Patricia Barrett has been a librarian at the Neil John Maclean Health Sciences Library, University of Manitoba Libraries, since 2006. She is also the librarian for the Misericordia Health Centre Library. Before moving to health sciences librarianship, Patricia worked as a collections services librarian and a reference librarian in the Law Library at the University of Manitoba Libraries. Patricia has a B.A.(History) and a MISt.

Eugene Barsky is the Physiotherapy Outreach Librarian at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, University of British Columbia, where he provides information services to BC practicing physiotherapists and implements many Web 2.0 applications into his outreach work with allied
health professionals. Eugene holds a MLIS degree from UBC, and previously worked in medical clinical research and pharmaceutical industry regulatory and business intelligence.

Malcolm Binns has a master's degree in statistics from Queen's University and is working on a doctoral thesis in biostatistics at the University of Toronto. He has been employed at Baycrest's Rotman Research Institute as a Statistician for 13 years and has published 33 peer-reviewed papers in neurology, neuropsychology, psychiatry, and gerontology journals.

Pam Bjornson became CISTI's new Director General in February 2007 following five years as the NRC-CISTI Director of Business Affairs, where she was responsible for marketing, communications, and partnership development. She also managed the particularly critical challenges for CISTI of financial planning, risk management and overall business strategy development over this period. She is currently a member of the Advisory Board for the Canadian Research Knowledge Network.

Pam has an MBA from the University of Ottawa, and brings 25 years of management experience, including nine years as the Executive Director of Canadiana.org, a not-for-profit organization established to preserve Canada’s printed heritage and make the resulting collection accessible to research libraries in Canada and around the world.

Anne Brice is the Head of Knowledge & Information Sciences, Public Health Resource Unit, Oxford; Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, University of Birmingham; and Senior Information Specialist, Centre for Evidence Based Medicine, Oxford. After qualifying in 1983 Anne worked in the University of London, then as Regional Librarian in the Borders Health Board, Scotland. In 1995 she was appointed as Librarian at the Institute of Health Sciences, University of Oxford. She moved to the post of Assistant Director of the Health Care Libraries Unit, University of Oxford in 1996 In 2002 she was seconded to the National Library for Health firstly as Specialist Libraries Development Manager, , and later as Acting Head of Service. Anne is currently helping to set up ThinkWell, an international network which aims to improve the health and well-being of citizens across the world by enabling them to make informed decisions about lifestyle, diet and health interventions through public-led health discussions, education and research, using the internet and the mass media as fundamental tools.

Shannon Buckley is the coordinator of the Hamilton, Ontario based Long Term Care Resource Centre - a Seniors Health Research Transfer Network (SHRTN) library service. Shannon has been in her current position for three years. Prior to this role she worked as part of the Hamilton Health Sciences library service team.

Alan Cassels researches pharmaceutical policy and has reported on a variety of drug issues for magazines, newspapers and the CBC Radio program IDEAS. He is co-author of Selling Sickness: How the World’s Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies are Turning us All into Patients and founded Media Doctor Canada, (www.mediadoctor.ca) to evaluate the quality of Canadian medical reporting. He parks his unicycle in Victoria, BC.

Millie Cayen has accumulated 28 years of experience working in special libraries throughout Ontario. The past16 years have been at the Sudbury & District Health Unit, where she created the Information Resources Centre for this northern teaching health unit and has been guiding its evolution since. Millie has served on the executive of the Ontario Public Health Libraries Association (OPHLA) and the Northern Lights Health Libraries Association (a chapter of CHLA). As a member of OPHLA, Millie collaborates with her colleagues to support activities that enhance resource sharing, knowledge transfer and evidence-based practice.

Analyn Cohen Baker is the hospital librarian for the Seven Oaks General Hospital Library (SOGH), University of Manitoba Health Sciences Libraries. Analyn works directly with the SOGH clinical staff providing reference, training and literature search services. She also provides library support to the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority staff in the Seven Oaks and Inkster community offices. Analyn is well suited to this position as she successfully combines her nursing knowledge - she is a former RN - with her library expertise.

John Cole is the Director of the Health Sciences Library, and Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Medicine, at the University of Calgary. Since 2003 he has been involved in planning for the provision of library services to the Calgary Health Region and the Tom Baker Cancer Centre by the University of Calgary, culminating in the creation of the Health Information Network in fall 2005.

Maureen Dobbins, RN, Ph.D is an associate professor in the School of Nursing at McMaster University and a career scientist of the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care. Maureen’s research focuses on knowledge transfer and exchange among public health decision makers in Canada. Her most significant contribution to the field has been the development and launch on March 10, 2005 of www.health-evidence.ca, a registry of reviews evaluating the effectiveness of public health and health promotion interventions published since 1985.

Karine Fournier has been the Head of Reference at the Health Sciences Library, University of Ottawa for the past two years. She works closely with faculty members towards the integration of information literacy in Nursing, Medicine, and the new Bachelor of Health Sciences curriculum. Previously, Karine spent two years as Library Director for the University of Moncton, Shippagan Campus in New Brunswick. Karine received her MLIS from the Université de Montréal in 2001.

Gillian Griffith is currently a Clinical Outreach Services Librarian at the Bracken Health Sciences Library at Queen's University in Kingston. Her time is shared between public services resposibilities within the academic environment and providing customized library services to community health care partners within the Southeastern Ontario region.

Jeremy Grimshaw has an international reputation in the field of knowledge translation (KT). Since he moved to Canada in 2002 as a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Knowledge Transfer and Uptake, he has established himself as a leader in knowledge translation research in four key areas: systematic reviews of interventions to improve health service delivery and systems; evaluation of KT strategies; development of a theoretical basis for KT; and a situational analysis of Canadian KT activities. Dr. Grimshaw is known for his creativity, innovation and uniqueness and for his commitment to high scientific standards. Dr. Grimshaw received his medical degree from the University of Edinburgh and his PhD from the University of Aberdeen. Before coming to Canada, he served as Program Director, Health Services Research Unit, University of Aberdeen, where he also held a Personal Chair in Health Services Research. In addition to his positions at the University of Ottawa, he is currently a Visiting Professor in the Centre for Health Services Research at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.

Pearl Jacobson is completing a Masters in Information Studies in the Faculty of Information Studies at the University of Toronto. She has a B.Sc. in biology with several published articles. She also has a degree in education. Her interests include open access publishing and service to under-served groups.

Heather Joseph has spent the last 17 years in the scholarly publishing community. She began her career at the American Astronomical Society, where she fortunate to be a part of the creation of one of the first fully electronic journals. While at the American Society for Cell Biology, she worked to develop a system to peer review and publish multimedia content in the journal Molecular Biology of the Cell. She was pleased to have this journal earn the distinction of becoming the first journal to commit its full content to PubMed Central, and currently serves on the National Advisory Committee for this initiative. For her work as President and Chief Operating Officer of BioOne, an innovative collaboration between publishers and the library community, Heather was awarded the 2002 ALPSP Award for Service to Not-for-Profit Publishers. She is an active participant in several professional societies, and was pleased to serve as the President of the Society for Scholarly Publishing. Since 2005, Heather has been the Executive Director of the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC), an organization that is working to support a more open system of scholarly communication.

Sandra Kendall BA, MLS graduated from the University of Toronto, Canada. She has worked in the for-profit sectors including advertising, publishing, marketing, real estate, banking and utilities; public libraries, academic libraries and as a library services consultant has launched libraries, created and re-designed space plans, re-positioned libraries and yes, sometimes had to close libraries. After seven years as the Director of Library Services for Mount Sinai Hospital she is still surprised at the difference the library makes to clinical decision making and looks forward to more possibilities.

Shauna-Lee Konrad is a Reference Librarian for the London Health Sciences Centre. She is a graduate of the University of Western Ontario's MLIS program (2006) and holds a B.A. in French from the University of Waterloo (1998) and a B.Ed. from Brock University (1999). Prior to attending library school Shauna-Lee worked for the York Region District School Board as an intermediate French immersion teacher.

Sheila Lacroix (BSc, MLS), Library Coordinator, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) Library, Toronto, has been providing reference and research service since 1991. She is a regular contributor to CAMH’s CrossCurrents Downloaded column and is an active member of SALIS (www.salis.org): chair in 1997 and conference host in 2003. Sheila was on the conference planning committee for CHLA 2005.

Jackie Lewis received her MLS degree from Southern Connecticut State University. During her 30 year tenure with the University of Connecticut Health Center Library Jackie has been promoted to various positions in public services, including Head of Access Services. As EFTS Program Manager she is responsible for overseeing all aspects of EFTS including policy, procedure and software development.

Mary Low is the Partnership Development Officer at CISTI (Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information). Her previous CISTI positions were in NRC Information Services, Marketing, Document Delivery, the Health Sciences Resource Centre, and Cataloguing. Mary has a Masters of Library Science degree and an Honours Bachelor of Science degree, both from the University of Toronto.

John Loy has worked in healthcare information for over 15 years, with experience of services for midwives, primary care and now mental health. He has particular interest in making better use of electronic resources to provide a hybrid library service to dispersed user communities. John is a member of the Evidence Summaries team of the new journal Evidence Based Library and Information Practice.

Cameron Macdonald is currently the Director, NRC Research Press. The “Press” is a part of the Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (CISTI) and is Canada’s largest publisher of scientific and technical journals. In his 20 years at CISTI, Cameron has filled a number of other positions including Director, Publisher Relations, Manager, Marketing Group and Manager, Electronic Products. Prior to working at CISTI, Cameron worked at the Canadian Standards Association in Rexdale Ontario and the Ministry of Consumer and Commercial Relations in Toronto. The scientific publishing community faces many challenges going into this new millennium. Cameron is focusing on ensuring that the NRC Research Press continues to meet the needs of researchers in Canada and worldwide, and to be recognized for its leading edge publishing processes and services. Cameron has a BA (Trent University) and an MLS (University of Toronto).

Jackie MacDonald Twelve of Jackie’s twenty six years in health, science and technical libraries have been in rural Nova Scotia healthcare. Her multi-site office-based library service combines traditional library services with proactive corporate information management. She is a PhD student at University of Sheffield Department of Information Studies Centre for Health Information Management Research.

Jeff Mason is a Client Services Librarian for the Regina Qu’Appelle Health Region. He is a graduate of the University of Western Ontario’s MLIS program (2005) and holds a B.Sc. from the University of Toronto in Forensic Sciences (2002). Prior to attending library school Jeff worked for the joint RCMP/VPD Missing Women’s Task Force.

Merle McConnell is currently the Chief of the Science Library Network at Health Canada and Chair of the Strategic Alliance of Federal Science and Technology Libraries. Her previous positions at Health Canada include Manager of the Banting Library and the Library of the Laboratory Centre for Disease Control (now the Public Health Library).

Mary McDiarmid, MISt, AHIP is the Manager of Library Services at Baycrest, a fully affiliated teaching hospital with the University of Toronto. Recent activities in 2006 included serving as President of the Ontario Health Libraries Association, earning the title of Provisional Member of the MLA's Academy of Health Information Professionals and co-authoring a Copyright Toolkit for Ontario Hospitals published by the Ontario Hospital Association.

Barb Murray has held the position of librarian at the Thunder Bay District Health Unit since 1986. Prior to joining the health unit she worked in various public, private and academic libraries. Barb is a past president of the Northwestern Ontario Health Libraries Association and the Ontario Health Libraries Association and is currently serving as president of the Ontario Public Health Libraries Association. As a member of OPHLA, Barb has recently been involved in various initiatives designed to promote access to evidence-based public health resources in Ontario.

Simon Neame has been the Coordinator for Programs and Services at the new Irving K. Barber Learning Centre at UBC since 2003, where he is developing outreach programs and services, as well as establishing a learning and media commons. Simon is also an adjunct instructor at the School of Library, Archival and Information Studies at UBC.

Greg R. Notess has been writing, speaking, and consulting about Internet information resources and search engines since 1991. A three-time Information Authorship award winner, he is the "On the Net" and "Internet Search Engine Update" columnist for ONLINE. Greg is the author of the several Internet books including his latest, Teaching Web Search Skills: Techniques and Strategies of Top Trainers and the first three editions of Government Information on the Internet.

An internationally-known conference speaker on search engines and other Internet topics, Greg has spoken at conferences such as Internet Librarian, Online Information, Web Search University, the Special Libraries Association Annual Conference, and international meetings in London, Oslo, Stockholm, Paris, Pretoria, Montreal, Copenhagen, Sydney, Zagreb, and several locations in India. On the Web, Greg maintains Search Engine Showdown http://searchengineshowdown.com which reviews, compares, analyzes, and tries to keep current up with the rapidly changing Web search tools.

Greg has consulted for several major (and minor) search engines and is also a professor and reference librarian at Montana State University-Bozeman.

Beata Pach is the Information Specialist at the Public Health Division of the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care (Ontario). Prior to taking on this role, Beata was the Librarian/Resource Centre Coordinator at the York Region Health Services Department. During that time she was seconded to the MOHLTC to provide research/information support to the Secretariat established to assist the Expert Panel on SARS and Infectious Disease Control (Walker Panel). . Currently she is involved with the PHI&IT initiatives as a member of the Public Health Communications Portal User Advisory Group.

Ingrid Parent is currently the Assistant Deputy Minister for the Documentary Heritage Collection Sector at Library and Archives Canada responsible for the development, the organization and the preservation of the Canadian documentary heritage. She is also co-leading the development of the Canadian Digital Information Strategy. In 1999 Mme Parent was elected to the Governing Board of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) and is currently the Chair of the IFLA Section on National Libraries.

Mme Parent's professional interests include the development of international standards and working actively with other national libraries and archives in collection, preservation and access to information. She is a member of the Committee of Principals that oversees the development of the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, of the Canadian Advisory Committee to OCLC, and of the Advisory Board to CISTI.

Cathy Rayment is Provincial Library Leader for the BC Cancer Agency and a member of the Management Committee of the eHLbc. She is a past-president of both the HLABC and the CHLA/ABSC and was chair of the CHLA/ABSC 2006 conference planning committee.

Nancy Roberts joined the SHRTN project in October 2005 as the Information Specialist for Eastern Ontario. She has over 25 years experience in all facets of library operations. Her career has taken her through the academic, government, private industry and medical environments. Nancy is also a Palliative Care volunteer.

Amanda Ross-White is a Clinical Outreach Services Librarian and has been with Queen’s University since 2004. Although her primary liaison responsibility is with Kingston General Hospital, she contributes to service provision for Bracken Library's other community health partners.

Greg Rowell is Manager of Library Services for the Fraser Health Authority. He is co-chair of the Management Committee of the eHLbc, and was a member of the working committee that over the course of three years took the eHLbc from proposal to reality. He's a graduate of the Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto and holds an MSc in Human Biology from the University of Guelph.

Steve Sharp has 10 years experience of studying and working in the UK health information sector, including 5 years as a Training and Information Support Librarian. He is currently working as an Information Specialist for two of the 27 specialist libraries available via the UK National Library for Health.

Jola Sliwinski, EFTS Program Coordinator, brings to EFTS a wide range of experience from previous positions including office management, staff credentialing, liaison work, as well as University of Connecticut Health Center Library positions in ILL and Acquisitions. Although Jola’s main focus is customer service and education, she is also responsible for financial management, day-to-day operations and marketing.

Anne Smithers is the Head of Technical & Document Services. A major involvement with the outreach partnerships has been identifying and negotiating the customized suite of electronic resources accessible to each partner.

Rebecca Tunnacliffe has been the Chief Executive Officer of the Physiotherapy Association of British Columbia for over six years. Her undergraduate degree in English Literature from the UBC was followed by a Master of Arts degree from Queen's University. Executive positions with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and the University Women's Club led to her position with PABC. Forming partnerships with UBC and other provincial stakeholders have led Ms. Tunnacliffe to bring physiotherapists a variety of innovative services.

Margaret Ann Wilkinson's background in law and library and information science naturally brings her to the study of copyright. Jointly appointed Professor in the faculties of Law and Information & Media Studies at the University of Western Ontario, Dr. Wilkinson was called to the Bar of Ontario since 1980, She is a doctoral supervisor in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies. Professor Wilkinson's current research concerning moral rights in copyright and the conceptual and practical relationships between personal data protection, confidentiality and privacy has been funded through the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Her most recent article, "The Public Interest in Moral Rights Protection," appeared in [2006] 1 Michigan State Law Review, 193-234, while her recent chapter "Filtering the Flow from the Fountains of Knowledge: Access and Copyright in Education and Libraries" appeared in 2005 in Michael Geist's In the Public Interest: the Future of Canadian Copyright Law (available for download from irwinlaw.ca) and her 2004 chapter on "Privacy and Personal Data Protection: Albatross for Access?" appeared in Karen Adams and William F. Birdsall, Access to Information in a Digital World (Canadian Library Association).