Two conferences in this field. Firstly, the Cochrane Collaboration (the key collaboration on evidence in the health sector) has its Colloquium in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, on 3-7 October 2008. Events of particular interest to information professionals are highlighted on teh website at http://www.colloquium.info/ (I’m having trouble with that link, but there is brief info [...]
As I mentioned in a previous post, I was at the Science in the 21st Century conference at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Ontario for the week of September 8th. The conference location was terrific. The PI’s building is a great site for a small conference, the food in the Black Hole [...]
General statement of duties: Collection management responsibilities for the selection and management of periodicals and electronic databases/services and assisting with processing and providing references services for the various collections that comprise the Special Collection departmentSupervision received: Reports to the Library DirectorSupervision exercised: Supervision of 1 library assistant and 1-5 student assistantsDetailed statement of duties:1. Responsible [...]
Thanks to Vivienne Bernath for emailing me about a study that researched the impact of an episode of Grey’s anatomy on people’s knowledge about HIV and pregnancy. Interesting when discussing health information literacy and/or the impact of broadcast media (and Web 2.0 – it emerged that people were blogging about the episode too). There is [...]
International School of GenevaGeneva, SwitzerlandSeeks for beginning January 2009HEAD LIBRARIAN/LIBRARY MEDIA SPECIALISTThe library media specialist has a working knowledge of child development, teaching strategies and learning styles and is responsible for helping students develop the knowledge, skills, and attitude to become effective, self-directed, life-long learners. The successful candidate will model the IB learner profile, possess [...]
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