Conference Awards
The Faculty of Information Technology, Queensland University Technologyproudly sponsor the following five conference awards: |
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1. QUT Award for Best Paper
Winner: Persuasive evidence: improving customer service through evidence-based librarianshipWendy Abbott, Bond University, Australia
2. QUT Award for Best Hot Topic
Winner: Information seeking behaviours of business students and the development of an academic business digital libraryJoyline Makani, Kelli WooShue Dalhousie University Libraries, Canada.
3. QUT Award for Best Presenter
Winner: The just-in-time librarian consultation service.J McGowan, J W Hogg, C Campbell, D Salzwedel, D Worster, T Rader, E Soto Institute of Population Health, University of Ottawa, Canada. (HT)
SPECIAL COMMENDATION was given to:
Jane Shelling, National Resource Centre, Alcohol and Other Drugs Council of Australia, Australia, What's the point of it all if no one uses your library? Using and creating evidence to promote a library service - ongoing research. (HT)
John Loy, Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnerships NHS Trust, UK, Why don't mental health staff use library services? A qualitative and quantitative investigation. (P)
J McGowan Institute of Population Health, University of Ottawa, Canada, Margaret Sampson Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, Canada, Can the quality of literature searches be measured and improved? The EHTAS project. (HT)
Linda Ward University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, UK, E-learning versus workshops to teach critical appraisal to health professionals: a randomised controlled equivalence study (HT)
Lisa Cotter & Ingrid Tonnison Central Coast Health, Australia, Adding SPICE to our library intranet site: a recipe to enhance usability. (HT)
Nicola Pearce-Smith Department of Knowledge and Information Sciences, Supporting Public Health (NHS), UK, Issues and problems for librarians' conducting research - an example of a randomised controlled trial comparing the effect of e-learning, with a taught workshop, on the knowledge and search skills of health professionals. (P)
Joyline Makani & Kelli Wooshue Dalhousie University Libraries, Canada, Information seeking behaviours of business students and the development of an academic business digital library. (P)
4. QUT Award for Best Poster
Winner: Rehabilitating the stroke collectionMary Grimmond and Sharna Carter Northern Sydney Central Coast Area Health Service (NSCCAHS), NSW, Australia
5. QUT Award for Best Poster - Delegates Choice Award
Winner: Today’s student is the registered nurse of tomorrow: the University of Queensland Library’s role in preparing nurses to apply evidence in clinical decision makingJenny Hall, Stephanie Nunan, Ruth Foxlee and Lisa Kruesi University of Queensland, Australia
The winner of the Who Travelled the Farthest Award was John Loy from the Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust, which is based in Bath, England. The evidence for this decision was based on the calculations from the How far is it? service from the website www.indo.com/distance/ which uses the latitude and longitude of two places to the calculate the distance between to places (as the crow flies). The distance between Bath, England and Brisbane, Australia is 10351 miles or 16658 km or 8995 nautical miles.
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