Table of Contents: Volume 23 Number 4, Summer 2002

Departments                                            

Editor's Message      Ellen Crumley

A Word from the President     Jessie McGowan

Un mot du présidente       Jessie McGowan

Guest Editorial: Moving Organization "By the seat of your pants' to the Palm of Your Hand     Tom Flemming

Features

Personal Digital Assistants at the John W. Scott Health Sciences Library: Pocketing a New Medium       Denise Koufogiannakis, Mark Roesner, Sandra Shores

Medical and Health Applications for PDAs      Jessie McGowan. Michael Sidlofsky

Loansome Doc or Loansome Dud: A Library's Experience Implementing Loansome Doc      Robert Janke

Evidence-based Librarianship: A Socratic Dialogue      Andrew Booth, Jon Eldredge

A Quantative Analysis of Publication Type Indexing of Sources Used in the Development of Practice Guidelines and Evidence-based Summaries in Oncology: Insights Again from a Provincial Cancer Agency      Mike Fraumeni

Innovation + A Commitment to Service Excellence = Success: An Interview with Award-winning Librarian, Jim Henderson      Tracy Havlin

Reports

Minutes of the CHLA/ABSC Twenty-Fifth Annual General Meeting

Columns

Complementary & Alternative Medicine (CAM)  CAM terminology Debbie Monkman, Bethany Becker

Consuming Health Information. A round up of CHI items from a variety of sources     Susan Murray

Current Research     compiled by Andrea Hodgson

Cyberpulse:  Presentation tips for the conference and classroom      Rita Vine

Reviews

Complete Internet Companion for Librarians     reviewed by Annette Anthony

Risk Communication and Public Health     reviewed by Wendy Hunt

Managing Information in Health Care: Concepts and Cases     reviewed by Richard Thornley

Statistics and Performance Measures for Public Library Networked Services        reviewed by Pamela Morgan

The Library Internet Trainer's Toolkit     reviewed by Pam Casey

News and Notes         

compiled by Andrea Hodgson

CHLA/ABSC Has a New Web Address

U.S. Government Offers $IO Million to Address Librarian Labour Shortage

The Mazankowski Report

A New Discussion Group from the Medical Library Association

DOCLINE in Canada

Health Sciences Multimedia Collection Project

A New Journal: Electronic Healthcare

Reed Elsevier Considering Merger with Wolters Kluwer

Great List of Online Pharmaceutical Information Resources

WebMD Acquires Medscape Portals

MLA Video "Sync or swim: managing the flood of PDAs in health care" to be Purchased by CHLA/ABSC

MEDLINEPlus and its News Providers

Grant Awarded to Develop Knowledge-based Resources, Technology and Training Via PDA

Does Wireless Technology Interfere with Hospital Equipment?

Topics for BMC as Compiled by the Current Editorial Staff

New Search Option in PubMed: Systematic Review Filter

Best Evidence CD ROM Replaced by ACP Journal Club Onlin

PubMed/MEDLINE Indexing of Cochrane Reviews

Library Book Rate: New 3-Year Agreement Reached

Methods of Tracking Search Strategies: Responses