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Submission to urge NLM to update their indigenous MeSH term
A statement has been submitted to the US National Library of Medicine to urge a change to the relevant MeSH term to better reflect Australia's Indigenous communities. View the Statement
Winner 2022 HLA/MedicalDirector Innovation Award is …
John Prentice, Library Manager, ANZCA For his project – Automated interlibrary loan/document delivery (ILL/DD) database for health libraries Using MS Access, John Prentice has created a low-cost interlibrary loan/document delivery database that automates...
New Live Literature Searches Available – Health Library Guidelines
As well as NSQHS and COVID live literature searches, there is now a set of automatic PubMed searches related to the new Guidelines for Australian Health Libraries (5th Edition, 2022) Access the Guidelines Live Literature Searches. Suggestions / Corrections related to...
New Guidelines for Australian Health Libraries Published
This is now official and the 5th Edition 2022 can be accessed here. There are also Live Literature Searches available with the new guidelines.
Latest Shoosh Podcast – Librarian Laura (on left …)
Listen to the Podcast Have you heard about Hurd? She is the one on the left above. Laura Hurd is librarian at Rockhampton Hospital. Rockhampton is a city of 80000 people in Central Queensland, about 8 hours north of Brisbane. This is a fascinating and most enjoyable...
Winner – Anne Harrison Award 2022
The administrators of the Anne Harrison Award take great pleasure in announcing that the winner for 2022 is Keren Moskal with her project EBP Training Syllabus for Health Libraries Design and implementation of an overarching evidence-based practice (EBP) syllabus that...
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Leveraging Wikipedia for Health Research Dissemination (3-4 pm 06 Jun)
Wikipedia is the most frequently consulted resource for medical information on the internet. Engaging with this platform is crucial for disseminating health and social care information to a lay audience. The National Institute for Health and Care Research's project...
Recording now available – “What I love about being a health librarian”
🎦 Watch the Recording Passcode: uy1*wypS 💘 What I love about being a health librarian Come along and hear from colleagues about why they love being a health librarian – celebrate the profession and learn from colleagues about what inspires them. (If you haven't seen...
AI Tools for Information Professionals – 12 months on! (Thu 25 Jul)
Join our UK based presenter Phil Bradley to explore where AI search is at 12 months on from our last session. Phil will spend time looking at new search engines, ChatGPT’s enhanced functionality, and introduce us to a variety of new tools to explore. 🧑...
Health Librarians gone in 10yrs? Watch the debate + (real) citations …
Recording (passcode - QQxd61T?) Citations: www.nytimes.com/2023/06/10/business/ai-jobs-work.html https://willrobotstakemyjob.com/librarians-and-media-collections-specialists https://www.replacedbyrobot.info/15168/hospital-librarian...
AI methods in evidence synthesis: free Cochrane Training (1H, 2025)
Several free webinars are available in this area in the first half of 2025 They are recorded so can be viewed on demand The full list of Cochrane Live Learning events can be viewed here and if you scroll down then the archive of recorded webinars is available for...
Identifying Unpublished Clinical Trial Data for Evidence Synthesis – Glanville, Lefebvre
Happening soon at a Australian unfriendly viewing time, but can watch later at a more convenient time up to 30 days post-event https://instats.org/seminar/identifying-unpublished-clinical-trial-d5 This workshop provides an overview of identifying clinical trials and...
About HLA
Health Libraries Australia (HLA) is the national professional organisation representing librarians and information professionals working in all health sectors including: hospitals and other clinical facilities, research institutes, regulatory agencies, pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, government departments, regional health services, professional colleges, universities, cooperative research centres, not-for-profit and community organisations, and parts of public library services. The vision of Health Libraries Australia is that all Australians benefit from health library and information professionals’ expertise that is integral to evidence based health care.
Who are Health Librarians
Health Librarians are health information professionals who focus on the services and systems that deliver research-derived data, information and knowledge to healthcare clinicians, managers, policy-makers, educators and researchers. They contribute to the development of knowledge through research services, from reference consultations and literature searching to advanced forms of evidence synthesis. They manage the research knowledge base published in all formats, as well as grey literature. Their responsibilities extend to advancing the application of evidence-based practice through health literacy and teaching, knowledge management and translation services, facilitating the links between clinical decision-making, policy/guideline/protocol development, and health research, i.e. translating evidence into practice. Health librarians are responsible for the delivery of services that are the only dedicated, secure, permanent and trustworthy source of authoritative information, critical and fundamental to an organisation’s information governance structures.
HLA Executive Committee
The HLA Executive Committee brings the work of ALIA Health Libraries Australia Group to the fore at Board level. The members of the committee advise the ALIA Directors about topics of interest and concern to health libraries and nurture relationships with allied associations, in Australia and internationally. HLA Executive 2026 – Contact Information / HLA Executive – Terms of Reference (2025)