Information specialists, administrators most affected by cost cutting ordered by Treasury Board

There will be a one-month extension to the Cochrane national license pilot via Wiley until January 31, 2010. Access for all Canadians continues to be dependent on existing Cochrane subscribers renewing their subscriptions in 2010. The Task Force recognizes this is not a satisfactory model going forward for any current subscriber. We feel, however, the pilot has demonstrated the need for a national license for The Cochrane Library and the opportunity to continue the trial should be taken. More information about this will be communicated shortly.

Trina Fyfe will soon be giving up public relations duties for motherhood duties. She is expecting her first child in December.  Trina was acclaimed to a second term as Public Relations Director in June 2009. Trina has done a stellar job in bringing new ideas and moving ahead on several new initiatives including new membership campaigns, outreach to library programs and new CHLA/ABSC merchandise. We wish her well.

From Boston Globe - View Guest Book 

DALY, James A. "Jay" Suddenly in Brookline May 28, 2009. Loving father of Eowyn Daly - Griffin and her husband Tom of Dedham and devoted grandfather of Thomas. Dear brother of Kevin E. Daly of Washington, DC, Brian F. Daly of Mansfield and the late Michael G. Daly. Longtime companion of Margo Coletti ofDedham. Funeral from the Bell-O'Dea Funeral Home 376 Washington St. BROOKLINE, Tuesday morning at 8:00 followed by a Funeral Mass in St. Susanna Church, Dedham at 9:00. Relatives and friends are kindly invited. Visiting hours Monday from 4 - 8. Interment Walnut Hills Cemetery. Late Veteran U.S. Navy. Graduate ofHoly Cross College Class of 1968. He was an author, librarian and creator of QUICKDOC. In lieu of flowers donations in memory of Jay may be made to the Autism Language Program, ATTN: Marie Duggan, Children's Hospital Boston, 9 Hope Ave., Waltham, MA. 02453.

In their press release, the AFMC Resource Group on Libraries and Standing Committee on Research and Graduate Studies urge the Canadian Government to reconsider funding cuts to the NRC’s and Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information.

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For more information, please contact: Irving Gold Vice President, Government Relations and External Affairs The Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada 613-730-0687 Ext. 236 igold@afmc.ca

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/3/save-the-consumer-health-information-se... This petition is the response of the CHLA/ABSC Chapter, the Toronto Health Libraries Association. Wednesday, May 27, 2009 11:33 AM Dear members, With the loss of operating funding from the Ontario Ministry of Health Promotion, the Consumer Health Information Service (CHIS) located at the Toronto Public Library closed on May 8, 2009. A petition site has been created to save CHIS - addressed to Margarett Best, Minister of Health Promotion.

There is still time left to register for Continuing Education sessions.

If you have already registered for the conference and wish to add a CE session, please contact Melissa Raynard at melissa_raynard@umanitoba.ca to register. If you have not yet registered for the conference, there's still time - online registration closes tomorrow.

There are limited spaces left for the free Cochrane Train the Trainer Workshop to be held on Wednesday May 3rd, immediately after the conference closing.

On April 7-8, NRC-CISTI held a Vision Workshop entitled “Creating a Strategic Vision for the New CISTI”. I was invited to participate, representing the health community, but unfortunately could not attend. Replacing me was Jim Henderson, Health Sciences Librarian from McGill. Participants included a variety of CISTI staff and Directors, including the National Science Library (NSL) Transformation Core Team. Internal Clients included representation from NRC, Clusters, and selected NRC Programs.

Received May 12, 2009

Posted with permission of Trish Chatterley:

CISTI would like your feedback on the following questions via the CISTI Committee on Health Sciences Information. Email feedback to
vice-president@chla-absc.ca by May 7 on these questions:
Question 1 – What is the role of a Canadian national science and health library in the 21st century
Question 2 – From your perspective:
- Who would be the new CISTI's key clients?
- What are the target services/offerings/solutions for these key clients?
Question 3 – What top 3 of your needs do you see a Canadian national science and health library filling?

The letter from M. Bourque, Executive Correspondence Officer for the Right Honourable Stephen Harper:

On April 7-8, NRC-CISTI held a Vision Workshop entitled “Creating a Strategic Vision for the New CISTI”. I was invited to participate, representing the health community, but unfortunately could not attend. Replacing me was Jim Henderson, Health Sciences Librarian from McGill. Participants included a variety of CISTI staff and Directors, including the National Science Library (NSL) Transformation Core Team. Internal Clients included representation from NRC, Clusters, and selected NRC Programs.

From: Ottawa Sun
by Donna Casey, SunMedia
Wed April 15, 2009

Call it the antidote to self-diagnosis by Google.
Canadians now have online access to the world's largest library of systematic reviews of health care treatments.

The Cochrane Library is now available on the web at www.thecochranelibrary.com, opening up a renowned international vault of reputable reviews of medical studies.

Posted with the permission of Ada Ducas:
March 23, 2009
Dr. Pierre Coulombe
President
National Research Council
1200 Montreal Road, Bldg M-58
Ottawa, Ontario
Canada, K1A 0R6

Dear Dr. Coulombe,

The following response from Cameron MacDonald (CISTI) is posted with his permission:

From: Macdonald, Cameron
Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 12:15 PM
To: Dianne Kharouba
Cc: Meighan, Donna
Subject: NRC Research Press

Dianne
Someone on my staff recommended that I should look at your website and review the material you had on the “The Press”.

All of us appreciate your concern for what is happening to us and to the national science library side of CISTI as a result of the recent federal government’s Strategic Review.

If an MP’s office receives 100 calls of concern about a topic, they take notice. If you can only 1 thing, send an email to the PMO pm@pm.gc.ca
Copy Gary Goodyear, the Minister of State for Science and Technology GoodyG@parl.gc.ca
Michael Ignatieff IgnatM@parl.gc.ca
Jack Layton LaytoJ@parl.gc.ca

Here is a letter written by Cathy Rament:

March 20, 2009
Prime Minister Stephen Harper,
Office of the Prime Minister
80 Wellington Street
Ottawa, ON
K1A 0A2

Dear Prime Minister,

From: Globe and Mail update
by ANNE MCILROY and GREG MCARTHUR

March 18, 2009 at 10:51 PM EDT

OTTAWA and TORONTO — Gary Goodyear, Canada's minister of science, trumpeted the country's scientific achievements in a speech Wednesday but found himself deflecting, for the second day in a row, questions about his commitment to the theory of evolution.

Copies of the CHLA/ABSC letter to Mr. Harper have been sent to CMA, CHA, CNA, Cdn.Dental Assn., College of Family Physicians, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, the Cdn.Pharmacists Assn. and most importantly, Gary Goodyear, Minister of State (Science and Technology).

Oddly, the Minister will be pitching quite a different story to the Economic Club of Toronto, tomorrow, March 18, according to the following media advisory -