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Course Description

Climate change has sometimes been described as ‘everything change’: its implications are wide-ranging across society, including for healthcare and its associated information services. Measuring or estimating the carbon emissions of digital infrastructure is challenging, and currently the methods and resources to do so are often lacking. The choices we make always have ethical dimensions, especially in our interconnected world, where exposure to climate impacts is unevenly distributed. An appreciation of essential concepts and issues will help health information professionals to make informed judgments within their local contexts, to develop and share best practices, and where necessary to flag up obstacles and advocate for institutional policy changes.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:

• Understand the causes of climate change and global strategy for addressing it through mitigation and adaptation

• Appreciate key dimensions of climate justice, including carbon coloniality and intersectionality

• Reflect on the relationship between data management and climate, and appreciate the challenges of quantifying digital carbon

• Reflect on the opportunities and obstacles encountered in their institutional setting

• Develop pragmatic strategies to decarbonise data management, given the likely context of complex, partial and incomplete information

*A recording will be available to registered participants for 60 days following the session.

Course Description

We live in a highly regulated society, and inevitably we will encounter a legal problem. Although many issues will require a lawyer's expertise, having some legal literacy can better help us address or avoid a legal problem. In this workshop, I will introduce participants to Canadian legal literature through case studies in health care contexts, and I will demonstrate research tools that will allow participants to explore these legal issues, and I will provide participants opportunities to use these tools to explore these legal issues on their own.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:

• Recognize different types of legal literature reflectedin these case studies

• Use the appropriate tools to explore the issues in these case studies

• Feel more confident in navigating legal materials to explore similar issues in health and workplace law and practice.

*A recording will be available to registered participants for 60 days following the session.

Course Description

Policy... it’s as dry as stale toast and only slightly less exciting... or is it? Don’t miss out on key opportunities to help your organization develop and manage these mission critical documents that translate strategic and operational direction. Creating and managing them take considerable resources and expertise -- and Library Professionals have specialized skills and knowledge sets that help healthcare organizations to do it better. Your organization may not know this, but they need your to help!

Learning Outcomes

By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:

• Understand the function of different policy documents

• Understand the key factors that make a successful policy development team

• Identify key knowledge, skills and behaviors Library Professionals with varying responsibilities have to offer their organizations to support both policy development and content management

• Understand the document control and content management considerations of policy documents that could be supported by Library Professionals with varying responsibilities