by Rob Penfold | Jan 23, 2025 | Events
👩 Presenter – Lori Korodaj
🕐 Feb 19 / 1:00 PM / Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney
🎦 Video can be viewed on the HLA Videos page
CHS Library and Multimedia supports Canberra Health Services and ACT Health staff in providing evidence-based healthcare and research development at a patient and population health level. Services had been developed in consultation with our clients but further promotion and advocacy was required to entice people into our physical and virtual space.
👉 This is our story of how we grew our voice within our organisation, and the positive outcomes (so far) from this outreach.
👜 Goodie Bag link (if you cannot access at work try your personal device or email Lori)
Outcomes of this session
After taking part in this session, participants will:
- understand the importance of building networks to increase visibility in their organisation
- take away practical ideas to use in their own settings – as a team and as solo librarians.
HLA Competencies covered in this session
- C1: The health environment (documentation)
- C4: Leadership and management (strategic planning)
- C8: Professionalism (sharing ideas with others)
Biography
Lori is currently a Senior Client Services Librarian at Canberra Health Services (CHS) Library & Multimedia, and an adjunct lecturer for the School of Information Studies, Charles Sturt University. Lori changed sectors in August 2023 after working as a teacher librarian for almost 30 years in Australia and overseas, also leading advocacy/education locally and nationally for school libraries and teacher librarians. Lori has presented and published nationally and internationally on topics such as mentoring, strategic planning, and the importance of library as ‘third space’ (wellbeing). Lori’s passions as a health librarian: supporting medical staff in their work to find best patient outcomes; and building research capacity in colleagues and medical staff through training and professional learning.
by Rob Penfold | Nov 19, 2024 | News
The Award was established as a perpetual tribute to a person whose foresight, skill and courage helped found health librarianship in Australia. With the assistance of the Award, others may be encouraged to make their own contribution.
Awards are intended to supplement the activities of the Australian Library and Information Association in supporting specific projects and providing study grants.
Applications for the biennial Award are invited from all Australian health library and information professionals. Applicants are not limited to ALIA members or to librarians, provided proposals meet the objectives of the Fund.
Funding is available for research projects, study or a publication. For full information on the Award, past recipients and application guidelines, visit the Anne Harrison Award page
Applications close: Fri 03 May 2024 at 5.00 pm
Please direct applications and inquiries to the Secretary: jane.orbell-smith@health.qld.gov.au
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
