Safdari Reza, Ehtesham Hamideh, Bahadori Leila
Department of Health Information Management, School of Allied Medical Sciences, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Birjand University of Medical Sciences, Birjand, Iran. & Department of Health Information Management, School of Allied Medical Sciences, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Med J Islam Repub Iran. 2018 May 27;32:42. doi: 10.14196/mjiri.32.42. eCollection 2018.
Educational role is one of the most important roles of librarians, which has taken on wider dimensions. A review of the literature on the training programs provided by librarians revealed an evolution of the ideas and trends in this area. This systematic review aimed at providing a clear image of the available educational programs, their target groups, and the way they are performed. This systematic review was done to identify different aspects of the educational role of medical librarians. It was conducted on the studies published in PubMed database during 2005 and 2015. All the studies that described the educational activities of medical librarians were considered for inclusion. All the studies were evaluated by 2 researchers using a checklist, which was developed as an assessment tool. Variables that were considered were as follow: skills taught by librarians, target group, providing training on information resource, teaching method, and session location. After data extraction process and appraisal, the mentioned variables were classified into main categories. A total of 24 studies met the inclusion criteria. The training skills taught by librarians were classified into 3 main groups: information literacy, evidence-based practice, and health literacy. The target groups were library users, patients, and health professionals. Group training was provided, and if necessary, personal training was also offered. Recently, synchronous online training has also been added to the training methods. Most of the training programs are held in classrooms. By categorizing different aspects of training programs, this study aimed at providing a basis for designing a framework to identify the tasks of educational librarians in health sciences.
教育角色是图书馆员最重要的角色之一，其内涵已得到更广泛的拓展。对图书馆员提供的培训项目相关文献的回顾揭示了该领域思想和趋势的演变。这项系统综述旨在清晰呈现现有的教育项目、其目标群体以及实施方式。进行这项系统综述是为了确定医学图书馆员教育角色的不同方面。它针对2005年至2015年期间发表在PubMed数据库中的研究展开。所有描述医学图书馆员教育活动的研究都被纳入考虑。所有研究由2名研究人员使用一份作为评估工具制定的清单进行评估。所考虑的变量如下：图书馆员教授的技能、目标群体、提供信息资源培训、教学方法以及授课地点。在数据提取过程和评估之后，上述变量被归类为主要类别。共有24项研究符合纳入标准。图书馆员教授的培训技能分为3个主要类别：信息素养、循证实践和健康素养。目标群体包括图书馆用户、患者和卫生专业人员。提供了小组培训，如有必要，也提供个人培训。最近，同步在线培训也被纳入培训方法之中。大多数培训项目在教室进行。通过对培训项目的不同方面进行分类，本研究旨在为设计一个框架提供依据，以确定健康科学领域教育图书馆员的任务。
