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Health librarians: developing professional competence through a ‘legitimate peripheral participation’ model
Author(s) -
Clarke Sara,
Thomas Zoe
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
health information and libraries journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.779
H-Index - 38
eISSN - 1471-1842
pISSN - 1471-1834
DOI - 10.1111/j.1471-1842.2010.00959.x
Subject(s) - competence (human resources) , medical library , health professionals , professional development , medical education , medicine , nursing , political science , psychology , health care , social psychology , law
This feature considers the legitimate peripheral participation model in developing professional competencies in health librarianship. It is described how this model was used in the development of a framework for mapping and recognising the competencies gained by new health librarians at the Royal Free Hospital Medical Library. HS