Free places for Affiliate members at Umbrella 2011

The Affiliates National Committee is offering a number of group members the chance to attend the 2011 Umbrella Conference "New Structures, New Technologies, New Challenges - How Can We Adapt To an Age of Austerity?" at the University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield Campus, from 12 – 13 July 2011.
 

How to Apply For a Sponsored Place
If you would like to attend Umbrella 2011, write and let us know in approximately 200 words why you should be sponsored.
All winners are expected to write a follow up article for our newsletter on their experiences at the conference.
The prize will include full residential registration including one night’s accommodation and a chance to attend the Gala Dinner in Sopwell House.
Please e-mail a statement of your reasons wanting to attend the Umbrella Conference to Richard Talbot at rgtalbot@qinetiq.com by Tuesday 12th April 2011.

• No travel costs will be paid by the group.
• You must be an Affiliate member of CILIP.

Visit to a Hospital Library, Tuesday 10 May

East Midlands Branch of CILIP

Visit to a Hospital Library

Tuesday 10 May 2011

Education Centre Library, Glenfield Hospital, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, Groby Road,
Leicester LE3 9QP

Tour of the Library

This event will include a tour of the library in the morning with a discussion on the services that the library provides, including:

·       NHS library funding and service level agreements

·       Training provided, including NHS Athens resources

·       Clinical Librarian service – a librarian joins clinical and corporate teams on ward rounds, responding to questions that arise and provide information at the point of clinical and corporate need.

Maximum number 15 people for the morning session.

The afternoon session will be:

Teaching Critical Appraisal for Librarians

The ability to read, understand and critically appraise research and literature is fast becoming a required core skill for librarians. With the amount of information available to us increasing, it is important to spend the limited amount of time we do have reading those documents that will be useful and most effective to us. This session introduces some of the key concepts for teaching critical appraisal, the key principles behind critical appraisal of research and methods for appraising research in practice.

This course is designed to give you the skills to critically evaluate research papers and interpret their findings.

By the end of the course participants will have:

·       Gained a clear understanding of what is meant by 'critical appraisal'

·       Reflected on the relevance of critical appraisal to LIS

·       Investigated the similarities and differences between critical appraisal and quality evaluation

·       Be able to distinguish between different types of study design and research methods

·       Discovered how to use toolkits for rapid appraisal of systematic reviews and randomised control trials

·       Learned from examples how to distinguish between good and poor quality papers.  

Maximum number 12 people for the afternoon session.

Cost: Free but lunch is not provided, however there is a Hospital canteen.

Please book your place by emailing the Honorary Secretary on
emboc@bc-d.co.uk.