Publications
Contents
Publications - periodicals
For periodical publications, see:
- Newsletters 1975 to 2019 (National MLG/MLS/HLS groups)
- JoHILA (Journal of Health Information and Libraries Australasia)
- NSW Minutes and Newsletters
- Health Inform Newsletters (Victoria)
- Medical Librarians’ Group (MLG) Newsletters (Victoria)
- Medical Librarians’ Section (MLS) & Health Libraries Section (HLS) Newsletters (Victoria)
Research and reports
For research findings and reports published by HLA, please see the HLA Reports and Research page.
Publications - miscellaneous other
About
Original documents are stored in ALIA House, Canberra.
Includes lists of recommended books, journals and reference materials; directories reports. Final printed copy is in bold.
The table below includes summaries of the hard copy content and some links to digital files.
Archive contents
| YearMonthDate | Description of Item |
|---|---|
| 19730515 | Medical Librarians' Group (Vic Branch) meeting to discuss the most practical and useful format and contents of a medical librarians' directory. Includes a sheet of suggested samples. Headings include: Librarian's name, Number of staff, telephone numbers, telex, cable, type of institution, hours of opening, most convenient ILL request times, loan policy, ILL Loan period, public access, special collections, journals received airmail, photocopying facilities, ILL copying charges, special conditions |
| 19731116 | Comments from the AACOBS Sub-Committee on Medical Library Services on The STISEC Report: report to the Council of the National Library of Australia by the Scientific and Technological information Services Enquiry Committee: May 1973. Volume I: scientific and technological information services in Australia. Canberra: NLA, 1973. ISBN 0642990093. |
| 1974 | List of basic journals for hospital libraries. Medical Librarians' Group (Victorian Branch). 1974. |
| 1974 | Basic list of books for small hospital libraries compiled by the Medical Librarians' Group (Victorian Branch). |
| 197507 | Noted in July 1975 MLG (Vic Branch) newsletter as an article of interest: West, Kelly M. Library and Information Services for Small Hospitals. JAMA May 5th 1975 p. 505-8 |
| 19750828 | The Librarian in the changing world of medicine. Workshop held Thurs 28th - Fri 29th August 1975 at Lincoln Institute, Melbourne, as part of the 18th LAA Biennial Conference, Melbourne, 23rd - 29th August, 1975. The workshop examined the future role of the medical library in meeting the changing needs of the medical profession and the developing needs of the paramedical professions, and how this role can best be fulfilled. The papers report the text of the keynote address, the edited minutes of group discussions and conclusions. Associated correspondence included. [Papers also held in the State Library of Victoria http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/MAIN:Everything:SLV_VOYAGER683623 ] |
| 19760213 | LAA MLG Vic Branch allocated $100 towards cost of updating the Directory of Medical Libraries in Victoria |
| 197607 | Medical Librarians' Group (Victorian Branch) Library Manual Pro Forma July 1976. This pro forma is designed as a basic outline of headings common to all libraries. Contents: The library in relation to the institution; Staff; Selection and acquisition; Cataloguing and classification; Lending; Reference services; General administration |
| 1977 | Suggested basic book list for small allied health sciences library. Medical Librarians' Group (Victorian Branch). 1977. |
| 19770110 | Darwin Hospital Medical Library received funds to re-establish stocks lost in Cyclone Tracy. This library is under administrative control of the librarian Australian Health Department (Bert Pribac). There is also a Nurses Library in the Tutorial Department. |
| 1977 | Suggested basic book list for small allied health sciences library. January 1977, Medical Librarians' Group, Victorian Branch (Parkville, Vic.) |
| 1977 | February - Sample of new directory production template |
| 19780314 | Norma Worswick, Medical Librarian, Ballarat and District Base Hospital (Victoria), agrees to be on a sub-committee with Gayle Edwards (Lincoln Institute) and May Ygoa (St Vincent's Nurses Library) for the book list as it would be used in country hospitals; to include nursing and paramedical material. |
| 19780717 | MLG (Vic) Chair Liz Osborn wrote to Paul Hodgson at the National Library of Australia. Enclosed Victorian directory. Requested a national one. |
| 19780804 | Bert Pribac, Central Library, Australian Dept of Health, is doing a study on core lists in biomedicine; says this is the first Australian list of this type; wants details of methodology of compilation and selection |
| 19780925 | Reply to Bert from Anne McLean, Member, Journal List Sub-Committee - will be available shortly and sent to Bert; Methodology - several previous editions; feedback from Group and hospital staff to sub-committee. Sent Bert Book List and noted that a sub-committee has been formed to update this to include nursing and paramedical material |
| 19790529 | Gayle Edwards, Lincoln Institute of Health Sciences, Melbourne, prepared a list of basic books for a library serving therapists |
| 19790331 | Norma Worswick, Ballarat Base Hospital (Victoria) submitted Reference and Subject book list including previous list, new editions and additional subjects; apologized for the delay as typist only available for one hour per day and needs to prioritise library typing over book list. |
| 1979 | List of journals for the smaller medical or allied health science library: an annotated guide to selection. Medical Librarians' Group (Victorian Branch). May 1979. |
| 19790612 | National Library of Australia assign ISBN 0 959 5379 0 2 for Suggested basic book list for small allied health sciences library, January 1977. |
| 19791114 | May McKeown, Nurses' Library, St Vincent's Hospital, Fitzroy (Melbourne) compiled a suggested basic list of Nusing books - sent this to Norma with gayle's therapists list for Norma to incorporate all three and delete a few to ensure it’s a basic list and not too lengthy |
| 1980 | Suggested basic book list for small allied health sciences library. Medical Librarians' Group (Victorian Branch). January 1980. |
| 19820302 | Joan Martin, President, LAA MLS VIC Group wrote to Bert Pribac, librarian, Commonwealth Dept of Health congratulating Bert and Margeurite Price on Life sciences libraries in Australia: a directory. Suggestion for future - include airmail subscriptions. Abandon future Victorian one. Offer help with amending future national one. |
| 1983 | Towards a manual of Australian hospital library practice: a report of a feasibility study by Carmel Maguire and Eugenia Lovelace. Canberra: National Library of Australia, 1983. This was commissioned by the National Library of Australia. The Medical Libraries Section was invited to comment by 28th February 1984. A compilation of comments was submitted 31st May 1984 by Susan Liepa, President, Medical Libraries Section, Victorian Group. |
| 1984 | Recommended list of books, journals and reference material for small health science libraries / compiled by a Working Group on behalf of the Medical Librarians' Section (Victorian Group), Library Association of Australia. Melbourne: Royal Children's Hospital Library, 1984. |
| 1984 | The use of microcomputers in libraries by Ray Walsh, in Australian Special Libraries News, 17(2) Sept. 1984. p17-20. |
| 19850115 | Pat Nakouz (Regional Medical Librarian, Health Commission of Victoria) wrote to Joan Martin, Life Sciences Librarian, Brownless Medical Library (University of Melbourne) and President of MLS (Vic) suggesting that by putting an updated medical library directory onto tape using new software (InMagic) it will be easier to keep it up to date. |
| 1985 | 6th Biennial Australian Medical Librarians' Conference. Medical libraries - new directions. Proceedings. LAA Medical Libraries Section. ISBN 0868044253 |
| 1985 | 6th Biennial Australian Medical Librarians' Conference. Medical libraries - new directions. Programme-Abstracts. LAA Medical Libraries Section. |
| 1985 | Job sharing in a hospital library by Cecily Gilbert and Kathleen Gray, in Australian Special Libraries News, 18(2) June 1985. p51-5. |
| 1986 | Quality assurance in hospital libraries. Issue no. 1. Information kit. Produced by AMA/ACHS Peer Review Resource Centre with the assistance of Library Association of Australia Medical Libraries Section; compiled by Frances Bluhdorn, June 1986. |
| 1986 | GRATIS: a break with tradition by Frances L. Bludhorn in Australian Special Libraries News, 19(2) June 1986. p53-7. |
| 1987 | Recommended list of books, journals and reference material for small health science libraries compiled by the Publications Sub-Committee of the Medical Librarians' Section (Victorian Group), Australian Library and Information Association. 3rd ed. Ultimo, NSW: ALIA, 1987. ISBN 0868040436. |
| 1987 | 7th Biennial Australian Medical Librarians' Conference. Health sciences librarians - the dynamic communicators. Proceedings. LAA Medical Libraries Section, Adelaide. ISBN 0868044296. |
| 1987 | The low-down on a hitech product - CD ROM by Richard Siegersma, in Australian Special Libraries News, 29(2) June 1987. p51-6. |
| 1987 | The Adelaide Hospital medical library 1870-1890 by Julie Hooke in Australian Special Libraries News, 20(4) Dec 1987. p111-6. |
| 19900914 | Advertisement for Recommended list of books, journals & reference materials for small health science libraries compiled by the Publications Subcommittee of the Medical Libraries Section (Victorian Group), 1987. Cost $10 including postage and packing. Prepayment required - sent to Ian Stubbin, National Secretary, ALIA HLS, for ad in National Newsletter. |
| 1990 | Collection development in a small hospital library by Lindsay Harris in Australian Special Libraries News, 23(1) Mar 1990. p15-23. |
| 1991 | Achieving excellence: proceedings of the 4th Asian Pacific Special and Law Librarians' Conference with 9th Biennial Health Librarians' Conference. Proceedings. ISBN 0868044652. A joint publication of the Special Libraries Section and the Health Libraries Section of the Australian Library and Information Association, and the Australian Law Librarians Group, Canberra, ACT. |
| 1991 | Achieving excellence: proceedings of the 4th Asian Pacific Special and Law Librarians' Conference with 9th Biennial Health Librarians' Conference. Supplement. |
| 1992 | Running a small health care library : practical ideas in library procedures. Brochure for course run by the Mayfield Education Centre in Malvern, Victoria. |
| 1992 | Aboriginal health workers: a guide to resources for education and training compiled by Anne Batt, Perth, 1992. ISBN 064609866. |
| 1994 | Australian Library and Information Professionals compiled and edited by Alan and Judith Bundy. Adelaide: Auslib Press, 1994. ISBN 1875145273. |
| 1995 | Veronica Delafosse (Librarian, Caulfield General Medical Centre) won the Anne Harrison Award (1993) and The Australian Serials Special Interest Group Research Award (1994) - compiled Resources for health sciences: a guide for Australia. Adelaide, SA: Auslib Press, 1995. |
| 1996 | Hospital libraries - their contribution in perspective by Virginia Walsh in Australian Special Libraries News, 29(4) Dec, 1996. p109-11. |
| 1997 | Health libraries: challenges in the commercial environment edited by Kathy Saurine. Adelaide: Auslib Press, 1997. (Library challenges series number ten). 1995 Anne Harrison Award winner. |
| 1997 | Investigating the use of the Internet and other information sources by health professionals: a report on the application of a research tool by Sonia Lorena Smirneos, 1997 Anne Harrison Award recipient. |
| 1997 | On the edge: proceedings of the Seventh Asian Pacific Specials, Health and Law Librarians' Conference, held in Perth 12-16 October 1997. A joint publication of the Special Libraries Section, Health Libraries Section of the Australian Library and Information Association and the Australian Law Librarians Group. ISBN 0868045438. |
| 20010827 | Launch of Continuing Professional Development for Evidence Based Practice web site by Greg Fowler and Gabby Fennessy, winners of the 2000 Anne Harrison Award - Module One: an introduction to EBP |
| 20011022 | Report from Greg Fowler - ALIA Fringe: beyond the square 22nd - 23rd October 2000. Evidence based health care - diverse career opportunities for librarians. Outlines what evidence based health care is and what roles librarians are undertaking in this major process of change in health care. |
