We can assist with project development, literature searching, citation support, and more. We can customize training sessions for your discipline, setting and timeframe. One-on-one training available through Skype.
Library staff can access materials available in other libraries on your behalf. We can arrange for you to borrow materials or obtain copies of journal articles from other library collections.
If you identify a patient education need or find yourself repeating instructions or information to patients over and over, get in touch with us to find out about creating a new pamphlet.
The Patient Education Team's role is to provide guidance and input on the following:
Email pamphlets@nshealth.ca with questions, concerns, or suggestions, or to get started on a new pamphlet or update.
Want to order print copies of an existing patient pamphlet? Find tips on ordering on our Print Code Index.
The IWK Criteria Booklet for Developing Patient/Family Resources is available to IWK Health Centre staff through Pulse, along with the policy for developing these resources.
Library staff order access to both print and electronic resources for use by specific departments.
RefWorks is a web-based citation manager. RefWorks will help you organize your references from a variety of resources (databases, library catalogues, websites, books, journals, etc.). By creating your own account with RefWorks you can store all of your important references in one location and format your documents to set citation styles such as Vancouver, APA, MLA, etc.
Learn more about RefWorks by visiting our RefWorks & Citation Management subject guide.
Library Services’ role in the Learning Management System (LMS) course creation process is to support course authors in 3 ways:
Adobe is ending its support of Adobe Flash at the end of 2020. This will impact most of the courses currently in LMS, as well as new courses currently in development (if you are using the older software that relies on Flash).
What does this mean for you?
To ensure that your courses continue to work after December 30, 2020, you will need to republish any existing courses which use Flash to HTML5. The good news is, it's an easy fix. For more information, please review the LMS Resources.