Continuing Education Courses: Friday, May 13
Course information listed below includes course registration fee (CAD amount is Canadian dollars for Canadian residents only). Click on the course title to go to Mosaic ’16 Online Registration.
10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
CE201 Leading the Way: Preparing For and Enhancing Your Leadership Role
Level: Beginning+
Cost: $290 (nonmember: $520)
CAD: $371 (nonmember: $666)
Attendance maximum: 30
Work through exercises and case studies to explore leadership styles, goals in leading others, any perceived challenges, and necessary steps required to make positive progress in reaching goals. The instructors will facilitate discussion related to challenges in establishing your leadership, help you to identify methods to transition effectively into leading, and explore how to measure success.
Instructors: Lindsay Alcock, Head, Public Services, Health Sciences Library, Memorial University of Newfoundland–St. John's; Robyn Reed, Head, Access Services, Schaffer Library, Union College, Schenectady, NY; Kelly Thormodson, Assistant Director, Harley E. French Library of the Health Sciences, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of North Dakota–Grand Forks; and Martin Wood, AHIP, Assistant Director, Maguire Medical Library, Florida State University College of Medicine–Tallahassee
CE300 Advanced Searching Techniques and Advanced Strategy Design
Level: Advanced
Cost: $365 (nonmember: $635)
CAD: $467 (nonmember: $813)
Attendance maximum: 25
Explore issues around search design and techniques for undertaking literature searches of complex topics to inform high-quality comparative effectiveness research, systematic reviews, guideline development, and other major projects. Learn new techniques and software tools for developing search strategies, best approaches to search design, including search term identification and concept development, insights into search design for complex questions, and variations in current best practice.
Instructors: Julie Glanville, MCLIP, Project Director, York Health Economics Consortium, University of York, York, United Kingdom, and Carol Lefebvre, HonFCLIP, Independent Information Consultant, Lefebvre Associates, Oxford, United Kingdom
CE500 Expand Your Library Instruction Toolkit: Introduction to Online and Distance Learning Support
Level: Beginning+
Cost: $365 (nonmember: $635)
CAD: $467 (nonmember: $813)
Attendance maximum: 20
Learn basic strategies and tools for developing online and distance learning materials. Plan and create an activity or materials for your online students, such as: a self-intro or how-to video, an interactive real-time poll, or a collaborative workspace. Ideas will be provided, but bringing your own project goal is ideal.
Instructors: Virginia Pannabecker, Health, Life Science, and Scholarly Communication Librarian, University Libraries, Virginia Tech–Blacksburg, and Margaret Hoogland, AHIP, Distance Support Librarian, A. T. Still Memorial Library, A. T. Still University of the Health Sciences, Kirksville, MO
8:00 a.m.–noon
CE301 Health Literacy 360
Level: Beginning+
Cost: $240 (nonmember: $445)
CAD: $307 (nonmember: $570)
Attendance maximum: 20
This course aims to be a holistic coverage of health literacy for the librarian, moving from awareness to the incorporation of health literacy principles in current service practices to the adoption of new services by identifying stakeholders at their institutions.
Instructors: Andrea Szwajcer, AHIP, Clinical Librarian, University of Manitoba Libraries, St. Boniface Hospital, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, and Lara Killian, AHIP, Librarian Educator, Patient Education, Library, Nova Scotia Hospital–Dartmouth, Canada
CE700 Facilitating Your Focus Group: Running Effective Focus Groups in Health Library and Information Science (LIS) Research, Evaluation, and Audit - This course has been cancelled.
Service evaluation is a key aspect of the role of health library and information science (LIS) professionals. The use of focus groups is a popular approach to data collection. This session aims to support those interested in beginning a work-based project using a focus group as the main method of data collection.
Instructor: Hannah Spring, Senior Lecturer, Research and Evidence Based Practice, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, York St John University, York, United Kingdom
CE701 Research by Design: Proposing, Planning, and Carrying Out a Research Project for the Practicing Librarian
Level: Intermediate
Cost: $240 (nonmember: $445)
CAD: $307 (nonmember: $570)
Using examples from health sciences librarianship, participants will explore different types of research projects accomplished by hospital and academic librarians as inspiration. Learn practical strategies and tips for incorporating research into your daily routines! Participants will leave the workshop with an outline of steps for a research project, making it that much closer to a reality.
Instructor: Lorie Kloda, AHIP, Assessment Librarian, McLennan Library, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
1:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m.
CE100 Oral History Workshop: Conducting, Collecting, and Archiving
Level: Beginning+
Cost: $240 (nonmember: $445)
CAD: $307 (nonmember: $570)
Learners in this workshop will discover the fundamental concepts of developing an oral history project and the interview process. By the end of the workshop, participants will know about subject selection, interview preparation, equipment usage, how to conduct interviews, and issues related to preservation.
Instructor: David J. Caruso, Director, Center for Oral History, Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia, PA
CE400 Grey Horizons: Grey Literature Searching for New and Emerging Health Technologies
Level: Intermediate
Cost: $315 (nonmember: $560)
CAD: $403 (nonmember: $717)
Attendance maximum: 25
Join this hands-on course to discover best practices for locating information on cutting-edge drugs, medical devices, and surgical procedures that is not available in bibliographic databases. Participants will learn how to effectively search clinical trial registries, find regulatory information, locate conference abstracts, and practice advanced Googling techniques for horizon scanning.
Instructors: Monika Mierzwinski-Urban, Information Specialist, Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health, Ottawa, ON, Canada; Kelly Farrah, AHIP, Information Specialist, Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health, Ottawa, ON, Canada; and Sarah Bonato, Reference/Research Librarian, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), Toronto, ON, Canada
CE501 APPsense Makes the Patrons Grow Fonder: Mobile Resources in the Health Sciences
Level: Beginning+
Cost: $240 (nonmember: $445)
CAD: $307 (nonmember: $570)
Interested in the latest and greatest mobile apps? Join us to learn about: functions and features of mobile devices; health care and library apps; use of apps in library outreach, circulation, curriculum, and support; and evaluation of apps. Bringing your own device is encouraged.
Instructors: Maureen (Molly) Knapp, AHIP, Research Support and Education Librarian III, Rudolph Matas Library of the Health Sciences, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA and Elizabeth C. Whipple, AHIP, Research Librarian, Ruth Lilly Medical Library, Indiana University School of Medicine–Indianapolis
CE702 Data Sharing and Reuse: Roles for Health Sciences Librarians
Level: Intermediate
Cost: $315 (nonmember: $560)
CAD: $403 (nonmember: $717)
Attendance Max: 25
Learn tools and skills to help support research data sharing and reuse, including developing policies regarding sharing data, preparing data for sharing, and locating and preparing datasets for reuse. Participants will be introduced to free software to facilitate sharing and organization of data.
Instructor: Lisa Federer, Research Data Informationist, NIH Library, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD