CHLA/ABSC 2017 Podium Presentations

2017-05-15

Chambers, Thane, Kung, Janice

Introduction: In 2015, a fee for service program was piloted at the University of Alberta's Health Sciences Library to provide in-depth librarian support to the Faculty of Nursing (FON). Other examples of cost-recovery and fee-based services have been provided by other academic libraries for...

2017-05-15

Manley, A, Visintini, Sarah, Helwig, Melissa, Boutet, M

Introduction: Health sciences libraries in both academic and clinical contexts are becoming more involved in furthering their institutions' research mandates, and librarians are increasingly called upon to support their patrons' research needs. A literature scan revealed many libraries are...

2017-05-15

Long, Shannon, Muturi-Kihara, Elisheba, Jack, C.

Introduction: Faced with continual change, British Columbia regional health and ministry libraries must innovate in order to survive. To understand how these libraries are evolving, this study: 1) describes and compares the libraries, 2) analyzes how they are changing and innovating in order to...

2017-05-15

Winther, C, Traux, M, Connolly, C

Introduction: Prior to 2011, libraries within a provincial health service operated using a variety of self-determining service models across 24 locations. Evaluation of library services demonstrated significant gaps in service delivery and access to resources, cost inefficiencies, and variation...

2017-05-15

Zhao, Rachel, Harrison, Pamela, Vaska, Marcus

Introduction: The Alberta Health Service's Knowledge Resource Service (KRS) supports clinicians and staff in evidence-informed decision-making, in part, by licensing point-of-care mobile applications. While the KRS team supports use of these resources with self-based education guides and...

2017-05-15

Boulos, Leah, Visintini, S. , Hayden, J. , Ritchie, K. , Parker, R.

Introduction: Online training for systematic review (SR) methodology has become an attractive option due to its flexibility and the limited availability of in-person instruction. Librarians often direct new reviewers to these online resources, so it is important that we are knowledgeable about...

2017-05-15

Habib, Jorden, Graw, S, Harrison, Pamela, Johnson, Brettany

Introduction: Our organization provides library services to over 100,000 staff in Canada's largest province-wide healthcare delivery system. The delivery of accessible, equitable, and sustainable library services to this diverse and geographically dispersed staff presents both challenges and...

2017-05-15

Lin, Yongtao, Blanchard, J. , Habib, Jorden

Introduction: In the past 5 years we transformed library services to a single online service that provides information services for all health care workers across the province and consolidated library locations from twenty-four to nine in three urban centres. Strategizing for consistent and...

2017-05-15

Bailey, S., Ziegler, C. , Iverson, Sandra

Introduction: Bibliotherapy can be defined as the use of literature to help deal with the challenges of life. The authors will situate this paper within the greater body of literature on bibliotherapy, providing an overview of the practice and a detailed exploration of the use of a particular...

2017-05-15

Hartling, Lisa, Scott, Shannon D. , Meherali, Salima

Introduction: Acute otitis media (AOM) —inflammation of the middle ear— is the most common pediatric bacterial ear infection, affecting up to 75% of children at some time before age 5 years. Despite the high incidence of AOM in children, it presents diverse challenges to parents who did not have...