ALIA Health Libraries Australia [healthnat]

The vision of Health Libraries Australia is to promote, inform, unite, influence, and innovate libraries and information professionals in the health and biomedical sector. In support of this vision, and in line with ALIA's policy direction and priorities, HLA will undertake strategic initiatives in five key areas (portfolios): professional development; research and development; networking and collaboration; advocacy; and promotion.

Registrations are now open for the Health Librarian Profession Development day at dreaming08!

Join us in Alice Springs for Dreaming08 (ALIA Biennial Conference 2–5 Sept) where ALIA Health Libraries Australia will host a professional development day and a health library specific stream during the main conference.

Date: Tuesday 2 September 2008
Time: 8.45am to 5.00pm
Venue: Centre for Remote Health, Alice Springs Hospital Campus

Registrations close on Monday 18 August 2008.

A Draft Program is now available. Click on the below link to download your copy.

Draft Program

The focus of the PD Day will be on the future and strategic issues health librarians need to address and plan for. Keynote speakers will provide the big picture context, to provoke us by asking the hard questions in areas such as:

Our health care context:
- what library services would be best for patient care and population health?

Our stakeholders:
 - who are the players? strategic partnerships and collaborations, and how do we get to the negotiating table?

Our people, resources, collections and buildings:
- workforce planning, education and CPD - where are the leaders?
- knowledge resources and clinical decision-support tools - what are the gradations?
- national site licencing, publishing and open access - will there be books and journals as we know them?
- what will our buildings look like and how will we function 'beyond the walls'?

Our ICT environment:
- beyond Web 2.0 and Library 2.0, a new space

Concurrent workshops could cover a range of topics in the areas of:
- personal and professional development (Myers-Briggs Type Indicator for health librarians by Ruth Sladek; how to write Evidence Summaries by Suzanne Lewis)
- EBH, Cochrane and other database refreshers
- research skills and writing for publication
- authentication and linking
- others (please suggest)

Closing session:
Future directions - what are the priority critical strategic issues for HLA and how can we take these forward?

For more information on each workshop, download the workshop summary sheet.

Workshop Summaries

For further information and background on MBTI Workshop click on the below link:

MBTI Workshop

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