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Item Evidence-Based Librarianship - Building the Base as We Respond to the COVID-19 Pandemic / Infodemic(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2021-06) IFLA Evidence for Global and Disaster Health Special Interest Group Committee; Loree, Sara; Butcher, Robyn; Brody, Stacy; Cotera, MariaThe COVID-19 pandemic sparked a dramatic increase in publishing, including the dissemination of scientific research in preprints, press releases and news stories, as well as the creation of new and specialised databases and search portals. This challenged traditional systems and standards for organization and searching. This webinar describes the primary initiatives undertaken by the Librarian Reserve Corps to streamline efforts and encourage sharing and collaboration among partners to inform the evidence-base health information response to COVID-19, focusing on the evolution and preliminary results of two key projects: 1) The development of best practices for searching during public health emergencies; 2) A database validation study of specialized COVID-19 literature databases, jointly led with the Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technology in Health.Item La Biblioteca Global de la Organización Mundial de la Salud: ¡La salud importa!(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2021-07-28) IFLA Evidence for Global and Disaster Health Special Interest Group Committee; Allen, Tomas; Garnica, José; Pérez-Salmerón, Glòria; Cotera, MariaEn este seminario web en español Glòria Pérez-Salmerón, la primera y única presidenta de habla hispana de la IFLA, conversa con los Bibliotecarios de la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS) acerca de la fascinante labor que desempeñan y su relevancia para la salud pública en todo el planeta. La visión de la Biblioteca de la OMS es “un mundo en el cual todas las personas tengan acceso a información sobre la salud, junto a la guía necesaria para lograrlo”. Para hacer realidad esta visión, la Biblioteca de la OMS se ha comprometido a adoptar tecnologías digitales para establecerse como una respetada fuente de información confiable y pertinente en todo lo relacionado con salud pública. Al concentrar los recursos necesarios en las necesidades esenciales de información, la Biblioteca de la OMS puede influir en la salud de miles de millones de personas. De esta forma, no solamente garantiza el acceso al conocimiento, sino que también construye sistemas para la salud resilientes y sostenibles al generar conocimiento de uso práctico.Item A Tale of Two Systems: Research Data Repositories and Digital Preservation(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2023-08-17) Cotera, Maria; Mckenna-Foster, Andrew; Panescu, Adrian-TudorResearch data is being created at an incredible rate and it is near impossible to predict which datasets may become future treasure troves of data. There are many historical examples of this - from weather and sea temperature data recorded in hundred-year-old ship logs from the Southern Weather Discovery project informing current climate models to understand climate change; to the Överkalix study which used historical food harvest records and church logs to make groundbreaking epigenetic discoveries. Nowadays data is born digital; hence it requires digital preservation. Digital preservation is defined as “the method of keeping digital materials alive so that they remain usable as technological advances render original hardware and software specification obsolete”. The combined task of making digital records accessible and FAIR while also following best practices in digital preservation is complex, to say the least. Depending on an institution’s or collection’s needs, this most often requires integrating one or more repositories with a preservation system and managing one or more workflows alongside. Determining how to best preserve research data adds another layer of complexity because research data can be very large in size, have diverse file types, and be described by different metadata schemas. This paper describes why and how research librarians can innovate ways to balance these requirements by focusing attention on interoperability and creative technical solutions. It summarizes how a repository can incorporate some aspects of preservation into the platform itself; and uses case studies to examine what a repository / preservation system integration can look like. Keywords: Digital preservation. Research data. Research Data Repository. Preservation Systems. Interoperability.