IFLA Health and Biosciences Libraries Section Call for Papers for Satellite Session Saturday August 9th 2008 Quebec City, Quebec, Canada Note: (This satellite session will precede the IFLA conference in Quebec City August 10-14, 2008.) "Role of Evidence-based Research in Medical Libraries" The one day session will have two sub-themes: 1. Library efforts in support of evidence-based research. 2. Research conducted by health science libraries and librarians. The audience of this session is likely to include health care professionals, educators, researchers and librarians You are invited to submit an abstract for one of the two themes. It is hoped that papers will cover a wide range of areas - for example: • How libraries train library staff and library users in using the evidence • Partnerships and Collaborations that support evidence based research • Research that has made a difference to library services • The librarians' role in critical appraisal of the evidence • Clinical librarians - walking the talk • Tools to support evidence based medicine • Research methods • Promoting the evidence It is anticipated that presentations be 20 minutes with 10 minutes for questions Submission Guidelines The proposals must be submitted in an electronic format and must contain: • Title of paper • Summary of paper (250 - 350 words maximum) • Speaker's name, address, telephone and fax numbers, professional affiliation, email address and biographical note (40 words) • Submissions are to be submitted before December 24th, 2007 - preferably by email to: Heather Todd University of Queensland Library St Lucia campus St Lucia, Queensland 4072 Email: h.todd@library.uq.edu.au Important dates December 24th 2007: Deadline for submission of abstract January 25th: Notification of acceptance/rejection May 2008 : Deadline for submission of text Regrettably IFLA's Sections do not have funds available to pay for speakers' expenses, including registration for the conference, travel, accommodation, although there may be limited funding available through other IFLA channels, especially for people from developing countries. http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla74/grant2008.htm Heather Todd Executive Manager, Engineering and Sciences Library Service University of Queensland Library St Lucia Campus St Lucia QLD 4072 AUSTRALIA phone: +61 7 334 64394 email: h.todd@library.uq.edu.au