Table of Contents: Volume 24 Number 2, Winter 2002

Departments

Editor's Message                   Andrea Hodgson

A Word from the President          Cathy Rayment

Un mot du présidente                   Cathy Rayment

Features

Taking the Measure of Ourselves Part II: CHLA/ABSC Survey of Canadian Health Information Professionals Patrick Ellis, Laurie Scott, Tim Tripp

Prendre la mesure de soi, deuxième partie: sondage 2002 de l’ABSC/CHLA auprès des professionels canadiens des renseignments en science de la santé Patrick Ellis, Laurie Scott. Tim Tripp

Time and Distance: The Effect of Latitude and Longitude on the Provision of Library Service Delivery in Australia Toni Kennedy, Joanna Boast

An Elephant or Two Titi Alexander

A Look at the DOCLINE Group Freeshare: Is It Only for Small Health Libraries? Michael Fraumeni (See: ERRATA in Vol. 24:4)

Chapter Presidents' Reports

Northern Alberta Health Libraries Association

Newfoundland & Labrador Health Libraries Association

Columns

Current Research compiled by Karen Neves

Consuming Health Information

Core list of consumer health books—if you have $1600 Susan Murray, Wanda Zan

Consumer health information for public libraries (book review) Susan Murray

Reviews

It ain't necessarily so: how media make and unmake the scientific picture of reality reviewed by Diane Helmer

Access to experimental drugs in terminal illness: ethical issues reviewed by David Szwajcer

Death to dust: what happens to dead bodies reviewed by Karen Neves

Northern nurses: true nursing adventures from Canada's north reviewed by Janice Linton

Licensing digital content: a practical guide for librarians reviewed by Brett Waytuck

News and Notes

compiled by Karen Neves

David Crawford Promoted to Emeritus Librarian at McGill University

Susan Murray Appointed to MLA’s Health Information Literacy Task Force

New handouts available for some of NLM's information resources

BMC Errata: citation correction for the Durando et al abstract

New projects in hormone replacement therapy

Role of libraries in dissemination of breast cancer information

Price increases for MDConsult subscriptions

New titles to be added to PubMed Central

Editors of New England Journal of Medicine announce correction

FavouriteWeb sites that list biomedical journal titles by subject

Two new Web sites launched for Canadian consumer health information

CDC releases new guidelines on hand washing in hospitals

Health Canada issues stop sale order for products containing kava

Health sciences librarians can help reduce medical errors

West Nile Virus a concern during summer