The 6th International Conference of Animal Health Information Specialists (ICAHIS), which will be part of the 10th International Congress on Medical Librarianship (ICML), will be held in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, August 31- September 4, 2009. The organisers welcome proposals to present papers or posters (see the call for abstracts and submission form). Be sure to indicate one of the ICAHIS themes: Advancing Communication in Animal Health Practice: For example: coping with web content; preserving content by digitization; sharing copyrighted materials legally; using specialized databases; creating and/or maintaining repositories; accessing veterinary archives; assessing the impact of e-journalsImproving Information transfer from Research to Clinical Veterinary Practice: For...
The Medical Library Association’s Veterinary Medical Libraries Section is compiling an international directory of Veterinary Medical and Related Libraries (and librarians).Launched in May, the directory has contact information for hundreds of information services serving veterinary medicine and animal health. The new site is the result of sterling efforts by a group of volunteers.The editors recognize they have some international gaps to fill; some countries are missing or have incomplete information. If you are working with animal health information, please get in contact with Vicki Croft at Washington State University, Susanne Whitaker at Cornell University, or the VMLS...