Copyright: An Ingenious (but Imperfect) Balancing Act
Instructor: Jean Dryden, MA, MLS, PhD

The CHLA/ABSC is offering a half-day workshop on copyright presented by Dr. Jean Dryden, a leading Canadian expert on copyright. The workshop will include an overview of how Canadian copyright law works, with particular attention to the challenges of applying copyright law in the digital environment, recent landmark decisions of the Supreme Court of Canada, and the federal government’s latest attempts to amend the Copyright Act.

When: Monday, June 7, 2010, 1:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Where: Four Points Sheraton, Room TBA.

Facilitating Effective Learning: Building Your Backpack of Teaching Skills
Instructor: Sheila Pinchin, MEd

Teaching information skills to health sciences students, often in large classes, requires a "backpack" of teaching skills to facilitate effective student learning. During this half-day session, we will work together in groups to set objectives that lead to the learning you want to occur, and develop interactive teaching strategies to enable students to meet the objectives. Come to learn about and practice:

• using the ICE model to set objectives,
• developing Think/Pair/Share, and other interactive learning strategies, and
• applying an "8 Step Model" for team learning that allows students to work in small groups, while in a large class setting.

Participants should bring the outline for one of their teaching sessions with them to work on during the session.

When: Monday, June 7, 2010, 1:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Where: Four Points Sheraton, Room TBA.

Image and Presence Building
Instructor: Catherine Bell, AICI CIP

Have you ever been told, “You don’t look like a librarian?” This fun, interactive workshop will examine the librarian’s image and the role that image generally plays in increasing confidence and building rapport with others. The three keys to impression management, how to appear powerful or approachable through your clothing and body language, strategies on dressing down without bottoming out, and the five most common image faux pas to avoid will help you always convey the message that you are a professional. Also, practical tips on how to work a room with ease will give you strategies you can put into practice the next time you need to connect quickly with people at work or in the community.

When: Tuesday, June 8, 2010, 8:30 am – 12:00 pm AND Tuesday, June 8, 1:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Where: Four Points Sheraton, Room TBA.

Searching Skills for Systematic Reviews, Part 1: Basics of systematic review searching
Instructors: Margaret Sampson, MLIS, PhD, AHIP and Jessie McGowan, MLIS, PhD

This course will provide an overview of the basic steps required in searching for systematic reviews. It will be targeted to the health librarian who is working with health care providers conducting health care related systematic reviews. This course will provide an overview of searching methods needed in systematic reviews, including how work with research questions, plan a multi-database, multi-modal search strategy, apply search filters, document the search strategy and manage a database of references.

When: Tuesday, June 8, 2010, 8:30 am – 12:00 pm
Where: Queen's University, Bracken Health Sciences Library, e-Laboratory.

Librarians and Patient Safety
Instructor: Lorri Zipperer, Cybrarian

This half day interactive session will explore concepts contributing to a foundational understanding of medical error and an introduction to key resources related to patient safety. It will provide task-oriented instruction on how librarians can contribute to the work of patient safety at their organizations. In addition, session participants will work together to identify strategic leverage points to position the information professional as a partner in creating safety. Lastly, the group will visualize how knowledge transfer can be identified as an element that supports an organization’s ability to learn from both error and patient safety successes.

When: Tuesday, June 8, 2010, 1:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Where: Four Points Sheraton, Room TBA.

Searching for Systematic Reviews, Part 2: Peer review and PRESS
Instructors: Margaret Sampson, MLIS, PhD, AHIP and Jessie McGowan, MLIS, PhD

This course will provide an introduction to peer review for the health librarian, with a focus on assisting authors in refining their work. Peer reviewing for professional and scientific journals will be discussed, however the focus will be on the practical function of reviewing electronic search strategies. Participants will learn a structured reviewing technique for systematic reviews called PRESS (Peer Review Electronic Search Strategy). Ideally, peer reviewers will suggest useful improvements and help catch technical errors, while respecting differences in searching style, completing the review without spending an undue amount of time, and creating a positive experience for the reviewer and peer whose work in under consideration. This course will be of interest to searchers who would like to improve their peer reviewing skills and meet colleagues to partner with in mutual peer review, managers who would like to implement peer review as a quality assurance technique, and anyone interested in reviewing manuscripts for journals. Experience in searching for systematic review or participation in Part 1 of this course is recommended.

When: Tuesday, June 8, 2010, 1:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Where: Four Points Sheraton, Room TBA.