Current status and future prospects

User education, information skills training, information technology skills training, health informatics training, information handling skills, information literacy, literature searching training and finding information for evidence-based practice are all terms used or in use to describe the teaching undertaken by health librarians—whether within an academic or NHS library setting. Whatever it is called, and in whichever shape or form it is delivered, teaching is an activity in which the majority of health libraries and health librarians are actively engaged