Newsletter (November 1973)

Contents: list of suggested books and journals for a small medical library almost completed; potential project to write a manual of medical libraries in small hospitals; Wimmera and Moe Hospitals each request library advice; Geelong Hospital to be linked with Monash University; hospital librarian wages now aligned with radiographers and physiotherapists; STISEC report comments and submission to AACOBS Committee; Val Strantzen and Marion Rock to be the next Co-convenors; talk by Anne Harrison on meeting of medical librarians in Perth; role of National Library in medicine; talk by Jacqueline Baillie on MEDLARS from the point of view of the user, increases in interlibrary loans, Current Awareness Service, prospects of charging, need for librarians to learn more about the mechanics of MEDLARS; talk by Anne Harrison on Special Libraries in the 1980s including the impending introduction of MEDLINE, possible increase in the use of paramedical professions.
Original document held in ALIA House, Canberra.