Patrick Ellis
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  To browse other articles on a range of HSL topics, see the wiki index. IntroductionSee also Canadian Health Librarians - Leaders, Past and Present | Famous librarians in history Patrick Ellis is the head librarian at the Kellogg Health Sciences Library at Dalhousie Libraries. He is Chair of the Atlantic Health Knowledge Partnership, a group of libraries responsible for networking the Cochrane Library in Nova Scotia. The partnership has served as an informal platform for networking health resources in the province. He has been co-chair of a task force of the Canadian Health Libraries Association (CHLA) to develop a National Network of Libraries of Health to better support the information needs of health practitioners throughout Canada. With the support of Canada Health Infoway, the NNLH members have completed a national environmental scan and readiness assessment for the proposed network. One of the targets of the NNLH is pan-Canadian access to Cochrane (national trial implemented in 2009). For more information see http://chla-absc.ca/nnlh/indexe.htm Patrick previously chaired the CHLA task force responsible for the Canadian implementation of Docline (library-based resource sharing program) and Loansome Doc (end user documentation). In early 2010, it was announced that the NNLH team had received start-up funding for the Canadian Virtual Health Library. ReferencesSee also |
