The document discusses putting evidence-based emergency management into practice. It outlines four objectives for a course on this topic: 1) Set up search and table of contents alerts using article databases, 2) Recognize comparable methodologies to McGill University from research articles, 3) Identify evidence-based interventions for developing or modifying university safety services, and 4) Prepare and present brief summaries of publications to peers. The document then covers various methods for current awareness of new information, including RSS feeds, email alerts, Twitter accounts, and mobile apps. It also discusses sources for news articles and different types of studies.

1. Evidence-Based Emergency
Management Part 2:
Putting it into Practice
Robin Featherstone, MLIS Julie Jones, MLIS
Life Sciences Library Humanities & Social Sciences Library
robin.featherstone@mcgill.ca julie.jones@mcgill.ca
Course website:
http://www.mcgill.ca/library/library-findinfo/subjects/humanities/disaster-e

2. How do you monitor information?
“I’m OK… just a little too much ‘push’ technology.”

3. Agenda
• Recap
• Current Awareness
– RSS/Twitter/Apps
– Email alerts
• News Sources
– 20 min BREAK –
• Presentations
• Summary
• Post-Test

4. Evidence-Based Emergency
Management Process
Formulating
Evaluating the question
the Process Workshop 1
Workshop 2
For assistance planning
for, responding to, or
recovering from an Searching the
Incorporating emergency or disaster Evidence
evidence into
decision-making Workshop 1
Workshop 2
Evaluating the
Evidence
Workshop 1

5. Putting it into practice – objectives
At the end of this course, you will be able to:
1.Set up search & Table of Contents (TOC) alerts using an
article database
2.Recognize, based on the methodology sections of
research articles, cases comparable to McGill University
3.Identify evidence-based interventions to assist with the
development, assessment or modification of services or
programs offered through University Safety
4.Prepare and present a brief summary of a publication
for an audience of peers

6. Current Awareness

7. Current Awareness – e-Alerts

8. Current Awareness – Association
Listservs and Online Communities

9. Current Awareness – Table of
Contents Alerts for Journals

10. Current Awareness – Table of
Contents Alerts for Journals

11. Exercise
Set up a table of contents alert for 2
publications listed in the “Core Journals and
Trade Publications” section of the subject guide.

12. Current Awareness – Search Alerts

13. Current Awareness – Search Alerts

14. Current Awareness – Search Alerts

15. Current Awareness – Search Alerts

16. Current Awareness – Search Alerts

17. Exercise
1) Select a database from the subject guide.
2) Run the search you used when completing
your homework for this week’s workshop.
3) Set up a weekly email alert for the search.
Remember…depending on the database, you
may have to create a login to do this.

18. Current Awareness - RSS

19. Current Awareness - RSS
Government
Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS):
http://www.ccohs.ca/newsroom/news_releases/rss/all/en
News from the centre
Public Safety Canada News:
http://www.publicsafety.gc.ca/app_support/xml/ps_news_e.xml
News from the office of Canada’s Public Safety minister
Trade Magazines
Campus Safety Magazine: http://feeds.feedburner.com/CSM-All
Summaries of news about campus safety (mostly American)
Canadian Security Mag: http://feeds.feedburner.com/CanadianSecurity
Professional Security Management News
Emergency Management: http://www.emergencymgmt.com/subscribe/rss
Nearly 20 feeds on emergency management news headlines, blog posts by experts, and
emergency management events

20. RSS How To
1. Subscribe to a “RSS Reader” (e.g., Google
Reader)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of
_feed_aggregators
2. Find a feed on a website of interest - look for
the
3. Subscribe
http://www.commoncraft.com/video/rss

21. Current Awareness - Twitter
• Twitter subscribers receive
real-time updates
• 140 character maximum
• Look for the blue bird or
the blue “t” on websites to
find an institution’s twitter
account
• Used by many
government agencies and
emergency management
groups…

22. Some Selected Twitter Feeds
Government Educational Organizations
•Canada Emergency Management
•National Institute for Occupational
Academy - @CanadaEmergency
Safety and Health - @NIOSH
•Justice Institute of BC - @JIBC_EMD
•DHS Lessons Learned - @LLIS
•Public Safety Canada - @Get_Prepared Professional Associations
Trade Magazines •Ontario Association of Emergency
•Campus Safety Magazine - Managers - @OAEM_Online
@CampusSafetyMag •International Association of
Emergency Managers - @iaem
•Disaster Recovery Journal - @drjournal
•International Association of
•Emergency Management - Emergency Managers - Universities
@EmergencyMgtMag and Colleges Caucus - @IAEM_UCC
News
•CBC Montreal - @CBCMontreal Experts
•The Montreal Gazette - @mtlgazette •Scot Phelps - @emergnecymgmt
•Patrice Cloutier - @patricecloutier
•The Weather Network -
•Robin Featherstone -
@weathernetwork
@rmfeatherstone

23. Common emergency management hash tags
#HSEM Homeland Security Emergency Management
#Outbreak Disease Outbreak
#CBRNE Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and Explosive
#Hazmat Hazardous Materials
#SMEM Social Media Emergency Management
… and many more. See:
http://davislogic.blogspot.com/2011/08/twitter-hashtags-and-emergency.html

24. Current Awareness - Apps
• Disaster Apps and Mobile Optimized Web Pages:
http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/dimrc/disasterapps.html
WISER

25. Current Awareness - Apps
• Disaster Apps and Mobile Optimized Web Pages:
http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/dimrc/disasterapps.html
Outbreaks Near Me PDC World Disaster Alerts

26. News Sources

27. News sources
• Databases containing local and Canadian
sources, international sources, or both

28. News Sources – Google News
Alerts

29. Exercise
• Use Canadian Newsstand or CBCA Complete
to search for news articles about McGill
University and a campus safety or emergency
management topic of your choice.
• Set up a weekly alert for this search that will
run for 6 months.

30. Exercise
• Use Lexis-Nexis and Google News to search
for news articles about the February 2012
student occupation of McGill’s James
Administration Building.
• Compare the results.

31. Filtered Information
•Synthesized guidelines
•Systematic reviews
Scholarly Literature
•“Peer-reviewed” journal articles
•Indexed articles and books
Other Indexed Publications
•News articles
•Trade magazine articles
“Grey Literature”
•Organizational reports
•Training and workshop materials
•Conference proceedings
•Blog entries

32. Presentations

33. Summary
1. What are three methods you can use to monitor
publications?
2. Where can you search for news articles?
3. Which kinds of studies represent the “best
evidence” for safety interventions/initiatives at
McGill?
4. Name one intervention that you learned about
through these workshops that could be
implemented at McGill?

34. Post-Test
http://bit.ly/EBEMtest