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The Canadian Health Libraries Association or Association des bibliothèques de la santé du Canada was founded in 1976. It represents the views of Canadian health sciences
librarian A librarian is a person who works professionally in a library providing access to information, and sometimes social or technical programming, or instruction on information literacy to users. The role of the librarian has changed much over time ...
s to governments, the health community and fellow librarians.


Chapters

CHLA/ABSC has twelve regional chapters: *Section Santé et services sociaux de la FMD (3S) (FMD3S) *Golden Horseshoe Health Libraries Association *Health Libraries Association of British Columbia *Manitoba Association of Health Information Providers *Maritimes Health Libraries Association / Association des bibliothèques de la santé des Maritimes *Newfoundland and Labrador Health Libraries Association *Northern Alberta Health Libraries Association *Ottawa Valley Health Libraries Association / Association des bibliothèques de la santé de la Vallée d'Outaouais *Saskatchewan Health Libraries Association *Southern Alberta Health Libraries Association *Toronto Health Libraries Association *Wellington-Waterloo-Dufferin Health Library Network


Conference

CHLA/ABSC holds an annual, peer-reviewed conference which rotates among regions in Canada.


Publications

*eNews (2015-present) *''Journal of the Canadian Health Libraries Association'' (2004present) *''Bibliotheca Medica Canadiana'' (19792003) *''CHLA/ABSC Newsletter'' (19771979) Nos. 1-8.


References


External links


Canadian Health Libraries Association - CHLA/ABSC CHLA / ABSC Canadian Health Libraries Association / Association des bibliothèques de la santé du Canada Fonds
Osler Library of the History of Medicine The Osler Library, a branch of the McGill University Library and part of ROAAr since 2016, is Canada's foremost scholarly resource for the history of medicine, and one of the most important libraries of its type in North America. It is located i ...

Article by David S. Crawford (CHLA's first President), reprinted from the Association's journal
''Bibliotheca Medica Canadiana'', describing the formation of the Association. {{Authority control Professional associations based in Canada Canadian library associations Medical associations based in Canada