The American Library Association Annual Conference & Exhibition will be held at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, FL, from June 23-28, 2016. APA will be exhibiting at booth 1743, and Training Specialists are offering two sessions: An Introduction to APA Style CENTRAL™ on Sunday, and our usual APA Lunch & Learn on Monday. Continue reading
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Exhibits Update: Association for Psychological Science
The Association for Psychological Science Annual Convention will be held at the Sheraton Grand Chicago, in Chicago, IL, from May 26-29, 2016. Look for representatives from the American Psychological Association in the exhibit hall, at booth 304. Stop by to learn more about APA Style CENTRAL™, an exciting new electronic resource for APA Style that’s launching this summer, and get the latest updates about APA Journals, Books, and Databases.
American Psychological Association exhibit hours:
- Thursday, May 26: 8:00 – 9:30 p.m. (Opening Reception)
- Friday, May 27: 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
- Saturday, May 28: 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m
Webinar Alert and Slides from the MLA Sunrise Seminar
Our Sunrise Seminar at Mosaic ‘16 (the joint conference of the Medical Library Association, the Canadian Health Libraries Association, and the International Clinical Librarian Conference) took place on Monday. The session covered:
- An update on new fields coming to PsycINFO® this summer
- A review of the December 2015 update to the Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms
- A brief overview of APA Style CENTRAL™, launching in July
- Updates on PsycTHERAPY®
- New publications from APA
- A review of training and support materials
The presentation included several live search demos:
- EBSCOhost: Using the Thesaurus
- APA Style CENTRAL overview
- APA PsycNET: PsycTHERAPY overview
- Ovid and ProQuest: searching PsycINFO for information on tests & measures
If you weren’t able to join us, there are two ways you can get the material. First, the slides are now available on our Slideshare account. We recommend downloading the slides and viewing them in PowerPoint, as the presenter notes area includes additional information for each slide.
Second, we will be reprising the session as a webinar! (Note that you did attend in person, no new or additional information will be presented during this session.)
APA Sunrise Seminar @ Mosaic ’16: Webinar Edition
Tuesday, May 24, 2016
1–2:30 p.m. (Eastern)
Register online
Exhibits Update: Mosaic ’16
Mosaic ’16, the joint conference of the Medical Library Association, the Canadian Health Libraries Association, and the International Clinical Librarian Conference, will be held at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre in Toronto, ON, from May 13-18, 2016.
Look for representatives from the American Psychological Association in the exhibit hall at booth 330. Stop by to learn more about APA Style® CENTRAL, an exciting new electronic resource for APA Style that’s currently in development, and get the latest updates about APA Databases.
Exhibit hours:
- Saturday, May 14: 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. (Welcome Reception)
- Sunday, May 15: 12:00 – 5:00 p.m.
- Monday, May 16: 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
- Tuesday, May 17: 10:15 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
American Psychological Association Sunrise Seminar:
In addition, staff from the APA Databases & Electronic Resources Customer Relations group will be presenting a Sunrise Seminar training session during the conference:
Monday, May 16, 2016
7:00 – 8:45 a.m.
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Room 202D
Breakfast will be provided – please RSVP so there’s enough to go around.
APA Sunrise Seminar at Mosaic ’16
Do you need to brush up your search skills in the behavioral aspect of health and medicine? Do you find yourself answering an increasing number of questions about APA Style®? Come to the American Psychological Association’s Sunrise Seminar at Mosaic ’16 (the joint meeting of the Medical Library Association, the Canadian Health Libraries Association, and the International Clinical Librarian Conference) and leave with some new tricks to keep up your sleeve!
American Psychological Association Sunrise Seminar
Monday, May 16, 2016
7:00 – 8:45 a.m.
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Room 202D
Breakfast will be provided – please RSVP so there’s enough to go around.
Live searches on APA databases will review our December 2015 update to the PsycINFO® Thesaurus, and look at some new publications that can support clinical research and practice. Search demos and additional updates will focus on topics relevant to clinical practice, patient education, and health sciences research.
This presentation will also include a sneak peek at APA Style® CENTRAL, a new online resource to learn, research, write and publish in APA Style. You’ll get a look at the learning objects created by our Style Experts, as well as its robust online editor, which has been designed to help students, and others, apply the rules of APA Style while they write. And of course, we’ll also see how APA Style CENTRAL supports users in creating properly formatted APA Style references!
We hope to see you there! If you won’t be at Mosaic ’16, we’ll be reprising this session as a webinar the week after the conference. Visit our webinars schedule to learn more.