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STRAIT to the future

8th Asia-Pacific Specials, Health and Law Librarians Conference

Comparing the value and impact of information obtained by health professionals undertaking literature searches with those undertaken by librarians

Patricia Scolaro
King Edward Memorial and Princess Margaret Hospitals, Perth, WA

Keywords: Literature searching; end users; networked databases

Appendix

King Edward Memorial and Princess Margaret Hospitals

Princess Margaret Hospital for Children

Library Survey of Database use

This questionnaire has been designed to assess the impact of the information obtained by users when they are using the library networked databases. Your co-operation in completing this questionnaire and returning it to the Library is much appreciated. It is hoped the information obtained will assist the Library in improving the service it provides. The information you supply will remain confidential.
Please complete this questionnaire with reference to the information obtained from one search only. Please complete a different form for each search.

Category of Staff						Office use only
Please tick the appropriate box.
Medical
Nursing
Allied Health
Administration
Research staff
Postgraduate student
Undergraduate student
Other, please specify						1
Institution
Please tick the appropriate box.
PMH Department of
University of Department of Paediatrics
TVW Institute of Child Health Research
Other, please specify						2
Indicate the purpose of your search for information
You may tick more than one heading if this is appropriate.
Patient Care
Research
Publication
Case Presentation
Teaching
Management (administration)
Other, please specify						3
Quality of information obtained
Circle the number which you feel best represents the particular category, eg. a rating of 1 signifies the information obtained was of no relevance and a rating of 4 indicates the information obtained was highly relevant.
		No	Minimal	Moderate	Highly
relevance		1	2	3	4	4
accuracy		1	2	3	4	5
currency		1	2	3	4	6
Value of information obtained
reinforced existing knowledge			Yes	No		7
Circle the number which best represents the amount of new information in the information obtained, eg. Category 1 means that the information obtained contained no new information and a category 4 indicates that the information obtained contains all new information.
No			Minimal	Moderate	Highly
provided new information		1	2	3	4	8
time spent reading the information (hours, minutes)						9
number of colleagues who saw the information						10
Please outline the way in which the information provided added to your knowledge:




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Impact of the information obtained: Circle the category which best represents the impact of the information obtained, e.g a rating of 1 signifies that the information obtained made no contribution to patient care and a rating of 4 indicates that the information obtained made a major contribution to patient care. (If category is not applicable please circle N/A).
		No	Minimal	Moderate	Major
contributed to patient care		N/A 1	2	3	4	12
contributed to research		N/A 1	2	3	4	13
contributed to publication		N/A 1	2	3	4	14
contributed to case presentation		N/A 1	2	3	4	15
contributed to teaching		N/A 1	2	3	4	16
contributed to management (admin.)		N/A 1	2	3	4	17
Impact continued
Please outline the impact of the information obtained on your management of the patient, research, teaching, administration, etc:




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Training and support provided by the Library
Please tick the appropriate box.
I have received a set of instructions on the use of the library networked databases
		Yes	No			19
If you have received the set of instructions please rate the degree of usefulness of the instructions.
	None 1	Minimal 2	Moderate 3	High 4		20
I have received training on the use of the library networked databases
		Yes	No			21
If you have received training on the use of the library networked databases please rate the degree of usefulness of the training.
	None 1	Minimal 2	Moderate 3	High 4		22
Did you follow up your search by obtaining journal articles Yes No						23
If you obtained journal articles what percentage of the journals you required were available in the library?
	0-25%	25-50%	50-75%	75-100%		24
Did you request any journal articles on InterLibrary Loan Yes No						25
If you requested articles on inter-library loan please indicate in the box provided the number you requested
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What percentage of the journal articles obtained on Inter-library loan arrived in time to be used for the current need
	0-25%	25-50%	50-75%	75-100%		27
Did you repeat your search in:
Best Evidence Yes No						28
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews Yes No						29
In your experience has the response time of the library networked databases been
	Poor	Acceptable	Good	Excellent		30
We would appreciate any comments you would like to make about the networked databases




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Please return this questionnaire to the Library by 1.4.99. If you have any questions please call the Library on ext. 8465 (PMH) or ext. 1497 (KEMH). Extra forms may be obtained by calling ext. 8464 (PMH) or ext. 1497 (KEMH).

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