Libraries Staff Publications

2014-01-15

Storie, Dale, Boruff, Jill

The research investigated the extent to which students, residents, and faculty members in Canadian medical faculties use mobile devices, such as smartphones (e.g., iPhone, Android, Blackberry) and tablet computers (e.g., iPad), to answer clinical questions and find medical information. The...

2007-01-01

Chor, Louis

This essay introduces simple HTML coding for creating vertical text on the Web. This coding can also enable images to move horizontally across the screen in a panoramic presentation. The coding is originally a Microsoft adaptation of a version of Cascading Style Sheets 3 (CSS3), and as such in...

2008/2009

Storie, Dale, Campbell, Sandy, Chambers, Thane

A variety of health professionals were surveyed about their use of RSS feeds, introduced to RSS feeds in a hands-on class and then later surveyed about their use of RSS feeds.

2012-06-20

Storie, Dale, Chan, Liza, Chojecki, Dagmara, Seale, Linda, Dennett, Liz, Dorgan, Marlene, Chatterley, Trish, Slater, Linda, Tjosvold, Lisa, Chambers, Thane, Campbell, Sandy

Eleven practicing health librarians taught LIS 520, a graduate course in Health Librarianship, as a large team rather than as a course with one instructor and many guest lecturers. Finding little guidance from the literature of the field, the team undertook a research project to evaluate the...

2012-06-04

Dorgan, Marlene, Seale, Linda, Chambers, Thane, Chojecki, Dagmara, Campbell, Sandy, Tjosvold, Lisa, Chatterley, Trish, Dennett, Liz, Slater, Linda, Chan, Liza, Storie, Dale

Eleven practicing academic health librarians at the University of Alberta taught LIS 520: Introduction to Health Sciences Librarianship as a large team. This study evaluated the students’ responses to being taught by a large team and the librarians’ responses to teaching in a large team. Overall,...

2007

Chor, Louis

From November 26 to December 11, 2007, I was one of the participants in the Training Program for Japanese Information Specialists organised by Japan Foundation and the National Diet Library of Japan. The program took place in Tokyo and Kyoto Prefecture. This foldout leaflet was compiled for...

2011-04-21

Seale, Linda, Dorgan, Marlene, Campbell, Sandy, Storie, Dale, Chan, Liza, Chor, Louis

On October 26, 2011, The John W. Scott Health Sciences Library at the University of Alberta opened a Traditional and Indigenous Healing Collection.

2011-04-01

Campbell, Sandy, Johnson, Brettany, Storie, Dale, Hayward, Robert

Objective: 1. To engage students by delivering an Evidence Based Medicine assignment in a system that simulates a professional medical continuing education system that many participants will use in residency and practice. 2. To convert a paper-based “searching for and evaluating evidence”...

2015-01-01

Dorgan, Marlene, Campbell, Sandy

The demand for systematic review support in academic health sciences libraries is increasing. To manage the demand, the John W. Scott Health Sciences Library at the University of Alberta has created an action plan consisting of eight strategies. The results of implementing these strategies have...