Join us on Thursday April 9th at Marché Brookfield Place for the 2015 THLA Annual General Meeting and Dinner!
This year’s guest speaker is award winning science journalist Dan Falk, who will be speaking about his new book The Science of Shakespeare Copies of the book will be available for purchase at the event.
Join us for our March meeting at Brownstone Bistro on Tuesday, March 17.
Here is a map to the venue located @ 603 Yonge St. (between Bloor and Wellesley)
We will start gathering at at 5:30 p.m. and discussion of the article of choice will begin closer to 6:00 p.m.
Bridget Morant will lead our discussion of:
Peer-teaching of evidence-based medicine Clin Teach. 2014 Jul;11(4):259-63. doi: 10.1111/tct.12144.
**Please note: this is not an Open-Access journal. If you do not have a subscription please take steps to Inter Library Loan with enough time to read the article before the meeting.
All you have to do is read the article, form some opinions about it, and come for some great food, ready to talk.
Please RSVP:
To help you informally appraise the methods and findings of the study, we have put together a list of questions you can use (if you like) for most articles – with no math required! Just download and print this THLA Journal Club Assessment Sheet PDF.
We look forward to seeing you there!
HURRY – THE DEADLINE IS APPROACHING!The THLA needs a new President-Elect. This is a great opportunity to meet fellow librarians and help plan activities that include social events and CE credits. Although a three year commitment is required you can be a part of a growing organization of health librarians in Toronto. Come lend us your talents and be a leader in your field.
You can nominate yourself or a colleague (written consent of the nominee is required) and include the names and contact information of two THLA members.
Send in your nominations by Midnight March 1, 2015. If you have any questions or would like to send in a nomination, please contact the Nominations and Elections Committee by emailing either: president@thla.ca
past_president@thla.ca
In 2016 Toronto will host the joint conference of the Medical Libraries Association and the Canadian Health Libraries Association/Association des bibliotheques de la santé du Canada.
The Publicity and Promotion Subcommittee of the Local Assistance Committee needs to get up and running soon!
If you are interested in working on promotional materials and activities for the 2016 conference, please send an email to:
Sandy Iverson,
Publicity & Promotion Subcommittee
iversons@smh.ca.
Prior experience not required, but please indicate if you have any previous experience or talents in promotion/marketing; materials production; etc.
The THLA needs a new President-Elect. This is a great opportunity to meet fellow librarians and help plan activities that include social events and CE credits. Although a three year commitment is required you can be a part of a growing organization of health librarians in Toronto. Come lend us your talents and be a leader in your field.
You can nominate yourself or a colleague (written consent of the nominee is required) and include the names and contact information of two THLA members.
Send in your nominations by March 1, 2015. If you have any questions or would like to send in a nomination, please contact the Nominations and Elections Committee by emailing either: president@thla.ca
past_president@thla.ca
Tuesday, 13 January 2015 from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
We will start gathering at Lola’s Kitchen at 5:30 (discussion of the article of choice will begin closer to 6:00).
Here is a Google map of the venue located @ 634 Church Street
Ani Orchanian-Cheff will lead our discussion of: will lead our discussion of:
How Feedback Biases Give Ineffective Medical Treatments a Good Reputation
Eysenbach G, ed. De Barra M, Eriksson K, Strimling P.
PLOS ONE Published: October 22, 2014 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0109583.
Journal of Medical Internet Research 2014;16(8):e193. doi:10.2196/jmir.3214.
All you have to do is read the article, form some opinions about it, and come for some great food, ready to talk.
If you are interested, Ani has provided an optional supplementary reading:
The Demise of Bloodletting.
Thomas, D.P.
J R Coll Physicians Edinb. 2014;44(1):72-7. doi: 10.4997/JRCPE.2014.117. PMID: 24995453
To help you informally appraise the methods and findings of the study, we have put together a list of questions you can use (if you like) for most articles – with no math required! Just download and print the THLA Journal Club Assessment Sheet PDF.
We hope you can make it! Please RSVP here so we make reservations for the right number of people.
On December 10th the Consumer Health Information Providers Interest Group (CHIPIG) held a Continuing Education session. Christine Marton, Adjunct Instructor at the Faculty of Information, University of Toronto spoke on:
Web Presence of Hospital-Based Consumer Health Information Collections in the GTA.
You can watch the webcast here The presentation starts around the four minute mark.
Also, if you missed the September CE session:
Recommending Health Websites that Respect Consumer Privacy: How are We Doing and What Can We do Better?
It can be viewed here. The September meeting included the AGM. If you don’t want to watch the AGM, the presentation starts at about the 25 minute mark.
Did you know that until June 2015 all CHLA members receive free membership to CHIPIG? See what they’re about here and enjoy the benefits of membership!
This free one-day online conference is aimed at librarians from small libraries; the smaller the better. Small libraries of all types – public, academic, school, museum, special, etc. – are encouraged to submit a proposal.
SLA Toronto Chapter, the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Information Alumni Association (FIAA), Toronto Health Libraries Association (THLA) and Ontario Library Association Special Libraries Committee (OLA-SLC) cordially invite you to this year’s Joint Holiday Social.
This event is being held at the Arts and Letters Club located at 14 Elm Street (just north of Dundas Street subway station on Yonge St.) @ 6:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m.
Here is a map to the location including parking.
Registration for this event can be made at the SLA website and closes December 5, 2014 at midnight.
48-hour notice must be provided to receive a refund. If you register but do not attend, you will still be asked to provide the registration fee (with the exception of extenuating circumstances.)
Questions or comments? Contact the registrar for this event, Kristina Fry at kristina.m.fry@gmail.com
This event has been generously sponsored by: andornot, Dow Jones (Factiva), Elsevier, and Wolters Kluwer (OVID).
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