Competency 1: Health Information Leadership & Management - A Hospital Librarian:
- Manages personnel, time, budget, facilities, and technology to meet institutional goals,
- Negotiates with vendors on best prices and content for their institution,
- Participates in institutional management and leadership activities,
- Participates in hospital and professional committees,
- Effectively promotes the value of the library - its staff, programs, resources, and services,
- Collaborates with other professionals to improve access to health care information.
Competency 2: Information Services - A Hospital Librarian:
- Locates, evaluates, synthesizes, and delivers authoritative information in response to inquiries,
- Finds information to answer questions at the point of need,
- Strives to be an expert in assessing information needs and delivering information in a format and means of delivery best suited to those making requests,
- Curates and makes accessible, within budget constraints, bioscience, clinical, and health information data, information, and knowledge,
- Develops a customized collection to support medical and patient care activities.
- Assists researchers through data curation
Competency 3: Education & Instructs - A Hospital Librarian:
- Instructs others in the skills of bioscience, clinical, and health information literacy,
- Enables their local user community to be self-sufficient in locating clinical information,
- Knows how to use available library resources,
- Critically appraises research articles.
Competency 4: Evidence-Based Practice & Research - A Hospital Librarian:
- Promotes and teaches evidence-based medicine skills,
- Evaluates research studies,
- Uses research to improve practice,
- Assists and supports all aspects of the research process, i.e., Patient Safety, Quality Improvement, Magnet, and Hospital-specific research endeavors,
- Communicates research results,
- Stays current with new research methodologies (e.g., outcomes research, data mining).