Librarians provide orientations for groups, in-person or virtually via Zoom or Skype video conference. This includes the New Employee Orientation (NEO), Nursing Orientation, Medical Oncology Orientation, Volunteers Orientation, and more.
We also offer one-on-one and small group orientations and can help staff, fellows, and grad students set up personalized services to assist their roles within BC Cancer.
The Library has produced a number of Learning Hub Courses for staff who want to learn more about the Literature Search process, as well as how to search using EBSCO and Pub Med. Pick and chose to do specific courses or chose to complete them all.
Learn how to identify and formulate keywords (search terms) from your PICO question. (Course 24195)
Learn how to refine your search by adding or combining different keywords to explore your topic, and get more relevant results. (Course 24217)
Learn how to identify different types of publications, including grey literature, and how to appraise and evaluate the literature. (Course 24194)
Learn how to access the library’s collection of evidence and point-of-care electronic database tools for your research, clinical decision making, education, and professional needs. (Course 24044)
Learn the basic features of PubMed, including how to find relevant research articles, use various limits, save and export results, and use MyNCBI
options to access articles available from BC Cancer. (Course 24094)
Learn how to use the EBSCO database platform to find literature from Medline, CINAHL, PsycINFO, PsycArticles, Biomedical Reference Collection, and more. (Course 24146)
Check out key features from the citation management tool, RefWorks. Provided by the BC Cancer Library, RefWorks supports staff in managing their
reading, education, research, and writing activities. Learn also how to find our RefWorks page for more support. (Course 24093)
Below are printable staff handouts for contacts and services at the BC Cancer Library branches.
Also check out our short New Employee Library Orientation presentation on the Learning Hub. This module is for new BC Cancer staff, or those who want to know more about the library and what we have to offer both staff and patients. (Course 23744)
The BC Cancer library system consists of a central library at Vancouver Centre (VC), and branches in Abbotsford (AC), Kelowna (SAHCSI), Prince George (CN), Surrey (FVC), and Victoria (VIC). All centres have patient resource collections in our Cancer Information Centres (CIC), and all centres have a professional collection on site. Professional resources for CN are housed in the adjacent UHNBC Library.