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Comprehensive Searching: Principles and Practice

Speaker:
ELLEN CRUMLEY, HealthInfo & Searching Practice Inc.

Learn the steps to setting up and conducting comprehensive searches. Find out if it is really possible to find "everything" out there and how you decide where to search to find the information required.

WHEN
Tuesday, June 14th, 2005
3-4pm Eastern Time (12 noon Pacific Time)


WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Academic librarians, librarians who do a lot of searching and librarians who work with researchers.

HOW YOU WILL BENEFIT

Understand the comprehensive search process and how it differs from other types of searches
Learn how to think differently about searching
Learn the types of questions that need to be considered for complex searches

KEY TOPICS EXPLORED DURING THE SESSION

Learn what questions to ask when setting up comprehensive searches
Learn how to put together complex searches
Find out key resources to search for information and how to consider where you will search for a specific project (using examples)

METHOD OF INSTRUCTION
Audio teleconference session with an accompanying PowerPoint presentation.

FEES

Member: $48.00 + GST
Non-Member: $68.00 + GST
Fees include telephone connection, all long-distance charges and allows for multiple people to participate in one location.

Speakers Biography:

Ellen Crumley(b/> has extensive experience conducting comprehensive searches in health sciences and librarianship. She has published several articles about comprehensive searching and recently submitted a systematic review about systematic searching for publication. Her peer-reviewed hemophilia and von Willebrand's disease searches are posted on the Internet at: http://www.ahcdc.ca/vWD.htm Ellen runs her own librarian practice and is a Senior Member certified by the Academy of Health Information Professionals.




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