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    Do you really "like": it?: evaluating social media use to provide a current awareness service
    (2015-07-17) Blanchard, Laurie; Monnin, Caroline
    Objective: Info LTC is a current awareness service for geriatric health professionals. It includes a blog (http://infoltc.blogspot.ca), email listserv (Web Pick of the Week email) and a Twitter account (@Info_LTC). The purpose of the study is to evaluate the service and to examine how evaluation methods such as focus groups, surveys, and online metric tools can be implemented to evaluate social media in a library setting.
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    Library Newsletters: Are They Worth it?
    (2018-06-01) Lê, Mê-Linh; Blanchard, Laurie
    Introduction: Academic and hospital health libraries serve a diverse set of users some who may be distributed across a wide geographic range and never physically set foot in the library. it is essential that libraries find effective ways to communicate their programs, resources, and services online. At Institution X we send out a newsletter to subscribers once a month highlighting, among other things, upcoming training sessions, new resources, and relevant or interesting items. However, with the wide variety of other communication tools now available (social media, websites, listservs) is a newsletter still the best way to communicate with our users? Methods: An online survey using Survey Monkey will be distributed to over 1,000 subscribers to determine their satisfaction with the newsletter. Subscribers include students, residents, professional health care workers, faculty, staff, and researchers from a large academic institution and its affiliated healthcare hospitals and health centres. Usage statistics generated by Mail Chimp and WordPress will also be analyzed. Results: The survey will be distributed in early 2018 and results presented at the conference. Discussion: The majority of Canadian health facility libraries use newsletters to communicate with their users, and the amount of staff time dedicated to creating, maintaining, and distributing them is not insignificant. In times of fiscal restraint across libraries, is that effort sustainable? The results of this study are intended to help guide the decision-making process at one institution, but can hopefully be applied to any library that produces a newsletter.
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    Music and Memory(TM) at Misericordia Health Centre
    (2016-08) Blanchard, Laurie
    This document is intended to introduce interested long-term care workers and program managers to the role of music in dementia care, in particular individualized music and the Music and Memory™ program. It describes Music and Memory™ implementation at Misericordia Health Centre, the development of an Observational Checklist designed to capture resident responses to music and the research project we designed to test the Checklist. The document also includes: A brief literature review on music and dementia Resources and information on the Music and Memory™ program Music and Memory™ implementation at MHC Discussion of the issue of capacity to consent An analysis of interviews to evaluate the Observational Checklist