an ambiguous term. Its popularity as a label for new working arrangements emerging from periods of great social and economic upheaval have often far exceeded the true levels of cooperation, trust and equality the term implies. For health libraries, often exposed as health budgets shrink and the public sector recedes, partnership has been an important tool in asserting its role in bringing about better health outcomes. But it is difficult to say whether librarians’ experience of partnership over the past twenty years or so has helped to shift perceptions of the library as a support service rather than a core element of health service delivery. Of course this often depends on context with, at least some, academic libraries better positioned to assert their importance in research and education. For others the goals of partnership are less clearly defined and it is a more risky endeavour.
Effective partnerships are built on unity of purpose and a common vision. It is the responsibility of librarians to ensure that to ensure that access to knowledge and information standards are among the shared values in any partnership in which they’re involved.
This session will examine the experience of partnership in health libraries and will, hopefully, equip us to better define our roles in current or proposed partnerships.
See the full call for papers on the 2013 WLIC website.