Thursday, October 09, 2008

Health information

The presentations from the IFLA Health and Biosciences Libraries Section Satellite Session: Libraries without borders: Navigating towards global understanding at the
World Library and Information Congress: in Canada in August are online.
They include: Development of an information skills training delivered to staff of the Centre of Health and Social Services of the Grand Littoral; Where do I start… Training non-medical librarians and technicians in the how and what of medical resources and evidence; Making the case for librarian-mediated searching in academic health libraries; 3-Step Plan to Review and Renew Evidence-based Information-Seeking Skills; Information Overload and Information Poverty: Do they impair healthcare services managers’ effectiveness?; Information use behavior of clinicians of Evidence based medicine (EBM) process in Thailand; Distinguished users: an experience of the Information literacy on the health system (Cuba)
http://www.mlanet.org/resources/global/ifla_hbs2008.html
Photo by Sheila Webber: Sheffield, October 2008

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