ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2007

February 15th – 16th 2007

Hodson Bay Hotel, Athlone, Co. Meath

Teaching, Learning and Promotion Skills for Health Care Librarians

As Health Care Librarians, the opportunities for us to demonstrate the value of our professional knowledge have never been greater. Many of these opportunities are extensions of what might once have been described as our traditional role, and have enabled us to both raise the profile of our work, and foster collaboration with professional colleagues.

For the most part, we have embraced these opportunities, which can now among others include

• Structuring learning materials, both print and electronic
• Teaching and/or training groups of people in information skills and information literacy
• Learning how to present material to different groups
• Understanding how to effectively promote and market the role and resources of the physical (as well as virtual) library.

While we have not been slow to respond to these opportunities, our response is not always as informed and as effective as we might wish, principally, as a result of our having received little (if any) formal training in teaching and marketing skills

Our fifth annual conference, aims to be a highly participative learning experience, which will enable all who attend, to explore and acquire some of the principles of teaching, learning and marketing, which can then be directly applied within each of our workplaces.

PROGRAMME

08.30 – 09.30  REGISTRATION AND COFFEE
09.30 – 10.30  Session 1: FORMULATING EFFECTIVE TEACHING STRATEGIES

Dr Teresa O’Doherty, Head of Department of Education, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick

Chairperson:      Aoife Lawton, HSLG Continuing Professional Development Working Group Leader

10.30 – 10.45 COFFEE
10.45 – 11.45 GROUP WORK
11.45 – 13.00 REPORT BACK FROM GROUPS.
13.00 – 14.00 LUNCH
14.00 – 15.30 Session 2:  PRINCIPLES OF E-LEARNING

Speaker TBC
Chairperson: Kate Kelly, National University of Ireland, Galway

This second session seeks to explore what e-learning is, how it complements traditional learning methods, and what skills are needed to participate in the development of and roll out of e-learning programmes.

15.00 – 15.30 CASE STUDIES of E-Learning in Practice
15.30 – 16.30 PRESENTATION: PARTNERSHIPS ON HEALTH INFORMATION
Shane Godbolt, Director and Trustee of PHI

16.30 – 19.30 FREE TIME

19.30 FORMAL LAUNCH OF TRADE EXHIBITION (with drinks reception)

20.00 CONFERENCE BANQUET

Friday 16th February

09.15am – 13.00pm   SESSION 3:   MARKETING AND PROMOTION STRATEGIES

Tom Prior, Prior Associates, Dublin

Barbara Sen, University of Sheffield
Chairperson:  Shane Godbolt, NHS Clinical Governance Support Team, UK

13.00 – 14.00 LUNCH

14.00 – 14.30 PRESENTATION: ALL IRELAND ELECTRONIC LIBRARY FOR HEALTH.

14.30 – 15.00 PRESENTATION: HEALTH LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SERVICES DIRECTORY.

15.00  CONFERENCE CLOSE.