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"Criteria for Selecting Electronic Books in an Academic Library: Will we ever need to buy paper again?"
Download2000-11-02
Based on the assumption that all books will soon be available in both electronic and paper formats, selections librarians will soon be faced with a format decision for each title they purchase. The work of Summerfield, Mandel and Kantor at Columbia University has given us some early information...
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1967 Summer School of Frontier Medicine: Impact on Medical Students and Indigenous Communities
Download2010-06-01
Ross, Shelley, Campbell, Sandy, Behn Smith, Daniele
The poorer health status of First Nations, Inuit, Métis (FN/I/M) people in Canada is unacceptable and requires urgent attention. One potential means of improving FN/I/M health is to focus on improving training of medical students to enhance cultural safety. Experiential, community based...
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From Triage to the Big Picture: Developing a Comprehensive Information Literacy Program for a Medical Faculty
Download2010
The Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Alberta is large and diverse. Liaison librarians at the health sciences library are evaluating the information literacy (IL) instruction being delivered to the Faculty, in order to identify current strengths and gaps in instruction,...
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Really Simple Syndication? A study on health sciences faculty and medical residents’ adoption of a new technology following an instruction session on RSS
Really Simple Syndication? A study on health sciences faculty and medical residents’ adoption of a new technology following an instruction session on RSS
Download2008/2009
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.
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2015-06-01
Shiri, Ali, Stobbs, Robyn, Farnel, Sharon, Cockney, Cathy, Rathi, Dinesh, Campbell, Sandy
This project seeks to: 1. Investigate and identify the information needs and information seeking behaviour of community members in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region. 2. Identify and select cultural heritage information. 3. Create a culturally appropriate metadata framework for resource...
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Teaching Health Librarianship with a Very Large Team: breaking the borders of the one-instructor model
Download2012-06-20
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...
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The Deakin Review of Children's Literature: a New Source for Reviews of Canadian Children's Literature
Download2012-05-25
Campbell, Sandy, Feisst, Debbie, Frail, Kim, Desmarais, Robert
The Deakin Review is anelectronic quarterly review of contemporary English-language materials of interest to children and young adults. The Review focuses primarily, but not exclusively, on Canadian English language children’s books. Books reviewed may be electronic or print and range from...
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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.
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Using a Professional Continuing Medical Education Simulation to Engage Undergraduate Medical Students in Information Literacy
Download2011-04-01
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”...
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Using Pollutant Release and Transfer Register Data for Environmental Health Research
2011
Osornio-Vargas, A., Wine, Osnat, Hackett, Cian, Campbell, Sandy
Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers (PRTRs) are national databases of chemical releases reported by industry to governments. The importance of pollutants to health is well documented, however the use of PRTR data to study relationships between health outcomes and pollution has not been...