A Practical Guide for Informationists

A Practical Guide for Informationists: Supporting Research and Clinical Practice guides new informationists to a successful career, giving them a pathway to this savvier, more technically advanced, domain-focused role in modern day information centers and libraries. The book's broad scope serves as an invaluable toolkit for healthcare professionals, researchers and graduate students in information management, library and information science, data management, informatics, etc. Furthermore, it is also ideal as a textbook for courses in medical reference services/medical informatics in MLIS programs.

• Offer examples (e.g. case studies) of ways of delivering information services to end users
• Includes recommendations, evidence and worksheets/take-aways/templates to be repurposed and adapted by the reader
• Aimed at the broad area of healthcare and research libraries

Information Professionals (in any sector of healthcare/medicine and research libraries in general) or the graduate student in information management, library and information science, data management, informatics, etc., interesting in a career in healthcare

1. The informationist in the scientific setting
2. Training, education, and outreach
3. Providing meaningful information: Part A - Beyond the search
4. Providing meaningful information: Part B - Bibliometric analysis
5. Providing meaningful information: Part C - Data management and visualization
6. Providing meaningful information: Part D - Current awareness
7. Role in evidence-based practice
8. Future perspectives for informationists