Update your member details online

ALIA National Office has announced that ALIA members can now update their member details online. You will need your 6-digit ALIA membership number and a password. If you have forgotten, or don't know, your password follow the 'forgotten your password?' links when you login to have your password e-mailed to you, or phone the membership team on 1800 020 071.

Can I urge you to spend a couple of minutes updating your details. And, remember, you must select HEALTH as your group to continue receiving HLA News and any other direct communication from the HLA Executive.

Contact ALIA National Office directly if you have any queries.

HLA News - Jan 09 issue

The January issue of HLA News was distributed to HLA members at the end of January 2009. If you believe you are a HLA member but didn't receive it, please email me directly at melanie.kammermann@alianet.alia.org.au.nospam (remove the 'no spam' from the address) so we can check that your name is on the mailing list next time.

The Jan issue has also been loaded on the HLA News website. You will need your ALIA login and password to access it. Older issues are freely available.

Thanks once more to our bulletin sponsor, EBSCO.

I am always looking for contributions to the newsletter. If you have implemented a new piece of software, made service improvements, done some benchmarking, attended a conference...anything that's of interest to health libraries...please consider writing this up for publication. The bulletin is selectively indexed in CINAHL and the Informed Librarian Online, and you can also earn ALIA CPD points.

HLA News, March 2008 issue

The first issue for this year was emailed to HLA members last week and has since been uploaded to the ALIA HLA website. (The December 2007 issue is now open access.)

Contents include:
Web 2.0 and Australian health libraries - From Your Convenor - Competencies and keeping pace with technology changes in smaller library settings - Evidence Australia - Australian libraries make a difference to the University of Uganda - NT Health's new eLibrary leads to skill development for library staff - Conference diary - Top 10 reasons to attend HLA at Dreaming08

If you think you should have received HLA News via our direct member email but didn't, log on to ALIAnet and check that the HLA box is ticked under 'my groups'.

HLA News - November 2007 issue

ALIA HLA members should have already received their copy of the November 20007 issue of HLA News via email.

In this issue you will meet Aussie expat Janene Batten as she talks about her life at Yale and the sometimes indirect routes to life's perfect destination.

Terry Harrison reports on the third UK Clinical Librarians Conference and Ann Ritchie reflects on the IFLA satellite conference on CPD. Terry has also penned the Left Field column in this issue, which for the first time is written by someone looking from within the sector.

We also celebrate the retirements of Titi Alexander and Ian Stubbin - not their going, but the sector's good fortune in having them!

Last up, hands up for dreaming08 -­ a genuine health libraries stream within the conference and a professional development day as a satellite event.

The November issue is now up on the HLA newsletter website. Members can access this issue by logging on using their 6-digit ALIA membership number and password.

All preceding issues of HLA News are open access.

Thanks to our newsletter sponsor EBSCO for their renewed sponsorship of HLA News.

HLA News - April 07 issue up on website

Members would be aware that HLA News is forwarded exclusively to members via email as a PDF attachment.

For interested non-members, the April issue of HLA News can now be viewed on the ALIA HLA newsletter web page. Content includes:

National access to electronic health information | Convenor's report | Searching for Australian grey literature in health | Workshop report: Electronic information in health libraries | HLA symposium report: Information Rx | Book review: Medical Library Downsizing | EBSCO product update | 2007 HLA Executive uncovered | Left Field: Using semantics to generate information | Guidelines for contributors | Call for applications for the Anne Harrison Award.