Post-disaster community tourism recovery: the tsunami and Arugam Bay, Sri Lanka.

Tourism is highly vulnerable to external, non-controllable events. A natural disaster can affect the local tourism industry in numerous ways, and such events are particularly devastating for small communities whose local economy is heavily dependent on the sector. Loss of infrastructure plus negative media stories can have long-term ramifications for the destination.

Evaluation of outreach services for primary care and mental health; assessing the impact.

Objectives: This paper reports an evaluation, carried out for London Health Libraries, of the impact of outreach services to primary care and mental health workers in 13 different settings. The main aims of the project were to identify the impact being made by the service, and to produce best-practice guidelines for outreach services in this kind of community setting.

Methods: Analysis of documents, analysis of any evaluation already carried out, interviews with outreach librarians, survey of a representative sample of users (eight services).

Healthcare librarians and learner support: a review of competences and methods.

Objectives: London Health Libraries (LHL) are undertaking a project in order to develop the role of their library and knowledge services staff in supporting learners within the NHS in the London area (LHL Learner Support Project). This paper reports on the first phase of the project.

Methodology: A literature analysis was carried out to provide guidance on the skills and competences needed for library and knowledge staff to perform this function.