The INHALE (Information for Nursing and Health in a Learning Environment) Project
Abstract
Purpose
To examine the INHALE Project, completed at the end of February 2003, which evaluated the information‐seeking skills of over 1,600 students and also developed a dynamic database (now known as the INFORMS database) of information skills teaching and learning objects for use across the broad spectrum of subjects taught in higher education (HE)/further education (FE).
Design/methodology/approach
This is a follow‐on article to one already published (VINE, Vol. 126 No.1, 2002, pp. 24‐34) and provides an overview of the results of key evaluations undertaken during the project; the factors identified as having an impact on the delivery of effective information skills teaching and learning across an institution; plus the developments of the INHALE (now INFORMS) database of information skills resources.
Findings
Reveals that the evaluation of student information seeking behaviour clearly points to the continuing need for information skills teaching within the HE community and for librarians to embrace this need within the evolving information environment.
Originality/value
This article holds useful information for understanding the information‐seeking skills of students and how these can be facilitated.
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Citation
Brook, J., Pattern, D. and Anderson, S. (2005), "The INHALE (Information for Nursing and Health in a Learning Environment) Project", VINE, Vol. 35 No. 1/2, pp. 28-38. https://doi.org/10.1108/03055720510588443
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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