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#medlibs chat

At the most recent CHLA SIG at SLAIS meeting I gave a short presentation about gopubmed.org, explaining what it was and how it can be used by health librarians.

During the meeting, I was asked how I had learned about gopubmed to begin with. I explained that I had first heard of it during a medical librarians tweet chat session. The #medlibs tweet chats are a really neat way to interact with practicing health librarians all over the world, and I have found they are very welcoming to students.

For more information about #medlibs chat, visit their blog where they post what the upcoming topic is going to be and information about date/time.

Cheers, Grace

CHLA SIG at SLAIS, Co-President

Helen Halbert wins CHLA/ABSC Login Student Paper Prize

On behalf of the CHLA SIG at SLAIS I would like to publicly acknowledge and congratulate a CHLA SIG at SLAIS member, Helen Halbert, on her great accomplishment of being nationally recognized and awarded the 2013 CHLA/ABSC Login Student Paper Prize for her paper, “The state of clinical librarianship in Canada: a review of literature, 1970-2013.” The paper discusses the history of clinical librarianship in Canada from 1970 to 2013.

Helen is a second year SLAIS student and student librarian at the UBC Biomedical Branch Library located at Vancouver General Hospital.

If you want to learn more about awards that are available to CHLA members click here.

Grace

Greetings from the new CHLA SIG executive for 2013-2014!

I wanted to introduce myself as the new chair of the Canadian Health Libraries Association Student Interest Group at SLAIS. Having worked in healthcare in my past life before SLAIS I knew that medical librarianship was a particular interest of mine coming into the program. To my great delight I discovered that there were others who organize opportunities for SLAIS students to interact with the specialized professional community of medical librarians through library tours, discussion panels, and other programming.

While you surely had a general interest in librarianship or information studies more broadly when applying to SLAIS, once you’ve begun your studies you realize that within library and information studies there is a great variety of potential careers as a librarian or information professional. Getting involved in the Canadian Health Libraries Association Student Interest Group at SLAIS and attending some of our events or meetings is a great way to one potential career path as a librarian.

Our group is also very open to any MAS students who would like to explore the role of an information professional in the medical field. Don’t shy away because it says “libraries” in the name of our association!!

Finally, we are still looking to fill a number of positions on our executive board for the 2013-2014 term. If you would like to really get involved in CHLA SIG at SLAIS we would love to find a space for you.

Wishing you all the best in the coming year of studies!!

Grace Romund