by Rob Penfold | Jul 2, 2026 | Events
Event Description
While the internet provides considerable opportunities to access and share information, it also increases people’s exposure to misinformation. It is increasingly difficult to determine the trustworthiness of the media in our environment, which is of particular concern in the field of health. Evidence suggests health misinformation is having real-world widespread negative consequences.
This talk explores how a media literacy approach can help organisations, community groups and citizens respond to the challenge that misinformation poses. It draws on findings from a 3-year research study that partnered with four public cultural institutions: Australian Library and Information Association, ABC Education, Museum of Australia Democracy and the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia.
Presenters
Tanya Notley & Daisy De Windt
Bios
Tanya Notley is Professor of Digital Media in the School of Arts and a member of the Institute for Culture and Society. Tanya currently leads a national project that uses media literacy to address online misinformation through a collaboration with national public cultural institutions. Tanya leads the Advancing Media Literacy Program at WSU and is a founding member of Australian Media Literacy Alliance (AMLA).
Daisy De Windt has over 20 years’ experience working in research, medical education and health communications, including over 10 years producing engaging, evidence-based media for a range of audiences. She has completed degrees in Psychology, Health Law, Biomedical Science and Business and is a PhD candidate at Western Sydney University.
When
Thursday, 30 July 2026
12:30pm – 1:30pm AEST
Where
Online webinar Zoom – a link will be sent the day prior.
This event will be recorded and sent to attendees following the event.
Cost
ALIA Members – FREE (another reason to consider HLA Membership)
Non-Members – $22
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by Rob Penfold | Apr 30, 2026 | News
View the latest articles published in JoHILA (Vol 6(1) 2026) – Journal of Health Information and Libraries Australasia
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Just send an email to Daniel – he will guide you through the straightforward process
by Rob Penfold | Jun 15, 2026 | Events
🗓️ Date: Thu 12th Nov, 12:30pm – 2:30pm AEDT
⌛ Duration: 2 hours
⌨️ Register: Canva for Librarians: Easy Video Creation for Promotion & Training
👩🏫 Trainers:
- Eunice Ang – Medical Librarian, Northern Health
- Keren Moskal – Clinical Librarian and Education Lead – Monash Health
💸 Cost: $40 ALIA members; $75 Non-ALIA members (another reason to consider HLA Membership)
✍️ Description:
This hands-on workshop will show you how to use Canva to create engaging and professional videos for library promotion and education resources, and give you guided hands on practice creating your own videos. This session covers:
- Editing a Canva video template,
- Image and text editing, animations and effects,
- 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 and have use of a laptop or PC, preferably with a mouse.
✔️ HLA Competency Areas:
C3 Health information literacy and educating for evidence-based inquiry
C8 Health leadership and management
2026 HLA Competencies can be accessed in the footer of the HLA site (Useful Resources column)
by Rob Penfold | Mar 12, 2026 | Events
“A four-day, free, virtual professional development event for information professionals supporting evidence synthesis services in libraries and other information workplaces”
Registration is free and includes the full schedule of symposium sessions. All sessions will in English, held on Zoom, with Zoom-integrated captioning and transcripts available.
Shortly before the event, you will receive an access link for the LESSS Zoom event by email
Registration closes on June 11, 2026.
Sessions (except for networking events and roundtables) will be recorded with transcripts, but presenters may chose to not release that recording for viewing after the conference
View the Symposium home page
by Rob Penfold | Mar 31, 2026 | Events
✅ Get in quick as spaces are limited and capped!
WORKSHOP OVERVIEW:
Reviews (systematic or scoping) are a great way to answer research questions or summarise evidence on a topic, but they take a long time and are a lot of work. Fortunately, there are now tools and methodological innovations that can help with doing reviews. One of these tools available is the Evidence Review Accelerator (TERA) built in Australia by a team at Bond University. TERA improves the speed of conducting reviews by accelerating all the tasks in a review. This workshop will cover all the tools available in TERA, but will focus on using the tools of most value to information specialist/librarians. Attendees will gain practical experience using TERA quickly design and run precise search strategies, while also gaining background information on the other review tasks to better enable review support at their institution. TERA is available at the following website: https://tera-tools.com/, and a 12-month subscription to TERA is included in the workshop fee.
🗣️ PRESENTER:
The workshop will be presented by Justin Clark, a Research Fellow in Evidence Review Acceleration and lead of the Automation program at the Institute for Evidence-Based Practice (IEBH) at Bond University, Gold Coast Australia. He is also the Cochrane Information Specialist for the Acute Respiratory Infections Group, was a member of the Cochrane Information Specialists Executive and the Co-Lead of the search group of the Living Evidence Network. He is one of the inventors of the Two-Week Systematic Review (2weekSR) method, a founding member of the International Collaboration for the Automation of Systematic Reviews (ICASR) and leads the development of the Evidence Review Accelerator (TERA), a suite of automation tools that accelerate the production of evidence synthesis. His research focuses on improving evidence synthesis methods to reduce the resources needed to conduct reviews of the evidence.
For more information about Justin’s research please visit his Research Profile: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=55311800800
💸 COST: ALIA – $120; Non-ALIA – $180
🕧 TIME: 10am – 4pm (face to face)
WHAT TO BRING:
BYO laptop; lunch (or head to nearby eatery at lunchtime)
🌏 WHERE: Face to face in either Melbourne, Brisbane or Sydney
Melbourne
Tuesday May 26th 2026
Royal Australasian College of Surgeons – Skills & Education Space
250/290 Spring St, East Melbourne VIC 3002
Register here: Advances in Systematic Review Automation Methods – Melbourne Workshop
Brisbane
Thursday May 28th 2026
Pathology Queensland (CSIRO site)
Block 1 (make yourself known at security)
39 Kessels Rd, Coopers Plains QLD 4108
https://maps.app.goo.gl/14zowXMdZuUg6w61A
Register here: Advances in Systematic Review Automation Methods – Brisbane
Sydney
Friday June 12th 2026
Royal North Shore Hospital – Kolling Institute
10 Westbourne Street, St Leonards NSW 2065
Register here: Advances in Systematic Review Automation Methods – Sydney Workshop
