by Rob Penfold | May 30, 2025 | Events
We are pleased to let you know that registrations are now open for Research Support Community Day 2025, with the event program available to view here.
Research Support Community Day continues to remain a free, annual event that offers professional development and training for anyone involved in providing research support and related services. It is an opportunity to connect with colleagues, share ideas, and build your professional network. Holding the event online across 3 days ensures we can welcome participants and presenters from a range of Australasian and New Zealand time zones.
Find out more about our previous events and speakers from the Research Community Day YouTube channel.
Once again, we are grateful to Sage Publishing Asia-Pacific & Central Asia for their continued sponsorship of the event.
With the registration, there is an option to not attend but receive access to the recordings
👉 Note – this is not an HLA event
✅ A few presentations of possible interest:
- Systematic review Fun-damentals
- Full Text Seeker: A tool to assist with systematic reviews
- Safeguarding scholarly integrity: A novel approach to detecting predatory journals
- Generative AI training: Opt in or opt out?
by Rob Penfold | Mar 4, 2025 | Events
🌏 Where: Online via Zoom (link to be sent day prior)
👯 Trainers:
- Eunice Ang – Medical Librarian, Northern Health
- Keren Moskal – Clinical Librarian and Education Lead – Monash Health
💰 Cost: $35 ALIA members; $65 Non-ALIA members. Another reason – along with 13 others – to consider HLA Membership
📝 Registration: Register here. Additional information
🔢 Numbers restricted to 20 participants – get in quick.
Description:
This hands-on workshop will show you how to use Canva to create engaging and professional videos for library promotion and education resources. This session covers:
- Editing a Canva video template
- Image and text editing, adding animations and effects
- Playing with AI features
- Using Canva record and screen capture
People who have prior experience with Canva will get the most out of this session. There will be hands-on activities. Participants will need access to a Canva account prior to the webinar.
🥇HLA competency areas: C4 Leadership and management & C6 Health literacy and teaching
by Rob Penfold | Apr 1, 2025 | Events
Event Description
In response to student and staff needs, librarians at Federation University created an Open Education Resource to introduce a complex topic in an easy to understand, step by step way. This lunchtime session will describe the process of creating the resource from inception to publication, and demonstrate the content, features and interactive elements of the resource.
Presenters
Erin Roga has a Masters of Information Management from the University of South Australia. Her minor thesis explored the impact of digital skills classes for first year nursing students. In 2022, she attended the Australian Evidence Based Practice Librarians’ Institute. Erin is a liaison librarian for the Institute of Health and Wellbeing at Federation University Australia, and supports students and academics in their teaching, learning and research, with a focus on training for conducting systematic and scoping reviews. She is interested in promoting the need for rigourous methodology and reporting of reviews. In her spare time, she loves to potter in her vegetable patch and hang out with her chicken friends, and is now learning to keep bees and cultivate mushrooms.
Dr. Karen Pruis obtained her PhD from Federation University Australia, and her qualitative thesis explored the lived experience of Chinese international students communicating in English while studying abroad. In 2023, she attended the Australian Evidence Based Practice Librarians’ Institute. Karen is a liaison librarian with the Institute of Health and Wellbeing at Federation University Australia with extensive experience in supporting students and researchers with evidenced-based literature searching. She loves to teach them how to construct a replicable search strategy for scoping and systematic reviews. Finally, Karen has two poodles named CoCo and Margaux who are her best friends and give her a lot of joy.
🕚 When
Tuesday, 27 May 2025
1.00pm – 2.00pm (Vic, NSW, Tas, ACT, QLD),
12:30pm – 1:30pm (SA, NT),
11am – 12:00pm (WA),
3pm – 4pm (NZ)
🌏 Where
Online webinar Zoom – a link will be sent the day prior.
💰 Cost
ALIA Members – FREE (One of 14 benefits of HLA ALIA membership)
Non-Members – $22
📝 Register
Register
by Rob Penfold | Apr 22, 2025 | Events
Note – this is not an HLA Event
Registrants will be able to view recordings / slides after the event (as times involved are not Australian friendly)
More details available here
This course provides a comprehensive guide to peer reviewing search strategies, essential for improving the quality and accuracy of research findings across multiple disciplines. Participants will gain valuable skills in evaluating and optimizing search methodologies, contributing to more robust and credible research outcomes.
The course will cover key topics and learning objectives, which include:
- Understanding the purpose of the peer review process.
- Learning about peer review guidelines: the PRESS checklist.
- Identifying common pitfalls and challenges in search strategy structure.
- Learning how to check the search terms within search strategies.
- Learning how to check the search syntax within search strategies.
- Understanding the best use of limiting options within search strategies.
- Critiquing the use of search filters within search strategies.
- Learning how to check translations of search strategies (across databases and interfaces).
- Learning about the practicalities of peer review: time taken, approach, writeup, keeping up to date.
An official Instats certificate of completion is provided at the conclusion of all seminars. For European students, our seminars offer ECTS Equivalent points, which is indicated on the certificate of completion that is provided at the conclusion of each seminar (see the Instats FAQ for details).
The fee for the course (over 2 half-days) is 351 AUD (i.e. 180 GBP, 208 EUR, 236 USD or 1,729 CNY).
There are reductions on the above prices for students and also for those who are based at partner institutions to Instats – see link above.
Course presenters:
Julie Glanville, Independent Consultant in Information Retrieval, Glanville.Info
Carol Lefebvre, Independent Information Consultant, Lefebvre Associates Ltd.
For further details, including the course descriptions, and to register, please see the link above.
Recordings and materials (including slides) will be available online, to those registered for the course, for 30 days after the course, in case you would prefer to attend asynchronously, or you would like to go back and revisit the course content after the course concludes. An online seminar chat forum will also be monitored by us for 30 days after the seminar concludes, so that you can ask questions related to seminar content outside of the live seminar sessions.
Please feel free to contact us for further details about this course, or to discuss tailor-made options for your workplace.
by Rob Penfold | Mar 25, 2025 | Events
🌍 WHERE & WHEN
Brisbane: Monday June 16, Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre, South Bank, Brisbane
Melbourne: Wednesday June 18, The Events Centre, Collins Square, Melbourne CBD
Adelaide: Friday June 20, Adelaide Convention Centre, Adelaide CBD
💰 COST
Free / nothing / zip / gratis / zilch / complimentary
📝 REGISTER
You can find more details and register on the CAUL website https://www.caul.edu.au/events/caul-exhibition-events-2025
👉 Note – registrations close Wed 30 April
📚 INFORMATION
The upcoming CAUL Exhibition Event, is an invaluable opportunity for library staff, particularly those with an interest in acquisitions, collections, and procurement.
Building on the success of previous years, this event offers a fantastic chance to connect with up to 35 key exhibitors, network with fellow library professionals, and stay updated on the latest trends and innovations in the library sector.
The event will be hosted in Brisbane, Melbourne, and Adelaide in June this year. Best of all, it’s completely free for library staff from all sectors, not just higher education. We would love to see library staff from public, school, TAFE, special, government, 👉 health, law, and corporate libraries.
I encourage you to register and join us for this exciting and informative event.
📞 CONTACT FOR ANY QUESTIONS
Rani McLennan | Coordinator, Operations & Engagement
Turrbal and Jagera Country | Brisbane, Queensland | AEST / GMT +10
rani.mclennan@caul.edu.au| www.caul.edu.au | Book a meeting with me
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