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
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by Rob Penfold | Mar 31, 2025 | News
An extensive list of courses and events that map to the eight HLA Competencies are now available Many can be done anytime online
Useful to progress from:
A health librarian caterpillar 🐛, to
A fully-fledged beautiful health librarian butterfly 🦋
Less entomological but also useful if you are completing the Health Specialisation PD Scheme
👉 note – participating in this scheme requires ALIA / HLA Membership
Thanks to Mr Darcy (Stephenson) (Austin Monash Health Library) for compiling the list
If you find any useful courses / events that are not on the list, send Darcy an email
Somewhat similarly, if there is an professional development area that you think is a bit neglected, send an email to Angela Smith for consideration as an HLA event so we can all improve our skills
by Rob Penfold | Mar 11, 2025 | News
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
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 | Feb 6, 2025 | Events
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:
- the importance of well-structured data collection instruments
- consequences of bad design
- examples of how to ask questions to avoid bias, loaded and leading questions
✅ ALIA Competencies
C2: Reference and Research Services
C7: Health Research
View HLA Competencies
👱♀️ 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
