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To make your experience during the conference more enjoyable and seamless, we have developed a comprehensive, homegrown restaurant guide to the establishments in Kingston.  Enjoy!

Check out the descriptions and even preview some through the list of conference posters!

Another two streams of paper presentations to choose between:

• Contributed Papers – Session 4A (concurrent)
  
  
  1. Information Access and Barriers to Nutrition Information for Nursing Staff in the Regina Qu’Appelle Health Region (RQHR)
  2. An exploration of the roles of librarians in supporting patient self-management activities for improved health outcomes
  3. The Jewish General Hospital Patient Education Network Working Group: A hospital-based interprofessional collaboration to foster patient education.
• Contributed Papers – Session 4B (concurrent)
  
  
  1. Open Access and Health Information in 2010
  2. Selecting the selection tool
  3. Rules-based collections reduction: honouring collections while inspiring innovation

Two streams on the Wednesday morning of the conference:

• Contributed Papers – Session 1A (concurrent)
  
  1. The scoping study in physical therapy: application of traditional systematic review guidelines to an emerging methodology
  2. Realist Review: Searching Support for a New Research Methodology for Complex Policy Interventions
• Contributed Papers – Session 1B (concurrent)
  
  1. Re-visioning a public health library service to support evidence-informed decision-making
  2. A Follow-up Survey of Ontario Health Libraries: Building on our Past

AAAS/Science is hosting a Lunch and Learn during the CHLA/ABSC conference.  It will be held on Thursday, June 10 in the Four Points Sheraton Hotel. AAAS/Science’s Publisher Relations Regional Representatives, Phillip Smith and Philip Tsolakidis will present the features of our new journal Science Translational Medicine, which launched in October 2009. For more details on the session: http://www.chla-absc.ca/2010/programsessions.html#aaaslunch.

All are welcome! If you are interested in joining this event, please RSVP to events@scienceonline.org.

It will be difficult to choose between these two streams:

• Contributed Papers – Session 2A (concurrent)
  
  
1. From uncertainty to answerable questions: Question negotiation in evidence-based practice
2. Interviewing in the Library…..with a Qualitative Twist!
3. Looking Backwards: A content analysis of CHLA conference programs from 2001-2009

• Contributed Papers – Session 2B (concurrent)
  
  
1. Impact of a Six Month Clinical Librarian Trial in a Tertiary Care Centre: a Controlled Study
2. Investigation of information seeking behaviours of University of Alberta health sciences alumni and students
3. Providing an “evidence base” for the Ontario Public Health Standards

There are two particularly heritage-focused presentations on the Thursday of the conference:

1. Honouring Heritage to Inspire Innovation at the Gerstein Science Information Centre, University of Toronto by Heather Cunningham, (Reference and Research Librarian, Gerstein Science Information Centre, University of Toronto) and Susanne Tabur (Research and Instruction Librarian, Gerstein Science Information Centre, University of Toronto)
2. The William Osler Photo Collection: Reaching the World by Christopher Lyons, MA, DIP ED, MLIS, Liaison Librarian, Osler Library of the History of Medicine, McGill University

Both of these look like excellent sessions.

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Don't forget to join Dr. Udo Schüklenk & Dr. Sergio Sismondo in their discussion on the pros and cons of Open Access.

Thanks to a great turn out of attendees, the conference hotel, the Four Points by Sheraton Kingston is unfortunately sold out for the conference week, but there are still plenty of great alternatives in downtown Kingston.  Please check out our Accommodations page for more information.

More than 150 of your colleagues have already registered for the CHLA/ABSC 2010 Kingston conference. Join them by registering now and make this a great conference!