BCLA Continuing Education Workshop - November 25th, 2010

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Workshop overview

  • When: Thursday, November 2010 1:00pm - 4:30pm
  • Facility: Vancouver Island University,
  • Location: Nanaimo, British Columbia

Instructor

Workshop goals

  • To develop some awareness in participants of how to provide health information services to their users in academic and public libraries
  • To provide some hands-on experience using online health information, medical databases & search tools
  • To discuss how to manage user expectations, privacy and confidentiality issues in health-related encounters

Overview

This 3-hour course provides an introduction to health information sources and some basic techniques to answer reference questions in Canadian library settings. Participants are introduced to key reference sources online and in print, and techniques to evaluate websites ‘on the fly’. Search tools such as PubMed and Google will be introduced as well as fee-based tools such as health indexes, the eCPS and the Cochrane Library. The instructor will use examples that touch on cultural sensitivities and health literacy issues in a variety of library settings, both academic and public.

Who might benefit?

  • public services librarians, library assistants and technicians working with health information

Agenda

  1. Introduction to health reference services
  2. Sources of health information
  3. Consumer health information
  4. Medical research questions
  5. Hands-on practice

Methods

Instructional methods include lecture, demonstration, discussion, small group work and hands-on exercises.

Instructor biography

Dean Giustini is the branch librarian at UBC's Biomedical Branch Library at Vancouver General Hospital. He teaches the health librarianship course at the School of Library, Archival and Information Studies at UBC. Dean maintains several blogs, and this wiki. He was 2007 Canadian Hospital Librarian of the Year and named a 2009 Library Journal Mover and Shaker.

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