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Thane Chambers

Thane Chambers

Faculty of Nursing Research Librarian/Public Services Librarian J.W. Scott Health Sciences Library
Research Office
Faculty of Nursing 4-103 Clinical Sciences Building 
Edmonton, AB T6G 2G3
780-492-9684/780-248-1692

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What I do?

I have a joint appointment with the Faculty of Nursing and the J.W. Scott Health Sciences Library.  I work one day a  week at the Scott library where I spend my time at the service desk, assist library patrons navigate the library, buy books for our collection, and teach.  The rest of the time, I work at the Faculty of Nursing in the Research Office.  My primary responsbilities there, are to assist faculty members with their research.  This involves literature searching, including systematic review searching, teaching, and building research capacity.

Research Interests:

  • Information literacy among adults.
  • Instructional design.
  • Adoption of technologies to build research capacity.
  • Use of web based social networks for informaiton sharing and knowledge creation.

Presentations:

Chambers, T. & Storie, D. (2009). Do consumer information technologies need to be taught? The RSS example. NetSpeed 2009, 22 October 2009.

Chambers, T. (2009). How simple is really simple syndication? Canadian Health Libraries Association 2009, Winnipeg, 2 June 2009. 

Chambers, T. & Storie, D. (2009). How simple is Really Simple Syndication? Effect of teaching health sciences faculty and residents a new current awareness technology. NAHLA TRENDS Mini-Conference, Edmonton, 1 May 2009.

Chambers, T. (2008). Information retrieval from digital libraries: assessing the potential utility of thesauri in supporting users' search. Tenth International ISKO Conference, Montréal, 5-8 August 2008.

Chambers, T. & Chojecki, D. (2008). OVID SP: the new format for OVID databases. Northern Alberta Health Libraries Association’s Leading Edge meeting, Edmonton, AB, January 22, 2008.

Chambers, T. (2007). Canadian consumer health websites. Presented at the Northern Alberta Health Libraries Association’s Leading Edge meeting, Edmonton, AB, March 27, 2007.

 

Publications:

Chambers, T., Campbell, S., & Storie, D. Really Simple Syndication? A study on health sciences faculty and medical residents adoption of a new technology following an instruction session on RSS. International Congress on Medical Librarianship 2009, Brisbane, 31 August-4 September, 2009.

Chambers, T. (2009). Book Review: E-Journals Access and Management. JCHLA. 30(2):65.

Chambers, T. (2008).  Zoho planner.  Journal of the Medical Libraries Association. 96(4):392-394.

 Shiri, A., & Chambers, T.  (2008). Information retrieval from digital libraries: assessing the potential utility of thesauri in supporting users' search.  In Proceedings of the Tenth International ISKO Conference, Montréal, 5-8 August 2008 (pp 184-189).  Würzburg: Ergon.