© Imperial College London

UMHLG 2009

Supporting researchers at Imperial College London

Helen Harrington

Campus Library Manager, Imperial College London

Supporting research at Imperial

• Medical Information Literacy Group• OLIVIA / PILS / PILOT• Graduate School• NHS Group• New opportunities

Medical Campus Libraries

• Imperial College London Library = 13 libraries• 5 campus libraries at hospital sites• Serve 10 NHS Trusts• Diverse group of library users

Medical Information Literacy Group

• Regular meetings• Peer support / sharing practice• Liaison with academics• Teaching

Meetings

• Prepare materials for teaching• Work with library colleagues to develop online

Information Literacy modules• Give staff space to develop their teaching

skills• Liaison with academic colleagues

• OLIVIA

Online Information Virtual Assistant

• PILS

Programmes of Information Literacy

• PILOT

Post-doc Information Literacy Online Tutorial

Blackboard

Graduate School of Life Sciences & Medicine

• Transferable skills for PhD students • Courses available include information

retrieval• Looking at furthering our involvement with

themhttp://www3.imperial.ac.uk/gslsm

NHS Group

• Seeks to harmonise NHS support across the campuses

• Raise profile of library services• Delivers information skills training to NHS

staff• Supports NHS researchers

New Opportunities

Academic Health Sciences Centre (AHSC)

raises issues such as Provision of remote access to electronic resources Meeting new expectations How the Library can best support this new partnership in the

light of the Hill report

New Opportunities

• Translational Medicine Learning about new fields and their needs

• Move from training to supporting Staff training & time

Thank you

Helen Harrington

St Mary’s Campus Manager

Imperial College London

h.harrington@imperial.ac.uk

020 7594 3691