DPHT Position Profile Project

USAGE GUIDE: Position Profile Project Deliverables

Here is a handy Usage Guide for the deliverables from the SLA P&HT Division Position Profiles Project. It gives an overview of the project and suggestions for how the profiles, comparison chart, and sample org charts could be used.

Download Usage_Guide_FINAL.doc

The most important message is that every organization is different, and the deliverables from this project are intended as guidelines. Please take them and adapt them to your organization or situation.

As always, comments are welcome. 

FINAL Project Output

Here they are! ---The deliverables of the SLA Pharmaceutical & Health Technologies Division Position Profiles Project.

Please find attached:

• 14 position profiles for information professionals working in health care industries
  • Download All_Profiles_One_Doc_FINAL.doc
• A summary comparing the position profiles across key areas
  • Download comparison_final.doc
• 2 sample organizational charts for a health care Information Management Organization
  • Download chart_final.ppt
• A summary of the number of member contributed job descriptions used to create each profile
  • Download submissions_per_profile.doc

This project took about a year to complete, thanks to the hard work of the project committee:

• Carol Bekar, Consultant, InfoCurators
• Stephanie Fitch, Millennium Pharmaceuticals
• Karen Mirabile, OVID
• Cheryl Schairer, Information Services Consultant

We hope you find these deliverables very useful. Comments are always welcome.

Margaret Basket
Position Profiles Project Leader

Original proposal, submitted 8/04

Here is a copy of the original grant proposal, submitted to the SLA Endowment Grant committee in August 2004.

Download dpht_grant_submission_aug_2.pdf