Trick or treat! You are invited to HLABC’s frightfully fun fall event. Join us on Friday, October 28 for an hour of virtual Halloween Trivia.
WHEN: Friday, October 28, 12pm – 1pm PST
WHERE: Online via Zoom – Email Executive for the link
Prizes and Bragging rights are up for the winners!
The HLABC Executive Board is pleased to announce that Dr. Zahra Premji will be presenting this year’s Continuing Education class which will directly follow the Annual General Meeting (AGM) on Monday, May 16th – please see details below.
Register for the CE here: HLABC AGM CE Registration
Please register by Wednesday, May 11th. A reminder message will follow.
CE title:From E to S in ES: A pathway from Exploratory to Systematic searching using seed articles
Date:
Monday, May 16 2:30 – 4:00 pm PST via Zoom
About the CE presenter:
Zahra Premji is currently the Health Research Librarian at University of Victoria. She is passionate about rigour and reproducibility in evidence synthesis methods, and has supported evidence synthesis in a variety of disciplines since 2016. She is also the incoming co-convener of the ACRL Evidence Synthesis Methods Interest Group.
About the CE:
In this CE session, Dr. Zahra Premji will lead the group in exploring the process for creating a systematic search which starts with exploratory searches and seed articles.
This session will cover:
– The role, value, and process of exploratory searching with the goal of finding a set of seed articles
– A structured process for mining the seed articles to identify searchable concepts, keywords and subject headings
– Creating and testing systematic searches
Do you have questions or comments? Please respond via email to hlabcexec@gmail.com. We look forward to hearing from you!
The HLABC Exec is pleased to announce that our website has been updated and refreshed!
Our goal with the website redesign was to make our website more useful and easy to navigate for our members, enhance connection with our members, and to update our content and resources. To that end, on the updated website you will find changes to our menus to make them more intuitive, updated links and social media accounts to follow, and a new logo!
We hired Emma Metcalfe Hurst, third year MASLIS graduate student at the UBC iSchool enrolled in the First Nations Concentration Curriculum (FNCC) to complete this project. To review her other work and to get in touch, visit her e-portfolio here: https://blogs.ubc.ca/emmametcalfehurst/.
Emma graciously prepared and narrated the video below that walks you through all of the different changes the website has gone through. We hope that you find the website easier to navigate and more useful as a resource.
Dear HLABC Members,
Happy New Year of the Tiger!
Date: March 4, 2022
Time: 9:30am – 10:30am (PST)
Location: Online via Zoom
Don’t forget, you must be an HLABC member to register!
To become an HLABC member or to renew your membership, simply go to http://hlabc.chla-absc.ca/membership/join-hlabc/. It just takes a minute to renew!
PIease contact hlabcexec@gmail.com for the Zoom link.
We hope to see you there!
Going Grey with Google Scholar for Systematic Reviews
Live! Wednesday, November 17th, 2021 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. PST – Sign Up here!
About the MLA Webinar
Google Scholar is a frequently cited grey literature source in knowledge syntheses and other searches, but it’s not always easy to identify the grey literature types you can find there. Sarah Bonato, MLA resident expert on all things Google Scholar and grey, will show you how to identify all the types of grey literature available in Google Scholar.
You’ll also learn from Sarah advanced search techniques that help you locate just what you want, and, because every database has limitations, you’ll learn about alternative sources of grey literature. You’ll leave the webinar prepared to do your own grey literature searches on Scholar and to advise review team members on using Google Scholar as a source of grey literature.
Learning Outcomes
At the end of the webinar, participants will be able to:
– Describe the types of grey literature available in Google Scholar
– Use search techniques to locate grey literature in Google Scholar
– Assist research teams in deciding to use Google Scholar in searches
– Modify complex database searches search to find grey literature
– Explain the value of using Google Scholar compared to other methods for finding grey literature
– Document a Google Scholar search for grey literature
Audience
Librarians and information professionals who provide or want to provide guidance on searching. Prior searching experience is helpful, but not required.
Presenter
Sarah Bonato is the lead reference services and research services librarian at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto, ON. She is a co-author of more than 10 systematic reviews/guidelines and the author of Searching the Grey Literature: A Handbook for Searching Reports, Working Papers, and Other Unpublished Research.