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10th
Asia Pacific Special,
Health and Law Librarians' Conference
Adelaide Convention Centre,
Adelaide, South Australia
24-27 August 2003
Satellite Events:
Information about the following meetings and workshops is provided purely as a service to both the organisers of the events and delegates who may wish to combine attendance at one of the events with participation in the conference. The Conference Secretariat is unable to take bookings or provide further information about each event - please make contact directly with the organisers of the individual event if you wish to obtain further information or register for them. Additional information will be posted to this site as it becomes available.
20-22 August (previous Wed-Fri)
 Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Workshop
Cost: $330
Further information: Kylie Ward, Administration Officer, ACEBCP.
Phone: 08 8204 6061, email: kylie.ward@fmc.sa.gov.au
Details: http://acebp.org.au/program.doc to download full programme
Registration at: http://www.acebcp.org.au/upcomingpage.html
24 August (Sunday)
Finding Answers to Clinical Questions: A Seminar for Librarians (including full details of the NICS Clinical Evidence Researcher Service (CER) Study)
Presenter: Ruth Sladek, Repatriation General Hospital
Venue: Robson Theatre, level 1, Eleanor Harrald Building, Royal Adelaide Hospital
Date: Sunday 24th August
Time: 9am - 1pm
Brief description of content: based on the evidence gained from a 14 month research project about an innovative Clinical Evidence Researcher service, the seminar focuses on the practical skills associated with the role of CML in finding answers to clinical questions, as well as some of the issues relating to the implementation of such a service in other settings.
Fee: $45 ALIA members; $90 non-members
Contact details for registration: ALIA Ruth.Sladek@rgh.sa.gov.au
Building Relationships with Vendors
Time: 9.30am - 4.30 pm
Cost: $198 ALIA or CAVAL members: $220 non-members
Further information: http://www.caval.edu.au
Eve Cornish, phone 03 94592722, email: evec@caval.edu.au
28 August (Thursday)
How to train legal personnel in legal research
Presenter: Natalie Wieland, Bliss Consulting
Venue: Learning Laboratory, 90 King William Street,
Adelaide Bank Building 11th Floor
Date: 28 August 2003
Time: 9.00 am - 4.30 pm
Brief description of content: This workshop is designed to assist those responsible for training
lawyers, and other legal personnel such as articled clerks, in legal
research (focusing on electronic research).
Fee: $385.00 (10% discount for ALLG Members)
Further information: http://www.blissconsulting.com.au
Natalie Wieland, phone 03 9429 7197, fax 03 9429 6223, email bliss@blissconsulting.com.au
PDA Workshop
Presenter: Mary Peterson
Venue: Room 1:22, level 1, Eleanor Harrald Building, Royal Adelaide Hospital
Date: Thursday 28th August
Time: 9.00 - 12.30 pm
Brief description of content: Participants will learn how to demonstrate familiarity with hand-held computers (personal digital assistants, or PDAs) and identify a range of uses for PDAs in clinical and library settings; and will take away a list of sources of further information about PDAs. Participants will work with both Palm and PC operating systems. Yes - you get to work with them!
Note: This is a hands-on workshop, places are limited to sixteen.
Fee: $90 ALIA members; $150 non-members
Contact details for registration: ALIA Registration form
Further information: Mary Peterson, phone 08 8222 5443, email mary.peterson@imvs.sa.gov.au
Basics of Electronic Indexing
Presenters: Lynn Farkas, Lynn Farkas Information Services, and Prue Deacon, HealthInsite, Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing.
Venue: DHS room to be confirmed
Date: Thursday 28th August
Time: 9.00-12.00
Brief description of content: This course will focus on database indexing (for electronic information services and online databases) with a small amount of discussion on the options available for indexing Web sites. The course will describe various types of electronic indexing and provide practical exercises in bibliographic description, abstract writing and the use of thesauri.
Fee: $70 ALIA members; $110 non-members
Contact details for registration: ALIA
Further information: Prue Deacon, Phone: 02 6289 7505. Email: prue.deacon@health.gov.au
MeSH and The Health and Ageing Thesaurus
Presenters: Sandra Henderson, Manager, Research, Coordination Support Branch, National Library of Australia; and Prue Deacon, HealthInsite, Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing.
Venue: DHS room to be confirmed
Date: Thursday 28th August
Time: 1.00-4.30 pm
Brief description of content: This course will focus on the use of MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) for database indexing. MeSH is one of the world's best examples of a hierarchical thesaurus. The course will show how to access it and how to find the right terms for medical indexing. There will be some discussion of a related thesaurus, The Health and Ageing Thesaurus, which is used in Australia for subject cataloguing and indexing health material.
Fee: $70 ALIA members; $110 non-members
Contact details for registrationhttp://www.alia.org.au/p://alia.org.au/members-only/groups/healhttp://www.alia.org.au/>http://alia.org.au/members-only/groups/healthnat/activities/
Further information: Prue Deacon, Phone: 02 6289 7505. Email: prue.deacon@health.gov.au
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