FPIN website reorganization

In case you missed this little news item in my latest email newsletter . . .

Heather Stewart, whom many of us know and love as CI Managing Editor and website guru, has been hard at work on the FPIN website this month (an overview of changes appeared in this week’s Opportunities Newsletter from FPIN). First, a big thanks for the new section on the main FPIN homepage for the Librarian Community. You’ll now find a box with a purple header on the right side of the FPIN homepage with links to information about our community. More visibility and easier navigation!

If you’ve been to the website lately, you’ve probably noticed that two new sections have appeared as “tabs” on the FPIN site: Membership and Publications. The Membership section, like it sounds, includes many resources for departments and residency programs who are interested in joining FPIN. Librarian membership materials remain, as always, on the main librarian community homepage.

The Publication Opportunities tab replaces the old “CI” tab. Here you’ll find many of the same links to information for Clinical Inquiries authors and librarian co-authors, but now there is also information about FPIN’s other publication opportunities: Evidence Based Practice (EBP Newsletter) and PEPID (point-of-care information resource). Be sure to check out the newly revised and expanded section What are Clinical Inquiries?. There is a wealth of information here to which you can direct your clinician co-authors. Based upon experiences with snags in the librarian-clinician collaboration process over the past year, I’ve also added two sections to the Author Instructions that help explain the Librarian Recruitment Process, and the FPIN Literature Search Protocol to our clinician colleagues. Thanks also go to our librarian colleague Karen Crowell, who helped to develop a list of questions to facilitate the search negotiation process (PDF). These sample questions put the reference interview into the context of writing a CI, and hopefully will help clarify for our clinician colleagues what we librarians would like to hear from them. If you know of other information that you think would be helpful to include, let me know.