Professional Development, Education and Training
PD Scheme
Competencies and Course Map
PD Events
Past PD
HLA PD Day 26/11 – Future Gazing – Innovation, Disruption, Transformation!
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Timestamps:
Publishing – Nicholas Talley (4:00), Education Pathways (43:40), Digital Health (48:30), HeLINS (1:27:20), Managers Group (1:32:00), Anne Harrison Award (1:34:00), Digital Health Award (1:37:50), HCL Anderson Award (1:40:40), NZ Update (1:45:20), Staff wellness (1:55:20), Study designs (2:02:30), Tweet preservation (2:08:17), Search tools (2:13:15) Virtual health care (2:20:45), Library access (2:29:30), Services to regions (2:36:55), Service design thinking (2:45:23).
Now, Next, Beyond COVID-19 – Health Librarians Experiences
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Timestamps:
National Taskforce I 4:10, II 15:20; PubMed 24:30; Wolters Kluwer 37:15; Redeployment 43:45; COVID Survey 51:30
Resources for new health librarians
- Join the aliaHEALTH e-list to stay up to date
- Attend an informal HLA networking event (details posted on e-list and this website)
- Find a mentor – set up a monthly check-in with someone external to your new workplace for peer-to-peer learning
- Read JOHILA – Journal of Health Information & Libraries Australasia
- Listen to Shoosh – a podcast about Health Libraries
- Consider undertaking a medical terminology course to help you with the jargon!
- Join some health library Communities of Practice:
- Are you a Manager? Join the Australian Health Library Managers Collaborative – contact Cheryl.Hamill@health.wa.gov.au
- Are you a Hospital Librarian? Join the Hospital Librarians’ CoP – contact Keren.Moskal@monashhealth.org (please note this is group is suitable for mid-career librarians and non-managers. Managers are encouraged to join the Australian Health Library Managers Collaborative). Visit the Hospital Librarians CoP website
- Are you a Library Technician? Join the Health Library Technicians Community of Practice Group – contact Helen.Rowe@monashhealth.org
- Are you a Solo Librarian? Join the Health Library Solo Community of Practice Group – contact jane.orbell-smith@health.qld.gov.au
Competencies and Course Map
View the 2022 Courses List (updated June 2022)
HLA aims to help health library staff to identify courses and learning programs that will contribute to their professional development, and if desired to gain recognition as a Certified Professional (Health). The Health Specialisation Skills Audit will help you identify gaps in your knowledge and provide guidance for choosing your most appropriate continuing professional development activities. The Competencies Review project was undertaken in 2018 by Ann Ritchie, and reported at the RAILS Conference (Melbourne, 28th November, 2018)
HLA Competencies 2018
Competencies Review and Comparison poster 2019
Health Librarianship Competencies
Review project
Creating the health librarian
professional workforce for the future by Ann Ritchie Presentation
Creating the health librarian
professional workforce for the future by Ann Ritchie Notes
Health librarianship courses and PD mapped to HLA Competency Areas
The Competency Mapping work has produced a list of numerous events and programs in 2022 that are relevant to health librarians and technicians in Australia. The courses are also mapped to HLA’s eight competency areas.
View the 2022 Courses List
We welcome your feedback on the list, and suggestions of new items to add. Please send these to BuntingJ@ramsayhealth.com.au.
Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
Getting a job in a health library (03 Aug)
ALIA HLA Lunchtime Seminar: Getting a job in a health library – how to maximise your chances through ‘work integrated learning’ programs This session will include a panel of recent graduates who will talk about their student placements and graduate cadetships in...
Health Library Innovations – Session 1 (30 Aug)
Health libraries are adept at changing practices and processes to ensure they pivot to meet changing technological and organisational needs that enhance processes and clinical decision-making abilities. Come and hear from four different speakers to learn about an...
Visual design made easy – with Canva (14 Jul)
This hands-on workshop will show you the basics of how to use the online tool Canva to create engaging and professional visual graphics for the healthcare environment. This session covers: • ...
Past PD Days
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
Satellite event for the EBLIP8 Conference, Brisbane, July 9th
2014
Joint Collaboration Conference
2014
Joint Collaboration Conference HLA News Collaboration Special Edition