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54: EVALUATING THE EXTENT OF AJUMS LIBRARIANS AWARENESS AND ATTITUDE TOWARD EBL

BACKGROUND AND AIMS: evidence-based librarianship (EBL) is the incorporation of scientific research into the professional practices of librarianship. In other words, EBL attempts to apply the best existing evidence topromotelibrary services for patrons. The aim of this investigation was to evaluate...

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Autores principales: Aghazadeh-Asl, Ebrahim, Alavi, Hoda, Soosani-Gharibvand, Bahran, Momenzadeh, Nazanin
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5759562/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2016-015415.54
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author Aghazadeh-Asl, Ebrahim
Alavi, Hoda
Soosani-Gharibvand, Bahran
Momenzadeh, Nazanin
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Alavi, Hoda
Soosani-Gharibvand, Bahran
Momenzadeh, Nazanin
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description BACKGROUND AND AIMS: evidence-based librarianship (EBL) is the incorporation of scientific research into the professional practices of librarianship. In other words, EBL attempts to apply the best existing evidence topromotelibrary services for patrons. The aim of this investigation was to evaluate the awareness and attitude of librarians toward implementing EBL in their daily practice. METHODS: This cross-sectional study was conducted through a survey and included all 50 Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences' librarians. Due to small size of the population, no statistical sample was established. A researcher-made questionnaire was utilized for the survey and the face validity and reliability was confirmed by Cronbach's alpha coefficient 0.75. For analyzing the data, descriptive statistics (frequency and percentage) were used. RESULTS: Most librarians (45 percent) had intermediate familiarity with the application of EBL. However, they had a positive attitude toward EBL and the majority of them acknowledged its implication in their job promotion. The major barriers to implementing EBL from librarians' viewpoint were lack of familiarity with the concept of EBL and the novelty of the subject (42 percent), Lack of access to some of the evidence-based resources (52 percent) and finally the large volume of information available in the medical field (42 percent). CONCLUSION: EBL skills such as information seeking skills need to be thought in order to enable librarians to better and faster serve their community according to the best evidence and latest findings in EBL.
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spelling pubmed-57595622018-02-12 54: EVALUATING THE EXTENT OF AJUMS LIBRARIANS AWARENESS AND ATTITUDE TOWARD EBL Aghazadeh-Asl, Ebrahim Alavi, Hoda Soosani-Gharibvand, Bahran Momenzadeh, Nazanin BMJ Open Abstracts from the 5th International Society for Evidence-Based Healthcare Congress, Kish Island, Ira BACKGROUND AND AIMS: evidence-based librarianship (EBL) is the incorporation of scientific research into the professional practices of librarianship. In other words, EBL attempts to apply the best existing evidence topromotelibrary services for patrons. The aim of this investigation was to evaluate the awareness and attitude of librarians toward implementing EBL in their daily practice. METHODS: This cross-sectional study was conducted through a survey and included all 50 Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences' librarians. Due to small size of the population, no statistical sample was established. A researcher-made questionnaire was utilized for the survey and the face validity and reliability was confirmed by Cronbach's alpha coefficient 0.75. For analyzing the data, descriptive statistics (frequency and percentage) were used. RESULTS: Most librarians (45 percent) had intermediate familiarity with the application of EBL. However, they had a positive attitude toward EBL and the majority of them acknowledged its implication in their job promotion. The major barriers to implementing EBL from librarians' viewpoint were lack of familiarity with the concept of EBL and the novelty of the subject (42 percent), Lack of access to some of the evidence-based resources (52 percent) and finally the large volume of information available in the medical field (42 percent). CONCLUSION: EBL skills such as information seeking skills need to be thought in order to enable librarians to better and faster serve their community according to the best evidence and latest findings in EBL. BMJ Publishing Group 2017-02-08 /pmc/articles/PMC5759562/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2016-015415.54 Text en Published by the BMJ Publishing Group Limited. For permission to use (where not already granted under a licence) please go to http://www.bmj.com/company/products-services/rights-and-licensing/ This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
spellingShingle Abstracts from the 5th International Society for Evidence-Based Healthcare Congress, Kish Island, Ira
Aghazadeh-Asl, Ebrahim
Alavi, Hoda
Soosani-Gharibvand, Bahran
Momenzadeh, Nazanin
54: EVALUATING THE EXTENT OF AJUMS LIBRARIANS AWARENESS AND ATTITUDE TOWARD EBL
title 54: EVALUATING THE EXTENT OF AJUMS LIBRARIANS AWARENESS AND ATTITUDE TOWARD EBL
title_full 54: EVALUATING THE EXTENT OF AJUMS LIBRARIANS AWARENESS AND ATTITUDE TOWARD EBL
title_fullStr 54: EVALUATING THE EXTENT OF AJUMS LIBRARIANS AWARENESS AND ATTITUDE TOWARD EBL
title_full_unstemmed 54: EVALUATING THE EXTENT OF AJUMS LIBRARIANS AWARENESS AND ATTITUDE TOWARD EBL
title_short 54: EVALUATING THE EXTENT OF AJUMS LIBRARIANS AWARENESS AND ATTITUDE TOWARD EBL
title_sort 54: evaluating the extent of ajums librarians awareness and attitude toward ebl
topic Abstracts from the 5th International Society for Evidence-Based Healthcare Congress, Kish Island, Ira
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5759562/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2016-015415.54
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