Continuing Education

The following CE course has been CANCELLED - effective April 7th, 2006:

L10 - Citation Management Tools : Focus on RefWorks

The following CE courses are FULL effective April 7th, 2006:

For a limited time we are accepting requests to be wait listed on a first come, first served basis. 

Please contact Teresa Lee at teresa.lee@ubc.ca, if you wish to be considered for the wait list.

Other CE courses are filling up fast, but space is still available for:

The CHLA/ABSC Professional Development Grant - ABSC/CHLA Bourses de perfectionnement professionel and the Donald Hawryliuk Rural and Remote Opportunities Grant - Fonds commémoratif Donald Hawryliuk are available to members of CHLA/ABSC who meet the necessary requirement.  Further information for interested applicants is available in PDF format HERE

Continuing Education - Friday, May 12th

U1 - Comprehensive Searching for Systematic Reviews
This is a full day CE course
$180.00 U1 (Member) 
$225.00 U1 (Non-Member) 
Time: 9:00-12:00 and 1:00-4:00
Instructor: Ellen Crumley 
Location: Koerner Library - Room 217, UBC Main Campus 

Learn the steps to setting up and conducting comprehensive searches. Find out if it is really
possible to find "everything." This full day course will explore the comprehensive search process
and how it differs from other types of searches,what questions to ask when setting up comprehensive
searches, how to put together complex searches, which key resources to search, and how to decide where to search to find the information required. 

Ellen Crumley has extensive experience conducting comprehensive searches in health sciences and librarianship. She has published several articles about comprehensive searching and a systematic review about which resources to use when conducting comprehensive searches for publication. Her peer-reviewed hemophilia and von Willebrand's disease searches are posted on the Internet HERE. Ellen runs her own librarian practice and is a Senior Member of the Academy of Health Information Professionals. She recently started the PhD program with the School of Business at the University of Alberta.

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Continuing Education - Friday, May 12th

L2 - Bioinformatics Information Resources
This is a half day CE course
$130.00 L2 (Member) 
$160.00 L2 (Non-Member)
Time: 8:30-12:00
Instructor: Joanne Fox
Location: Buchanan Arts Lab B214, UBC Main Campus

In recent years the sequencing of the human genome, the emergence of genomics technologies, and the application of bioinformatics has enabled many cutting-edge breakthroughs in health sciences research. This explosion of health sciences related information will change the way that modern medicine is practised and has already had a large impact on health sciences research. This introductory course will help health librarians stay abreast of these recent developments. The impact of modern bioinformatics and genomics research will be discussed in the context of health sciences related information resources. Practical experience searching online databases, such as PubMed, will be provided through hands-on computer-based exercises. Expert advice for navigating bioinformatics and genomics information accessible through the Internet will also be provided.

Dr. Joanne Fox currently works as a Research Associate and as the Head of Research Support at the new bioinformatics research centre at the University of British Columbia. Joanne holds a PhD in Genetics and is actively involved in bioinformatics research. For the last six years, Joanne has also been an instructor for the highly successful series of professional development workshops run by the Canadian Bioinformatics Workshop series and accredited through Continuing Studies at the University of British Columbia, the University of Toronto, and the University of New Brunswick. In her research support role at the UBC Bioinformatics Centre, Joanne has developed and delivered multi-mode workshops in bioinformatics to over 1000 students, teachers and professionals. She currently holds an award from the Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund at UBC for the development of bioinformatics curricula. 

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Following the Bioinformatics Workshop on Friday May 12 morning at the University of British Columbia, Dr. Joanne Fox will lead a tour of the UBiC laboratory facilities from 12:00-1:00pm.

Created in 2002 by the Biotechnology Laboratory, the Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics (CMMT), the Faculties of Science and Medicine at the University of British Columbia and external partners including Genome BC, the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research, BC Cancer Agency, and Children's and Women's Health Centre of BC, the UBC Bioinformatics Centre (UBiC) strives to be a world-class centre of excellence for bioinformatics research, training and support.

Dr. Fox is an expert in developing bioinformatics resources to support the research community at UBC and has been instrumental in bioinformatics education at UBC.

This free educational event is available to all CHLA/ABSC 2006 conference attendees. Attendance is limited to 20 people.

To participate in this event, RSVP your interest in attending this event to Christine Marton, CE Co-Chair, at chrismah@cancerboard.ab.ca by Friday May 5.

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Continuing Education - Friday, May 12th

H3 - The Practice of Clinical Librarianship
This is a half day CE course 
$130.00 H3 (Member) 
$160.00 H3 (Non-member) 
Time: 8:30 - 12:00
Instructors: Vicki Lee
Location: Point Grey Room, Marriott Pinnacle Hote

Getting close to clinicians of all stripes is what clinical librarianship is all about. By exploring the evidence base for clinical librarianship and understanding the point-of-care and other information needs of clinicians, this introductory half-day workshop sets the stage for librarians to create, extend, market and evaluate their services. Participants will get hands-on experience using case studies and other interactive techniques to identify strategies, set priorities, plan their services, evaluate their success and communicate their expertise.

Vicki Lee is the clinical librarian for the Evidence Centre at sunny Hill Health Centre for Children in Vancouver where she assists an interdisciplinary team of clinicians in meeting their information needs in the areas of child development and rehabilitation. As the first clinical librarian in this setting, she has created the service from scratch and has collaborated with clinician colleagues to facilitate a successful knowledge broker program aimed at increasing the transfer of research into practice throughout the centre. In the other half of her job, Vicki works with University of British Columbia undergraduate and graduate medical students honing their evidence-based medicine skills at BC Children's Hospital. Vicki is active with the Health Libraries Association of British Columbia and in her spare time helps relatives, friends and mere acquaintances terrorize their unsuspecting health providers by arming them with current evidence.

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Continuing Education - Friday, May 12th

H4 - Tools for Your Teaching Toolbox (1) : Planning for Success!
This is a half day CE course
$130.00 H4 (Member) 
$160.00 H4 (Non-member) 
Time: 8:30-12:00
Instructor: Jan Johnson
Location: Kitsilano Room, Marriott Pinnacle Hotel

Are you new to teaching, or looking for a refresher session on designing successful workshops and courses? Would you like to be able to apply an organized yet flexible approach in planning your instruction for adult learners? Join us in this interactive workshop as we explore a cyclical approach to the planning process, practice developing appropriate, context-specific learning objectives, and develop personal approaches to successful lesson planning. You will leave with some relevant, immediately applicable planning tools that you can add to your teaching toolbox.

Jan Johnson has been facilitating adult learning for 25 years, in fields ranging from snow avalanche safety to curriculum design. She is a Facilitator and Instructional Developer in the Centre for Teaching and Academic Growth at the University of British Columbia, and is currently seconded half-time to BCcampus to design a professional development plan for individuals working with educational technology in the BC public post-secondary system. Jan is also an Instructional Skills Workshop facilitator and trainer and has taught as a sessional instructor at various Lower Mainland post-secondary institutions. As a private consultant, she works in the areas of instructor training, adult teaching and learning, curriculum development, and group facilitation.

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Continuing Education - Friday, May 12th

L5 - Cool Tools for the Jaded Health Librarian: RSS, Blogs and WIKIs
This is half day CE Course 
$130.00 L5 (Member) 
$160.00 L5 (Non-member)      SESSION FULL
Time: 1:30-5:30
Instructors: Peter Tyrrell and Denise Bonin
Location: Buchanan Arts Lab B214, UBC Main Campus

In this introductory course, we'll take a look at as many new and popular web-based technologies as time permits: wikis, blogs, podcasts, RSS, mashups, AJAX, Web 2.0, IM, Flickr, del.icio.us, tagging, gmail, etc. We'll talk about what they are, see examples of how they're being used, discuss what's behind their popularity, and think about the opportunities they might afford the library. There's a lot of hype out there, but we'll try to see past that to what's truly useful in this cavalcade of inventive tools. All are welcome, from the mildly curious to the openly skeptical. 

Peter Tyrrell is a tool-using animal, MLIS wielder and Senior Consultant for Andornot, a firm specializing in design and development of information management solutions for libraries. He spends more time than is probably healthy producing web-based software for his clients and is constantly on the lookout for new and emerging tools and technologies that help him do what he does best even better. He enjoys opportunities to share his knowledge, expertise and enthusiasm with others in the library and information field.

Denise Bonin co-founded Andornot Consulting in 1995 after several years of working in a variety of special and academic libraries. Her favourite cool tool is Webex which allows her to help clients remotely without ever leaving her island office. She enjoys working with clients to implement new technologies and ideas, so that they can maximize their effectiveness and help promote the library as an important up-to-the-minute resource.

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Continuing Education - Friday, May 12th

H6 - Effective Searching for Health Statistics
This is a half day CE course
$130.00 H6 (Member) 
$160.00 H6 (Non-Member)    SESSION FULL
Time: 1:30-5:00
Instructor: Beverly Mitchell and Veronika Moravan 
Location: Point Grey Room, Marriott Pinnacle Hotel

The collection and dissemination of data in the form of statistical information has become ubiquitous within today's healthcare system. Data is collected from within all programs of clinical care and the derived statistics are used to assist with clinical decision-making, allocation of resources for patient care, and for overall better management of fiscal and human resources to support the Canadian healthcare system. These statistics are available from a variety of sources and are accessible within the public purview. This presentation will look specifically at healthcare statistics such as those collected and managed by CIHI, as well as statistics collected within health authorities for reporting to the provincial ministries of health. This course introduces health data available nationally and provincially. Instructors will describe database contents and format and share information about obtaining data.

Beverly Mitchell is a registered nurse with over 26 years of experience in healthcare, primarily in the perioperative setting. She has held a variety of positions in nursing including clinical, administration, education and information systems. Most recently, she is employed in the IMIS department at Vancouver Coastal Health as the team lead of the perioperative application systems and is involved as the project business lead for system implementations.

Veronika Moravan has been a statistician at the BC Cancer Agency since 2000, and at Cancer Care Ontario prior to her current position. Her experience encompasses evaluation of screening programs, quality control for cancer registration and statistical support for epidemiologists and clinicians.  

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Continuing Education Friday, May 12th

H7 - Tools for your Teaching Toolbox (2): Welcoming Challenges-Surprises or Not!
This is a half day CE course 
$130.00 H7 (Member) 
$160.00 H7 (Non-member) 
Time: 1:30-5:00
Instructor: Jan Johnson
Location: Kitsilano Room, Marriott Pinnacle Hotel

Teaching can be a challenge, regardless of one's level of teaching experience and/or expertise. What are the issues that you struggle with the most? Are you looking for new or different ideas to deal with specific concerns? Join us for an interactive, participatory session that will provide you with an opportunity to identify the specific challenges that you face in your teaching context, share ideas with your colleagues about how you and they have responded to such situations in the past, and adapt new or different approaches in ways that will work for you. You will leave with some immediately applicable techniques and approaches that you can add to your teaching toolbox. 

Jan Johnson has been facilitating adult learning for 25 years, in fields ranging from snow avalanche safety to curriculum design. She is a Facilitator and Instructional Developer in the Centre for Teaching and Academic Growth at the University of British Columbia, and is currently seconded half-time to BCcampus to design a professional development plan for individuals working with educational technology in the BC public post-secondary system. Jan is also an Instructional Skills Workshop facilitator and trainer and has taught as a sessional instructor at various Lower Mainland post-secondary institutions. As a private consultant, she works in the areas of instructor training, adult teaching and learning, curriculum development, and group facilitation.

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Continuing Education  Saturday, May 13th

Continuing Education - Saturday, May 13th

H8 - Plain Talk about Health Literacy
This is a half day CE 
$130.00 H8 (Member) 
$160.00 H8 (Non-Member) 
Time: 8:30-12:30
Instructor: Susan Murray
Location: Kitsilano Room, Marriott Pinnacle Hotel

According to Healthy People 2010, health literacy is the "ability to obtain, process, and understand health information and services to make appropriate healthcare decisions." Consumers with low literacy cannot fully participate in their healthcare decisions and have poorer health outcomes. A recent study of two large US hospitals found that one-third of English-speaking patients were unable to read basic health materials. This workshop will provide awareness of health literacy issues and recommend strategies on how consumer health librarians can better serve consumers with low literacy. 

Susan Murray is the Manager of the Consumer Health Information Service (CHIS), a province-wide service located at the Toronto Reference Library that assists Ontario consumers in gaining greater control over their own health through access to health information. Since 1999, she has also been the Project Manager for the Complementary and Alternative Health Affiliate of the Canadian Health Network (www.canadian-health-network.ca), a nationally funded bilingual network of reliable Internet-based "health info for everybody.“ Susan has spoken and written extensively in the area of consumer health information (CHI). She authored Developing a Consumer Health Information Service: A Practical Guide (1995) and writes a quarterly CHI column in the Journal of the Canadian Health Libraries Association.

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Continuing Education - Saturday, May 13th

H9 - Current Canadian Copyright Law
This is a half day CE course 
$130.00 H9 (Member) 
$160.00 H9 (Non-Member) 
Time: 8:30-12:00
Instructor: Margaret Ann Wilkinson
Location: Point Grey Room, Marriott Pinnacle Hotel

This course is designed to explore copyright in the library context, particularly looking at the impact of the recent attitudes of the Supreme Court of Canada in decisions involving libraries and the Internet, as well as legislative reform proposals. Participants will be invited to consider these developments in light of practical matters such as electronic reserves and licenses with vendors and collectives.

Dr. Margaret Ann Wilkinson's background in law and library and information science naturally brings her to the study of copyright. Jointly appointed Professor in the Faculties of Law and Information & Media Studies at the University of Western Ontario, and called to the Bar of Ontario since 1980, she is Director of the Area of Concentration in Intellectual Property, Information and Technology Law of the Faculty of Law and a doctoral supervisor in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies in the areas of Information: Policy, Power and Institutions and of Media Industries. Her current research concerning moral rights in copyright and the conceptual and practical relationships between personal data protection, confidentiality and privacy is funded through the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Her chapter "Filtering the Flow from the Fountains of Knowledge: Access and Copyright in Education and Libraries" appeared in 2005 in Michael Geist's In the Public Interest: the Future of Canadian Copyright Law (available for download) and her 2004 chapter on "Privacy and Personal Data Protection: Albatross for Access?" appeared in Karen Adams and William F. Birdsall, Access to Information in a Digital World (Canadian Library Association).

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Continuing Education - Saturday, May 13th

L10 - Citation Management Tools : Focus on RefWorks
SESSION CANCELLED
Time: 8:30-12:00
Instructor: Lorna Adcock

Participants will be given a general review of the popular citation management software tools, with an in-depth focus on RefWorks, citation management software licensed at UBC and at many other institutions. The course will provide hands on instruction using RefWorks, focusing on the specific databases and citation styles used in the healthcare field. This half-day course will include a review of the proposal process at UBC, the marketing and training tools that have been created, and a discussion of the additional uses of the software as a collaborative and teaching tool.

Lorna Adcock works in the UBC Library at the MacMillan Library (forestry and agricultural sciences including dietetics and nutrition). She has worked at the Saskatoon Research Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada doing comprehensive literature and patent searches in plant sciences and nutraceuticals. She also worked for 5 years as Manager, Environmental Health Library, Health Canada.

Lorna has many years experience working with a variety of citation management software, including Procite, Reference Manager, EndNote and RefWorks. She participated in the RefWorks proposal process at UBC and helped to develop the marketing and training tools. She has led RefWorks workshops for the sciences, including sessions for specific health-related groups of participants, including pharmacy and nutrition.

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Continuing Education - Saturday, May 13th

L11 - Finding the Hard to Finds: Searching for Grey Literature
This is a half day CE course 
$130.00 L11 (Member) 
$160.00 L11 (Non-Member)    SESSION FULL
Time: 8:30-12:30
Instructors: Dean Giustini and Diane Helmer
Location: Lab C420 - UBC Robson Square

The delivery of library and information services to support biomedical research in Canada requires specific tools, knowledge and skills for information specialists and health librarians. Increasingly, health librarians are required to be expert searchers, coach and mentor other searchers, and develop their own heightened awareness of many databases (both free and fee) and trends in finding the grey literature. Considerable grey literature is not published through regular channels and may be difficult to track down unless librarians know who is producing this information and where to locate it. This course will explore the changing concept of grey literature, the major resources and databases (i.e. “invisible web,” portals, etc.) that support expert searching in this area, and issues related to the impact of open access, repositories and Google searching. The instructors will use lecture, active learning and personal or group exercises to facilitate the learning process. 

Dean Giustini, a reference librarian at the UBC Biomedical Branch library at Vancouver General Hospital, is involved in the evidence-based themes in medicine, co-teaches the health librarianship course at SLAIS and writes the UBC Google Scholar blog <weblogs.elearning.ubc.ca/googlescholar/>. He is co-chair of the CHLA/ABSC 2006 program committee. 

Diane Helmer (now Thompson) is head librarian at the Geoscience Research Library for the Natural Resources Canada library in Vancouver. Formerly the information specialist at the BC Office of Health Technology Assessment (BCOHTA) at UBC, Diane has developed an extensive CV and knowledge about grey literature and finding the “hard to find.” She has a lengthy list of publications in “grey literature,” including the “Guide to Internet Resources for Health Technology Assessment,” produced by the National Library of Medicine. 

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Continuing Education - Saturday, May 13th

H12 - Everything You Wanted to Know about Consumer Health Information…But Were Afraid to Ask
This is a half day CE course
$130.00 H12 (Member) 
$160.00 H12 (Non-Member) 
Time: 1:30-5:30
Instructor: Susan Murray
Location: Kitsilano Room, Marriott Pinnacle Hotel

Consumer health information (CHI), once not deemed as a suitable role for health sciences librarians, is now commonly provided as a service in many healthcare and library settings. Developments such as increased Internet connectivity, the range of health information available electronically, a focus on health literacy, and the public's interest in complementary and alternative health information, have all lead to a growing interest in implementing and/or expanding CHI services. This overview of CHI issues will be of interest whether you are considering starting a CHI service or want a check-up of your existing service. 

Susan Murray is the Manager of the Consumer Health Information Service (CHIS), a province-wide service located at the Toronto Reference Library that assists Ontario consumers in gaining greater control over their own health through access to health information. Since 1999, she has also been the Project Manager for the Complementary and Alternative Health Affiliate of the Canadian Health Network (www.canadian-health-network.ca), a nationally funded bilingual network of reliable Internet-based "health info for everybody.“ Susan has spoken and written extensively in the area of consumer health information (CHI). She authored Developing a Consumer Health Information Service: A Practical Guide (1995) and writes a quarterly CHI column in the Journal of the Canadian Health Libraries Association.

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Continuing Education - Saturday, May 13th

L14 - PubMed: Beyond the Basics
This is a half day CE course  
$130.00 L14 (Member) 
$160.00 L14 (Non-Member)    SESSION FULL
Time: 1:30-5:00
Instructor: Linda Milgrom
Location: Lab C420 - UBC Robson Square

Expert searchng includes more sophisticated use of PubMed tools such as field qualifiers, the preview/index feature, creation of hedges or stored searches in My NCBI, and creating links to automatically run PubMed searches. Greater knowledge of the Medline database and indexing vocabulary is also necessary in making expert search decisions. The class has a train-the-trainer focus to help participants present these searching techniques to other users.

Linda Milgrom is the Outreach Coordinator for the NN/LM, PNR (generally known as the Pacific Northwest Regional Medical Library or RML), based in Seattle at the University of Washington. Linda has been with the RML for 25 years, concentrating on support for network librarians as roles have evolved from reference and online searching to include health literacy and community development projects. PubMed and its predecessors (Grateful Med and Medline on Elhill) have been a continuing source of “fascination” for her. Linda has also worked as a librarian in hospital, medical society and other university settings.

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Continuing Education - Saturday, May 13th

H13 - Discover the Leader in You! Developing and Realizing your Leadership Potential
This is a half day CE course [power point presentation]
$130.00 H13 (Member) 
$160.00 H13 (Non-Member) 
Time: 1:30-5:30
Instructors: Laurie Scott, Daniel Phelan and Wayne Glover
Location: Point Grey Room, Marriott Pinnacle Hotel

Most of us know people we consider to be great leaders. We may have encountered these people through our work, our professional activities or our personal lives. We often recognize great leadership instinctually, without giving much thought to what qualities and skills make a great leader or recognizing those traits in ourselves. This workshop will explore a number of issues related to leadership such as: what traits leaders have, why being a good leader is a very different thing than being a good manager, how you can determine your own leadership potential, how you can take on a leadership role in your job and your professional associations, and whether a leadership institute might be right for you.

Laurie Scott has been Executive Director of the Health Science Information Consortium of Toronto, a group consisting of 34 publicly funded healthcare libraries and the University of Toronto Libraries since 1997. She has a Master of Library Science degree from the University of Western Ontario, and a BA from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. She has been active in the CHLA/ABSC, having served as President and CE Coordinator, and in SLA, where she is currently serving as Chair, Program Planning Denver 2007 for SLA’s Biomedical and Life Sciences Division. She has taught courses at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Information Studies and the University of Western Ontario’s Graduate School of Library and Information Science.

Daniel Phelan is the Manager, Collection Services Team at Ryerson University Library in Toronto. Since joining Ryerson in 1985, he has had a variety of positions including AV Librarian, Science and Technology Librarian, and Head of Interlibrary Loans and Access Services. Prior to coming to Ryerson he held positions at North Bay Public Library, the University of Manitoba, and McGill University where he obtained his Master of Library Science degree. His publications include an article on the Canadian National Site Licensing Project in Against the Grain, and he was co-editor of the 2002 issue of Library Trends on midlife career choices for librarians. Daniel has given presentations at the Charleston Conference and the Ontario Library Association Super Conference on leadership. He has also given a CE course at CHLA/ABSC on learning styles. He has served on Ryerson’s Academic Standards Committee for the past five years. He is also currently on the Board of the Ontario College and University Libraries Association. His professional interests include distance education, document delivery, leadership and information literacy. 

Wayne Glover (CAE) is President and CEO of AssociationsFirst. He has twenty-six years of association management experience with national and provincial industry and professional associations. He started as a Member Services Coordinator in his first association and moved through the ranks from there. He currently operates an association management company in Toronto, having worked there for fourteen years before becoming owner twelve years ago. His firm currently has five national associations (including CHLA/ABSC) and two provincial groups as its clients. Wayne has fourteen years of volunteer service to associations, two in fundraising. He has made numerous presentations to association groups on a variety of topics and facilitates strategic planning sessions on a regular basis.

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