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"LIBRARY FOR PRACTICE“ : e-informations on demand

The target of this poster is presentation a new service in library of Department of Social Work. Poster described that new service, reasons to offering and practical expectations. Formal higher and postgraduated education of Croatian social workers is held only on Department of Social Work, Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb. The Department of Social Work is also the center of scientific researching in scientific field of social work and social policy. The specialized library of the Department of Social Work is one of a kind in Croatia. Therefore, during as well as after their studies, social workers often use it. During the contacts whith social workers, especially who have long been employed in practice, librarian notice his specific information needs which are closely related to their daily work. But lots of social workers do not have the time and informational knowledge needed for tracking the development of informational surrounding in the field of their interest. Hence, the library is offering a new service called “Library for practice: e- informations on demand”. This service offers targeted searching of e-sources with the most recent and relevant information. It is designed as a support to the practical work.The service is used in a way that user sends an email to which they acquire the responce. The responce contains the list of literature which is available in the paper and also the e-sources of information needed. The volume of e-sources depends on copyright. E-sources with open access are preferred. It is important to make this new library service visible. Therefore, the information about it was placed on the library web pages, in the column of the important news. As a good example of e- sources, the links to selected origins of information regarding the field of social work are placed along this notice. Some of them are selections of individual EU pages, e- journals and data bases to which the library is prepaid, and especially, e-sources with open access. To acquaint the yet more potentially interested users in this service, the information was forwarded to the Croatian professional association of social workers – „Hrvatska udruga socijalnih radnika“. It is planned to introduce this new library service also to the other potentially interested subjects: related higher education, establishments and institutions as well as non- govermment associations. Collected answers will be posted on the website of the library in the form of FAQ (with the permission of the users). After some monitoring time, there will be assessment and the eventual correction of service accordingly.

e-informations ; social workers ; library service

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