The 'L' word

There has been a lot of discussion on the MLA's hospital library e-list about the 'L' word. One post recommended a recent article, The New Librarian, in the New York Times July 8 2007, saying "That article put to rest ANY idea I may have had in changing the librarian title, and it was fun to read. Librarians (and the profession) are now 'cool'!"

ALIA's professional development e-list

Karen Mills was recently appointed as the Professional Development Officer at ALIA national office and she's been busy sending out updates on upcoming PD events on the ALIA professional development e-list. Sign up to aliaCPD to receive notification firsthand.

Job opportunities: Faculty Liaison Librarians, Univesity of Sydney

The University of Sydney Library is recruiting for two librarians.

Faculty Liaison Librarian (Two positions)
* Health Sciences Library, Cumberland Campus
* Medical Library, Camperdown Campus

The University of Sydney is supported by a dynamic Library system that offers a diverse range of information services to students, staff and the community. The Health and Medical Libraries Division provide services from five libraries on four campuses. These libraries provide a range of services to support the staff and students of the five Faculties of Health.

We are searching for two proactive Faculty Liaison Librarians, with great people skills, to join this motivated, customer-focussed team. One position will be located at the Health Sciences Library at the Cumberland campus, and the other will be located in the Medical Library at the Camperdown campus. A core component of these roles is liaising with staff and students from a specific discipline area to develop and market high quality information services, as well as managing the design, delivery and evaluation of information skills programs.

To succeed, you will be a creative professional who thrives on partnership building and an excellent problem solver within environments of constant change. You will be confident using the Web and databases to find quality information and will keep in touch with trends in digital resource creation. Eligibility for professional membership of ALIA or equivalent, with subsequent relevant work related experience, or an equivalent combination of experience and training is also a must.

These are unique opportunities for innovative, flexible and customer-focussed librarians to take on challenging and autonomous roles that will support the information systems across the Health and Medical Libraries Division; a part of the largest academic library in the Southern Hemisphere.

These positions are full-time continuing, subject to the completion of a satisfactory probation period for new appointees. Membership of a University approved superannuation scheme is a condition of employment for new appointees.

Remuneration package: $67,089 - $72,359 p.a. (which includes a base salary Level 6 $56,691 - $61,145 p.a., leave loading and up to 17% employer's contribution to superannuation)

All applications must be completed online. Specific enquiries about the role can be directed to Libby O'Reilly on (02) 9351 3618. Alternatively, general enquiries can be directed to Sandra Choi on (02) 9351 5880.

Closing date: 5 August 2007

For more information contact Libby 0'Reilly, Director, Health and Medical Libraries, University of Sydney, (p)+61 2 9351 3618, (m)+61 0401715195.

PD event - Bridging the gap: translating research into policy and practice

Presented by the HLA Regional Committee (Qld), Associate Professor Ann McKibbon from the Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University will be presenting the free lecture on knowledge translation, on Tuesday 21 August in the Auditorium, Medical Education Centre, Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Herston, 2pm-3pm. Light refreshments will be provided following the presention. ALL WELCOME - no need to RSVP.

For more information click here.

Ann McKibbon BSc, MLS, PhD, is a medical librarian who has been working in the areas of evidence-based medicine, medical informatics, and knowledge translation for more than 25 years at McMaster University inHamilton, ON Canada. Her work includes studies of clinicians using Medline and other information resources as well as the Clinical Queries in PubMED. She received a PhD in medical informatics at the University of Pittsburgh in 2005 and is an associate professor in the Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at McMaster. She continues her research and teaching in informatics and knowledge translation in the medical school and to other audiences outside the university. She has over 50 peer-reviewed publications and has taught more than 100 workshops to librarians and health professionals. She enjoys making difficult-to-understand topics (e.g., statistics) easily understood and believes strongly that librarians have a major role to play in research inside librarianship and in other disciplines. Taken from:
http://www.bm.cm-uj.krakow.pl/eahil/cec.php

Job advert: Manager, UQ/Mater McAuley Library Service (HEW Level 8)

THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND LIBRARY
Exciting management opportunity in one of Australia’s premier learning and research institutions.

An exciting opportunity is available for an innovative and energetic Librarian with outstanding leadership and management qualities to take on a senior management role at The University of Queensland Library. The University Library delivers high quality client-focused innovative information products, services and programs that are integrated with and central to the University’s teaching, learning, research and community service activities.

The Role: In the role you will manage the delivery of information services to the UQ Mater/McAuley Library within the context of the Biological and Health Sciences Library Service; participate in overall strategic planning and policy development within the University Library, develop action plans to implement Library policies and strategies; ensure effective communication with clients, and participate in budget formulation and expenditure as well as recruitment, deployment and development of staff. See position description for other duties.

The Person: You should possess a degree and recognised professional library qualifications, sound library management experience and expertise; extensive professional experience in academic, research or special libraries; sound understanding of trends in information service delivery in an educational, research and clinical environment and the ability to work flexibly within a team structure. See selection criteria for further requirements.

Remuneration: This is a continuing full time appointment at HEW Level 8. The remuneration package will be in the range of $78,076 to $ 87,669 per annum, including employer superannuation contributions of up to 17%.

Contact: Obtain the position description and selection criteria online or contact Suzanne Green on (07) 3365 6209 or email. Telephone Lisa Kruesi (07) 3365 5354 to discuss the role.

Send applications to the Joanne Rutherford, Human Resource and Staff Development Coordinator, Library Corporate Services Level 6 Duhig Building, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Qld 4072, or email.

Closing Date for Applications: Tuesday 7th August, 2007

Reference Number: 1313676

EBLIP4 conference papers now available

The full papers from the Evidence-based Library and Information Practice conference, EBLIP4, are now on the EBLIP4 website. The organisers are working to make podcasts of keynote speakers, such as Andrew Booth and Jonathan Eldredge, available so keep checking the site. A permanent link to the EBLIP4 website can be found under the 'Recent Conferences' column on the HLA Blogs! site.

Your HLA Executive at work

Keep abreast of the work of the HLA executive; links to the minutes of teleconferences held 13 and 27 March 2007 can be found at http://www.alia.org.au/groups/healthnat/meetings/.

Please direct any questions related to the minutes to HLA Convenor, Heather Todd.

NSW Health Libraries Forum 8-9 Nov 2007

Northern Sydney Central Coast Health is hosting the 2007 NSW Health Libraries Forum at Gosford Hospital on 8-9 November 2007. This practical and innovative event will consist of papers, posters, workshops and meetings designed to facilitate networking and deliver valuable professional development opportunities. The theme of the conference is "Focus on the User Environment: Techniques and Technologies", and abstracts submitted to date indicate a range of Web 2.0 and other technologies being used to enhance library users' information environment. The call for papers and posters has been extended to July 9 and more information can be found on the Forum blog at http://nswhlf2007.blogspot.com/.

Keep an eye on this site for the program which will be posted shortly and for registrations. The Forum has a focus on health librarianship but will be of interest to librarians from other fields also, and all are welcome to attend.

A bit of light humour

The Vic Specials are running a competition for the best library jokes (Vic Specials Jun 07 newsletter, p.8) and offered up one to start things off:

A man walks into a library and loudly announces to the librarian: "I would like some bacon and eggs." The librarian, taken aback, replies: "Don’t you know that this is a LIBRARY?" The man, embarrassed, lowers his voice to a barely audible whisper and repeats: "Please can I have some bacon and eggs."

Maybe you'd like to share your best library joke here on the blog.

LIANZA Conference '07

Some of the papers to be presented at the 2007 LIANZA conference later this year look really interesting. You can find the programme and abstracts at http://www.lianza.org.nz/events/conference2007/programme.html
Please contact me if you're attending and interested in blogging from the conference and/or writing a report for HLA News.