Join us for our November meeting of the THLA Journal Club

Tuesday, 25 November 2014 from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

We will start gathering at Pizzeria Via Mercanti at 5:30 (discussion of the article of choice will begin closer to 6:00).

Here is a Google map of the venue located @ 87 Elm Street

Kathryn Tippell-Smith will lead our discussion of:

The Use of Google Trends in Health Care Research: A Systematic Review Sudhakar V. Nuti, Brian Wayda, Isuru Ranasinghe, Sisi Wang, Rachel P. Dreyer, Serene I. Chen, Karthik Murugiah
PLOS ONE Published: October 22, 2014 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0109583.

All you have to do is read the article, form some opinions about it, and come for some great food, ready to talk.

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 PDF.

We hope you can make it!

Please RSVP so we make reservations for the right number of people.

Come celebrate Hallowe’en with us on Monday October 20th as we take a walking tour of The Haunted Streets of Downtown Toronto

The tour begins at 7 p.m. outside the east doors of the Royal Ontario Museum. Here is a map to where we’ll be meeting. The tour takes about two hours, is conducted entirely outdoors (dress warm!) and concludes just east of Yonge and Dundas streets. The start and stop of the tour are conveniently located near subway stations for easier travel.

Feel free to bring friends or co-workers as this event is open to members and non-members.

The cost of the tour is $11.00. If you still want to register, contact Muddy York Tours and reserve your spot.

Join us for our fourth meeting of the THLA Journal Club

Wednesday September 24th from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

We will start gathering at Harvest 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 @ 124 Harbord Street

Sheila Lacroix will lead our discussion of:

Information-seeking behavior and the use of online resources: a snapshot of current health sciences faculty. Sandra L. De Groote, MLIS, AHIP, Mary Shultz, MS, AHIP, and Deborah D. Blecic, MLS, AHIP
J Med Libr Assoc. Jul 2014; 102(3): 169–176.

All you have to do is read the article, form some opinions about it, and come for some great food, ready to talk.

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 PDF.

We hope you can make it!

Please RSVP so we make reservations for the right number of people.

Please join us for our first Summer Patio Social

No articles to read or questions to answer just drinks and nibbles on the patio at The Bedford Academy.

Come out and meet other THLA members in a relaxed social atmosphere.

The Bedford Academy is located at 36 Prince Arthur Ave. We will begin gathering at 5:30.

This event is free for members but guest tickets are $10.00 at the door.

Don’t forget to register below we can make reservations for the right amount of people.

2014 THLA Scholarship Prize Winner – Katherine Southon

The THLA awards a scholarship prize of $250.00 every year to the University of Toronto iSchool student who achieves the highest grade in INF2135H Health Sciences Information Resources. This years winner is Katherine Southon and is pictured below receiving the award from Sandy Iverson at this year’s convocation.

Information Meeting – September 25, 2014

The 2016 MLA/CHLA/ABSC/ICLC Joint Conference will be held in Toronto May 13-18, 2016.  Members of the planning committee will be visiting Toronto this September. The Local Arrangements Committee (or LAC) is an important part of a successful conference and is made up of 6 subcommittees: Publicity and Promotion; Restaurant Guide Production; Library Tours; Blog/Facebook Correspondent; Hospitality Information Booth and Volunteer Assistance. Sub-committee Chairs must be either CHLA or MLA members but other volunteers, while encouraged to have memberships, are not required to.

If you are interested in joining the LAC, you are invited to a meeting with members of the planning committee on September 25, 2014.  The meeting will begin at 8:30 a.m. and includes breakfast.  It will continue with a tour of the convention centre, and then move on to a discussion about the committee responsibilities.  Lunch will be served and the meeting should be over by 2 p.m. 
 
For more information, or to RSVP for the September 25 meeting, please contact Jeff Mason jeff.mason@rqhealth.ca

The Toronto Health Library Association (THLA) and Health Science Information Consortium of Toronto (HSICT) co-hosted a free educational event on June 11 2014 about mobile resources called You CAN Take it With You

Participants had the opportunity to learn from experienced mobile resource creators about what goes in to developing, rolling out and evaluating mobile apps, and a chance to try out a variety of mobile devices in the Petting Zoo.

Keynote:

Michelle Hamilton Page
Manager, Social Media at CAMH.

Michelle Hamilton-Page, the Manger for Social Media at CAMH, gave a very interesting talk about mobile health information resources / interventions she has been involved in creating, considerations in deciding to create a mobile resource and what kind of mobile resource, and answered questions from the audience.

Panel:

Our panel discussed apps that they have developed, why they wanted to create them, three very different development processes and the outcomes for the new apps, and answered audience questions.

Our panelists were:

Ronald MacPherson, MLIS
University Health Network; a developer for ‘FCR: Find Cancer Resources’ & ‘FRR: Find Rehab Resources’ (upcoming)

Marisa Cicero, MSW & Amanda Hignell, MSW
St. Michael’s Hospital; developers for the ‘My Baby and Me Passport’ app

Melanie Yeung, MHSc
Centre for Global eHealth Innovation; a developer of ‘bant’ and ‘Medly’.

iPads, iPhones, and Android and Windows devices were available to ‘play’ with, having been loaded with a selection of health and medical apps. Participants had the opportunity to compare devices and apps and to consider app evaluation criteria from several sources.

Big thanks to all of our speakers, the organizing committee, everyone who participated, and to CHLA/ABSC for the grant that allowed us to record the presentations!

Mobile Apps Video 1

Mobile Apps Video 2

Please join us for our third meeting!

Monday, 7 July 2014 from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

We will start gathering at the U of T Faculty Club , located at 41 Willcocks Street at 5:30 p.m. (discussion of the article of choice will begin closer to 6:00 p.m.)

Sandy Iverson will lead our discussion of:

Effects of librarian-provided services in healthcare settings: a systematic review

Perrier L, et al. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association 2014;0:1–7.

All you have to do is read the article, form some opinions about it, and come for some great food, ready to talk

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 PDF below.

We hope you can make it!

THLA Journal Club Assessment PDF

Thanks, and we hope to see you there!

Register here so we can make reservations for the right number of people!

Please join us on May 28th for this year’s Annual General Meeting

This year’s guest speaker will be Dr. Paul Uy from St. Michael’s hospital.

Dr. Uy will be taking on the intriguing topic of:

Anthropogenic climate change and psychiatry: Exploring consequences,
relationships and possibilities

Location:

Hank’s

9 1/2 Church Street

See what’s on the menu here!

Tickets:

• Member: $40
• Non-member: $50
• Retired: $20
• Students: $20
• Under-employed: $20

RSVP for this event here and pay by using our special AGM PayPal button below.

Reception begins at 5:00 p.m. The AGM, which includes voting for a new President-Elect and changes to the THLA constitution (see boxes on the right for details) starts at 5:40 p.m. Dinner and Speaker at 6:00 p.m.

Paul Uy is currently a third year Psychiatry Resident at the University of Toronto, on rotation at St. Michael’s Hospital in Geriatric Psychiatry. Paul earned a Bachelor’s of Health Sciences at McMaster University and is a graduate of Queen’s Medical School.

Driven by a curiosity for how we know and relate to others and sensitivity to the interdependence between individuals, communities, societies and ecology, Paul seeks to consider the perspectives offered by science, the humanities and spiritual practice in order to guide his practice in a complex and dynamic world on the precipice of disruption and possibility.

Topic: Anthropogenic Climate Change and Psychiatry: Exploring consequences, relationships and possibilities

Dr. Uy will explore his thoughts and findings from the literature on this novel, probably unexplored concept. Anthropogenic climate change is the cumulative result of human production and consumption, activities that are organized by social structures dependent on a consensus regarding the nature of life by individual minds. Such interactions also determine the nature and interventions available to mental illness.

Paul will attempt to draw connections between the parallels and direct links between globalized capitalism and the current culture of psychiatry, proposing that psychiatry as situated in an exploration of the mind as well as shaped by social/economic forces, has within its controversies an opportunity to facilitate a crucial conversation about how we understand and live our lives among others and in the world.