UB Technology Park Breakfast : Ballarat Cancer Research Centre

Back in August I headed out (early) to UB Technology Park to hear George Kannourakis speak about the current research happenings at the Ballarat Cancer Research Centre.

It was great to go for a few reasons. Firstly I got to meet George face-to-face. This was nice because I am on our HREC at work and we review all of the Ballarat Cancer Centre documents. So putting a face to a name was great. Secondly I got to hear about this magnificent resource in the heart of Ballarat. So inspiring. The history of the Centre is amazing and the current work is potentially life changing.  Just a fabulous talk :)

CHC in Melbourne

Back in August I headed down to the new Royal Children's Hospital for a meeting with other librarian's about the Clinician's Helath Channel. It was lovely to catch up with folk as I rarely get down for events.

The best thing to come out of the meeting (apart from seeing the new hospital and the meerkats) was that Ebsco got another year's extension on the CHC contract so in the interim nothing will change. I don't mind chnage but at the minute I seem to have enough to cope with already!

Doodle meeting scheduler

This was just bough to my attention as we are trying to organise a meeting where everyone can make it. It's pretty cool.

http://www.doodle.ch/main.html

How does Doodle work?
Create a poll.
Forward the link to the poll to the participants.
Follow online what the participants vote for.

Just another one of those technologies that is meant to make life easier for us all!! But, I must admit - very simple to participate, not sure about setting it up though.