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Next offering
LIBR534 will be offered again in 2014.
Goal
The goal of this course is to provide students with a strong foundation in health sciences librarianship
Objectives
At the end of the course, students will have a foundation in:
- Libraries and information services in health; health care in Canada as a setting for libraries
- Health care trends (i.e. consumer health, evidence-based medicine, informatics) and impact on libraries and services
- Reference services and users, including print & electronic sources, using knowledge of specific sources, and how they meet the information needs of specific users
- Online databases in health librarianship
- Management of collections, services, personnel, projects
- National and international associations, new initiatives and/or trends in health librarianship
On completion of course, students will be able to:
- Design and implement library support for health and health care - clinicians, researchers, planners and administrators (government, industry, health care system), students (basic and clinical), teachers, patients and consumers
- Discuss health care as a setting for libraries, and health care trends (ie. Evidence-based practice)
- Provide reference services, including print and Internet resources, using knowledge of sources and their usefulness in meeting information needs of specific users
- Search bibliographic and other databases (ie. MEDLINE, PubMed, etc) utilizing controlled vocabularies
- Undertake end-user instruction, and mediated search services
- Discuss aspects of technical & public services, and resource sharing particular to health science libraries
- Analyze information needs in health, including communication patterns and media, information seeking behaviour, and the transfer of research into practice, and apply this analysis to library service delivery
- Discuss the literatures of the health sciences
- Describe national and international services and resources supporting health libraries
Introductory class on health librarianship (7 Jan 2010)
Module I - 'Search' (Dean) (Jan 14-21)
Class 1 (Jan 14)
To prepare for Class I, please read and be prepared to discuss with others:
Class 2 (Jan 21)
To prepare for Class II, please read and be prepared to discuss with others:
Module II - 'Filter' (Dean) (Jan 28-Feb 11)
Class 1 (Jan 28)
To prepare for this class, please read and be prepared to discuss with others:
Class 2 (Feb 4)
To prepare for this class, please read and be prepared to discuss with others:
Module III - 'Assimilate' (Dean)
Class 1 (Feb 11)
2009 Olympic Games Hiatus
* No classes --- Feb 18th or 25th (Olympic Games) 
UBC Campus break Feb 15-26 - http://www.webcommunications.ubc.ca/ubc2010/
Class 2 (class resumes March 4)
Module IV - 'Collect' (Greg) (Mar 11-18)
Class 1
Class 2
- Introduction to Medical Reference ppts and Answering Medical and Health Reference ppts and handout
To prepare for this class, please read and be prepared to discuss with others:
Module V - 'Manage' (Greg) (Mar25-Apr 1)
Class 1
Class 2
Module VI - 'Research' (Greg) (Apr 8-Apr 15)
Class 1
Class 2
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