Health Research Librarian

I had a good rummage through the photo sharing site Flickr. As I called my blog Health research librarian, I did some searches using variations of these terms. Obviously there's lots about libraries in general, but not so many good photos when qualifiers are added. Perhaps that's all for the good, as Flickr shares some of the issues of other large collections. In other words, it's difficult to get Goldilocks search results  - not to big and not to small, but just right! In the end I downloaded a picture tagged in a 'research librarian' search. It has a non-commercial attributable licence, without derivatives by M kasahara . Books Mosaic is copyright (c) 2007 M Kasahara and made available under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic license The picture sums up the collage that is research; drawing together different related aspects that are brought together to form one whole piece. The hardest thing to do was knowing how to give the correct at...

Biblioteca Internazionale Città di Rapallo So I’m sitting on my hotel balcony in Italy thinking about blogging. I second-guess myself (as always) - there can’t possibly be anything interesting to say? I look at the boats bobbing in my harbour view then see the beautiful library on a nearby tree-covered hill. So now I think of all the libraries and librarians around the world providing safe, open and equal access to knowledge. Because wherever we are, whatever type of library we work for, and whatever our role is called, it is these values that bind us as a profession. Of course our purpose is not really about providing access, that’s simply one of the methods we use. Our purpose is deeper. I see it as facilitating people to achieve their potential, as students, practitioners, teachers, policy makers, employees, patients, life-long learners, retirees, etc. Because a student doesn't really come to us to because they need access to books or a quiet space to study; they come be...