Departments

Editor's Message - Anna Gagliardi
A Word from the President - Marthe Brideau
Un Mot de la presidente - Marthe Brideau

News from CHLA/ABSC
Summary of the CHLA/ABSC Response to the Interim Report of the Advisory Council on Health InfoStructure, November 6, 1998

CHLA/ABSC Task Force on Resource Sharing 2
Evaluation of Serial, Union List and Resource Sharing Activities: RSTF2 Survey (Fall 1997) - Carole Brault, Judith Coughlan-Lambly, Toni Janik, Lynn Kozun, Anne Smithers

Features

CISTI Proposes a National Online Scientific Knowledge Network
Elizabeth Katz, Kenneth-Roy Bonin

The Hamilton-Wentworth Long Term Care Resource Centre Project
Joan A. Royle, Anne F. Church, Maureen Montemuro, Jean Lillie, Elena Goldblatt, Jennifer Blythe

Swift, Efficient Application of Research in Community Health (SEARCH):
An Alberta-Made Health Research Training Program
Richard Thornley

Alberta's Universities: Leaders in Moving Health Information Into the Professional Community
Della Jacobson

The Canadian Medical Association's OSLER Service
Deborah Scott-Douglas

Developing a Nursing Knowledge Management System
Mary Ellen Jeans

Canadian Coordinating Office for Health Technology Assessment
Annie Hall

OHeLP: Ontario Health Link for Practitioners
Liz Bayley, Neera Bhatnagar

Forging a New Model for Cooperation: the Health Science Information Consortium of Toronto
Laurie J. Scott

The Need for Evidence
K. Ann McKibbon, Cindy Walker-Dilks

Cancer Patients Gaining Power
Manal Khalife

The Web and Electronic Information (EI) in Canadian Consumer Health Libraries:
Perceptions of Twenty Public, Hospital and Special Libraries
Susan Murray, Dean Giustini

Canadian Health Network: Recent Developments
Susan Murray

Columns

Ask Doctor DOCLINE - Bev Brown
CISTI DOCLINE Coordinator answers your questions about DOCLINE: What are the DOCLINE quarterly statistics?

Consuming Health Information - Susan Murray
Consumer Health Books - If you have $1100.00

Cyperpulse - Rita Vine
Ten Tips for Working Faster on the Web: Part One

Currents in Library Research - compiled by Mary Robinson

Reviews

Consumer Health Resource Centers: A Guide to Successful Planning and Implementation  - reviewed by Susan Murray
Our promise to children  - reviewed by Jill Campbell
Clinical Ethics: a practical approach to ethical decisions in clinical medicine  - reviewed by Janette Hatton

News and Notes
compiled by Mary Robinson

New Elsevier Science BIOtech Web site
Electronic Pocket-Sized Medical Texts
New Database Field in SydneyPLUS
New Databases from ISI
OCLC and WLN Merged