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My British information literacy friend, Peter Godwin, a fine librarian blogger and his colleague Jo Parker have edited a new volume of essays on information literacy in a social media-saturated, post-library 2.0 world. I’m not sure where I found the time to write my chapter given the demands this fall of teaching SPPH581H and the CHCM course — but perhaps by doing so I neglected my UpToDate project and my survey of Canadian academic librarians’ use of social media. (One of the student librarians in my branch pointed this out at lunch on Friday, and I admit it’s on my agenda to complete ASAP). Anyway, the table of contents for the Godwin et al monograph is below. Chapter 12 is Giustini. Watch for it in early 2012.

Table of contents

1. The story so far: progress in Web 2.0 and information literacy – Peter Godwin
2. The changing web: sites to social – Phil Bradley & Karen Blakeman
3. Web 2.0: from information literacy to transliteracy – Susie Andretta
4. Informed learning in online environments: supporting the higher education curriculum beyond Web 2.0 – Hilary Hughes & Christine Bruce
5. Reinventing information literacy at UTS Library – Sophie McDonald & Jemima McDonald
6. Using games as treatments and creative triggers: a promising strategy for information literacy – Susan Boyle
7. Changing the conversation: introducing information literacy to a generation of smartphone users – Kristen Yarmey
8. Tweets, texts and trees – Andrew Walsh
9. Referencing in a 2.0 world – Stacey Taylor
10. Moving information literacy beyond Library 2.0: multimedia, multi-device, point- of-need screencasts via the ANimated Tutorial Sharing Project – Carmen Kazakoff-Lane
11. Informed cyberlearning: a case study – Hilary Hughes
12. Creating a course on social media for student librarians: teaching the information skills and literacies of social media – Dean Giustini
13. Transliteracy and teaching what they know – Lane Wilkinson
14. ANCIL: a new curriculum for information literacy: case study – Jane Secker and Emma Coonan
15. TeachMeet: librarians learning from each other – Niamh Tumelty, Isla Kuh
16. Helping the public online: Web 2.0 in UK public libraries – Helen Lee
17. Change has arrived at an iSchool library near you – Judy O’Connell

Although I am still reading my students’ papers, the experience of teaching an entire course in the School of Population and Public Health was one of the most enlightening in my career (see 2011 Syllabus). I plan to make a recommendation to the Faculty of Medicine that we move towards creating an informatics program. In fact, I could see a health librarian teaching courses within a program of informatics as a part of their regular outreach and liaison activities. What better way to learn informatics skills than with a qualified health librarian?

As a summation of term, I asked the students to complete the quiz below. Why not test your own social media knowledge? ~Dean

In 2001, I started to teach at SLAIS and will soon go into my second decade teaching the medical libraries course at the School. However, this is the first time that I’ll teach it on my own. As a preparatory step, I have completely revised the curriculum so that my students will get the most relevant health information practices circa 2012 during the course.

Here are the assignments: 

Course Schedule for January to April 2012 Term:

Are you planning on doing biomedical research over the holidays? Do you want to speak to an award-winning medical librarian? Make an appointment to see Dean Giustini, UBC Biomedical Branch Librarian at UBC Library.

Dean is an instructor at the UBC School of Library, Archival and Information Studies (SLAIS) and the UBC School of Population and Public Health. Whether it’s a clinical question you are trying to answer, or doing research into social media or medical informatics, Dean can get you started on your project.

E-mail dean.giustini@ubc.ca to make an appointment for December 28th or December 29th, 2011 – or send a message to  @giustini

The UBC HLWIKI Canada went past 3.5 million viewings today. Some of the most popular entries on the wiki can be viewed here. Happy Holidays from the HLWIKI Team.

hlwiki.ca 2011 Happy Holidays!

Altmetrics is the creation and study of new metrics based on the social web for analyzing, and informing scholarship. The vision for altmetrics is summarized in:

J. Priem, D. Taraborelli, P. Groth, C. Neylon (2010), Alt-metrics: A manifesto, (v.1.0), 26 October 2010. http://altmetrics.org/manifesto

“…In growing numbers, scholars are moving their everyday work to the web. Online reference managers Zotero and Mendeley each claim to store over 40 million articles (making them substantially larger than PubMed); as many as a third of scholars are on Twitter, and a growing number tend scholarly blogs. …”

For more information on this topic, follow discussion on Twitter via the #altmetrics tag or respective groups on Mendeley or FriendFeed. See also altmetrics11: Tracking scholarly impact on the social Web

The 4th International Conference on eHealth (2011) is a well-established forum for professionals in academia, industry and international healthcare. The 2011 Conference is held in Spain this week, see http://www.electronic-health.org. Here’s an example of what kinds of ehealth technologies are coming ….see Twitter feed: eHealthConf