proACTive

Number 227: September 2002

CIAP: the Clinical Information Access Program | ACT Technicians | News of PEARLS | Volunteer editors! | St Mark's National Theological Centre library visit

CIAP: the Clinical Information Access Program
On 14 August, Donna Wise talked to the Health Libraries group about CIAP, the Clinical Information Access Program. CIAP is a package of online databases, full-text journals and reference texts available to staff of the New South Wales Health Department.

Donna is an educator from the Health Communication Network which provides the package. She emphasised that it was not just for clinical staff in hospitals but covered areas like community health. Donna demonstrated search and browse functions in several resources including the Cochrane Library, MIMS and Micromedex.

Thanks to Sandra Henderson for organising this meeting.

Prue Deacon

ACT Technicians
ACT Library Technicians and their partners were out on 30 July enjoying their annual cool yule feast. This year the group met at The Restaurants, CIT Christmas in July feast. There was much networking, eating, drinking and recalling their old times as library studies students, happily breathing in the aromas from the hospitality building while sitting up in D237 with the windows open.

It was a really good night of food and fun. We are all looking forward to this annual event again next year.

Beth Clary

News of PEARLS
PEARLS (Previously Employed Australian Retired Librarians) met again on 12 August. Nine people attended. We welcomed Eunice Fletcher (Phillip College) to the group, and were glad to see Margaret Saville back from her visit to Paris. We debated where to meet next year, but without reaching a decision.

The next meeting, 2:30pm on Monday 14 October, will be at Café in the House (formerly Backbenches).

Contact Jon Prance, 02 6255 1857.

Volunteer editors!
A big thank you to Sally Goodenough, Rachael Bahl and Margaret Aston, who have offered to produce and distribute the October proACTive.

Your contributions next month should be sent to Rachael. The deadlines box on page 4 gives her address:

r.bahl@signadou.acu.edu.au

St Mark's National Theological Centre library visit
17 September organised by APSIG, the Asia-Pacific special interest group Gold-coin donation to cover drinks and nibbles

The Tippett collection
Your best oppportunity to view some of the unique resources held on indigenous Australians and the South Pacific.

Some examples:

Fison's annotated copy of Morgan's 1871 publication: Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity of the Human Family.
AW Howitt's 68 original hand-written letters to Lorimer Fison (the one in 1873 was in response to Fison's advertisement in the Australiasian); two examples of kinship responses, Howitt on the Brabrolong of Gippsland and Taplin from Port Macleay on the Narrinnyeri; the proof copy of Kamilaroi and Kurnai.
Fison's 699-page letterbook, 1 July 1868 30 July 1869.
Letter from Sir HM Jackson dated 5 October 1903 on Fison's commendation from the colonial office.
Writings by Etuate Wainiu on Fijian land matters, commissioned by Fison, particularly on Bau.

The material on display will mostly be on Lorimer Fison and A.W. Howitt. Fison was a Wesleyan missionary in Fiji from 1863: 71 then 1875-1884. Through contact with Lewis Henry Morgan the american ethnologist, he collected data on kinship systems, amassing a large body of cohesive data on aboriginal kinship, family and marriage forms and many empirical features of social organisation and culture, by means of direct observation, face-to-face discussions with informants and the circulation of printed lists of questions to europeans with aboriginal contacts.

Venue: St Marks National Theological Centre, 15 Blackall Street, Barton.
Time: 5:00pm-6:30pm
Drinks and nibbles provided
Please RSVP Deveni or Kaye on 02 6273 1040, or by dtemu@csu.edu.au or kaye@csu.edu.au

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