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Contents: appreciation by Verna Dunn's family; obituary notice by Judith Quilter for the Australian Library Journal; letters of regret about the downgrading of the RACS library position acknowledged; part-time librarian appointed; Directory sheets distributed and requested to be typed rather than handwritten and returned to Marion Rock; Medical Libraries in Australia - notes compiled for Leslie Symes - mostly the work of Jacqueline Baillie and with assistance from Amy Bush, Marion Rock and Val Strantzen; Victoria and NSW have elected representatives for the proposed National Council of Medical Librarians' Groups - asking other groups to nominate their representatives and to suggest ways of raising finance for a national organization;  Basic Book list distributed at meeting - suggest marking priority purchases with an asterisk; Judith Wolfe has set up a medical library at Launceston General Hospital and appreciated the usefulness of the basic book list; proposed LAA Conference workshop "The Librarian in the Changing World of Medicine" - Chair: Esther Martin, Committee: Fay Baker, Amy Bush and Thora Grey; tour of Lincoln Library.

Original document held in ALIA House, Canberra.

Contents: MLG represented at the funeral of Verna Dunn, Librarian, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons; Medical Library Directory sheets - aim for efficient standardization of each Library's information; Book List Committee (Marion Rock, Enid Meldrum, Amy Bush, Val Strantzen) created a Basic List for members at the meeting to add, delete, correct, comment and return to the Committee; unanimous decision to establish a National Organization of Medical Librarians' Groups with Amy Bush representing Victoria; report of 2nd Medical Libraries Seminar, Wellington Hospital, New Zealand, on 22nd February 1974 includes using the term "health sciences" in preference to "medical" library services; talk by Amy Bush, Judith Quilter and Margaret Kerr on the "New directions in medical librarianship and biomedical communications" seminar in Canberra.

Original document held in ALIA House, Canberra.

Contents: Co-convenors: Val Strantzen and Marion Rock; delay in printing the Medical Library Directory; list of journals recommended for the small medical library completed and available; book list proposed for next project; Consultative panel for small hospital libraries met at Austin: Anne Harrison, Jacqueline Baillie, Enid Meldrum, Marion Rock, Val Strantzen; guidelines prepared by Jacqueline Baillie are available "Notes on Plan of Instruction for Untrained Persons in Charge of Hospital Libraries"; submission to Commission of Enquiry into Hospital and Health Services in Victoria (by Anne Harrison, Secretary, Central Medical Library Organization, on behalf of the MLG) pointing out need for increased aid; talk by Fay Baker on her visit to Vietnam as Medical Library Consultant for the World Health Organization.

Original document held in ALIA House, Canberra.

Contents: report of unproductive meeting with Hospital and Charities Commission that, until we could prove there was a need for librarians in country hospitals, we could not expect much sympathy from the boards of management; more discussion about an advisory committee for country hospitals; loose-leaf format proposed for medical library directory; $2 subscription due.

Original document held in ALIA House, Canberra.

Contents: suggestion to form an honorary advisory panel to help librarians to establish new medical libraries; potential for a scholarship for training in medical librarianship; talk by Fay Baker on her trip to the Philippines as Medical Library Consultant with the World Health Organization.

Original document held in ALIA House, Canberra.

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.

Contents: quotes for Medical Libraries' Directory; request to update draft list of recommended journals for small libraries; comments on the standards of medical journals; wages case of the Association of Hospital and Health Services Librarians; talk by L. Walsh on the regional organization of hospitals and hospital services in Victoria - commenced 1954, rearranged 1970, suggested ways for country library services.

Original document held in ALIA House, Canberra.

Contents: suggestions of topics for future meetings include structure of postgraduate specialists courses, regional organization of hospitals and plans for hospital libraries, establishing a new hospital library, services of an expert advisory committee; talk by Paul Hodgson on the Australian MEDLARS Service includes history of the establishment, future plans, capacity of the service, current awareness service, requirements for using MEDLARS over a manual search.

Original document held in ALIA House, Canberra.

Contents: A workshop of stationery forms used in medical libraries was planned for the meeting on 16 May 1972; inter-library loan procedures will be discussed during the August meeting; Judith Quilter presented a report on an application to the Wages Board hearing; the Medical Librarians' Group information card was discussed and samples circulated; John Vaughan hopes to establish a group in Canberra; Miss Harrison and Mrs Baillie as co-conveners of the National Steering Committee were asked to report to the Australian Library Journal about the formation of the group and the conveners of the Victorian Branch will report to Vibra.

Original document held in ALIA House, Canberra.

Contents: The group now has 41 members; Miss Harrison and Mrs Baillie reported that New South Wales, Australian Capital Territory and South Australia had formed state branches; slides (courtesy of the National Library) shown by Anne Harrison on the formation and work of MEDLARS; Miss Quilter reported on the application of the Association of Hospital and Health Services Librarians to the Wages Board, it was expected an interim award would align the salaries of medical librarians with those of medical photographers; inter-libary loans procedures and protocol is to be the subject of the next meeting; display of stationery discussed eg loans systems cards, ILL request and record, overdue notices, periodical accessioning cards, literature search requests.

Original document held in ALIA House, Canberra.

Contents: membership = 44; report on wages case for the Association of Hospital and Health Services Librarians; report on Anne Harrison's visit to Sydney Branch where their meetings have speakers giving lectures rather than the workshop-type approach; proposed submission to the forthcoming Committee on Medical Schools of the Australian Universities Commission stressed the need for the provision of funds for library support to the medical schools' teaching and research functions, to the emerging concept of continuing education for medical practitioners, and the provision of trained personnel with adequate salaries for both medical school and teaching hospital libraries; plans for a course in medical librarianship; talk on interlibrary loan procedures; possible adaptation of NLM's List of journals indexed in Index Medicus to be annotated for journal holdings.

Original document held in ALIA House, Canberra.

Contents: 1st Newsletter, early December, not dated; does not contain Minutes; report of university medical librarians' resolution to form a national group with state branches; National Co-convenors of Australian Medical Librarians Group: Jacquelline Baillie, Anne Harrison; Victorian Co-convenors: Fay Baker, Enid Meldrum; subscription $1.00 to 30th June 1972; meetings to be held quarterly; future topics to be on interlibrary loans, cataloguing, subscription agencies; future projects to compile list of member libraries, lists of basic reference books and journals, airmail subscriptions.

Original document held in ALIA House, Canberra.

Contents: 1st meeting called Report of Meeting, 23rd Nov, 1971; formation of a Victorian Branch of the Medical Librarians' Group; the following resolutions were made: that such a group be formed, eligibility, subscription cost $2 per annum, frequency of meetings and no committee was formed, Fay Baker and Enid Meldrum were appointed as joint conveners of the Group.

Original document held in ALIA House, Canberra.

Promotional material advertises the benefit of ALIA conference to professional development for information Professionals.

Advocacy resource provides a calendar of 30 prominent Australian literary awards, for use in the promotion of Australian authors and texts.

This presentation (PowerPoint slides) provides reports by librarians and other school staff on school library services within schools located in New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia and South Australia.

Promotional materials (poster) listing and stating support for the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

This document presents a three-step way to for councils and public libraries to make a direct connection between sustainability projects at a local level and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals of the world's 2030 Agenda.

In an emergency, you may not have time to formulate a plan and communicate this to your staff in time. Be prepared to act quickly and efficiently by preparing your response using this guide.

Contents: Why quality is the key to success by Grahame Manns; Staying alive: health science library practice in the 90's. Part 2: techniques to encourage self service by Andrew Rooke and Adam Clark; Notes on Staying Alive part 1 by Cheryl Hamill; MLA 1994 Conference report by Rolf Schafer; Problem based learning: librarians and educating health professionals by Kathy Byrne; GRATISNET on disk in beta test;  National Executive: Ian Stubbin, Virginia Staggs, Toni Silson, Grahame Manns.

Original document held in ALIA House, Canberra.

Promotional materials (poster) promoting teenage reading.

Promotional materials (poster) promoting teenage reading.

Promotional materials (poster) promoting teenage reading.

Promotional materials (poster) promoting teenage reading.

Promotional materials (poster) promoting teenage reading.

Promotional materials (poster) promoting teenage reading.

Promotional materials (poster) listing and stating support for the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

Promotional materials (poster) listing and stating support for the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

Promotional materials (poster) promoting teenage reading.