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Huntsville Public library is starting an "Elders' Memoir Club" program as a follow-up for these clients. 4. TEEN GET CARDED PROJECT Margaret Wallace, Ellen Stroud and Join Friends of Canadian Libraries Joseph Sansalone, Oshawa Public (FOCAL) to celebrate our tenth Libraries anniversary year. Our contributions to the library community are in the Over this past summer (2006), a pilot teen membership project was fields of volunteerism, advocacy, conceived and put in motion. The fundraising and community partproject was called "Get Carded." nerships. FOCAL functions as a national support and resource net· Essentially the aim of this project work to assist in the formation and was to get library cards into the hands of every student and teacher promotion of Friends of Libraries groups across Canada. Review at the participating high school in accomplishments of our awardOshawa. This project achieved its winning Friends, discover the targeted success percentages and resources available via our website, will be fully implemented to all interested high schools in Oshawa. pick up a copy of our current newsletter FOCAL Point, and 5. STEP· BY· STEP understand the added value a BLOGGING: CREATING AN Friends group can contribute to INNOVATIVE COMMUNI· your library. CATIONS TOOL FOR YOUR 7. E · LEARNING INITIATIVE LIBRARY FOR ONTARIO PUBLIC Christine Brown and Gloria Van LIBRARIES Eek-Meijers, Waterloo Public OPLN FOPL Peterborough Public Library. TEKdesk staff. Waterloo Public Library has develAn innovative project to bring techoped an innovative Web-based nology learning to library staff and approach to information sharing and interacting with customers. volunteers supported by the Ontario Trillium Foundation in partThrough blogs (Weblogs), the nership with the Federation of library shares news and events with customers, introduces and Ontario Public Libraries, Ontario educates them to new technologies Public Library Network. TEKdesk is and gives them another way of delivering on-line seminars for staff and volunteers using Web confercommunicating directly with us. The newest blog, WPLWEST· encing technology, peer mentoring BRANCH, is used to keep the com- and multimedia presentations. The munity updated on developments project is collaborating with and events relating to the planning WebJunction in selecting tools, training staff and building learning and construction of a new branch. sessions. This poster session will demon· strate how other libraries can easily replicate this model using free Web-based blogging software. Waterloo Public library hopes that the poster session will demystify blogging technology and encour· age other libraries to make use of this innovative, successful and cost effective communications tool. 6. FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY AN INVALUABLE RESOURCE Nicholas Spi/lios and Dorothy Macnaughton, Friends of Canadian Libraries. Thursday, February 1 1:00-1:45 pm 1. TIME CAPSULE · 20 YEARS OF SERVICE TO HOSPITAL LIBRARIES IN ONTARIO Jami van Haaften and Gurvinder Batra, Ontario Health Libraries Association. Find out more about the history of Ontario's health library association. OHLA is an association committed to the support of health library specialists who deliver quality information services to the health care communities of Ontario. Working in the areas of leadership, advocacy, education and communications we represent health libraries in over 70 communities 3. INTEGRATING across Ontario. What is the vision INFORMATION LITERACY that founded the association? How has the mandate and objecINTO BLACKBOARD tives evolved over the past twenty Helen Yueping He, University of Toronto, Dentistry Library. years? Who were the leaders involved during the formative The goal of this project is to pro· years 7 What are the professional concerns that have been studied vide undergraduate students with research assistance targeted directover the years? Find out more about this dedicated group, as they ly to their course needs, provide a enter a third decade of service and self-paced, "anytime-anywhere" professional growth. introduction to core library resources, services and introduce some basic research skills. 2. HEALTH INFORMATICS AND INFORMATION DESIGN FOR TAILORING Since the dentistry undergraduate PATIENT EDUCATION: students are unlike those in arts INTERMEDIARY ROLES and humanity -they don't have many essay assignments, so they FOR LIBRARIANS IN are not keen on library information. RESEARCH Susan MacDonald and Todie We developed a brief resource Winter, Princess Margaret Hospital. guide related to their subject and a video demo of how to search Ovid The delivery of clinically reliable Medline for their research topic. information in the form of patient 4. SPECIAL COLLECTIONS AT education has become a key com· RYERSON UNIVERSITY ponent in the delivery of health care, meeting patient expectations LIBRARY Megan Harris and Roma Kail, as much as the desire of clinicians to reinforce adherence to care Ryerson University Library. plans. Having access to quality information is particularly critical as Ryerson University offers programs the popularity of searching for on- and courses in a wide range of line health-related information subjects. The University's library soars. This interest has spurred health care providers to find ways to make on-line information available as part of overall disease management strategies. It is in this information or health informatics context that the Patient Education Plan (PEPTalk) Project worked to: (1) develop tailored, culturally relevant educational resources for people with chronic illness, (2) design new clinical and information practices to deliver patient education, and (3) design a new information system to store, share and maintain the Web-based resources. From a librarianship perspective, the PEPTalk project pro· vided a forum to examine the ways in which librarians, as members of the research team, were involved in the information and systems design process. 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