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Hello and welcome to our latest issue of HLA Alerts kindly sponsored by OCLC.
 
In this issue we finalise the date for the HLA PD Day in Sydney – 18 July 2016, so make sure you save the date and for those of you that need to fly in, keep an eye on the airfare and accommodation prices; a call for papers will be out soon. This issue also contains links to information on the Zika Virus, a rapidly emerging international health issue and right on our doorstep with warnings in place for several of our neighbouring Pacific island nations (refer to: NZ Government Safe Travel warning).
 
We wish good luck to presenters, students and mentors participating in the current HLA/QUT Health Librarians Essentials course. We hope you all enjoy your experiences.

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Save the Date
ALIA Health Libraries Australia will be continuing its highly successful professional development days in 2016. The confirmed date is Monday 18th July and the venue will be the Kolling Institute of Medical Research at Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney. Our valued hosts are the staff of the Douglas Piper Library, Royal North Shore Hospital.
A call for abstracts will soon be posted.

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Membership Project Update
The first steps in our membership project are underway. This entails bringing together all our various email lists, membership records and subscription lists to identify one definitive list of our HLA “family”. This list in association with the work undertaken by Melanie Kammerman and her team will give a truer picture of the Australian health library employment sector.
 
There are two things you can do to help HLA; encourage your colleagues and institutions to join ALIA (HLA), and, ensure you have joined our HLA Community page. As a “heads up”, within the next couple of months we shall send out a survey to get your ideas and opinions and we would appreciate your input when the time comes.

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• “Windows virus at Royal Melbourne brings down Pathology Dept.” Melbourne Health has confirmed that a virus has infected some of the computer systems at Royal Melbourne Hospital, severely affecting the transmission of pathology results. (Source: PulseIT Magazine.)
• Becoming a clinician researcher in allied health - Australian Health Review - 28 January 2016. - Note the reference to utilising your health librarian!

International:

• “‘A practical beginning’: Digitising Nightingale” / Samantha Callaghan (former Digitisation Co-ordinator, The Florence Nightingale Museum). Journal of Digital Media Management v.4 (2) 2016.
• 8th Conference on Grey Literature and Repositories - Proceedings of the Conference held 15 October 2015 at the Czech National Library of Technology.
• SEaRCH™ expert panel process: streamlining the link between evidence and practice - BMC Research Notes - 7 January 2016
• Barriers and facilitators to uptake of systematic reviews by policy makers and health care managers: a scoping review - Implementation Science - 12 January 2016.

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MOOCs & Online Training
NTC Webinar: "Teaching Topics" coming March 31, 2016 \ National Library of Medicine.

The HLA Journal Club recommences this month. If you have an article you would like to discuss, please contact the facilitators, Catherine Voutier or Suzanne Lewis.

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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Other Bits and Pieces
NLM - History
The Wonders of Creation / Homira Pashai.
The National Library of Medicine holds an important collection of over 200 manuscripts dating back to the eleventh century in Arabic, Persian, and Ottoman Turkish relating to health and medicine…
 
For Fun & Fitness
Here's How to Make Life Easier / WebMD.com

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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: Vacant
HLA Alerts Major Contributor: Cheryl Hamill

HLA Editorial Board:
Ann Ritchie, Cheryl Hamill, 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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