UBC HealthLib-Wiki - A Knowledge-Base for Health Librarians
From UBC Health Library Wiki
A/H1N1 (Human Swine Flu) in Canada - Information Sources
~250 confirmed deaths in Canada as of November 19th, 2009
Apple iPhone3GS for physicians
BCLA workshop - websites
Canadian consumer health information (CHI) portal
LIBR 559M - Social Media for Information Professionals
OAIster - OCLC via WorldCat.org
Second Life
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Introduction
In the digital age, health librarians are widely-viewed as information retrieval and search experts. In medicine, it seems increasingly evident that we should be sharing our skills and knowledge with other search experts internationally. In fact, sharing is a major reason why we - a team of student librarians and working academic librarians - have created this wiki. Our objective is to build a health library wiki with an international perspective but one that takes a decidedly Canadian view.
In many entries, we focus on expert searching to support systematic review searching, grey literature searching, and other relevant topics such as Web 2.0 and Web 3.0. (Here is a list of other subjects covered.) In terms of navigation and functionality, the UBC Health Library wiki feels and looks like Wikipedia - the free encyclopedia that anyone, anywhere can read and edit. This wiki, like Wikipedia, is powered by MediaWiki and permits registered visitors to modify and add to articles. To do so, sign in for editing privileges by using the edit function, located at the top of each page.
Articles composed by individual contributors should be signed where possible (see Second Life for example).
Announcing the Canadian consumer health information (CHI) portal
- Given the demise of CHN and the CHIS at TPL, we will be gathering consumer health information (CHI) here for patients, families and consumers.
- See the UBC Health Library wiki's Canadian consumer health information (CHI) portal.
Canadian context
This wiki was created for Canadian health librarians but is also a collaborative space where health librarians from around the world can share information. Our focus, whenever appropriate, will be on providing a Canadian context because Canadian health librarians lack a central knowledge-base to support them in their work. This Canadian-centric view will nonetheless take in global perspectives.
Wiki administrator
Wiki advisory team
- Allan Cho, Program Services Librarian, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
- Dean Giustini, UBC Biomedical Branch Librarian
- Daniel Hooker, MLIS Student, School of Library, Archival & Information Studies
- Farrah Little, Website Research & Development Analyst, Fraser Health Authority
- Greg Rowell, Head Librarian, Woodward Library & Hospital Library Branches
- Megan Wiebe, Special Projects Librarian, Male Health Initiative of BC, Diamond Centre
