VIC HLS Health Inform Newsletters
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Contents
'Health Inform' Newsletters: Health Libraries Section, Victorian Group
Original copies
- Original documents stored in ALIA House, Canberra, in Archive Folder named VIC HLS Health Inform Newsletters - ; 1(1) and 2(2) (1992) are also available on READ ALIA
- Health Inform was produced as follows: 1(1) March 1992 - 10(2) June 2001 - the final ALIA Health Libraries Section, Victorian Group newsletter.
- 37 Newsletters exist
- The previous newsletters are in the VIC MLG Newsletters folder for the years 1971-1978 and the VIC MLS_HLS Newsletters for the years 1983-1991.
Scanned copies
PDFs are available from the table below.
Files are named as follows: VIC HLS Health Inform Month Year.pdf.
| File Title | Download File | Issue | Summary of contents |
|---|---|---|---|
| VIC HLS Health Inform March 1992.pdf | File:VIC HLS Health Inform March 1992.pdf | 1(1) March 1992 | Contents: BRS Demonstration of Medline; Obituary Anne Harrison 1923-1992; Executive: Jo Marshall, Kathy Hutton, Roxanne McIvor, Lisa Belkin, David Lloyd, Enid Meldrum, Jenni Rusciano, Suzanne O'Callaghan, Janet Hindson. |
| VIC HLS Health Inform June 1992.pdf | File:VIC HLS Health Inform June 1992.pdf | 1(2) June 1992 | Contents: Future format of journals (print or electronic); subscription services and document delivery; Fairfield Campus Information Network; Australian Council of Allied Health Professionals; ADONIS at the Brownless Medical Library full text document delivery; AARNet Australian Academic and Research Network; Performance indicators - statistics from 1990/91 Health Libraries Annual Survey; obituary Mary Delafield 1927-1992. |
| VIC HLS Health Inform September 1992.pdf | File:VIC HLS Health Inform September 1992.pdf | 1(3) September 1992 | Contents: Case-mix funding; demonstration of ADONIS electronic delivery of full text journals on CD-ROM; Book review - Core collection of medical books and journals 1992; Patients and hospital libraries; costs of CD-ROMS and computers; London library exchange. |
| VIC HLS Health Inform December 1992.pdf | File:VIC HLS Health Inform December 1992.pdf | 1(4) December 1992 | Contents: Recession survival strategies; ARIEL for document delivery; ABN redevelopment; conference reports: 3rd European Conference of Medical Libraries, Montpellier, ALIA Biennial, Albury. |
| VIC HLS Health Inform March 1993.pdf | File:VIC HLS Health Inform March 1993.pdf | 2(1) March 1993 | Contents: ARIEL sites; Online conference report; impact of information technology; setting up a library bookshop; new Executive members: Jan Reiher, Dorothea Rowse. |
| VIC HLS Health Inform June 1993.pdf | File:VIC HLS Health Inform June 1993.pdf | 2(2) June 1993 | Contents: Health libraries and the DNC; casemix funding; Australian Council of Allied Health Professions; library tours on Hypercard at Brownless Medical Library; ergonomics in the library; performance indicators; inderdepartmental charging. |
| VIC HLS Health Inform September 1993.pdf | File:VIC HLS Health Inform September 1993.pdf | 2(3) September 1993 | Contents: Anne Harrison Award winner Veronica Delafosse; evaluation instruments for health science libraries; conference report: Asian-Pacific Specials, Health and Law Librarians Conference; CD-ROM user education at the Farifield Hospital; ALIA/ACLIS seminar paper on the value of information and information services in the innovation process; CD-ROM and optical technologies; electronic journals; CD-ROM networking at Monash Medical Centre Library; are librarians becoming redundant? |
| VIC HLS Health Inform December 1993.pdf | File:VIC HLS Health Inform December 1993.pdf | 2(4) December 1993 | Contents: Report on ALIA Health Libraries Section, Victoria, Seminar - country and city perspectives; report on Library Association, Medical Health and Welfare Libraries Group, Cardiff, UK; user pays at Geelong Hospital Library; DRGs Diagnosis Related Groups; ILANET for Victorian health libraries; establishing a library donations programme; is the librarian becoming redundant? |
| VIC HLS Health Inform March 1994.pdf | File:VIC HLS Health Inform March 1994.pdf | 3(1) March 1994 | Contents: Executive: Lisa Belkin, Sandra Russell, Dorothea Rowse, Andrew Rooke, Suzanne O'Callaghan, Peter Nunn, Jan Reiher, Adam Clark; computer searching in the health sciences library; AIDS databases at no charge; international printing of JAMA; evolution of the health sciences librarian; patient information. |
| VIC HLS Health Inform June 1994.pdf | File:VIC HLS Health Inform June 1994.pdf | 3(2) June 1994 | Contents: new electronic media; farewell to Tony Standish; ethics and the health librarian; Gippsland Base Hospital, Sale; health sciences library practice in the 90s; virtual library; automatic document supply; Internet glossary; medicine on the superhighway. |
| VIC HLS Health Inform September 1994.pdf | File:VIC HLS Health Inform September 1994.pdf | 3(3) September 1994 | Contents: getting connected to the Internet; conference report on 4th European Conference for Medical and Health Libraries, Oslo; Internet seminar and demonstration of World Wide Web; CINAHL; Copyright; techniques to encourage self service; disciplining the users; library users from developing countries; end of CMLO PALS service. |
| VIC HLS Health Inform December 1994.pdf | File:VIC HLS Health Inform December 1994.pdf | 3(4) December 1994 | Contents: business planning, benchmarking and contracting for better service; accreditation hints; use and abuse of library statistics. |
| VIC HLS Health Inform March 1995.pdf | File:VIC HLS Health Inform March 1995.pdf | 4(1) March 1995 | Contents: Committee: Judy Stoelwinder, Jan Riches, Sandra Hodgson, Melanie Kammermann, Andrew Rooke, Karen Tempest, Peter Nunn, Stephen Due, Cathy McNab; ALIA Merit Award citation for Enid Meldrum; ACHS Accreditation and libraries; randomized controlled trials, evidence based medicine and Cochrane database of systematic reviews; searching the World Wide Web; setting up entrepreneurial services; notes from the country; Wangaratta Hospital Library; conference report on Information Online and OnDisc. |
| VIC HLS Health Inform June 1995.pdf | File:VIC HLS Health Inform June 1995.pdf | 4(2) June 1995 | Contents: GratisNet document delivery and VICGRATIS; group survery of members; health science acquisitions and the Internet; Health Inform is first ALIA publication to be published on the World Wide Web; survey of Victorian hospital libraries July 93-June 94; book review on Resources for health sciences: a guide for Australia compiled by Veronica Delafosse; notes from the country; Ballarat Base Hospital Library; hospital amalgamations; trends; forecasts; strategic directions. |
| VIC HLS Health Inform September 1995.pdf | File:VIC HLS Health Inform September 1995.pdf | 4(3) September 1995 | First issue on WWW with hyperlinks for all Internet and email address mentioned - quick view websites. Contents: preparing for hospital aggregations, useful CD-ROMs, electronic BMJ; notes from the country; Goulburn Valley Base Hospital Professional Library; study tour of the USA by Lisa Belkin; conference report on Synergy in Sydney Specials, Health and Law Librarians Conference; Copyright seminar report. |
| VIC HLS Health Inform December 1995.pdf | File:VIC HLS Health Inform December 1995.pdf | 4(4) December 1995 | Contents: obtaining overseas inter-library loans; natural therapies recent Australian trends; hospital aggregations part 2; notes from the country; Bendigo Hospital Regional Health Services Library; conference report ALIA/VICGRATIS seminar day; VICNET report. |
| VIC HLS Health Inform March 1996.pdf | File:VIC HLS Health Inform March 1996.pdf | 5(1) March 1996 | Contents: Executive: Stephen Due, Helen Cotsell, Melanie Kammermann, David Lloyd, Anne McLean, Peter Nunn, Jan Riches, Judy Stoelwinder, Karen Tempest; Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital - the Ronald Lowe Library; book review on ALIA National guidelines for hospital libraries, 2nd ed, 1995; Copyright and inter-library request forms; full text journals on CINAHL; evidence-based medicine and the library. |
| VIC HLS Health Inform June 1996.pdf | File:VIC HLS Health Inform June 1996.pdf | 5(2) June 1996 | Contents: Walt Crawford Credo on electronic libraries: and, not, or; professional development; lobbying for your library; seminar report on personal practice in health libraries held at Ballarat Base Hospital; closure of Fairfield Hospital; Internet meeting report; ALIA Award for Innovation presented to David Lloyd, Bendigo Healthcare Group; report on HLS (Victoria) library statistical survey 1994-1995; an introduction to Medline (Ovid). |
| VIC HLS Health Inform September 1996.pdf | File:VIC HLS Health Inform September 1996.pdf | 5(3) September 1996 | Contents: mentoring; Peter MacCallum Central Cancer Library; commentary on the health library statistics 1994-1995; using British Lending Library for document delivery in the Brownless Medical Library. |
| VIC HLS Health Inform December 1996.pdf | File:VIC HLS Health Inform December 1996.pdf | 5(4) December 1996 | Contents: report on HLS/VICGRATIS meeting; performance measures applied in some Australian hospital libraries; to charge or not to charge?; report on Reading the Future ALIA Biennial Conference; citing electronic sources; electronic journals. |
| VIC HLS Health Inform March 1997.pdf | File:VIC HLS Health Inform March 1997.pdf | 6(1) March 1997 | Contents: great myths of special librarianship; searching by library users; full text searching; Internet training resources; living with change; report on Information Online & on Disc 1997; desktop libraries. |
| VIC HLS Health Inform June 1997.pdf | File:VIC HLS Health Inform June 1997.pdf | 6(2) June 1997 | Contents: encouragement to apply for Awards; Australian Council on Healthcare Standards EQuIP; survival kit from Strategies for special libraries by M. Paul and S. Crabtree, Freelance Library and Information Services, 1994; role of health care librarians in the ACHS EQuIP; AUSThealth CD-ROM developed by NAtional Library of Australia and Informit; do we need a code of ethics?; Executive: Stephen Due, Kerry Johannes, Melanie Kammermann, David Lloyd, Karen Tempest, Mellita Vertigan, Helen Cotsell, Anne McLean. |
| VIC HLS Health Inform September 1997.pdf | File:VIC HLS Health Inform September 1997.pdf | 6(3) September 1997 | Contents: Geelong Hospital Library; Sciences Library, University of Melbourne; copying contents pages; commentary on health library statistics 1995-1996; survey of health libraries 1996-1997; managing electronic journals. |
| VIC HLS Health Inform December 1997.pdf | File:VIC HLS Health Inform December 1997.pdf | 6(4) December 1997 | Contents: Lorena Smirneos wins the Anne Harrison Award; Internet classes at Central Wellington Health Service, Sale; ethics; library surveys; Access Information Centre opens at the Alfred; report from 7th Asian Pacific Specials Health & Law Librarians' Conference; library's role in evidence-based medicine; current electronic journals; end-user searching still a problem area. |
| VIC HLS Health Inform March 1998.pdf | File:VIC HLS Health Inform March 1998.pdf | 7(1) March 1998 | Contents: Executive: David Lloyd, Kerry Johannes, Andrew Rooke, Adam Clark, Stephen Due, Shanti Nadaraja, Mellita Vertigan, Majella Pugh, Helen Cotsell; EQuIP accreditation; LaTrobe Regional Hospital Library; customer satisfaction surveys; GRATISNET on the Net?; goodbye PANCH hello the Northern Hospital Library; report of bus tour of health libraries around Melbourne; volunteering. |
| VIC HLS Health Inform June 1998.pdf | File:VIC HLS Health Inform June 1998.pdf | 7(2) June 1998 | Contents: escaping contracting out; Shanti Nadaraja wins 1998 FLIS/ALIA Award for Innovation in health libraries; VicOne initiative: on-line databases and journals for all Victorian hospital libraries?; barriers to general practitioners using the Internet; draft statement of ethics for health sciences librarianship 1998; document delivery; report on Warragul seminar, West Gippsland Hospital; thoughts from a "newbie" to country health libraries from Barinsdale Regional Health Service Library; natural therapies update; extending AUSThealth to the Internet. |
| VIC HLS Health Inform September 1998.pdf | File:VIC HLS Health Inform September 1998.pdf | 7(3) September 1998 | Contents: Internet - why do we need a library?; EQuIP Accreditation at Maroondah Hospital Library; continuing education; document delivery at Southern Health Care Network Library Service; report on ALIA HLS (Vic) statistical survey 1996-1997; VicOne update on access to online journals for all Victorian hospital libraries?; meeting reports on managing electronic services, evidence-based medicine, and knowledge management; Hamilton Base Hospital Library. |
| VIC HLS Health Inform December Suppl 1998.pdf | File:VIC HLS Health Inform December Suppl 1998.pdf | 7(4) December Supplement 1998 | Contents: the good, the bad, and the ugly: Internet in the library; trading places: medical librarians working outside libraries; digital library; report on Combined ALIA/Vicgratis seminar day; WWW home page design workshop. Supplement: Hospital networks and libraries: three years on |
| VIC HLS Health Inform March 1999.pdf | File:VIC HLS Health Inform March 1999.pdf | 8(1) March 1999 | Contents: the industrial do's and don'ts of contracting out; Cochrane library workshop; report on Information Online & On Disc Conference; will the database die?; salute to Ann Dooley; health libraries brochure; survey of ALIA HLA membership. |
| VIC HLS Health Inform June 1999.pdf | File:VIC HLS Health Inform June 1999.pdf | 8(2) June 1999 | Contents: CIAP Clinical Information Access Project; CIAP: a perspective from the Royal North Shore Hospital; South Australian Human Services Libraries Consortium; Victorian health library statistics 1997-1998; an initiative for streamlining access to electronic information in Victoria (proposal for Clinicians Health Channel); improved access to clinical and bibliographic databases; RECAL bibliographic database; thank-you to Bill Freeman. |
| VIC HLS Health Inform September 1999.pdf | File:VIC HLS Health Inform September 1999.pdf | 8(3) September 1999 | Contents: President's column on ALIA restructuring; sustainable development? E-journals, TOCs, licensing and pricing in health publishing; strait to recognition: practical client services benchmarking of hospital libraries in Queensland; Clinical Information Access Project: revolution for information professionals; comparing the value and impact of information obtained by health professionals undertaking literature searches with those undertaken by librarians; report on Strait to the Future Conference. |
| VIC HLS Health Inform March 2000.pdf | File:VIC HLS Health Inform March 2000.pdf | 9(1) March 2000 | Contents: Clinicians' Health Channel: free on-line databases soon!; directory of electronic health sciences journals; Clinicians' Health Channel: implications for country medical practitioners; non-hospital health sciences libraries: Part 1: Victorian Forensic Science Centre Library; Executive: David Lloyd, Kerry Johannes, Glennys Powell, Andrew Rooke, Shanti Nadarajar, Dianne Horrigan. |
| VIC HLS Health Inform June 2000.pdf | File:VIC HLS Health Inform June 2000.pdf | 9(2) June 2000 | Contents: Big pay rise for Victorian medical librarians; GRATISNET and GST: free and easy; hos thw GST will impact on your library; non-hospital health sciences libraries: Part 2: Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research Library; Ejournals versus print; isolation and the country hospital librarian (Mildura Base Hospital); Health Inform Australia: a newsletter for all Australian health science librarians; video review: respite for carers of the chronically ill; Executive: David Lloyd, Kerry Johannes, Glennys Powell, Mellita Hunter, Andrew Rooke, Shanti Nadarajar, Liza Bywaters. |
| VIC HLS Health Inform September 2000.pdf | File:VIC HLS Health Inform September 2000.pdf | 9(3) September 2000 | Contents: mental health services at Royal Melbourne Hospital: a new partnership in health library services; report on ICML8 London; Clinicians' Health Channel: latest developments; non-hospital health sciences libraries: Part 3: Access Information Centre at the Alfred Hospital; staying alive: useful hints for medical library practice; Anne McLean, Chief Librarian, Austin & Repatriation Medical Centre, receives OAM - Medal of the General Division, Order of Australia, Queen's Birthday Honour for her service to youth, particularly through the Disability Support Network of Guides Victoria and to Medical Librarianship. |
| VIC HLS Health Inform December 2000.pdf | File:VIC HLS Health Inform December 2000.pdf | 9(4) December 2000 | Contents: the merger of the science and biomedical libraries at Monash University; the future of the Health Libraries Section; report on VicGRATIS Day 2000; non-hospital health sciences libraries: Part 4: Centre for Grief Education; staying alive: news and hints on health library practice; LaTrobe Regional Hospital, Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet Library. |
| VIC HLS Health Inform March 2001.pdf | File:VIC HLS Health Inform March 2001.pdf | 10(1) March 2001 | Contents: decision time for the Health Libraries Section; the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute Library: meeting the challenge of providing specialist medical information; promoting library services through newsletters, Central Gippsland Health Services, Sale; Executive: David Lloyd, Margaret Pearce, Brenda Carruthers, Jane Edwards, Lucia Day, Andrew Rooke, Kerry Johannes, Shanti Nadarajar. |
| VIC HLS Health Inform June 2001.pdf | File:VIC HLS Health Inform June 2001.pdf | 10(2) June 2001 | Contents: the Victorian Health Libraries Section to leave ALIA; a new beginning for the National Health Libraries Section: Health Libraries Australia; E-journals - how should we manage them?; new library at The Alfred - progress report; database training for hospital library users; either a borrower or a lender be: the National Resource check the email Sharing Working Group; Bairnsdale Regional Health Service Library; Judith Quilter receives Queen's Birthday Honour for library services, in particular as Librarian of the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital. This is the final ALIA HLS Victorian Group Newsletter; 10(3)- published by Health Libraries Inc. |
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