CE Courses
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
- EBM & the Medical Librarian
- Effective Training Design: Teaching with Technology
- Copyright Essentials
Saturday, February 26, 2011
- Measuring Your Impact: Using Evaluation for Library Advocacy
- Managing Information Overload by Building "Places of our Own"
Detailed Class Information
EBM & the Medical Librarian
Instructor: Connie Schardt
Location: Parc 55 Hotel
Time: 9am to 4pm
This class is an introduction for medical librarians to the practice of evidence-based medicine (EBM). EBM (also called evidence based practice) combines clinical expertise, the preferences and values of the patient, and the best available evidence to make good patient care decisions.
This course will focus on understanding the skills needed to practice EBM, such as how to formulate relevant questions, how to efficiently search the medical literature and how to evaluate the evidence for validity. The course will also discuss the roles that librarians can play to support EBM.
After completing this class, participants should be able to:
- Identify and explain the EBM cycle
- Identify the parts of a well-built clinical question
- Formulate search strategies from the well-built clinical question
- Identify the basic criteria for judging the validity of studies for therapy and systematic reviews
- Identify at least three roles that librarians can undertake in providing EBM training and support to health care professionals
Effective Training Design: Teaching with Technology
Instructors: Kay Deeney / Sharon Dennis
Location: UCSF Library
Time: 9am to 1pm
This course will acquaint attendees with information about using technology and social networking tools for teaching in person and distance learning courses. We will discuss options and best practices for asynchronous and synchronous distance classes, as well as “blended” classes that offer both in-person and online options. Adult learning principles will be reviewed. We will examine and discuss examples of using social networking software in teaching (for instance, blogs, wikis, Twitter), as well as hardware that can be used during in-person classes (for example, Audience Response Systems (ARS) and student monitoring software).
Copyright Essentials
Instructor: Jan Carmikle
Location: Parc 55 Hotel
Time: 1pm to 5pm
This workshop provides basic information on copyrights – what they are, who owns them, and for how long - and how they fit in with the typical needs of an educational community. You won't leave as a copyright lawyer, but you will have a better sense of how copyrights work.
The goal of the course is to provide a basic framework on copyright law for librarians to use in their daily work obtaining and sharing copyright-protected materials. With a better understanding of copyright law, librarians will be more likely to recognize and address situations requiring copyright compliance before problems arise. Following this workshop participants will:
- Understand the distinction between the four intellectual properties
- Identify the copyrights, what materials are eligible for copyright protection, how to obtain copyright protection, and how long it lasts.
- Know how to protect one’s own copyrights.
- Know when a license is needed for someone else’s copyrights and how to obtain one, with particular emphasis on library-unique exceptions.
- Be familiar with the complications of the Internet on the world of copyrights, such as peer-to-peer file sharing.
- Understand copyright-related concern in the content of images.
- Know some online resources for further information.
Measuring Your Impact: Using Evaluation for Library Advocacy
Instructors: Susan Barnes / Alan Carr
Location: Parc 55 Hotel
Time: 9am to 4pm
Library users and stakeholders will recognize and value the importance of their library's services and of the librarian to the organization. That is the ultimate goal of this six-hour workshop. The outcome for the class is that librarians will be able to show the value of their library's services. Participants will become familiar with an evaluation process and will use and take away methods and tools for assessment, evaluation planning, creating logic models, data collection, data analysis and reporting. The workshop will feature group exercises that move participants through the steps of an evaluation process. There will also be student discussion and exercises in addition to lecture.
Managing Information Overload by Building "Places of our Own"
Instructor: William Jones
Location: Parc 55 Hotel
Time: 1pm to 5pm
Information scattered and disorganized can overwhelm. The same information organized can be a thing of utility and even beauty. How then do we manage "information overload"? We ignore or eliminate information at our peril. Better is an approach that seeks to organize our information and our interactions with this information in accordance with the roles we mean to fulfill in our lives and the goals we wish to achieve. This is the point of personal information management or PIM. In this course, you will learn about PIM and how it can be applied in your life. The course will include a hands-on segment during which you will identify and refine a personal unifying taxonomy (PUT). Your PUT provides a basis for "placing" and organizing the information you need to lead the live the life you want to live.