The brand new shiny 1st edition of 2025 is now available
Various articles of interest including an overview of 22 AI tools, State updates, request management and more
There is an Archive available and you can also search for past articles
🌏 Where: Online via Zoom (link to be sent day prior)
👯 Trainers:
💰 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:
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
👩 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:
HLA Competencies covered in this session
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.
This free session is organised and developed in collaboration with the HLI and ALIA Research Advisory Committee
🎦 To view the video, visit the HLA Videos page
👉 Session Details
Survey Research is a popular methodology to collect information from a sample of individuals, but perhaps what is less known is that there are multiple ways (methods) that you can collect this information. In this session, you will learn about different Survey Research methods, with a focus on good questionnaire design. You will learn:
✅ ALIA Competencies
C2: Reference and Research Services
C7: Health Research
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👱♀️ Presenter Bio
Dr Katherine Howard is Intersect Australia’s Digital Research Analyst for UniSA. She supports UniSA researchers by providing expertise in various digital tools and technologies, facilitating access to NCI’s HPC (Gadi), and coordinating Intersect’s training program for UniSA staff and students. Katherine’s background is in Information Science and she has extensive national and international experience as a researcher and academic. Katherine was most recently a Research Fellow with the ARC-funded ‘Library and Information Science Research in Australia’ (LISRA) project, aimed at enabling and encouraging research in Australia’s library and information profession. Prior to this, she was an Early Career Development Fellow at RMIT; has held academic positions at QUT and UniSA; and undertaken sessional work with Curtin University and Charles Sturt University. Dr Howard has received many scholarships and research awards. She was awarded a two-year scholarship to undertake the Erasmus Mundus International Master in Digital Library Learning, studying with world-renowned Information Science scholars in Norway, Estonia and Italy. Katherine was the first person outside of North America to win a Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, and her PhD, completed at QUT, was nominated for an Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award. Katherine’s research focuses on new and emerging roles for information professionals, particularly around data science, research data management, and in the GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives and museums) sector. She also has a keen interest in the Digital Humanities.
🌎 Zoom Room
https://alia-org-au.zoom.us/j/83084755873?pwd=OtgDbbc2aXkckdtT6OHpRv6V9E3nFR.1
ID: 830 8475 5873 / Passcode: 794846
💰 Free
📅 March 05, 2025 12:30 PM Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney
Report from the recipient of the ALIA / HLG Leadership Bursary which is part of the HLG Newsletter Autumn/Winter 2024-2025 from the UK