Health Professional Development Scheme
It’s possible to become a certified Health Specialisation professional. This entitles you to add post-nominals to your title and be listed on a website as having obtained this Certification
For more information, view:
HLA has also produced a list of 2022 courses that are aligned with the 8 HLA Competencies and these may assist with professional development
Competencies and Course Map
View the 2023 Courses List (updated Feb 2023). These courses / activities have been mapped to the eight HLA Competencies to assist you with your professional development
Health Specialisation Skills Audit will help you identify gaps in your knowledge and provide guidance for choosing your most appropriate courses
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 – sign up via the Hospital Librarians’ CoP website (please note this is group is suitable for early- to mid-career librarians and non-managers. Managers are encouraged to join the Australian Health Library Managers Collaborative)
- 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 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
Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
Streamlining Reference Services (1-2 pm Fri 28 Apr 2023)
Overview: For many health libraries the use of tools to help streamline reference services is common place. Come and hear from colleagues about what tools they use, why they use them, and the positives and negatives of each product. Presentations: RefTracker...
Helping researchers publish – a health librarian perspective (11 May 23)
Presenter: Anna Griffith, Library Manager - Albury Wodonga Health Overview: For many health libraries, facilitating evidence-based healthcare often extends to supporting clinicians to publish their own research and case reports. Navigating the maze of health...
Automated ILL / Doc Del database for health libraries (29 Mar 2023)
Presenter: John Prentice, ANZCA Overview: This presentation will demonstrate the use of MS Access, to create a low-cost interlibrary loan/document delivery database that automates both the typical article search, request, and communication process for a...
Asia-Pacific Health Law and Special Libs Conference (13-15 Jun, 2023)
More details and Registrations About the Conference The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) is delighted to announce the relaunch of our Health, Law and Special libraries conference. The Asia-Pacific Health, Law and Special libraries conference will...
How 5 PIDs could save your country millions! (YouTube video)
A recently published report by the MoreBrains Cooperative, commissioned by the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) and the Australian Access Federation (AAF) found that close to 38,000 person-days per year, equivalent to nearly...
Past Professional Development (PD) Days
2021
2020
2019 Program
Living Evidence – Partnerships and technology for up to date, reliable evidence – Julian Elliott
Better Connections: The future of digital health – Angela Ryan (ADHA)
Being data savvy – What do health librarians need to know? – Liz Stokes
Polyglot Search Translator – Justin Clark
Your authors will love you – Classifying search results to reduce numbers to screen – Anne Parkhill
Using machine learning to semi-automate abstract screening in a systematic review – Leo Ng
Ask an informationist – Choosing Wisely at Austin Health – Helen Baxter / Michele Gaca
Research data management – is this a niche role for health librarians? – Patrick Splawa-Neyman
“I want what she’s got” – Providing a liaison librarian-supported metrics service – Chrissy Freestone
Bibliometric analysis of University of Newcastle systematic reviews – Debbie Booth
What we count to what really counts – Measure outcomes versus activities for your library using statistical evidence – Laiman Li / Jacinta Cloney (OCLC)
Advocacy for Health Libraries – Sue McKerracher (ALIA)
Digital health education strategies for a skilled healthcare workforce: Be part of the conversation and contribute to the future of digital health learning and capability – Angela Ryan (ADHA)
Work smarter, not harder: How to utilise data to build an efficient library service – Cameron Wu & Cindy Slater (EBSCO) / Helen Ried
Person-centred care and its role in health literacy: How librarians can champion its values – Lindsay Barnes
Using automation tools to improve the speed of searching for studies for a systematic review – Justin Clark
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