Northern Alberta Health Libraries Association
TRENDS Mini-Conference

"Teaching, Research, Education, 'Nowledge, Direction, Strength"

NAHLA is delighted to announce its fifth TRENDS Mini-Conference! Below you will find details for the conference and registration procedures. We look forward to seeing you at the conference!

TRENDS Sessions:

Mobile technologies in libraries

Mobile devices are becoming an increasingly capable and important part of our information based worlds. Using these devices effectively to manage the increasing amount of information and to connect with relevant professionals "just in time" will quickly become an essential skill.
These devices and technologies include:

• Evernote
• Twitter
• IM
• Windows Mobile
• Blackberry
• iPod touch/iPhone

Raj Boora is the Senior Instructional Designer and leader of DigiTLE (Digital Teaching and Learning Enterprise), a unit within the Office of the Dean of Science responsible for supporting best practice in teaching and learning with focus on promoting the use of new technologies where appropriate. Raj has a Bachelor degrees in Science as well as Science Education in addition to his Masters in Instructional Technology.
Raj is interested in exploring games based learning, risk taking and methods to increase student interaction with content and instructional staff. You can follow his thoughts on these and related topics on his blog, EDITing in the Dark (blog.boora.ca).
Outside the office, Raj enjoys spending time with family and friends, photography and training for an eventual marathon.

Good customer service on a bad day: the video 'CSI:JWS'

An interactive session, it will start with a showing of the video CSI:JWS that comically displays some excellent and not-so-excellent customer service standards. A talk and discussion will follow with a demonstration of good customer service methods.

Diane Clark is the Staff Development and Training Librarian at the University of Alberta Libraries where she is responsible for coordinating the professional development for all staff. This is a challenging and exciting role and makes use of her interest in workplace learning, technology, teaching and adult learning theories.
Diane graduated in 1997 with an MLIS from the University of Alberta. She is currently completing her M.Ed in Adult Education also from the University of Alberta. Past jobs have included instructional librarian at NAIT where she was the was the recipient of the CLA and CTCL’s Innovation Achievement Award for an online course that addressed and promoted academic integrity for NAIT students and more recently, Acting Manager of Public Service at Cameron where she implemented the single service desk model.

Panel on evidence-based librarianship

This panel discussion will focus on evidence-based collections management, how to create evidence-based practices, and evidence-based methods of instruction. The panellists bring perspectives from academic, special, and hospital libraries and will share their experiences and perspectives on the strengths and challenges of evidence-based librarianship.

Orvie Dingwall received her MLIS from the University of Western Ontario and since October 2005 has been the librarian and a project manager at the Canadian Patient Safety Institute (CPSI). Orvie is also the current president of the Northern Alberta Health Libraries Association (NAHLA) and an active member of the NAHLA History Group. Within CPSI, Orvie has created comprehensive search strategies for all of CPSI's initiatives and has developed an information centre to provide staff with the resources, skills, and information tools they require. She also co-developed CPSI's online repository of information for healthcare providers and managers, researchers, and patients. In the library world, Orvie has co-authored a systematic review on the "Benefits and harms associated with the practice of bed sharing: a systematic review" published in the March 2007 issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, as well as a paper on "Sources of evidence to support systematic reviews in librarianship" published in the January 2008 edition of the Journal of the Medical Library Association.

Denise Koufogiannakis is the Collections & Acquisitions Coordinator at the University of Alberta Libraries. After graduating with her MLIS in 1997, Denise began her career at the John W. Scott Health Sciences Library, U of A. Denise has been actively involved in evidence based librarianship initiatives for nearly 10 years, including organization of the international EBL conferences, and co-founding the open access journal, Evidence Based Library and Information Practice, which began publication in 2006.

Obianuju Mollel is the Manager, Capital Health Regional Library Services. She also teaches Health Sciences Librarianship at the University of Alberta School of Library and Information Studies.

For more information about the NAHLA TRENDS Mini-Conference, please contact any of our executive.

Last Update: March 17, 2006
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