Dean Giustini, UBC Biomedical Branch Librarian - 2012

Introduction

I am the biomedical branch librarian at UBC Library, and teach information-related courses at the UBC School of Library, Archival and Information Studies (SLAIS), the UBC School of Population and Public Health (SPPH) & Langara's Library and Information program.

Currently, I am also on the executive of the Health Libraries Association of British Columbia (HLABC) as continuing education (CE) director.

Contact 2.0

• Dean Giustini, UBC Biomedical Branch Library, 1998 - present
• Phone: 604.875.4505
• E-mail: dean.giustini@ubc.ca

• The Search Principle blog
• http://twitter.com/giustini

Previous scholarly work

• All scholarly activities, 2007 & 2008 & 2009 & 2010 & 2011

Editorial Board

• Canadian Pharmacists Journal, Editorial Board, 2011-12

Teaching

Full courses

• LIBR 534 - Health Information Sources and Services, 2012
• SPPH 581H - Social media in health & medicine
• UBC Centre for Health Care Management - Social Media for Health Care Managers, Fall 2011 / Spring 2012

Workshops

• BCLA Conference. PubMed Made Simple: Finding Authoritative Health Information for Your Patrons, May 11th, 2012
• Ottawa Valley Health Libraries Association, Social media in health libraries, May 2012

Book chapters

• Creating a course on social media for student librarians: teaching the information skills and literacies of social media - New monograph published by Facet

Papers

• Henderson J, Stark W, Clairoux N, Flemming T, Giustini D, Stieda V. A portal for the Canadian Virtual Health Library / Bibliothèque virtuelle canadienne de la santé (CVHL/BVCS): accomplishments and possibilities, scope and structure - a review of best practices. CHLA / ABSC 2012.
• Li X, Thelwall M, Giustini D. Validating online reference managers for scholarly impact measurement. Scientometrics. 2011;91(2):461-471.
• Read K, Giustini D. Social media for health care managers: creating a workshop in collaboration with the UBC Centre for Health Care Management. JCHLA / JABSC. 2011;32(3):157-63.

Publications

• Jamieson J, Towle A. Future of medical education in Canada (FMEC): MD education & PG education project, 2011. Web 2.0 contributor.

Media

• Silversides A. Blogging the nursing life. Can Nurse. 2012;108(1):22-7.

Committee work

• CHLA/ABSC Social Media Portal, 2012
• CHLA/ABSC Open Access Committee, 2012
• CVHL / BVCS Content Strategy Expert Panel 2010-2012
• UBC eStrategy Web 2.0 Committee 2011 - Using web 2.0 tools in health research at UBC
• UBC Biomedical Branch Library Advisory Committee, 2011
• UBC Hospital Libraries Committee, 2012
• UBC Life Sciences Librarians Committee, 2012
• UBC Library Public Services Committee, 2012

Collaboration with other librarians

• HLWIKI Canada Advisory
• Social Media Research Team (SMeRT) Librarians