Sarah Whittaker
Just to add to the introductions…
I’m Sarah Whittaker, since 2006 I’ve been the Information Librarian for Cardiovascular Sciences, Cell Physiology and Pharmacology, Physiotherapy, and one of a team that supports Leicester Medical School, based in the Clinical Sciences Library at Leicester University.
In previous lives I originally did a degree and a masters in music and a variety of day jobs in between and after before settling in library land. My first library qualified job was for PriceWaterhouseCoopers before coming to the University of Leicester to work on the (sadly no longer funded) Outreach Library Project for NHS staff in the community.
I’ve always preferred to be involved in the experimental side of things and in terms of web 2.0 I’ve recently been involved in an innovative project with Alan Cann in using web 2.0 to cultivate information literacy in a medical ethics course. In the Medical School we’ve also been looking at ways to using wikis with our medical students during their information training with us.
During the SM@LL project I’m looking forward to finding out how we can customize ‘useful stuff’ (technical term) for our researchers, rather than providing lists of resources.
You can find me online as Whittybus on Twitter and Delicious and I sometimes manage to blog on the UoL Libraryblog.
Thats enough for now.
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