Libraries Staff Instructional Materials

2014-10-23

Polkinghorne, Sarah

This presentation critiques the discourse of teacher-as-entertainer and examines five elements from the performing arts that can provide meaningful insights for information professionals who teach: physicality, defining the situation, extemporizing, scripts, and acting.

2015-02-26

Desmeules, Robin, Kung, Janice

The authors presented a one-hour workshop to Health Sciences Researchers on research data management. Several tools were highlighted: DMP Builder, Dataverse, REDCap, and Health Research Data Repository (HRDR).

2015-08-20

Kung, Janice, Dennett, Elizabeth, Campbell, Sandy

This PowerPoint presentation is used in a three-hour workshop designed to provide an introduction to database searching in the context of systematic reviews as a research method. The program focuses on structured searching, database selection and documentation of the search for the methods...

2015-11-13

Campbell, Sandy, Kung, Janice, Dennett, Elizabeth

This workshop has been offered 35 times between 2011 and 2015 by librarians at the University of Alberta John W. Scott Health Sciences Library. It is a three hour workshop which covers defining the research questions using PICO forms, Boolean Logic, database selection, structured searching using...

2015-09-22

Kung, Janice, Dennett, Elizabeth, Campbell, Sandy

These handouts are used in the three hour workshop, Introduction to Systematic Review Searching offered by the John W. Scott Health Sciences Library at the University of Alberta.

2012-03-01

Chor, Louis

A pamphlet made for distributing to the audience at the 2012 Junior Japanese Studies Librarian Training Workshop at the University of Toronto Libraries held in conjunction with the Council on East Asian Libraries (Association for Asian Studies) annual meeting in Toronto. It introduces via...

2015-06-06

Chor, Louis

This Web page was prepared as a record of the process of changing a Library of Congress subject heading (LCSH) in 2006. LCSHs are used in major university libraries in the world to provide subject access -- now sometimes called "tagging" -- to library resources such as books (including e-books)...

2015

John W. Scott Health Sciences Library

This a syntax and functional equivalency or translation chart for eight different platforms on which bibliographic databases are supplied by the University of Alberta Libraries. Functions included are: Boolean operators, natural language searching, relevancy ranking, subject headings, combining...

2014-01-01

David Sulz [translation]

English translation of a short Japanese newspaper article about a specialty rice dried via ski lift.

2015-08-20

Campbell, Sandy

When researchers undertake a systematic review, it is standard practice to create and publish a protocol. This template was developed to help researchers think through the requirements of their review before undertaking their systematic review search.