Current HLABC Activities:

HLABC CE Day & AGM - Saturday June 26, 2010

Posted June 8, 2010 - 9:12am

CE Theme: Health Data & Electronic Medical Records

Register now (deadline: June 23rd) 

*New* this year: Online attendance option for members unable to join us in person this June! (Limit of 25; be sure to register early!)

June 26, 2010 
10:00am - 4:00pm 
College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC 
400 - 858 Beatty Street Vancouver, BC 
CPSBC / Vancouver City Centre Map

  

HLABC Webcasting pilot project 

Posted June 8, 2010 - 4:50pm

Thanks to a generous CHLA/ABSC Chapter Initiatives Grant, HLABC will be running a Webcasting CE pilot program for the 2010-2011 year. During the course of the coming year, many of our annual events will be made available via the WebEx online meeting/broadcasting software platform. We are excited to experiment with and refine techniques for online delivery of CE for health librarians, and hope this will make CE more accessible to our members outside the Lower Mainland, particularly in this time of budgetary constraints.

For live CE events and meetings, you must register your WebEx attendance with HLABC in advance to receive a code with which to log in to the meeting. You will connect to the audioconference either via VOIP (free, but you must have the equipment, i.e. sound card/microphone/speakers, at your computer), or via using your phone to dial into a (toll) phone # that WebEx will provide. WebEx works on multiple platforms, including Windows, Mac OS and Ubuntu.

For information on system requirements to participate in a WebEx meeting, see: http://support.webex.com/support/system-requirements.html. You can join a "test meeting" to check your system requirements here: http://www.webex.com/lp/jointest

 

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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HLABC on Twitter

HLABC is now on Twitter!  For news, events and other updates of interest to HLABC members follow us at http://www.twitter.com/HLABC