Table of Contents: Volume 24 Number 1, Fall 2002

Departments

Editor's Message         Ellen Crumley

Word from the President         Cathy Rayment

Un mot du présidente         Cathy Rayment

Features

Taking the Measure of Ourselves. Part 1. CHLA/ABSC Focus Groups Patrick Ellis, Laurie Scott

Health Maintenance: The Cycle of Marketing at a Health Sciences Library            Elizabeth M. Smigielski, Judith L. Wulff

Introduction of an Inventory Program and Use of Volunteers to Maintain It: Program Description            Jo-ann Larose

The First U.K. Clinical Librarian Conference             Linda Ward, Claire Honeybourne

Structured Abstracts: The Whys and Wherefores             Liz Bayley

Abstracts from the CHLA/ABSC 2002 Conference             Liz Bayle

Columns

Research in Librarianship

"Say what you mean..." Scott Plutchak

Current Research compiled by Andrea Hodgson

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

Cyberpulse Scientific portals. Part 1. Scirus.com Rita Vine

Awards

Hospital Librarian of the Year Virginie Jamet

Louise Bourbonais’ Reply

Award of Outstanding Achievement Barbara Stalling

Nancy McAllister's Reply

Award of Outstanding Achievement Patricia Fortin

Tom Flemming's Reply

Board and Grant/Fund Reports

BMC Editor's Report          Ellen Crumley

Continuing Education Report          Laurie Scott

Grant/Fund Recipient Reports            Jami van Haaften, Carolyn Lupton, Jo-ann Larose, Esther Szeben

President's Report          Jessie McGowan

Public Relations Report          Tim Tripp

Treasurer's Report          Caren Mofford

Vice-President’s Report          Cathy Rayment

Past President's Report          Patrick Ellis

Chapter Presidents' Reports

Central Ontario Health Libraries Association

Kingston Area Health Libraries Association

Golden Horseshoe Health Libraries Association

Health Libraries Association of British Columbia

London Area Health Libraries Association

Manitoba Association of Health Information

Newfoundland and Labrador Health Library Association

Maritimes Health Libraries Association/Association des bibliothèques de la santé des Maritimes

Northern Alberta Health Libraries Association

Northwestern Ontario Health Libraries Association

Ottawa Valley Health Libraries Association/Association des bibliothèques de la santé de la Vallée de l’Outaouais

Saskatchewan Health Libraries Association

Southern Alberta Health Libraries Association

Section des bibliothèques de la santé de l’ASTED

Southwestern Ontario Health Libraries Association

Toronto Health Libraries Association

Wellington Waterloo Dufferin Health Library Network

Reviews

Four strong winds: understanding the growing challenges to health care reviewed by Mary Robinson

Accessing and browsing information and communications reviewed by Karen Gagnon

Interprofessional practice in health and social care: challenging the shared learning agenda reviewed by Shannon Long

The Medical Library Association guide to managing health care libraries reviewed by Dean Guistini

Preserving digital information: a how-to-do it manual reviewed by Carol Cooke

News and Notes

compiled by Andrea Hodgson

Last Call: Pacific Northwest Chapter of MLA (PNC/MLA) Annual Meeting

CLA Appoints a New Executive Director

CHLA/ABSC 2003 Conference: Call for Papers and Posters

Surgeon General Now Online

National Library of Russia Now Online

Consortia Banding Together for Better Access: Canadian Universities Reciprocal Borrowing Agreement

The Right to Privacy vs. the Law: FBI Checking Library Records

Bibliotheca Alexandrina: After a Thousand Years is Open Again

Laval University Evidence-based Medicine Web Site

EBL 2003 Conference: Call for Contributed Papers and Posters

NHS Copyright Licence Agreement

Cochrane Library: Free Access in Ireland

New E-mail List for MLA's Information Management Education Special Interest Group (IMESIG)

Consumer Health Resource: Mental Health Online Guide

Patient Summaries: A New MEDLINE Publication Type

Replication of Rochester Study: Summary of MEDLIB-L Discussion

British National Electronic Library for Health (NeLH) Offers Librarian Portal