Marlene Dorgan

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Marlene Dorgan, Head Librarian, John W. Scott Health Sciences Library

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Marlene Dorgan is head librarian of the John W. Scott Health Sciences Library at the University of Alberta. In addition to her administrative duties, she has liaison responsibilities for several faculties and teaches many curriculum-based workshops. Dorgan participates in research and has been doing the expert searching for systematic reviews since 1994.

In her professional activities, Dorgan has worked with the Northern Alberta Health Libraries Association (NAHLA) and served twice as President. She was instrumental in initiating the Leading Edge workshops for NAHLA and obtained two CHLA/ABSC grant applications (Consumer Health Directory, 1995; NAHLA History Project, 2004). With her colleagues, Marlene founded the UofA Health Librarians Discussion Group in 2001. Dorgan has acted as librarian/tutor at McMaster University's "How to teach evidence-based clinical practice" (2001) and in the UofA "Putting Evidence into Practice" (PEP) workshops. Dorgan has designed and conducted workshops in search techniques, and for systematic reviews at the Canadian Cochrane Symposium (2001) and the annual CHLA/ABSC conference (2003). Dorgan currently serves on the Executive Committee of the Health Knowledge Network (HKN), the CISTI Committee on Health Sciences Information and is a member of the AFMC Resource Committee on Libraries. She is a member of the Core team of the Alberta Health Services/University of Alberta Evidence Based Practice Centre.

Dorgan's research interests include scholarly publishing, research methodologies, knowledge transfer, continuing education and professional development. She was the CHLA/ABSC President (2009-2010) and a participating librarian in the Putting Evidence into Practice workshops.