Background: The traditional role of health librarians as expert searchers is under challenge.
Objectives: The purpose of this review is to establish health librarians' views, practices and …

The aim of this paper is to explore and to make visible how the information work of hospital
librarians is enacted in key practices where services of the hospital library are employed to …

The current professional requirements within the Australian health context for evidential
mandatory professional development provided the impetus for a small health library to …

Through a grant received from the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA),
Health Libraries Australia (HLA) is conducting a twelve-month research project with the goal …

Today's healthcare rely on a basis of evidence-based medicine (EBM) and in modern
healthcare there are demands for rational decision-making about new methods, technology …

Background: Leadership is a necessary facet of professional practice for health library and
information managers (HLIMs). Several training needs analyses (TNA) in the health library …

This is the second in a series of articles exploring international trends in health science
librarianship in the first decade of the 21st century. The invited authors were asked to reflect …

Objective–This research aimed to examine the characteristics of the current health library
professional workforce in Australia. The study also sought to explore the areas of health …

Background This paper summarises the main points of a review of the Status of Health
Librarianship & Libraries in Ireland (SHELLI). The review was commissioned to gain a broad …

Objective–This study, which comprises one stage of a larger project (ALIA/HLA Workforce
and Education Research Project), aimed to discover employers' views on how (or whether) …