TRENDS Mini-Conference

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

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

Session Information:

Putting Research to Work: Assessment in Libraries

Allison Sivak will provide an orientation to service assessment, using practical methods and goals that will help you improve your library services and communication.

Allison Sivak is the Assessment Librarian at the University of Alberta Libraries. Her previous assessment projects have included the areas of collections, website usability, electronic reserves, user satisfaction, staff training, and public services.

How simple is Really Simple Syndication? Effect of teaching a new current awareness technology

Really Simple Syndication (RSS) has been described as a useful and easy-to-use tool for current awareness. We surveyed health sciences faculty and medical residents at the University of Alberta to determine whether they were familiar with RSS, and whether instructional sessions would change their awareness and use of the technology. We discuss our findings on the effectiveness of providing instruction on RSS.

Sandy Campbell is a Public Services Librarian at the University of Alberta J.W. Scott Health Sciences Library. Sandy ’s professional interests include information consumerism and all forms of digital information services. Sandy has published and presented nationally and internationally on a variety of subjects, including information literacy and the collecting of electronic books and journals.

Thane Chambers is the research librarian for the Faculty of Nursing at the University of Alberta, and also works at the University of Alberta J.W. Scott Health Sciences Library. A graduate of the School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Alberta, she is interested in open access initiatives, the information behaviour of health consumers, instructional design, and knowledge organization.

Dale Storie is the research librarian for the Alliance for Canadian Health Outcomes Research in Diabetes (ACHORD), and also works at the University of Alberta J.W. Scott Health Sciences Library. A recent graduate of the Humanities Computing program at the University of Alberta, he is interested in digital preservation, open source software, and the adoption of new technologies.

Health Information Literacy: A Prescription for Clarity

Jeff will provide an overview of the Health Information Literacy Curriculum, designed by the Medical Library Association (MLA) / National Library of Medicine (NLM). This curriculum was designed for librarians to present to health care providers. Mr. Mason will further describe the results from the Canadian pilot site testing and evaluation of this curriculum.

Jeff Mason, MLIS, is a Client Services Librarian for the Regina Qu’Appelle Health Region. Jeff is an active member of the local and national library communities. Jeff has served as president of his local CHLA chapter, presented papers on library resources and services for CHLA conferences in 2006 and 2007, and was a library facilitator for McMaster University’s How to Teach Evidence-Based Clinical Practice workshop in 2007 and 2008.

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

Last Update: April 23, 2009
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