Health Libraries Association of British Columbia

PubMed Made Simple at BCLA 2012

dean.giustini@ubc.ca — Mon, 14 May 2012 23:19:27 +0000

BCLA Pubmed Made Simple - Searching Tips for Librarians

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Facebook now has 900 million users

dean.giustini@ubc.ca — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 23:53:46 +0000

Facebook disclosed today it has 901 million users in its network (Babad Globe & Mail, 2012). This number consolidates its place as the largest social media networking site in the world. Even though the social media giant dropped that incredible statistic from its S-1 filing, the number is inching closer to 1 billion and should hit that number in 2012. That’s about 1/7th of the planet!

Some other eye-popping statistics are that Facebook gets 3.2 billion comments on its platform every day, and 300 million photos are uploaded. The site says there are approximately 125 billion friendships on the site, but that number is disputed.

Of the 901 million user accounts, Facebook says that ~526 million are active users (meaning daily usage). About 488 million have used Facebook mobile in some form in the last period which speaks to how many users access the site. When Facebook filed its IPO in early 2012, it said that its user base was around 845 million. What seems self-evident is that Facebook is by far the most robust of social media sites. Twitter, which passed 500 million users in 2012, is second in numbers, although Twitter has said that only 140 million of those accounts are active daily.

Facebook use in medicine

Facebook has enormous reach as a social network, and in medicine it is no exception. In a 2010 study, it was shown that nearly every US-accredited medical school maintains a Facebook profile (Kind et al, 2010). Of those, only 13 (of 128 US medical schools) reported writing social media policies to support its usage. It’s been suggested that social media policies that have been written could serve as a useful blueprint for mdical schools. It suggested that guidelines and policies should be framed around students’ professional duties and accountabilities in Facebook, using examples to provide context, and written by stakeholders such as physicians, students and patients. Finally, consideration should be duly given to the communication and enforcement of policies.

see Social media policies

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HLABC Spring Meeting, Wednesday April 11 at 6:30pm

Daniel Hooker — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 16:01:09 +0000

Date:

Wednesday, April 11, 2012 - 6:30pm - 9:00pm

Location:

College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC Library, 300-669 Howe Street

Contact:

Linda Howard

Contact Email:

linda.howard@fraserhealth.ca

You are invited to HLABC's Spring meeting on Wed. April 11, 2012 from 6:30 to 9:00pm.

Our featured speakers will be Charlene Ronquillo and Brooke Scott from Fraser Health. They will present on the role of the library in growing nurse researchers. Charlene is the Nursing Research Coordinator for the Fraser Health and Brooke Scott is a librarian based with Fraser Health at Royal Columbian Hospital and the liaison librarian for nursing. Please join us.

Light refreshments will be served. We hope to see you for this informative evening which will also provide you with an opportunity to see the new library at the College of Physicians and Surgons of BC.

Please RSVP to Linda Howard at linda.howard@fraserhealth.ca

Directions to the college: https://www.cpsbc.ca/node/211 Parking information is attached here [PDF] (please note evening rates are likely less than quoted). Skytrain riders should exit at the Vancouver City Centre stop of the Canada line or the Granville station stop of the Expo/Millenium lines.

Shared Evening of Innovation for Health Librarians 2012

dean.giustini@ubc.ca — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 20:23:11 +0000

HLABC Continuing Education March 27 2012

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Shared evening of innovation among health librarians

Daniel Hooker — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 15:26:11 +0000

Date:

Tuesday, March 27, 2012 - 6:00pm - 8:00pm

Location:

UBC Koerner Library, K217 or Webex

Contact:

Dean Giustini

Contact Email:

dean.giustini@ubc.ca

RSVP here: http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/2997
HLABC members can also attend this event virtually using WebEx. Details for the virtual meeting will be circulated on the week of the event.

Purpose

This is a joint meeting of LIBR534 students & HLABC members will highlight speakers and brief 8-10 minute presentations about what they do: introductions, background and what got them into health librarianship. Each speaker will discuss their innovative approaches to their work. The goal is to present a complementary view of our field (not just a traditional one).

This is a mentoring and two-way sharing opportunity for current and future members of HLABC.

Speakers

Andrea Freeman, Library & Bookstore Coordinator, BC Children's Hospital
Devon Greyson, PhD student, health librarian & women's studies teacher, blogger
Linda Howard, Librarian, Fraser Health Library Services / HLABC President
Greg Rowell, Leader, Clinical Policy Office / Fraser Health Professional Practice and Integration
Doug Salzwedel, Trial Search Co-ordinator / Cochrane Hypertension Group
Sharon Stevens, Reference Librarian for Dentistry & Pharmacy, Woodward Library

What's Up? HLABC Continuing Education News March 2012

dean.giustini@ubc.ca — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 17:50:03 +0000

HLABC March Newsletter 2012

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Women's Health Information and libraries

linda.howard — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 21:58:45 +0000

International Women's Day is coming up this month on March 8th. In recognition of International Women's Day I would like to consider the state of health information for women in our libraries. Recently in the Fraser Health Authority, Women's Health has become its own program closely aligned with Maternal and child health. I had an opportunity to join a teleconference last January on the Women's Health program to touch base with the movers and shakers in women's health in Fraser Health. At the time, the team was considering its strategic strategy with other program areas, since women's health is all encompassing and broad based. The strategy proposed was to advocate for women's health in several of the other program areas.

How can librarians and technicians play a role in women's health? I think we can focus on identifying, collecting and disseminating the best evidence on women's health. One of my favourite sites is called Women's Health Matters at www.womenshealthmatters.ca. It is a very useful site for bringing together trusted information on all aspects of women's health through its health centres, discussion forums, news feeds and personal stories. It is hosted by the Women's College Hospital in Toronto. It also features links to the Women's College Research Institute that supports and produces research studies on women's health issues.

What are some of your favourite women's health sites and sources? Let me know.

Linda Howard, President, HLABC

linda.howard@fraserhealth.ca

Health Literacy at Surrey Public Libraries by Tanya Thiessen, Libraraian

linda.howard — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 21:57:19 +0000

Health Literacy and Surrey Libraries

We began looking at a Health Literacy plan for Surrey Libraries in the winter of 2009, after reviewing the work done by Richmond Public Library and Vancouver Coastal Health. To date, our health literacy plan has mostly involved building relationships with healthcare professionals, and expanding our collections in the area of Consumer Health, particularly at the new City Centre Library. Regarding the latter, we invested over $5000 in building on the existing health resources that transferred from the Whalley Library. This new Consumer Health collection focuses primarily on resources in the areas of mental wellness, addictions, and chronic conditions (diabetes, heart disease, arthritis, cancer, respiratory diseases, etc.).

While we continue to strengthen our Consumer Health resources, where we would like to improve is in the area of marketing these materials to the public and improving the health literacy of Surrey residents. “Searching for Health Information Online” classes have not been well attended in the past, so we are looking at new ways that we can educate our patrons about the materials, services and programs that we offer.

One of our goals is to develop stronger relationships with Fraserhealth and other health care agencies so that we can grow our opportunities for partnership in the area of health literacy. We currently partner with them to offer Babytimes at the Guildford Library which are hosted by a public health nurse. We also continue to host workshops with S.U.C.C.E.S.S. on a variety of health topics, and these sessions are well attended.

Through the BC Health Literacy and Public Libraries Network, we have developed contacts with various health professionals and literacy practitioners. One key relationship that grew out of the network was our partnership with Douglas College’s Nursing Program in January 2011. Surrey Libraries hosted 2 nursing students for their community based practicum from January to April 2011, and we hope to partner with them again in future.

Another area that we are working on is organizing and centralizing the different events going on at the library and in the broader community, so that our patrons can more easily find out about health related events of interest to them. Similarly, we are redesigning the Health & Wellness section of our website to make it more relevant and not just a long list of links.

Suppliers

Asian Publications (Surrey) for all S. Asian languages

Tsai Fong Books (Texas) for Japanese, Vietnamese

Today’s Books (Burnaby) and Panmun (Korea) for Korean

Urdu Bazar (Surrey) for Urdu

Continental books (Colorado) for Spanish

Goethe Books (Toronto) for German

Tania Tong orders Chinese and I always forget the suppliers, so check with her as Chinese is our largest collection

MiddleEast Bookstore (Montreal) for Arabic

Thiessen, Tanya [TDThiessen@surrey.ca]

HLABC's 1st Unconference Is Deemed a "Success"

dean.giustini@ubc.ca — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 21:24:45 +0000

I have completed the evaluation for HLABC's Feb 16th "unconference for regular and prospective members. On behalf of the Executive, let me take this opportunity to thank Marjorie Jardine for booking JIBC's well-equipped computer lab and for being "on deck" for the unconference before, during and after.

Report on Unconference, Feb 16th, 2012

Location: Justice Institute of BC, New Westminster

Time: 6:30 to 8:00pm 1.5 hours structured opening section with Sue Bradley demonstrating PubReMiner

Also, 1hr of show and tell among classroom participants

Participants: 15 attendees; 11 arrived to participate in-person; 5 beamed in via WebEx

one MAS/MLIS student from UBC, and a library technician interested in joining HLABC
technically, WebEx worked well though some online participants had sound trouble

WebEx worked well for the presenters and without incident

Comments: "That was a lot of fun.... when is the next one?"

"What a great idea; it was nice to see everyone participate"
"....some very useful resources were shared....thank you everyone"
"A special thanks to Daniel Hooker, Website Coordinator, for ensuring our technical success"
"....thank you to Marjory and her staff at JIBC for providing the space ....."

HLABC President Linda Howard discussed two excellent sites for psychosocial and geriatric QoL scales

Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing

Geriatric nursing resources - full-text measures & assessments

These are now on the HLWIKI Canada Finding health questionnaires, scales & tests

Thanks to all. Our next unconference will likely be at UBC in April or later.

In the meantime, mark off March 27th for a special evening (6-8pm at UBC Koerner Library) bringing together LIBR534 Students and HLABC members for an evening of shared innovation. So far, Andrea Freeman, Devon Greyson, Doug Salzwedel, Greg Rowell, Sharon Stevens & Linda Howard have agreed to speak. I will also ask two groups of two students to present their research.

Romancing your library users

linda.howard — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 20:10:35 +0000

Its Valentine's Day! This seems like a perfect opportunity to talk about how we might go about romancing our library users. How do you go about charming your library users to visit your library and feel welcome coming back? I like to first and foremost have a welcoming presence in my library with plants, blankets, and good signage. I check to make sure the library has pens, scrap paper, and that the photocopier and printer are filled with paper. I also like to provide a warm and friendly welcome to any new library users to encourage them to return. When I teach library workshops, I usually come armed with pamphlets about library resources to hand out after the teaching session. Sometimes I follow up via email with the class attendees thanking them for attending. I also like to get out of the library to remind the staff and physicians at my hospital that I am alive and well and willing to take literature search requests in the hall or cafeteria. If I have a chance, I deliver some articles directly to users, especially those staff who cannot easily get out of their units. The other day I offered to deliver articles to a nurse in emergency. In the process of doing this, I had an opportunity to meet some other doctors and nurses I serve and ask them about life in the ER. They started telling me about research projects they are exploring. Hum, there must be an article for that!

How do you romance your library users? Email me at Linda.Howard@fraserhealth.ca

Linda Howard, President, HLABC