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Hello and welcome again to our latest issue of HLA Alerts sponsored by OCLC. In this issue you’ll find a link to the HLA PD Day registration, Award announcement plus recently published papers and articles of interest to those of us in “health library world”.

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PD Day 18^th July

ALIA Health Libraries Australia are presenting our highly successful professional development day on Monday 18th July at the Kolling Institute of Medical Research, Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney. Our hosts will be the staff of the Douglas Piper Library. Registrations are now open.

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And the Winner is...
The Winner of the Anne Harrison Award is Raechel Damarell (Flinders University) for her project “A systematic review of topic-based filters and the development of a critical appraisal instrument for assessing their quality”.
The Award will be presented at the HLA PD Day in July. Congratulations Raechel!

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Events to support your professional development
	Event	Location	Date
2016			2016
	CILIP: Including Health Libraries SIG	Brighton (UK)	12-13 July
	HLA PD Day	Sydney	18 July
WA Only	Using Ovid to prepare research for a systematic review / Allan Finn, Senior Training Manager Asia-Pacific   Search filters as a value-added service for health libraries / James Taylor, Manager Sales Engineering & Training Asia-Pacific	Robertson Library Curtin University Bentley Campus WA	9 Aug 9:00am to 11:30am
	Knowledge Management Australia 2016	Melbourne	2-4 Aug
	IFLA World Conference	Ohio, USA	13-19 Aug
	ALIA National Conference	Adelaide	29 Aug – 2 Sept
	Health Libraries Inc Conference  “The (In)visible Library	Melbourne	21 Oct
	Sixth Australian Evidence Based Practice Librarians' Institute	Adelaide	5-9 Dec

MOOCs & Online Training
Recording of the presentation The Argument for Innovation: Powering Transformation by Putting Ideas to Work that was given by Dr. Thomas Graham at an MLA 2016 Sunrise Session.

The HLA Journal Club’s latest article for discussion is:
Brettle, A., Maden, M., & Payne, C. (2016). The impact of clinical librarian services on patients and health care organisations. Health Information & Libraries Journal, 33, 100-120. doi:10.1111/hir.12136
Although the email header says we start in July, the discussion is open right now for those who may have already read the article and want to discuss it. Discussion will end on Sunday 31^st July.

ALIA PD Scheme: Health Specialisation
To get the most from your ALIA membership, make sure you register for the Health Specialisation.

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About HLA
HLA's commitment to our members is to provide strategic direction in the delivery of relevant, high quality, affordable professional development opportunities. Check the 'Courses mapped to competencies' on the HLA webpage to see what courses are available to fit your training and development needs.

HLA Executive 
Convenor: Ann Ritchie AALIA (CP) Health. (Vic).
Treasurer: Sharon Karasmanis (Vic), Secretary: Gemma Siemensma (Vic).
Committee: Diana Blackwood (WA), Jeanette Bunting (WA), Dr Kathleen Gray (Vic), Sarah Hayman (SA), Suzanne Lewis (NSW), Jane Orbell-Smith (Qld/NZ), Bronia Renison (Qld), Rolf Schafer (NSW), Catherine Voutier (Vic).

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HLA Publications
HLA News: National Bulletin of Health Libraries Australia, ISSN 1448-0840 (Quarterly)
HLA Alerts (Monthly)
 
HLA Publications Editor: Jane Orbell-Smith AFALIA (CP Health Librarian) E: jane.orbell-smith@alia.org.au
HLA Alerts Assistant Editor: Patrick O’Connor.
HLA Alerts Major Contributor: Cheryl Hamill

HLA Editorial Board:
Ann Ritchie, Cheryl Hamill, Sarah Hayman, Suzanne Lewis, Jane Orbell-Smith, Rob Penfold, Bronia Renison, Catherine Voutier. www.alia.org.au/groups/HLA

The vision for HLA is that all Australians benefit from health library and information professionals’ expertise that is integral to evidence based health care. 

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