An extensive list of courses and events that map to the eight HLA Competencies are now available Many can be done anytime online Useful to progress from: A health librarian caterpillar 🐛, to A fully-fledged beautiful health librarian butterfly 🦋 Less entomological but...

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JoHILA – 1st 🥇 issue of 2025 now available for your reading pleasure
The brand new shiny 1st edition of 2025 is now available Various articles of interest including an overview of 22 AI tools, State updates, request management and more There is an Archive available and you can also search for past articles
Quiz – 📚 Library 💑 Lovers 🌞 Day (Submit answers by Fri 21 Feb)
Happy Library Lovers Day for 2025. While health libraries are usually stuck with displays of “Hurst’s the heart” , this year something a little extra. A quiz, of sorts, from Health Libraries Australia. Below are nine appalling arrogations of famous love poems or love...
The ALIA Connection: Reflections of the ALIA Leadership Bursary
Report from the recipient of the ALIA / HLG Leadership Bursary which is part of the HLG Newsletter Autumn/Winter 2024-2025 from the UK
HLA Competencies 👉 3 Minute Survey (closes 2nd Dec)
We need your help! (for just a few minutes ...) We are updating the ALIA HLA Competencies (2018) to reflect current and likely future requirements for the specialist health librarian and health library technician workforce, and to ensure they are compatible with the...
Why I Love Being a Hospital Librarian! – 2 Recordings 🎦 Now Available (US + AU)
1. US Version Thanks to the MLA Health Libraries Caucus View Recording Passcode: !HUG9msT Speakers: Michele Matucheski, Caroline Marshall, Amanda Schwartz, Mary Beth McAteer, Amy Six-Means, Helen-Ann Brown Epstein, Tomi Gunn Note: "The transcript contains errors that...
Latest JoHILA – PICO / DSpace / Video tools / SR’s / Researchers Toolbox & more
Vol 4 No 3 (2023) of JoHILA has just been published, and in addition to the above, there is plenty more including mis/dis/info, GratisNet, Ovid Synthesis etc Inspired by any of these, or would like more people to know about something you have developed? You are...
Aaron Tay’s Latest – All about citation chasing and tools for chasing them …
All about citation chasing and tools that do citation chasing like Citation Gecko, Connected papers, Research Rabbit, LitMaps and more Like learning? There just happens to be a...
Free online course – Evidence Synthesis for Librarians and Information Specialists
Free (for a limited time) online: Evidence Synthesis for Librarians and Information Specialists (additional information) Some related presentations at the fast approaching HLA Conference: Reducing research waste and improving access to quality evidence...
Call for Abstracts (by 29/04) – HLA Conference (29-30 Aug) – Caboolture Hospital Qld
This year the theme is: Wicked Problems Innovative Solutions. Libraries face a myriad of complex challenges in today’s dynamic information environment. Often described as ‘wicked problems’ due to their multifaceted and interconnected nature, these encompass diverse...