Trainers Toolkit

The Trainer's Toolkit provides a number of resources that can be used by librarians and information skills trainers to help them plan, perform and evaluate training sessions. Members of CLIST have produced a range of training guides which cover the key electronic databases and resources used in healthcare libraries.

You may download any of these for free from this site and use them in their present form or adapt them for use in your own training and teaching sessions. We would request that you acknowledge CLIST or the individual author(s) when using these materials.

Training guides

• 8 Step Guide to PubMed (KCL)
• Advanced Search using a single database (NHS Ealing)
• Cochrane Library guides (KCL)
• Electronic resources for NHS staff (KCL)
• Evidence-based practice guide (KCL)
• Focus on TRIP (UCLH)
• Guide to using the Cochrane Library 2010 (SLHT PRU)
• Guide to using NHS Evidence May 2010 (SLHT PRU)
• Importing References into Reference Manager (ICH / UCL)
• NHS Evidence guide (NHS Evidence)
• Reference Manager Brief Guide (GOSH / ICH)
• Using Healthcare Databases: advanced guide (CLIST)
• Using Healthcare Databases: introductory guide (CLIST)
• Using My Journals to find a specific reference (NHS Ealing)

Also see NHS Evidence Marketing Resources for further examples of searching healthcare databases and NHS Evidence guides

Presentations

• Animated venn diagrams
• Blogs and RSS (London Health Libraries)
• Critical appraisal - qualitative research (Archway / Camden)
• Critical appraisal - quantitative research (Archway / Camden)
• Critical appraisal - quantitative research (SE London Health Libraries)
  
• Example search - Resuscitation of the newborn (North Middlesex)
• Getting the most out of Google (SLHT QE)
• Literature searching for research: midwifery (Royal College of Midwives)
• Basic research skills (SLHT QE)