LIBR 534: Health Information Sources and Services

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go to LIBR534: Health Information Sources and Services - Winter 2011-2012, Term II

1 Program
2 Course Goal
3 Course Blackboard/Vista
4 Working groups
5 Syllabus - LIBR534, Fall 2008
6 Course Objectives
7 Sample topics covered in LIBR534
8 Class schedule
- 8.1 Class 1 (September 2nd, 2008) to Class 12 (November 25th, 2008)
9 Assignments/assessment
10 Prerequisites
11 Format of course
12 Required and recommended reading
13 Use of this wiki

Program

Master of Library and Information Studies (MLIS)
Year: 2008-2009 Winter Session, term 1 and course description
Course Schedule: Tuesday evenings, 6-9pm - September 2nd - November 25th, 2008
Location: Ike Barber Learning Centre

Rm. 185 photo, UBC Point Grey Campus

(2006 Website: http://www.slais.ubc.ca/COURSES/libr534/06-07-wt1/index.htm)

Course Goal

The goal of LIBR534 is to provide students with a foundation in health sciences librarianship.

Course Blackboard/Vista

https://www.vista.ubc.ca/webct/logon/614200593051

Vista will only be accessible to MLIS students enrolled in LIBR534. It provides a mostly private space and obvious counterpoint to the open discussions/sharing on Twitter - which, of course, are mostly public. Also open and public is our LIBR534 delicious account.

Working groups

LIBR534 2008 Groups

Syllabus - LIBR534, Fall 2008

See http://www.slais.ubc.ca/COURSES/syllabi/08-09-wt1/l534.htm

Course Objectives

At the end of the course, students will have a foundation in:

Using print and electronic sources of health information, and databases;
Expert searching of the health literature;
Reference services in health libraries, and the information needs of users;
Relevant practice issues for Canadian health librarians;
Biomedical trends (ie. evidence-based health care, medical informatics, Open Access);
The impact of computer technologies in health, and in libraries;
Management of collections, document delivery, services, personnel.
National and international associations, consortia, initiatives and trends.

Upon completion of the course, students will be able to:

Search bibliographic databases (ie. MEDLINE, PubMed, EMBASE, search tools);
Provide reference services using biomedical databases, print and electronic sources - including blogs, and wikis;
Address the specific information needs of health library groups;
Analyze evolving information needs in biomedicine, including scholarly publishing and communication;
Design end-user instruction, and mediated-search services for academic and
clinical medicine (students and faculty), government, industry, health consumers;
Discuss the value of health libraries in supporting academic and clinical activities;
Discuss national and international trends, and web 2.0 media supporting health libraries.

Sample topics covered in LIBR534

Searching biomedical databases; using various interfaces, and tools;
controlled vocabularies (MeSH); print sources of information; electronic access; grey literature.
Reference services to health library users.
End-user groups & instruction in health libraries.
Technologies used in health libraries (ie. blogs, handhelds, wikis).
Teaching experts (and perspectives) from the field.
Consumer health and Complementary & alternative medicine (CAM).
Entrepreneurial work in health libraries.
Management of hospital, medical and health libraries.