Continuing Education Event – Navigating AI in Health Education with Lucas Wright

by | 24 April 2025
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Join HLABC for a free virtual continuing education event exploring artificial intelligence in health education!

Topic: HLABC Presents: Navigating AI in Health Education with Lucas Wright
Time: Apr 30, 2025 1:00-2:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting: https://ubc.zoom.us/j/69635701518?pwd=iyOiBxlJH6fBaPLIb8p6a6qirKhu0o.1
Meeting ID: 696 3570 151
Passcode: 054592

Workshop Description

As generative AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and CoPilot become more common in academic settings, health librarians play an essential role in shaping how these technologies are used in teaching, research, and learning. This interactive session introduces the capabilities and limitations of generative AI in the context of health education.

We’ll explore practical applications for instructional support, research guidance, and digital literacy development, alongside emerging challenges such as data privacy, citation integrity, and bias in health-related content. Participants will engage in hands-on exploration and discussion to consider how librarianship can adapt to, and help shape, the thoughtful use of AI in health-focused educational environments.

Facilitator Bio

Lucas Wright is a Senior Educational Consultant at the University of British Columbia’s Centre for Teaching, Learning, and Technology. He has over 15 years of experience supporting faculty, staff, and librarians in educational innovation, with a particular focus on emerging technologies. Lucas has led more than 40 workshops on generative AI in higher education and co-developed UBC’s Generative AI Student Readiness Assessment. His current work explores the ethical use of AI, digital literacy, and the evolving role of educators and librarians in a rapidly changing technological landscape.

SAVE THE DATE! – December 5th, 2024, 12-12:45pm – Winter Social Event

by | 14 November 2024
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Poster for "Lightning Books," a social event to share book recommendations.

Join your HLABC colleagues for Lightning Books – a fun online social event to share reading recommendations!

Thursday December 5, 12:00 – 12:45pm

  • Choose 1 – 2 favourite books you’ve read in the past year and email hlabcexec@gmail.com the titles by December 2
  • Present a quick 1 – 2 minute book review at our event
  • Make note of all those books you want to read!

Books can be any genre. This is just for fun personal reading. No medical texts allowed! (Unless you really do read those for fun…)

If you don’t want to present any books, that’s totally fine. Feel free to attend to socialize and hear about some great reads.

Those who present a book are eligible to win an eGift card.

Meeting invite will be sent closer to the event date. Hope to see you there!

Continuing Education Event – Cultivating Culturally Safe Collections

by | 14 March 2024
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In collaboration with the Consumer Health Special Interest Group (CHSIG) of the Canadian Health Libraries Association (CHLA), the HLABC Executive team is excited to invite you to our Spring CE Event:

Zoom Webinar: Cultivating Culturally Safe Collections

Presented by: 

Jessie Loyer

Indigenous Engagement Librarian

University of Alberta

When: Wednesday April 10, 2024, 11am-12pm PST / 2-3pm EST

Where: Zoom (link emailed to hlabc listserv)

Jessie is a Cree-Metis Librarian who has published and presented in various areas of Indigenous Health, including collections work, reference, and information literacy. She has graciously agreed to present a Zoom webinar on this topic for our HLABC & CHSIG members.

This workshop will dive into systemic issues, and offer guidance for librarians doing collections work. I know this will be of great interest to members and we are so grateful to have Jessie take some time out of her schedule to join us.

Workshop Content:

The workshop will essentially address two main components of this work:

The System Component:

  • A discussion of the healthcare structure Indigenous patients currently have to navigate to access information and care

The Practical Component:

  • How we as librarians navigate our own collections, the gaps we need to address, and how to incorporate this into our own work.

If  you have questions or comments, please send them to prubjot.gill@ubc.ca or hlabcexec@gmail.com, or to pamela.harrison@cw.bc.ca. 

EVENT & MEETING – May 25, 2023 – HLABC AGM CE

by | 20 April 2023
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The HLABC Executive Team would like to invite you to HLABC’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) that will take place virtually on Thursday, May 25th from 9:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

Please register for your attendance to the AGM and/or the Continuing Education (CE) event by Friday, May 12th 2023. Please note a reminder email will follow.

RSVP here: https://forms.gle/rqHLTJC3ZH49E3Hq7

The AGM will adhere to the following schedule:

If you have questions, suggestions, or items for the agenda – we want to hear from you! Please send all communication to hlabcexec@gmail.com.

EVENT – Spring Social

by | 16 March 2023
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The HLABC exec is planning a social event, our first in-person event since 2019! 

Join us for curling on Friday, April 21 from 5:40pm-9:30pm at the Vancouver Curling Club. Training and equipment will be provided, and light refreshments served after.

There are only 16 places available, so please RSVP  with the Executive to register.