Current HLABC Activities:
Electronic Health Library of BC (e-HLbc)
The e-HLbc initiative is designed to provide consistent, province-wide access to high quality electronic library resources for the health care delivery and academic health sector. Please see the HLABC Initiatives page to read more about e-HLbc and for a link to the BC Academic Health Council, or see e-HLbc's website at http://www.ehlbc.ca.
C.W. (Bill) Fraser Professional Development / Travel Grant
The grant is named in honour of Bill Fraser (1925-2005). We honour Bill for his vision, leadership and support for health librarians and library staff throughout British Columbia.
Bill was the first president of the BC health libraries association, first director of the Library of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC, adjunct professor at UBC SLAIS and tireless advocate for BC health libraries.
The Grant is intended to help HLABC members attend the HLABC annual CE event, the Annual General Meeting or other general meetings throughout the year by waiving the CE course fees for members experiencing financial hardships and/or reimbursing travel expenses of members who do not live in the lower mainland. Priority will be given to those HLABC members who are actively involved in the Association. The total sum available for the grant is $450 per year. The HLABC Executive will review all applications and release grant funds at its discretion.
For further information, including qualification criteria, click here.
The 2008/09 recipients were Sarah Murdoch Black & Andrea Bretherick. Their report can be found here.
SLAIS - CHLA Student Interest Group
In June 2006, a group of UBC School of Library, Archival and Information Studies (SLAIS) MLIS students interested in health librarianship met to form their own SLAIS CHLA Student Interest Group.
Does the Ministry of Health Planning/Services Need a Library Service?
Are MOHP/S managers, researchers, and professional staff able to fairly allocate resources to a $9.5 billion health system without effective access to the 40,000 health sciences articles published each month? Ninety percent of this new knowledge is fee-based and is not available via search engines on the Internet.
Presentation by Elizabeth Woodworth, Manager, Library Services to Gordon Butterfield, Executive Director Technology Services, IMG, and to Key Ministry of Health Planning/Services Stakeholders
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