{"id":9,"date":"2012-10-11T17:26:12","date_gmt":"2012-10-12T00:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/chla\/?page_id=9"},"modified":"2012-10-12T10:28:14","modified_gmt":"2012-10-12T17:28:14","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/chla\/about","title":{"rendered":"About CHLA at SLAIS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mission:<\/strong>\u00a0\u201c<em>Bridging the gap between students and working professionals in health librarianship<\/em>\u201c<\/p>\n<p>In 2006, a group of students in the\u00a0<a title=\"http:\/\/www.slais.ubc.ca\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.slais.ubc.ca\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">School of Library, Archival and Information Studies (SLAIS)<\/a>\u00a0that were interested in health librarianship started the CHLA\/ABSC Student Interest Group (SIG). This student group organizes events for SLAIS students including library tours and guest panels. In 2007, the CHLA\/ABSC SIG began posting its activities on the HLWIKI Canada wiki.\u00a0In 2012, a blog was created to improve its ability to communicate to other SLAIS students through a new learning management system.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a title=\"http:\/\/www.chla-absc.ca\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chla-absc.ca\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Canadian Health Libraries Association<em>\u00a0\/\u00a0<\/em>Association des biblioth\u00e8ques de la sant\u00e9 du Canada (CHLA\/ABSC)<\/a>\u00a0is the professional association for hospital and health librarians in Canada. CHLA\/ABSC was founded in 1976 and represents the views of Canadian health librarians to library associations, governments, health communities and fellow librarians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mission:\u00a0\u201cBridging the gap between students and working professionals in health librarianship\u201c In 2006, a group of students in the\u00a0School of Library, Archival and Information Studies (SLAIS)\u00a0that were interested in health librarianship started the CHLA\/ABSC Student Interest Group (SIG). This student group organizes events for SLAIS students including library tours and guest panels. In 2007, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13965,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/chla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/chla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/chla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/chla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13965"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/chla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/chla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/chla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions\/60"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/chla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}