Bolton’s Health Matters offers information skills sessions – either in 1-1’s or in groups either within the library, in your workplace or any of NHS Bolton’s training rooms. For more information on these and how to sign up to them, please contact the library
Session 1: An Introduction to Finding Health Information on the Internet
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the session you will be able to:
- Access NHS Resources via Athens
- Define different resources available via Health Information Resources
- Evaluate strengths and weaknesses of each resource
- Analyse resources to select most appropriate resources
Session Information
This session is intended to be either a traditional presentation or an interactive, user-led facilitated group session. It can also be used within a 1-1 session.
The facilitated group session is an hour long session.
It can be used as a standalone session or as the 1st Part to a larger information skills session – compromising of Literature Searching Skills as Part 2.
Session 2: Literature Searching
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this session you will be able to:
- Realize the importance of literature searching
- Recognise the appropriate resources required to search
- Identify main databases suitable for each given search
- Correctly identify and distinguish between search terms, search fields and limits
- Demonstrate ability to combine search terms to complete a search
- Generate a report of search results in an appropriate format suitable for sharing and saving
Session Information
This session is intended to be either a self-taught individual session or an interactive, user-led facilitated group session. It can also be used within a 1-1 session.
The facilitated group session is an hour long session.
It can be used as a standalone session or as the 2nd part to a larger information skills session – compromising of Information Skills as part 1
