Apologies for cross-posting.
Announcing the 2009 UHMLG Spring Forum, Monday 9
March.
"Let it be also an ambition*... Identifying and
supporting the information needs of 21st century healthcare
researchers"
Woburn House Conference Centre, Tavistock Square, London WC1H
9HQ
www.woburnhouse.co.uk
I am pleased to announce that the 2009 UHMLG Spring
Forum is open for bookings. Open to all library and information professionals
(and others) with an interest in developing and delivering high quality services
in support of health care research.
Recent years have seen an explosion in health care
research activity across the NHS and Higher Education. The development of new
funding arrangements with associated reorganisations and new structures such as
Academic Health Science Centres have started to transform the research
landscape.
But what should we be doing to deliver improved
information services in this new environment? How should libraries support
healthcare/biomedical researchers nationally and locally? Can our traditional
skills and services be remoulded or should we be making a paradigm shift in our
service offerings?
The UHMLG Spring Forum seeks to address some of
these issues with an exciting programme that includes a combination of national
service overviews, local case studies from the UK and the US and input from real
live researchers and national research leads on their information
needs.
Confirmed speakers include the
following:
+ Professor Roland Petchey - on the research agenda
for AHPS and an overview of the work of The Centre for Allied Health Professions
Research
+ Mala Mann - on the work of Cardiff University - Support Unit for
Research Evidence (SURE)
+ Nia Roberts - an overview of her embedded support
for academic researchers in Public Health and Primary Care at the University of
Oxford
+ Paul Davey - on UK PubMed Central Developments and the British
Library/Microsoft Research Information Centre
+ Carrie Sherlock, Anne Welsh
and Jenny Wood - Supporting research commissioning
+ Professor Jonathan
Webber - on the Academic Health Sciences Centre and the translational research
agenda
+ Helen Harrington - on information literacy training and support
given by the Library Medical Information Literacy Group at Imperial College
London
+ JoAnne Sparks - on her experiences of identifying and supporting
the information needs of researchers in major North American centres of
biomedical research
The programme will start with registration and
coffee at 09:30 with the first speaker scheduled for 10:00, and will finish by
16:30. Projected timings will be confirmed on registration.
* Let it be also an ambition to add your mite
[contribution] to the store of medical knowledge.
Osler W. Valedictory
Address to the Graduates in Medicine and Surgery, McGill University. Can Med
Surg J 1874-75;3:433-42.
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How to book
Please complete the registration form below and
send to Lisa Flint at e-mail: [log in to unmask]
[Email bookings are
preferred.]
Please reply by 27th February 2009 at the latest.
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Let it be also an ambition... Identifying and
supporting the information needs of 21st century healthcare researchers
UHMLG Spring Forum Monday 9th March 2009
Woburn House Conference Centre,
Tavistock Square, London WC1H 9HQ
REGISTRATION FORM
Please register me for the UHMLG Spring Forum on Monday 9th March
2009
Name:
Institution:
Address:
Tel. No:
E-mail:
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meals
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(please specify any special dietary requirements)
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Method of payment: Invoices on request, or cheques made payable to UMSLG.
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The registration form should be returned by Friday 27th February to:
Lisa Flint
Assistant Librarian: Medical and Biological
Sciences
Science Library
DMS Watson Building
University College
London
Gower Street
London
WC1E 6BT
Tel: 0207 679 2628
Email:
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If you have any difficulty with the above text form, please contact Lisa at
the above address, who will be pleased to email a form as an attachment.
