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.

Continuing Education Event – March 30, 2023 : Selecting and Using Data Extraction Tools for Systematic Reviews

by | 16 February 2023
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The Executive team is excited to invite you to another live session of an MLA CE Webinar. Based off your feedback from the HLABC 2022-2023 Membership Survey, most respondents desire live online CE events on topics including systematic and scoping reviews. To accommodate these preferences, HLABC will pay for current members to attend the upcoming MLA CE Webinar, Selecting and Using Data Extraction Tools for Systematic Reviews. Abbreviated details on this session can be found below, and for full event information including presenter bio, please click the event title link above.

If you cannot make it to the live session and wish to view the recording of the webinar and receive CE credit, please register below.

Register here!

By registering, HLABC will provide you with a unique access code

to view the live webinar or the recorded webinar and claim MLA CE credit.

Please register no later than Friday, March 15, 2023.

Selecting and Using Data Extraction Tools for Systematic Reviews
Date of Live Event: March 30, 1:00 p.m.–2:30 p.m., central time (11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m., pacific time). Recording available soon after.

You’ll learn what data extraction tools are and how they work. You’ll explore ways to identify tools using the SR Toolbox, a free online catalog of systematic review tools. You’ll see how to classify tools based on their features and capabilities and gain an overview of the pluses and minuses of commonly used tools (e.g., EPPI Reviewer, Covidence, PICO Portal, as well as Word and Excel, and, of course, SRDR+). Data extraction tool development and refinement is ongoing, and if you understand how to use and evaluate tools, you’ll be able to monitor the literature and use the SR Toolbox to find new tools.

You’ll also learn what to consider when comparing and choosing a tool, incorporating team preferences, the review topic, and team needs. During the session, you’ll work through exercises to define a team’s needs based on cost, usability, product support, and what a team wants from a tool (e.g., flexibility or a prescribed approach, data extraction only or integration with literature identification and meta-analysis).

You’ll end the webinar with a group exercise in SRDR+ that includes designing a simple data extraction form and extracting a single randomized controlled trial into that form.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:

·         Find data extraction tools using the SR Toolbox

·         Describe the structure of data extraction tools and list common tool limitations

·         Advise teams on the selection of a data extraction tools

·         Design an extraction form

·         Perform a basic extraction in SRDR+

Do you have questions or comments, please send them to hlabcexec@gmail.com.