Health Literacy and Plain Language: Skills for Clear Health Communication

NOTE:  REGISTRATION HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO JANUARY 9th, 2007!  
Date: January 23, 2007
Time: 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM
Location: Enders Auditorium, Children’s Hospital Boston
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This hands-on workshop will teach skills to:

Use health literacy data from the 2003 National Assessment of Adult Literacy to document the problem
Evaluate the reading ease of materials using [...]

Whose Rights and Who’s Right: Copyright in the Digital Age

Date: Thursday, December 14
Location: Boston Public Library, Rabb Lecture Hall.
Ongoing changes and technological advances have changed how documents are published and the concept of what is published. Also, changes in national and international copyright laws have compounded the issues. Bob Oakley, Director of the Law Library and Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law [...]

2006 Annual Charleston Conference Issues in Book and Serial Acquisition

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Date: November 8-11, 2006
Location: Charleston, South Carolina
Informal annual gathering of librarians, publishers, and vendors to discuss issues of importance to all; includes formal programming, posters, pre-conferences, papers, ideas, panels, debates and more. Conference is highly recommended by Nathan Norris at BIDMC. He is willing to talk with you if you [...]

Moving at the Speed of Byte: Emerging Technologies for Information Management

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MLA’s Educational Webcast
Date: Wednesday, November 8, 2006
Time: 1:30 – 5:00 PM
Location: Massachusett’s locations TBA
Discussion of new technologies and their use in libraries; explores blogs, RSS, wikis, podcasting; will include a forecast of future of electronic medical record, mobile technologies, biomedical informatics, nanotechnology. Local librarians will offer their input in the accompanying wrap-around [...]

Cool Tools and New Technologies

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Dartmouth’s Biomedical Libraries Annual October Conference
Date: Friday, October 27, 2006.
Time: Registration 8:00 – 9:00 AM; program 9:00 AM – 3:45 PM
Location: Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
Focus on new technologies in academic libraries but looks at wikis, RSS feeds, blogs, podcasting, social networking and more.
Note: Registration now full.