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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.

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