CHLA 2015 Conference Contributed papers / ABSC Congrés 2014 Communications libres

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Creative and Imaginative Searching: Health Science Librarians’ Strategies and Barriers to Providing Good Service Jill McTavish Clinical Librarian, London Health Sciences Centre, London, ON Background: Proponents of evidence-informed medicine (EIM) from the ‘caring’ professions, such as nursing and social work, are increasingly critiquing narrow interpretations of evidence-based practice (EBP). Everyday Life Health Information Seeking Research: Mapping the Literature Devon Greyson Information Specialist and Doctoral Candidate, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC Introduction: Following the wave of changes to health information access brought by the consumer health movement and the development of the World Wide Web, librarians and information scientists have increasingly recognized the importance of everyday life information seeking (ELIS). The Need for Standards for Literature Searching in Health Libraries Brooke Ballantyne Scott, Susan Baer, Marcus Vaska, Jackie MacDonald, Lori W. Léger, Ashley Farrell, and Pat Lee Librarian, Royal Columbian Hospital, New Westminster, BC; Director of Libraries & Archives, Regina Qu’Appelle Health Region, Regina, SK; Librarian, Knowledge Resource Service, Holy Cross Centre, Alberta Health Services, Calgary, AB; Privacy Officer, Annapolis Valley Health and South Shore Health, Kentville & Bridgewater, NS; Regional Manager, Horizon Health Network, Fredericton, NB; Research Associate, Cancer Care Ontario, Toronto, ON; Retired Health Librarian, Halifax, NS Introduction: Seeing the need for shared health services library standards for consistency within our own multi-site services, for teaching health librarianship, and for quality improvement indicator development, a group of Canadian librarians formed a “standards working group”. Social Media Use in Medical and Health Professional Education: Role of the Librarian on a Faculty Steering Committee Natalie Clairoux and Rhoda Weiss-Lambrou Biomedical Librarian, Universitè de Montrèal, Montreal, PQ; Professor of Occupational Therapy at the School of Rehabilitation, Faculty of Medicine, Universitè de Montrèal, Montreal, PQ Objective: An interprofessional steering committee was created at Universitè de Montrèal’s Faculty of Medicine to examine how social media are integrated in medical and health professional education in universities across the globe, and to propose a strategic plan for integrating social media in the Faculty’s various curricula.