by Rob Penfold | Nov 19, 2024 | News
This year the theme is: Wicked Problems Innovative Solutions.
Libraries face a myriad of complex challenges in today’s dynamic information environment. Often described as ‘wicked problems’ due to their multifaceted and interconnected nature, these encompass diverse issues including;
- Open access publishing
- AI technologies
- Advocacy and community engagement
- Digital transformation
- Equity of access
- Copyright and intellectual property
- Funding and budget constraints
- Changing user demands
Addressing these wicked problems requires innovative solutions that often go beyond traditional approaches. They require librarians to be innovative, adaptable and collaborative to provide effective solutions.
Join us for an exhilarating exploration of the multifaceted challenges facing our libraries. Don’t miss the opportunity to join the conversation, collaborate with others and emerge equipped with new knowledge and strategies to navigate the wicked problems of today’s health libraries.
Presentations, we invite you to submit abstracts addressing the wicked problems above with your innovative solutions in 150 – 300 words using the following format if possible: background/introduction, objectives, methods, results, conclusions. Presentations will be 20 minutes long incorporating slides or you may wish to use other technologies for your presentation.
Workshops, we invite you to submit proposals for workshops that emphasise and provide hands-on opportunities to develop skills in areas addressing the themes above. Priority will be given to proposals that are creative, topical and offer opportunity for skill development. Workshop proposals must include: title, description of the topic covered, workshop outcomes, brief biography of the facilitator (name, contact details, affiliation), planned format, duration (max 1.5hr) and details of past presentations of the workshop.
Abstracts and workshop proposals should be sent to the HLA Conference Committee at HLA@alia.org.au by 5.00pm (AEST), Monday 29 April 2024. All abstract and workshop proposals will be reviewed by the conference committee.
by Rob Penfold | Nov 19, 2024 | News
Coming up over the next couple of months:
May
What I love about being a health librarian – Peter Murgatroyd, Glynis Jones, Alana McDonald, Fiona Jones
(Above interesting? Then you might like to view the video Why I Love Being a Hospital Librarian (from MLA) or the video Health Librarians gone in 10 years? (the debate clearly won by the Yes team, but the No team officially winning due to “it is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it” – Upton Sinclair 🙂)
June
Levering Wikipedia for health and care research dissemination and impact – Adam Harangozo
AI Tools for Information Professionals Update – Phil Bradley
While you are here …
Any ideas for HLA seminars that you would particularly like to see?
Or perhaps you would like to present something yourself – either very short or more extended?
In either case, just send a quick email
by Rob Penfold | Nov 19, 2024 | News
the Institute for Evidence-Based Healthcare, is once again offering a series of ONLINE live interactive workshops on how to do systematic reviews with a focus on how to improve the speed and efficiency of the review process.
The search session will showcase our new and improved version of the Systematic Review Accelerator, so it could be a good opportunity to have a look at our new and improved search tools before we officially launch them later in the year.
The workshops will outline the tasks involved at each of the key steps of the review process and introduce participants to the freely available SRA tools that can be used to complete these tasks more quickly with tips from experienced systematic reviewers and links to key resources provided.
These workshops are for clinicians, students, researchers, policy makers and information professionals who are currently doing or planning to do a systematic review and would like to learn to do them more efficiently.
To benefit from these workshops, you should:
- be conducting or have conducted a systematic review, or
- be intending to do a systematic review AND have a good understanding of what systematic reviews are, how they are done, and what constitutes a good quality systematic review. To help you prepare we will provide background material covering these concepts that you can complete before the workshops.
The series consists of five workshops that cover the key review stages and an additional workshop covering other topics relevant to systematic reviews. Some advanced review concepts may also be covered depending on participants’ requirements. You can attend all the workshops, or just the specific workshops that meet your needs.
Individual Workshops 1 to 5 cost AUD$95 each. We are also offering a FULL package deal which includes Workshops 1 to 5 plus access to Workshop 6 at AUD$400.
For more information, please see the attached flyer or visit our website: https://bond.edu.au/iebh/workshops/upcoming-workshops
by Rob Penfold | Nov 19, 2024 | Events
View the Conference Program, and – because it’s so great – Register for the Conference
This year’s big event is the joint HLA / HLi conference being held in Melbourne in late October.
This is an in-person 👩 event only so it could be a good time to consider setting aside time ⏲, perhaps planning a holiday 🚢 around the event.
As a bonus, it’s in wonderful Melbourne (3rd most livable city in the world, leaving poor old Sydney in its wake …)
by Rob Penfold | Nov 19, 2024 | Events
Presenter: Julie Glanville
Search filters are sets of search terms designed to find studies of a specific design. They are an essential tool in searching for evidence. Filters may be sensitive/broad and are useful in identifying studies for evidence syntheses such as systematic reviews and in guideline development. The ISSG Search Filter Resource (ISSG SFR) has been developed to improve awareness of methodological search filters and to provide information on how to critically appraise filters. The site continues to introduce developments and new features. This webinar will review the purpose of search filters and show how the ISSG Search Filter Resource can support you in identifying, choosing and critiquing search filters.
Where: Online webinar Zoom (link sent the day prior)
When: 13 September 2023 3.30pm AEST
Duration: 1 hour
Cost: ALIA members – FREE; Non-ALIA – $30 (another reason to consider HLA Membership …)
Register: Finding research filters for study designs (alia.org.au)
Bio: Independent Consultant in Information Retrieval
Co-editor of the ISSG Search Filter Resource
Co-manager of the SuRe Info resource
Formerly – Associate Editor, Research Synthesis Methods
Formerly – Co-convenor Cochrane Information Retrieval Methods Group
