# Ottawa Valley Health Libraries Association
(OVHLA) Chapter Update

**Building Bridges: UNYOC/OVHLA 2012 Joint
Conference**

The Upstate New York and Ontario Chapter of the Medical Library Association / OVHLA Joint Conference was held in Cornwall, Ontario, from 10–12 October 2012. The OVHLA subsidized OVHLA members’ attendance at the conference as a thank you for organizing the 2010 CHLA/ABSC conference in Kingston and to support the UNYOC Conference. Sessions were excellent and vendor participation was also strong. As a result, UNYOC and OVHLA split a profit. Overall feedback from participants was very positive.

**OVHLA Journal Club**

A journal club was launched in January. The inaugural meeting was based on the article “Medical Literature Searches: A comparison of PubMed and Google Scholar” by Nourbakhsh, Nugent, Wang, Cevik, and Nugent that

was published in *Health Information & Libraries Journal*, Volume 29(3), pp. 214–222, September 2012. The article generated lots of discussion and members are looking forward to the next session.

**Student Liaison**

In an attempt to better represent the interests of students and get them involved in the activities of the Association, the OVHLA created a student liaison position with the School of Information Studies Program at the University of Ottawa.

**Deborah Scott-Douglas, President OVHLA**

Director, Clinical Products and Services

Canadian Medical Association

1867 Alta Vista Dr.

Ottawa, ON K1G 5W8

E-mail: deborah.scott-douglas@cma.ca