Stay tuned for announcements of future events.
AAHL Lunch & Learn Event: AI Academic Search Engines – What Health Science Librarians Need to Know – November 4, 2025, 12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m.
Please join us on November 4, 2025 over the noon hour for a virtual Lunch and Learn session presented by librarians Kaitlin Fuller and Erica Nekolaichuk. Kaitlin and Erica will be speaking to us about AI academic search engines and the impact this has on health sciences librarians.
Session details, including Zoom link and speaker bios, can be found below.
Presentation title: AI Academic Search Engines: What Health Science Librarians Need to Know
Date: November 4th, 2025, 12:00 p.m.-1:00 pm
Speakers: Kaitlin Fuller & Erica Nekolaichuk
Zoom link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83206725720
Speaker Bios:
Erica Nekolaichuk is an instructional librarian with the Gerstein Science Information Centre at the University of Toronto. She has a Masters in the history of medicine from McGill and completed library school at Western University in 2012. She is a sessional lecturer in the Faculty of Information where she developed and occasionally teaches a course called Evidence-Based Healthcare for Librarians. Her current research interests are in testing the performance of academic AI search engines.
Kaitlin Fuller, MLIS, is a Scholarly Communications and Health Sciences Librarian at St. Francis Xavier University (StFX). Before joining StFX, she worked as a liaison librarian to the MD Program at the University of Toronto. Kaitlin has also taught as a co-instructor of the Health Sciences Literature & Information Resources course at Dalhousie University, as faculty in the Library and Information Technology program at Nova Scotia Community College, and as a sessional lecturer with the Institute of Medical Sciences at the University of Toronto. Her research interests include librarian teaching practices, search strategies for knowledge synthesis, and the evaluation of academic AI search engines.
We look forward to seeing you online!
AAHL Virtual Student Meet & Greet – October 29, 2025, 12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m.
The Association of Alberta Health Libraries (AAHL) Executive is hosting a virtual Fall Meet & Greet for students enrolled in Alberta Library Information Technology programs (SAIT and MacEwan) and the MLIS program at SLIS (University of Alberta).
Meet AAHL executive members and learn more about their career paths as health information professionals. Register below to join us. Bring your questions!
AAHL Virtual Student Meet & Greet:
Date: Wednesday, October 29
Time: 12:00 p.m.-1:00pm
Register here: https://tinyurl.com/AAHLOct2025Registration
A Zoom link will be sent via email prior to the event.
We hope to see you in October!
AAHL Fall Social: Virtual Meet and Greet – September 24, 2025, 12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m.
We are pleased to invite you to our inaugural AAHL event, the Fall Social: Virtual Meet and Greet, taking place on September 24, 2025, from 12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m.
Join us for an hour of camaraderie and conversation, meet our AAHL Executive, and share any events and happenings at your workplace with fellow library colleagues.
Please watch your e-mails for the meeting link.
We look forward to seeing you online!