Webinar Recording: Transforming Our e-Learning 'Worst Practices' into Excellent Teaching

The presentation focuses on innovative technology and pedagogical methods to overcome systemic flaws and limitations in online learning, and will help solve problems we as educators have introduced into our own teaching and learning. Dr. Kazmer will discuss approaches that incorporate appropriate technology and take advantage of the systemic strengths of distributed learning environments.

View the webinar here.

More details about this session can be found here.

JAMA Reviews Health Libraries Management Book

If you subscribe to MEDLIB, you might have seen that JAMA has given a very complimentary review to the newly published revised edition of The Medical Association Guide to Managing Health Care Libraries. This was one of the books in the publication pipeline when I was on the MLA Books Panel, and I was very impressed by the sample chapter I read; the authors/editors (Margaret Bandy and Roz Dudden) are good, clear writers and they know their subject well. I think anyone with library management responsibilities will want to take this to the beach this summer (OK, maybe not, but we should have it in the collection).

Authorship for Health Sciences Librarians

ICMJE definition:

“Authorship credit should be based on 1) substantial contributions to conception and design, acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data; 2) drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content; and 3) final approval of the version to be published. Authors should meet conditions 1, 2, and 3.”

From: Ethical Considerations in the Conduct and Reporting of Research: Authorship and Contributorship, at http://www.icmje.org/ethical_1author.html

Authorship

• If a conference presentation is based on original research and you are one of its authors
• In a systematic review, if you made a unique and substantial contribution - i.e. data collection, writing up methodology
• If listed as an author, need to at least see and have the chance to contribute.
• Considerations on listing authors and the order of authors may be different when working with ourselves or working with patrons (other health care professionals)
• Orders of authors: last could be PI or supervisor, first could be project lead (this seems to be the norm in our literature, this is negotiable and variable
• It may be a requirement to indicate different roles of authors by certain journals.

Acknowledgements

• If publication is tangential to original research
• In systematic review, if you acted as a consultant instead of primary data collector

Odd Web of Science behaviour on Internet Explorer 9

Hi all,
I don't know if this is a problem with the client's laptop or if it a Web of Science and/or Internet Explorer 9 problem but this is a FYI in case you encounter something similar.

I ran a search in WoS on my desktop, which my doc tried to duplicate. However, on his computer, the search results did not display (that part of the screen remained blank) even though the other parts displayed properly. He was running IE 9 while I was running IE 8. I clicked the Compatibility View icon on his computer and that fixed it! In case you're not aware of it, it's the little box beside the URL line that looks like a broken page icon.

Video of the Royal Visit to U of C!

iS2 Time Reporting eLearning Course Available

A reminder that all support staff (INCLUDING STUDENT/HOURLY EMPLOYEES) will be entering their own timesheets through self-service starting with the Aug. 1-15 timesheet period. All staff need to take the Time Reporting eLearning Course.

Also a reminder that the ‘Reports to Manager’ will have to approve timesheets within Peoplesoft, so make sure you take the Manager Self-Service course.

http://www.ucalgary.ca/is2project/

HIN Continuing Education Workteam “Assessing Your Needs” Survey Results

At the end of 2010, the HIN CE workteam sent out a survey asking what you wanted the CE Committee to offer. Eight completed the survey. This is a summary of your responses.

The first four questions asked about possible themes or sessions. Each choice could be ranked “Top priority”, “Somewhat important and will attend”, “Maybe not right now” or “Not a priority at all”.

1. How to use new and existing U of C resources

Rated “Top priority” or “Somewhat important and will attend” were: CINAHL (7 votes), PubMed (6), RefWorks (6), and Advanced searching in OVID databases (6). Web of Science was next in priority, followed by Point of care resources and Grey literature resources. MDConsult and STAT!Ref trailed last.

2. How to use some new technologies/software

RSS feeds and E-table of contents each garnered 6 votes, followed by Web 2.0 tools, iGoogle, Drupal, and Blackboard, each with 5. Creating displays received 3 and Jing to create instructional videos got 2.

3. Personal Empowerment
Here, Communication (7) and Time Management (7) were the skills selected the most, followed by Leadership (5) and Business writing (5). Project management lagged with 4 votes.

4. Work/Life Issues

How to deal with difficult client situations was ranked “Top priority” or “Somewhat important and will attend” by everyone. “Job and my health” and “Giving feedback, getting feedback” each received 6 votes. “Work safety” received 5 votes and “Balancing work and personal life” received 4.

We also asked about challenges to attending CE sessions and then best times and locations for training. You responded unanimously with “Lack of resources (e.g.: Time, Money, Not having the work coverage)”. Two also chose “Not knowing the sources of programs”. No-one picked “Not knowing which sessions would be most appropriate for me” or “Don’t think taking CE programs is important.” There was a comment “location location location”, which many can probably relate to.

There were no obvious preferences in times nor locations: the morning: 2, the afternoon: 2, and it doesn’t matter: 4. No-one chose the last Friday of the month, which was the regular day choice that we offered. The location question also did not elicit clear preferences. Two preferred sessions at your Knowledge Centre, 3 at Health Sciences Library, while 5 said it doesn’t matter.

I hope you found the results interesting. Thank you for taking the time to give feedback. We have already offered some sessions and are using the survey results to guide us in implementing others.