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 evidence-based criteria
• Use a readability formula championed by reading experts to assign a “grade” level
• Begin using plain language writing techniques to create clear health communication.

The presenter is Sue Stableford, MPH, MSB, is the Co-Founder and Director of the Maine Health Literacy Center at the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine in Biddeford, Maine.

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 Center will discuss the current state of copyright and issues of interest to the community in his presentation, “Whose Rights and Who’s Right: Copyright in the Digital Age.” Oakley served previously as Director of the Library and Associate Professor at the Boston University School of Law. He served two terms on the Executive Board of the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) and as its president for the 2001 term. As the AALL’s Washington Affairs representative, Oakley works on a wide variety of issues ranging from access to government information to censorship on the information networks and telecommunications reform.

Please RSVP to Garry Wong at the BRLS office: gwong@bpl.org or 617-859-2380.

The program is presented by the Boston Library Consortium and the Boston Regional Library System. This program is open to all libraries, but in the event of a capacity crowd, preference will be given to members of the Boston Regional Library System, the Boston Library Consortium and NELLCO

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 are interested in attending.

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

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Wraparound Session Handouts

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 sessions.

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.