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Letter from the President
Get PDFDear Colleagues,As the trees in Edinburgh are beginning to turn gold and red, it’s pleasant think back to summertime and theconference in Rome! I hope you had a good summer, with holidays and excursions and plenty of fun.Since this issue is focussing on the conference in Rome, I thought it would be a useful exercise to draw on thefeedback that participants sent in, and look at the ideas for topics of future EAHIL events. So, having had a successfulconference in 2014, where do we want to go next
80th IFLA General Conference and Assembly Lyon, France 16-22 August 2014
Get PDFThe theme of this year’s IFLA Conference, held in Lyon between 16 – 22 August, was Libraries, Citizens, Societies:Confluence for Knowledge. I hadn’t thought about its full significance until I arrived in Lyon, the second largest city inFrance after Paris, situated, indeed, at the confluence of two of the largest French rivers: the Rhone and the Saone. Theplace that inspired such a generous theme proved to be not only an excellent venue for the Conference, but it also charmedeveryone with its majestic views over the two rivers, its architecture and beautiful parks, its museums and history goingback to the ancient times, and, not least, the warm and stylish hospitality of its people
The Librarian of the Future
Get PDFWho do you think “Librarians of the Future” are? How would they behave and what would they look like? In my imagination they are like a space hero, a Flash Gordon-like figure with almost magical cyber librarian skills nobody ever has heard of. But hold on – many of us practice such skills already. Every time I listen to some of my colleagues from abroad I’m deeply astonished about the diversity of tasks they perform, the services they have invented, and the kind of non genuine library task they manage. (Maybe that’s the reason why every year I’m more content to be a librarian, and I cannot imagine a more powerful and amazing work.) Let me demonstrate some of the tasks and skills that I have come across
CILIP News - Health Promotion Librarian, a winner in national award
No full textThe Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) Wales is the leading professional body for librarians, information specialists and knowledge managers. The winners were announced at the CILIP Wales Annual Conference on 15 May 2014 in Cardiff.Sue Thomas, Librarian at the Health Promotion Library has won best librarian in the Public Sector category at the recent Chartered Institute of Library and Informational Professionals Wales annual awards.Sue was recognised for her work in bringing health information to the forefront and working in partnership with colleagues in public libraries to shape the health offer across Wales.The judges also recognised her involvement in the Book Prescription Wales Scheme, the Macmillan Library Projects and the Society of Chief Libraries Sub-Group on Health and Wellbeing
Health sciences libraries and public health education awareness in social media platforms
Get PDFInformation sciences in the current social media age cannot be thought of separately from social media platforms. The most popular of these platforms are Facebook and Twitter with regard to free and easy access and use. How can health sciences libraries and medical librarians help the users reach information services using these social media? The principal argument is that academic health sciences libraries should support their users by invoking public health education in social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter. The Koç University School of Nursing Library’s objective is to use Facebook\u27s insight attribute in order to evaluate how many people can reach public health education information using social media. In order to develop our argument, the methodology was defined by analysing our goals and metrics. This study focused on subject titles such as: injections, breast cancer, diabetics, first aid, hypertension, air pollution, infectious diseases, tuberculosis, quit smoking, cervical cancer, birth control, AIDS, etc. and content management tools such as like, share, timeline, photo post. The aim of this analysis was to discuss how medical libraries can use social media efficiently
EAHIL + ICAHIS + ICLC = 2015 Workshop 10-12 June 2015, Edinburgh, Scotland
No full textThe 2015 Workshop is being organised in collaboration with the International Conference of Animal Health Information Specialists (ICAHIS) and the International Clinical Librarian Conference (ICLC).The theme of the Workshop is Research-Minded: understanding, supporting, conducting research,The primary aim of the Workshop is to equip participants with greater understanding of, and practical skills in, research approaches and methods
Report from the Public Health Information Group’s meeting. National Central Library of Rome 14th EAHIL Conference. 11-13 June 2014, Rome
Get PDFThe Public Health Information Group met on the first official day of the conference with the meeting led by the cochairsTomas Allen (WHO, Switzerland) and Sue Thomas (Health Promotion Library Wales) with seventeenparticipants. The countries represented at the meeting were the Czech Republic, Finland, France, Denmark, Italy,Norway, Russia, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. There was a strong representation fromdifferent organisations with different perspectives on public health
EAHIL/EBSCO Scholarships for the Edinburgh Workshop 2015
Get PDFDeadline for applications: 16 January 2015The EAHIL Executive Board is pleased to announce the availability of EAHIL-EBSCO Scholarships to be awarded to worthy individuals to attend the EAHIL Workshop in Edinburgh, Scotland, on 10-12 June 2015. The scholarships, which are partly sponsored by the generous support of EBSCO, will each be 500 euros maximum. The Board hopes to award a minimum of six scholarships, but reserves the right not to award the full number of scholarships if there are insufficient applications of the required standard
The Branch Library of Medicine Münster created a tablet toolbox for embedding mobile digital learning resources into the curriculum
No full textThe Branch Library of Medicine of the University of Münster recently finished the ipad lending projecteasyphysikum, where 250 undergraduates got an iPad Air for loan equipped with every learning ressource to pass the preclinical exams. The project showed, that a digital mobile learning infrastructure represent an added value compared to traditional ways of learning. In May 2015 the library escalated the project to make it available to all students of medicine