Message from the Chair

Cathy Smith

The SHINE Development Plan 2004-2006 is now available through the SHINE web-site. I’m particularly pleased about this plan, not just because it makes my job as Chairperson easier and more focussed, but also because I think that achieving these identified developments will help to make SHINE an even stronger network than it already is.

In the plan we’ve focussed on the new developments (the initiation of a mentoring network, marketing and promoting SHINE, considering the legal status of the network) as well as reviewing the current work of SHINE through a review of the governance of the network, by looking at how we provide training, and by considering expansion of the ILL’s scheme. I’ve been impressed by the number of responses I had to my e-mail to lis-shine a few weeks back asking for volunteers for these groups, and I’d like to thank everyone who has agreed to help SHINE through participating in one of the working groups.

I should add, at this point, that it’s not too late to volunteer to participate in these, or in any of the other SHINE working groups! If you are interested in volunteering, you can contact either the Chair of the Working Group, Katrina Dalziel, or myself.

If you have any comments on the Development Plan, or any other issues connected to SHINE, please contact me at my new address:

Library
NHS Fife Corporate Directorates
Directorate of Public Health
Haig House
Cameron Bridge
LEVEN
KY8 5RG

Or e-mail me at: catherinesmith@nhs.net

I don’t yet have a telephone in my new office, but I will update the ‘phone number on the web-site, and send a message to lis-shine when I receive it!

Footnote: If anyone cannot access to the web-site and would like to see a copy of the Development Plan, please contact either Katrina Dalziel or myself, and we’ll send a copy to you.

Cathy Smith
Chair of SHINE
e-mail: catherinesmith@nhs.net