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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

🎦 Video creation made easy in Canva (1.00 – 2.00 pm AEST, Thu 1st May via Zoom)

🌏 Where: Online via Zoom (link to be sent day prior) 👯 Trainers: Eunice Ang - Medical Librarian, Northern Health Keren Moskal - Clinical Librarian and Education Lead - Monash Health 💰 Cost: $35 ALIA members; $65 Non-ALIA members. Another reason - along with...

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...

Here I am! Making the invisible library visible in healthcare (🎦 video now available)

👩 Presenter - Lori Korodaj 🕐 Feb 19 / 1:00 PM / Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney 🎦 Video can be viewed on the HLA Videos page CHS Library and Multimedia supports Canberra Health Services and ACT Health staff in providing evidence-based healthcare and research development...

Research Methods for Health Librarians 1: Survey Research (🎦 now available)

This free session is organised and developed in collaboration with the HLI and ALIA Research Advisory Committee 🎦 To view the video, visit the HLA Videos page 👉 Session Details Survey Research is a popular methodology to collect information from a sample of...

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

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...

Using Covidence to maximise efficiency for systematic reviews – 🎦 now available

🎦 Watch Recording (Passcode: &R&7CZIQ) HLA Lunchtime Session 🕐 When: 7 November, 2024 1pm – 2pm AESDT 👫 Presenters: Julie Brown - Covidence; Cassandra Gorton - Monash Health 💲 Cost: Free 🌏 Location: Zoom...

Evidence-Based Practice Librarians’ Institute (18-22 Nov, Brisbane)

The Australian Evidence-Based Practice Librarians’ Institute (AEBPLI) is an introduction to Evidence-Based Practice, focusing on question building, searching, critical appraisal of the literature, and advanced topics related to systematic reviews. Facilitated by...

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...

ALIA HLA Conference – Aug 29-30, 2024, Caboolture Hospital, Qld

The 2024 HLA Conference theme is: Wicked Problems, Innovative Solutions. Join us for an exhilarating exploration of the multifaceted challenges facing our libraries. Don’t miss the opportunity to join the conversation, collaborate with others and emerge...

Health Libraries Inc (HLi) Conference – Friday 18th Oct in Marvellous Melbourne

Couldn't make it to the recent HLA Conference? There's still a chance to get some health librarian professional development in before 2025 ... 🔎 View the Program ✍ Register 🙂 Bonus conference - free Victorian Healthcare Week runs the two days prior (Wed, Thu) to the...

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. 🧑...

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...

Identifying Economic Evidence for HTA’s (Julie Glanville, 14 & 19 Nov)

✍ Event Description Health economics evidence is a key element in much health services research and particularly in health technology assessments. Identifying economic evidence to inform such research can involve searches in a range of databases and using a variety of...

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...

Events & courses mapped to 8 health librarian competencies (July 2024)

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 🦋 (and more prosaically,...

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...