Open Space

- how to we make us (libraries, library staff) relevant to the people we are hired to serve?
- we seem to focus a lot on information-seeking and service from the library desk when we need to focus on getting out from the desk

Actions:

Leader:  Connie Winther

-importance of reference interview for meeting consumer health needs
-growing demand for consumer health resources
-‘expiry date’ of resources once they are developed
-lack of coordination of resources available throughout the province 
-lack of awareness of resources available throughout the province
-availability of foundation funding for pediatric projects

Actions:

-connections to be made between appropriate persons in Calgary & Edmonton to distribute information through AHS

Participants:  Connie Winther, Soleil Surette, Connie Bolding  

Leader:  Joanne Marshall

-Knowledge Transfer
-How to decide on new roles - can I do it? How to make time - ask: is the role critical to institution?
-Going upstream to where your users are
-New gov't initiatives - people pay attention to those things. (We should too)
-Partner with outgoing ppl in your institution to champion your elevator speech.
-Welcoming change - youtube lectures m. Wesch. The info revolution: vision of today's students. Glean ideas from these types of videos
-Don't let the "turkeys" get you down: look at the glass as half-full, not half-empty. We are all faced with these challenges that may be scary, but they are also full of opportunities. 

- inequitable access within province to health resources depending on one's role (alumni of university, affiliation with hospital, with university, etc.) or association with institution/professional association
- confusing for librarians, and for users!
- licensing
- negotiating would be difficult...discuss what is the greater good; win/win situations

Actions:

- identify barriers to province-wide access
- talk to vendors about licensing

Participants:  Unknown

Roles may change and be ever-expanding. But we may also work ourselves out of a job. The pace of change depends so much on the environment, e.g. hospitals may be slow to change, whereas universities may quickly adopt technology.

Participants:  Unknown 

- getting different groups together who are doing the same thing
- Librarians often know what is going on in the organization - can see a bigger picture
- Confidentiality can be an issue (esp. with companies, e.g. pharmaceutical)

Participants:  Unknown 

-English/French language because of translation of surveys and data
-Good Quality Patient Care, other languages useful
-Connection with Public Libraries; carrying other language materials
-referrals and translations
-Better information POV, connect to professional
-union of health care and patient information
-diversify - work with translator/diversity
-reach out to community
-link to patient with diversity/translator

Participants:  Unknown 

-e-learning for nurses
-intellectual property issues in e-learning creation 
-Micromedex vs. Lexi-Comp 

Participants:  Susan Baer, Neera Bhatnagar, Jackie MacDonald

-presence of a librarian made them realize a search was possible quick
-academic different than clinical?
-different needs of users/situational
-learner anxiety 
-learners are uncertain, librarians are teachers
-critical incidents make clinicians uncertain - need to learn
 
Participants:  Jennifer, Penka, Grace, Laura, Liz, Beth, Charlotte, Vivian