This article questions how we access health information. How to demystify medical terminology and health information from doctors. Demonstrates how public libraries, academic and medical libraries and small resource centres can help. Gives tips on how to find your way around a library.
Consists of a "how-to" guide on developing and organizing a local consumer health information (CHI) service. Reviews service provision and elaborates general principles in establishing CHI. Enhances its relevance with use of mainly Canadian sources and examples. Designed for use by librarians; also of value to community groups and individuals interest in provision of CHI.
Supports librarians and health educators to provide quality health and medical information. Coordinates a network of health libraries and organizations committed to the provision of quality health information. Provides funding for health information outreach activities. Assists health professionals to find relevant, quality information to support their professional practice. Assists the public to find quality health information to enable them to make informed decisions about their health.
Forms a medical library that collects materials in all areas of biomedicine and health care, as well as works on biomedical aspects of technology, the humanities, and the physical, life, and social sciences.
The Law Foundation of British Columbia is a non-profit foundation created by legislation in 1969 to receive and distribute the interest on clients' funds held in lawyers' pooled trust accounts maintained in financial institutions.
The Legal Profession Act directs the Law Foundation to distribute these funds in five areas:
legal education;
legal research;
legal aid;
law reform; and
law libraries.
The Foundation recognizes that while its objectives are legal in nature, the income is to be allocated to programs that will benefit the general public of British Columbia.
A grant application:
must be submitted by a non-profit organization
must fall within one or more of the five mandated areas
must establish a clear benefit to the people of British Columbia
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CARL—the Canadian Association of Research Libraries—is the leadership organization for the Canadian research library community. The Association’s members are the29 major academic research libraries across Canada together with Library and Archives Canada, the Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (CISTI) and the Library of Parliament. CARL strives to enhance the capacity of member libraries to partner in research and higher education, and to seek effective and sustainable scholarly communication and public policy encouraging of research and broad access to scholarly information.
