From the press release: "...the CARL Library Education Working Group that reviewed the applications awarded three research grants of $2000 to Dean Giustini (University of British Columbia) for his project titled "Canadian academic librarians and their use of social media; a two-phase survey", to Laura Briggs (University of British Columbia, ...

BCLA Workshop "Answering health and medical reference questions"View more presentations from giustinid.

Here are the top free (and no-so-free) starting points in complementary & alternative medicine for the November 19th BCLA Workshop on answering health and medical questions. 1. Starting points: CAM at UBC Library, NCCAM and Wikipedia. 2. More background: MEDLINEplus and Drugs - Supplements. 3. Clinical trials: CAM on Pubmed and NCCAM Trials ...

Menshealth Public Forum Nov 18View more documents from giustinid. Men's Health Channel - UBC Health Library Wiki

UBC Anaesthesia Residents Introduction to the UBC Library onlineView more documents from giustinid.

Menshealth Public Forum Nov 18View more documents from giustinid.

"Enterprise 2.0 is the term for the technologies and business practices that liberate the workforce from the constraints of legacy communication and productivity tools like email. It provides business managers with access to the right information at the right time through a web of inter-connected applications, services and devices. Enterprise ...

The UBC School of Library, Archival and Information Studies (SLAIS) is one of the few schools (the only?) on the UBC Vancouver campus offering an entire course on social media. An intrepid group of student archivists and librarians and I are working through a series of six modules that examine ...

I created this Jeopardy quiz on social media at Jeopardylabs. Simple and fun at the same time. The website helps you to build a Jeopardy game board without using Power Point. To start, enter a password so that others can’t edit your game. Then give your quiz a title, ...

This short video produced by the Toronto Public Library Foundation is a bulls-eye and a model for health librarians who want to do some effective public relations in their hospitals and health care agencies. Here, after donors view this 31 sec. video, the connection between making a donation and seeing ...

We are nearing the final 1/3 of LIBR559M - Social media for information professionals. It's been quite a journey and my students are a constant source of enthusiasm and joy (even when participation lags a bit). Here are the instructions for the final project. Do they make sense to you? ...

The National Library of Medicine launched the new PubMed interface earlier this week, had some heavy traffic difficulties (reverted back to the old site and then went live again, seemingly permanently) yesterday. The article at the NLM Technical Bulletin provides a snapshot of all the changes: A much more streamlined ...

For those of you on the American MEDLIB listserv, the discussion in the last few weeks has often returned to the issue of PubMed's new interface. Today the new interface went live. Health librarians are not that pleased with the interface; I agree that there are certain navigational elements that ...

Two new initiatives were announced this week because of Open Access Week; both will have a significant impact on the accessibility of scientific research (and grey literature) worldwide: they are DRIVER and COAR. DRIVER stands for Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for European Research, and makes it possible to search across ...

One thing that I wrestle with as a follower of social media is whether *all* media isn't social somehow. In the same way that critics of 2.0 refer to the suffix as a buzzword, perhaps the same can be said of the 'social' in social software and media - isn't ...

Sit back and watch the best that Canada can produce in the art of skating. All great art has these elements: beauty, purity and truth. These two young people add another layer: effortlessness.

Editor’s message / Message de l’éditrice - Teresa Lee  73-74 Full text (PDF 30 kb) Overcoming the linguistic divide: a barrier to consumer health information Catherine Boden 75-80 Abstract | Full text (PDF 69 kb) Health information professionals and the Semantic Web: a symbiotic relationship? Allison McArthur Pages 81-84 Abstract | Full text (PDF 56 ...

Cho and Hooker and I are writing an article entitled "Social cataloguing: an overview for health librarians". What surprised me about SCSs was when Tim Spaulding sent me a list of health libraries or organizations using LibraryThing - one of the better social cataloguing sites. Where have I been on ...

Kelly McElroy, an MLIS student taking LIBR559M who just happens to have a distinct critical blogvoice - check out her blog American's Next Top Information Professional - is leading an interesting, new workshop at Woodward Library on Monday Oct. 26th @ 2pm on ScienceZines. For more information, see: http://blogs.ubc.ca/lifescienceslib/2009/10/09/science-zine-workshop/ and her YouTube ...

Kelly McElroy, an MLIS student taking LIBR559M who just happens to have a distinct critical blogvoice - check out her blog American's Next Top Information Professional - is leading an interesting, new workshop at Woodward Library on Monday Oct. 26th @ 2pm on ScienceZines.  For more information, see: http://blogs.ubc.ca/lifescienceslib/2009/10/09/science-zine-workshop/ and check out ...