Please note: at the moment, after a recent system upgrade,  there is a technical fault that means that many items in the Library are currently inaccessible. We are doing out best to identify the fault, but it is proving hard to spot.

NB: This is probably because this fault is in effect systemic.  It is particularly ironic that just as we here are starting to target systemic faults in the delivery and improvement of services, it should be a systemic fault that disables and distracts us.

It does however bring home the fact that the PIElink has no funds, was developed and is still entirely dependent on the efforts of volunteers, and in particular a few individuals. If we don't have the skillset to unravel technical problems, we also don't have the funds to buy in the help we need.

You can read about the ambitious plans we have to seek investment and generate income on the PIElink page here (HERE) that describes the creation of the new Community Interest Company : Psychologically Informed Environments Promotion and Research. 

Thanks for your patience.

The PIElink editorial team

Otherwise, the Members' Library is a collection of published papers, training videos, interviews, discussions and podcasts, even whole chapters from some books, developed especially for the PIELink membership. (Most items also have our suggested links to other related topics, to speed up browsing.)

For brief advice and guidance on how to use the Library, watch the "The very very short introduction", which introduces the library and its features, and how to get the best out of using them. For more detailed advice and guidance on how to use the search features, should you need it, simply click on the tabs across this page.

In the Library, you can perform a 'simple' search, using any word, phrase or name. If you already know what item you are looking for, this is often the quickest way.

Alternatively, when you want to explore a particular topic more broadly, keywords have been assigned to each library item, chosen for their relevance to PIEs (and most with a brief definition or other comment). With these you can now perform an 'advanced' search, to filter the whole library using any one, or any combinations of terms.

Try, for example, 'street outreach' plus 'young people'; or 'humanistic/positive psychology' plus 'practice examples'; or 'roll out of PIEs' plus 'organisational culture' plus 'action learning sets'. (If that throws up nothing, then broaden your search - and/or send us in something you think suitable?)

It was our original intention to have separate menus for member, practice and research keywords, so that each list was a more manageable size. But it rapidly became clear that this distinction was not workable – all interests overlap - and not achievable without a great deal of overlap and outright duplication.

Instead, therefore, all keywords in one large menu are available, both for the members’ profiles, and for the library of research, policy and other papers. This has the disadvantage that some terms that might have been separated – 'nurse' and 'nursing', 'social work' and 'social worker', 'broker' and 'brokerage' – appear now only in one aspect of their use – usually in terms of the worker or role, rather than the activity.

However, in the library search, a simple search - using the word 'nursing', for example - will still find that term, provided it is used in the title of the paper, or of the journal in which it appeared. You can also search by the name of the author.

We suspect this may be the most achievable solution to the issue of comprehensiveness versus ease of use. But it is an evolving practice, and a discussion that we can have, here. (add here a link to the ‘Vocabulary’ section, in ‘Future Developments’).

It is always open to PIELink members to suggest a new item to appear in the Library – though the Editor’s decision is final (add a hyper link here to ‘Editorial policy’, in ‘Futures Developments’). Send any suggestions (preferably with suitable keywords and links) to editor@pielink.net.

Based on feedback from members, we will be reviewing the range and operation of these keywords on a quarterly basis. To suggest new keywords, and/or to take part in the discussion, see the ‘Vocabulary’ section, in ‘Future Developments’. (Add here a link)

You will also find there a more extended video explaining the way we have gone about this so far; and outlining some of the dilemmas, and the creative opportunities, in developing a single vocabulary for this work.