Eahil Dublin 2009 Workshop

Thursday 4 June 2009 14.00 – 15.30 FULL

Intended audience: Librarians who give presentations, not only at EAHIL but also during their work, and want to learn more about presentation techniques and using PowerPoint.

Learning outcomes: People are able to structure a presentation and use tips, tools and tricks by which the effectiveness of their presentation will be better, for both the speaker and, even more importantly, the audience.

Content and learning activities: This is a presentation about presentations: the preparation of the content and how to deliver the content to the audience by talking, using Powerpoint, hand-outs etc.

Thursday 4 June 2009 14.00 - 15.30

Intended audience: All Health Information professionals – particularly those who see collaboration as an essential feature of their work.

Learning outcomes:

Along with many other professionally qualified people, our focus is often on technical excellence – mastery of a subject or of a particular set of skills. We make much of the fact that we work with people and seek to understand their needs. Yet few places in the professional literature or indeed our professional training, encourage us to focus on the personal skills so necessary to underpin all this activity – it’s either taken for granted, or perhaps not thought necessary. This session will be both informative and highly entertaining, as all participants begin to:

Friday 5 June 2009 11.30 - 13.00 FULL

Learning outcomes:
By the end of the workshop participants will:

• Have explored a number of theories on reflection, and be able to identify different types and levels of reflective writing.
• Undertaken reflective writing, and understand different outcomes achievable through reflective writing e.g. identifying a need for changes in behaviour, identified learning having taken place.
• See the potential for reflective writing in developing skills and knowledge, and be able to set personal goals as a result analytical reflective writing.

Friday 5 June 2009 11.30 - 13.00 FULL

Searching with the major search engines does not get satisfactory results in many cases, when science contents is searched for, but even searches in specialized search engines do not. However, multiple searches in several of them often will. Going back and forth, performing an identical search in various search engines is a time-taking and somewhat tedious process, where searchers wish for a better solution.