HLI Event Grey Literature - what do we need to know?

This event was in July at RMH by the amazing Jess Tyndall and it was fab! I might be bias in saying that as I was the main organiser for it but still I learnt so much.

I took pages and pages of notes but her powerpoint pretty much sums it up:
 

http://hdl.handle.net/2328/34991 

 

It really is like a whole other world of searching...

2013 Health Libraries Inc Conference #vital

Way back in October last year I went to the HLI Conference in Melbourne. Again it was wonderful to catch up with people and meet new ones and to learn about what people are doing in other organisations. Here are my notes from the day:

Susie Morton - Epworth - Secrets of an invaluable library

Quote - I think it's only fait to warn you that I am, in fact, a LIBRARIAN!
It is ok to discontinue services
Library user survey - must do!
Provide premium library services to key stakeholders
Align with strategic plan
Libguides as Department homepages
Quote - Librarians - just like regular people, only much smarter!

Susan Monaghan - RMH - Library Training Programs

600 staff per year roughly trained in library resources
Essential computer skills - word, excel, powerpoint $
Endnote $
Library databases - free
Developing content and support material
Increased proficiency or efficiency
Bought new PC's with $
Word "library" in inboxes frequently

Helen Shipperlee - SVH - Mental Health Specialist

Mental health champion
Research committee
Psych email - professional research librarian; highly experienced; post grad; background knowledge; save time; make you look good
Fortnightly mental health update
Goes to Jnl club/book club - is visible!

I got the most out of Helen's talk for the day. There were also other presentations but they included me presenting on our Digital Repository and also the launch of the HLI/HLA ROI Report. This meant I spoke in the afternoon also as I was the Health liaison for the report. So it was a huge but highly enjoyable day.

Health Libraries Inc. Conference

Last Friday I headed down to Melbourne for the annual HLI Conference.  As always it was fabulous to catch up with other health library colleagues, to chat to vendors and to head out for a yummy dinner afterwards. There were a few tweets under #HLIConf2012. Here are my notes from the day:

Ilana Jackson - Western Health

Health education strategy
Lit search survey
Dashboard - feedback, lit searches
Marketing - Scholar, Up-to-Date, Discovery services
If you block a tool the user wants they will go elsewhere

Michele Gaca - Heart Foundation

Be visible, involved, relevant
KNOWN - build reputation on timely and quality solutions
Constantly sell your message
Expertise - we can find it, and find it quicker
Quotes from customers

Mary Peterson - SA Health Library Network

Support from clinicians
Go to clinical meetings
High level profile
resources are worth 50cents per hit (etc.)
Cost of individual purchase compared with centralised

Stephen Due - Barwon Health

Empowerment has to include facing up to challenges and problems
Acknowledge you need more - have a prepared plan so you hit the ground running when funds are available
Competition - other libraries (especially academic), CHC, publishers
Need strong web based presence
CLIENT SURVEY
E-books, current deficiency. need critical mass to work. ebrary (proquest, 1000 books), clinical key (800 books)

Ann Ritchie - on marketing

Position. Position. Position.
Perceptions of values.
Communication values.

Sue McKerracher - Re: HLI Survey

IMPACT - what users do with the info you source for them
Quality report to the Board (during May's LIW)
Dollar values - 40 gratis ILL's = 40 x $16.50
Average all hits out. eg. St V is $3 per article. Pay per view is $12-$50.
Insync surveys (about $3000)
Email signature. Words that align with BHS vision

Health Libraries Inc Conference

On Friday October 22^nd I headed to Melbourne’s RACV Club for the 7^th Health Libraries Inc. Conference. It was great to catch up face-to-face with lots of people as I haven’t really made it to many events since I left work last time to have my first bub. Here are my notes from the day…

TROVE : Alison Delit

1 million registered users.

Thousands of volunteers.

20-30 new releases this year.

Wikipedia, Flickr, YouTube search “on the side” – no control.

Should we:

Bulk upload our A-Z journals?

Share old photos on Picture Australia?

Training and Support for Remote Library Users : Jane Ryan

They use WebEx.

Cost, scalability, functionality all things to consider.

DimDim & Yumya – both free but limited.

Should we:

Citrix (which IT may implement here…)

Otherwise who do IT/GRAHnet use? If at all?

KOHA : Marion Steele & Heather Walker

Free open source LMS.

Available in multiple languages.

41 in Australia using – 33 health/medical. Includes ABS and soon to be NT Health.

Appealing features: low cost; web based; simple interface; independence from IT; support; ease/speed of implementation.

Trade offs: some of the above; bugs; authority files incorrect.

ENDNOTE : Jenny Ward

Purchased per PC – approx $500 each.

On shared network drive.

There are free reference management systems available.

Reusable Learning Objects : Sharee Crocker

RLO is information literacy by any other name ie. Electronic; multimedia etc. For instance video clips on YouTube on how to search Deakin Library Catalogue etc.

Captivate and Camtasia are the 2 products they use to “shoot” the clip.

Need Flash; Quicktime; Adobe Reader; MP4: Windows Media Player etc. also…

Library instruction with Screencast Software : Jann Small

Jing – free program. Felt Camtasia was too complex.

Screencasting – same as RLO ie. Information literacy by another means.

These are to be seen as complimentary to face-to-face, not as the main alternative.

Jing can be viewed in web browser, don’t need media players/programs.

5 minutes recording time.

HLI: Drug Information Databases Night 28/4/10

Last month Michelle and I headed down to the HLI: Drug Information Night to learn more about the Therapeutic Guidelines and MIMS. It was great to catch up with everyone as I have been out of the library scene for quite a while. Here are my notes:

Therapeutic Guidelines
New 2010 Palliative Care TG
Roughly 3/13 updated each year.
New Antibiotic TG coming soon
Patient information sheets
Mini TG - application based

MIMS
Image search - shape, number, colour etc.
My doctor - consumer health website
Drug Alert = Drug Interaction
PI = product information ie. full PI/abbreviated PI
CMI = consumer medicines information
MIMS PDA - windows based application, updated with downloads
MIMS mobile - internet based, updated monthly

Health Libraries Inc Dinner

In late Novemeber I headed to Melbourne for the annual HLI Dinner, this time with Michelle. It is great to have another library person up here just to travel up and down that highway with. Plus I was a passenger this time which I love (nice car too!) Anyway, this year Stephen Due of Geelong was awarded the Life Membership and he has done so much for the Health Library Industry since I started that it was most deserving. Again it was also just great to catch up with everyone from the health library world (especially the lovely Laura) (you too Margaret but I saw you not too long ago). I will be back in the loop next year but it was just nice to touch base considering I hadn't seen the majority of them in over a year! Nice food too!!

HLI Conference

(Laura, me and Michelle but not at the HLI Conference but at NLS4)

The 6th HLI conference was once again held at the RACV City Club on Friday October 24th. It was great to go as I hadn't seen my girls (Laura and Michelle) since May. Normally I head down for library events and we catch up every few months but not in 2008! Anyway, I was the MC for the afternoon. I must admit public speaking does get easier. I wasn't nervous at all really. Compared to the first time I chaired a conference session I think I have improved (Well I hope I have anyway!) I enjoyed most of the sessions but I mainly just love to catch up with everyone once a year from across different health libraries. Naturally I always stay on for the dinner too - any chance to socialise. Here are my notes, the theme for the day was The Evolving Library:

Jason Clarke (from www.mindsatwork.com.au)

The idea that information wants to be free.

Less expensive, more expensive

Substitute, combine, magnify, re purpose, adopt, minify, simplify, modify, adapt, rearrange, reconfigure, reverse, eliminate.

He was a wonderful speaker, very motivational.

Jenny Ward (print serials)

Discussed different storage options all which are bloody expensive!

Jill Aron (records management)

Integrating a RM and LMS together.

Interesting that one may need RM skills which are similar but VERY different to library skills.

Marie Anne Slaney (future)

We are a sector - health librarians.

Other health and library professionals look to us.

Key to our professional practice is finding QUALITY information.

How we might work = add value, drive initiatives, share, lead, develop, extend, learn.

Skills you need = business, core IM, health IM, job specific, personal niche.

Richard Sayers (professional development)

ALIA NAC paper on professional development.

Libraries are about people, not books and bytes.

Without people there is no need for libraries.

He left ALIA PD Scheme as a stand that it doesn't encompass or ensure him to undertake PD for accreditation.

Ancora Imparo - "I am still learning".

Still learning in all stages of life.

Breadth and depth of LIS courses (he thinks there are too many library schools).

Thinks we must embrace compulsory PD because if something isn't compulsory it doesn't get done.

PD is compulsory in the UK and NZ.

PD needs to add real demonstrative value to an employer.

Problems = ALIA membership may drop off, hard to co-ordinate, hard for rural/regional members

need transition, cannot happen overnight.

Stephen Due (statistics)

Most article requested are within 5 years of publication.

Most books on loan were published in last 5 years.

Books loans are on the increase.

Print journal copies on the decrease.

New libraries increase library usage so build for people, not collections.

Lisa Kruesi (MLA Cunningham Fellowship)

Patient Informatics Consult Service (PICS) - specifically targeted at patients. The doctor fills in a "lit form" specific to their patients care needs and consumer information is found for the patient.

MyHealth@Vanderbuilt - where patients can log on and look up there own medical records.

Patient Information - Australia

myDR

Aust. Health Directory

National Health Call Centre Network

Cochrane Consumer Network Project

HealthInsite

Jane and Virginia (23 things, web 2.0)

iGoogle - your own Google homepage

HLI Dinner (Life Membership Award)

On Friday July 25th I did head to Melbourne for the HLI Life Membership Award. Kerry Johannes, was the recipient of the 2008 Award. Kerry has contributed in many ways to the development of the Victorian Health Library Sector and to both ALIA and HLI during her lengthy career in Libraries. It was great to hear the citation because as I am relatively "new" to libraries you come to hear about the industry and those who contributed to it before my time. Not to forget of course that the dinner was deliciously and the company superb!

HLI Conference

So on the Friday morning (the 26th) I caught the train in and had my favourite Boost Juice for breakfast and headed to the HLI Conference for a great day of networking with those in health related libraries. Here are my notes from the day:

‘Gen Y’: are they really that different? David Chalke

Single, unmarried, live at home (but will move interstate), take gap years, 1/3 come from broken homes – so they are non-committal.
Very funny presentation but he didn’t ask if there were any Gen Y’s there – like me! My boss had a chuckle though as she said she recognised many of the traits in me!

Wikis for knowledge communities. Bernie Lewin

Gave a general overview. Use them for sharing – a collective mind. Use wikis to nurture, not control.
His talk reminded me that there is so much out there like the discussion page son wikis, forums on Bookmooch. Too many things to be a part of and not enough time – How do you be selective? He reminded me very much of the work my friend Jill does at Urbis.

Delivering the evidence to the client. Terence Harrison

This was about clinical librarianship and the fact that to do this you need to know a little bit about all disciplines (allied health, medicine, nursing, psychiatry etc.). He mentioned databases and resources such as CATMaker, PICO, DARE (UK), DUETS. And the bliki he is working on: www.clinicallibrarian.wordpress.com

So much great information but he whizzed through everything so quickly and we could have learnt so much more. If the presentation was one hour long it would have been better.

Integrating Web 2.O applications into the OPAC. Toby McAleer.

They got all staff (ATO) to do the Learning 2.0 package. Then they split things into phases:

Phase 1: included book covers, chapter descriptions, book summaries (enriched content). And they added single search (federated search option on Sirsi Dynix)

Phase 2: News/RSS Feeds, Wikis, Your own library account etc. All in one page with the catalogue in the middle.

Testing Phase: Tagging (via Library Thing) and Del.ico.us

It reminded me that we should really run an RSS session, but it was also one of those moments where you go ‘Oh – you can do all that because you have the money, the time, the staff and a great ILMS!’. Such is life!

Awards

SLA presented to Stephen Due from Geelong Hospital. I mean the work he has done for use with consortium's is amazing. Definitely well deserved.

Pat Nakouz Award was not awarded as no one applied! Think of a topic!

Feeds and mashups: a healthy diet of live content. Andrew Pentecost.

Mashup – like on Realestate.com where it has Google Maps. (mashing two products together).
He gave a live example which was great as we could easily take this back and add it to our intranet page.

Library 2.0 @ Curtin University Library. Dianna Blackwood

SMS queries. Podcasts. Look up David Rothman blog.

Podcasting is something I definitely want to learn how to do next year!

Austin Health Libraries Survey. Dominique Collins

Was very interesting in that they used consultants but in reality there is no way we could afford to do that. However it looks like they got good results from it!

Reel Librarians. Andrew Rooke and Marijana Bacic

Great way to end the conference by looking at Librarians in film. Good snippets and some really old movies. The only current one mentioned that I haven’t see is Possession (2002). Rent his one!

Dinner

Many headed home after a few drinks but the usual crowd stayed on for dinner. What a great night. Gee I love Margaret from Box Hill and Kathryn from Western is always a great laugh. Not forgetting my trusty sidekicks Michelle and Laura! I caught the train back to mum and dad’s and didn’t get in until gone midnight! What a huge day but an excellent one at that!

Health Libraries Inc: Inaugural Life Membership Award

On Friday night I headed to Melbourne for the presentation of the HLI: Inaugural Life Membership Award. It was at the Charsfield Hotel on St Kilda Road. Very posh!! Well - definitely not the sort of place I frequent!! Andrew Rooke from Monash Medical Centre was the recipient and a long citation followed. What a worthy winner. He has done some amazing things over his library career working both in the USA and Africa and in Victorian medical libraries. not to mention all his work with various professional library associations over the years. The meal was very scrumptious and the conversations interesting. A very enjoyable night and a great chance to catch up with those Melbournites!!