📗 Event Description
Join us for a practical session on literature searches, focusing on how to present results effectively to clients.
Learn strategies to make your search outputs clear, actionable, and tailored to client needs.
🗣️ Presenters
Kim Meers – Redland Hospital – Metro South Health
Susie Moreton – Epworth Healthcare (Epworth Knowledge Services)
Jackie Edwards – Murrumbidgee Local Health District
Maddie Beer – Monash Health
Kim is the Library Manager and sole librarian based at Redland Hospital Cleveland QLD. She has a passion for education, information literacy and health literacy. She helped initiate eBooks into QLD Health in 2009 and ran the consumer health literacy program Words for Wellbeing program at Redland Hospital. As well as providing library services to Bayside Health Service staff she is a Research Integrity Advisor and an active member on many hospital committees, including the General Clinical Education Committee, Research Advisory Group, Research Integrity Committee, Metro South Health Literacy Committee and the Standard 2 Consumer Partnership Committee.
Susie trained as a teacher before completing her Masters in Information Science. She has worked in academic libraries and publishing, and joined Epworth in 2009 where her passion for autodidactism, discovery and access has enabled her to contribute across all domains. EKS is a fully accessible web-based knowledge service which is integrated with Epworth’s clinical, education, research and quality activities. Susie has positioned literature searching as EKS’s premier service for doctors and senior staff, leveraging our expertise in discovery, access and understanding of our requestors’ needs.
Jackie is Library Manager at Murrumbidgee Local Health District, located at Wagga Base Hospital. I support MLHD staff and affiliated students from UNSW Rural Medical School and CSU School of Rural Medicine. I have extensive experience in local government, health, and University libraries. My interests include user experience, digital resources, and research.
Madeleine is a Medical Librarian at Monash Health Library with extensive experience in advanced literature searching to support clinical care, research, and organizational decision-making. She also delivers training webinars to enhance literature searching skills among healthcare professionals.
✅ ALIA HLA Competencies
C3: Resources
C5: Digital, ehealth & technology
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🕐 When
Thursday, 5 March 2026
1-2 pm (Vic/NSW/TAS/ACT);
12-1 pm (QLD);
12:30-1:30pm (SA);
11:30am-12:30pm (NT);
10-11 am (WA);
3-4 pm (NZ)
🗺️ Where
Online webinar Zoom – a link will be sent the day prior.
This event will be recorded and sent to attendees following the event.
💰 Cost
ALIA Members – Free (One of 14 reasons to consider HLA Membership)
Non-Members – $30
📝 Register
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🧗♀️ Professional Development
One CPD hour towards Health Professional Development Scheme