- Past Event
- St Mary's Library and Research Centre
This full-day workshop will provide opportunity to learn about important sources and techniques for literature searches in desk-based research – advanced techniques for those undertaking systematic reviews and other evidence syntheses. The workshop will also include discussion of best-practice approaches.
The workshop will be facilitated by Carol Lefebvre. It will comprise presentations, discussion and practical sessions. We hope to make the session as interactive and participatory as possible. (Please bring your own laptop or device)
Presenter: Carol Lefebvre
Carol is an independent information consultant and was previously the Senior Information Specialist at the UK Cochrane Centre from 1992 to 2012, where she was involved in founding The Cochrane Collaboration in 1993. She is Co-convenor of the Cochrane Information Retrieval Methods Group, serves on the Cochrane Methods Executive and is lead author on the searching chapter of The Cochrane Handbook.
Carol is a health sciences librarian by background and was the deputy librarian at the University of Oxford Medical School Library (UK) before joining Cochrane.
She has an MSc in Library and Information Science from the University of Loughborough (UK) and is an Honorary Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals.
Since starting her own company in 2012, Carol has been focusing on teaching and consultancy in information retrieval for evidence synthesis, such as systematic reviews, health technology assessment and guideline development. She is an active member of the UK InterTASC Information Specialists’ Sub-Group (ISSG) and the HTAi Interest Subgroup for Information Resources. She is an Associate Editor of the journal Research Synthesis Methods.
Details
Date: Friday 1 December 2017
Location: St Mary’s Library Hall Myers St, Geelong
Time: 8:30am – 3:30pm
Registration: CLOSED
Pre-requisites for attendance: Experience using bibliographic database searches (e.g. PubMed). Please note that this is not an introductory course
The workshop will include ‘hands-on’ exercises, so please bring your laptop (or equivalent).
For more information email Emma Smitten (emmasmitten@westernalliance.org.au)
