IFMH Inform Volume 10, Number 2

CONTENTS:

Knowledge management: a fad or fundamental change?
Gail Rogers, Manager, Business Information Centre, Scottish Enterprise
Gail Rogers shows that knowledge management is not just another management fad but rather is a fundamental change to the way organisations work; she also gives a brief overview of the subject.

Librarians and knowledge management
Mark Field, Professional Advisor (Special Libraries), Library Association
Mark Field explores the professional relationship which does, could or even should exist between librarians and knowledge management.

Knowledge management or information management?: thoughts on a presentation
Alison Price, Librarian, Lincolnshire Health
Alison Price describes and evaluates a presentation given to the Health Management Librarians Forum at their 1999 AGM by Nigel Oxbrow and Angela Abell of TFPL on the subject of knowledge management.

A resource guide to knowledge management (KM)
Bertha Yuen Man Low, Clinical Effectiveness Facilitator, West Midlands Regional Library Unit
Bertha Yuen Man Low presents a series of resources (books, reports, journal articles, Web links) which act as an introduction to the subject of knowledge management.

What's going on out there?: new ways to find out about research and its results
Julie Glanville, Information Service Manager, NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination/Centre for Health Economics, University of York
Julie Glanville describes three new services which should improve access to ongoing research and research output: the National Research Register, the meta-Register of Controlled Trials and the Research Outputs Database.

Review of research from Aberystwyth
Christine Urquhart, Lecturer, Department of Information and Library Studies, University of Wales, Aberystwyth
Christine Urquhart describes the latest dissertations which have been submitted by students in the Department of Library and Information Studies at Aberystwyth.

Service Level Agreements for health library and information services (L&IS) two years on
Margot Greer, Librarian, Iechyd Morgannwg Health
Margot Greer reflects on the interest in Service Level Agreements in the information profession over the last two years and goes on to examine whether the need for guidance can be met by existing publications, in particular, the Library Association's comprehensive guide to SLAs.

Previous study days....A summary of the Umbrella 5 session 'Creating an accreditation tool for health libraries'
Erica Dixon, student representative, sponsored by IFM Healthcare
Erica Dixon describes the session led by Valerie Trinder and Stephen Sharp at Umbrella 5.

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