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.

Patents and Health-Related Government Information & Statistics
Instructors: Jeff Moon and Michael White

This hands-on interactive workshop will provide a practical and informative introduction to the world of health-related patents, government information, and statistics. Patents are an important source of information on new medical technologies, drugs and consumer products. In the first part of this workshop, you'll learn how patent information can be used by health professionals, where to access patent information, and effective strategies for searching public patent databases. In the second part of the workshop, you’ll learn about health information at key government web sites – some familiar, some not. You’ll also get a painless and hopefully entertaining introduction to health statistics and survey data. Yes, numbers can be fun – and no experience is necessary!

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

Searching PubMed
Instructor: Linda Slater, MLIS

Through demo and hands-on practice, this session will provide instruction on features of the PubMed search engine that aid in the execution of comprehensive searches of this database, including: identification and effective use of MeSH, field searching, limits, Clinical Queries, Special Queries, MyNCBI, providing links to PubMed records and searches. The opportunity will be available to discuss any ‘problem’ areas participants may have experienced in searching the PubMed interface (particularly in light of the Fall 2009 update to the interface). The goal is to prepare participants to perform effective comprehensive searches on PubMed and to provide an understanding of the database such that they will be prepared to design and deliver effective staff and end-user instruction on the database.

When: Monday, June 7, 2010, 1:30 pm - 5:00 pm AND Tuesday, June 8, 1:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Where: Queen's University, Bracken Health Sciences Library, e-Laboratory.

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.

From Databases to Donors: Librarianship and Fundraising
Instructor: Denise Cumming, BA, MLIS

Where do librarianship and fundraising intersect? How can librarians contribute their talents to help ensure the fundraising success of their organizations? Your expertise as a librarian can assist the fundraising office at your hospital, university or not-for-profit in understanding, packaging and selling the strengths and accomplishments of your institution to prospective donors. This session will explore the critical role that the collection, organization and dissemination of information plays in the highly competitive world of fundraising. This session will also review the Development Office staff roles which best align with the training and skills you’ve acquired as a librarian and suggest ways that interested participants can make the move to the fast-paced and growing field of health care philanthropy.

When: Tuesday, June 8, 2010, 8:30 am – 12:00 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.