9 episodes
Shoosh - a podcast about health libraries Daniel McDonald
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- Health & Fitness
Welcome to Shoosh, the ironically titled podcast about all things health libraries. This is a conversation-style podcast where the host, Daniel McDonald, tries to stay out of the way as much as possible and talk to people much smarter than him about all things related to health science information and research and publishing and the like. Daniel is a librarian for Darling Downs Health, located in Toowoomba but covering a large part of rural and regional southern Queensland in Australia. He is also the editor of the the Journal of Health Information and Libraries Australasia. The simple hope with this podcast is that listeners get to learn a little bit more about colleagues, and a little bit more from colleagues in the health library field. Thanks for listening. Production of this podcast has been assisted by generous funding from the Health Libraries Australia and Medical Director Innovation Award. The musical interludes are from the band Ethel Red, some members of which are the children of a health librarian. Any feedback can be sent to shooshpodcast@gmail.com
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09 | Cassandra Gorton
My guest on this 9th episode is Cassandra Gorton. Cassandra is my second guest from outside of Queensland, and my first from Victoria. In Australia public health systems, where most hospital libraries reside, are largely run by state governments so the colleagues we become most familiar with tend to be those within our states. This is the only reason for the existing Queensland bias, which I’m sure will lessen over time. Cassandra works for Monash Health in Victoria, so it was fascinating to compare similarities and differences between health services. Cassandra has also come on board as associate editor of the Journal of Health Information and Libraries Australasia, colloquially known as JoHILA, so together we will be trying to grow and improve the journal as an organ of quality scholarly communication about health library practice in this region.
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08 | Laura Hurd
Laura is librarian at Rockhampton Hospital. Rockhampton is a city of 80000 people in central Queensland, about 8 hours north of Brisbane. This is a fascinating and most enjoyable chat, ranging across a wide array of topics and solving them all. This interview was recorded on 10 June 2022.
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07 | Jane Simon
Jane is librarian at QEII hospital in Brisbane’s metro south health service. She is well studied, including masters degrees and a phd, and is a wonderful colleague and friend. Her reflections during this conversation are most insightful. This interview was recorded on 21 November 2019.
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06 | Jane Orbell-Smith
Jane Orbell-Smith has had a varied professional career, initially training as a special libraries library technician and then qualifying as a special libraries librarian before finding her niche as a Health Librarian. Jane has held library manager positions with Mackay Health Service District and Metro North Hospital and Health Service and is currently sole professional Health Librarian for Redcliffe and Caboolture Hospital Libraries. Jane has a focus on continuing professional development, provision of services to remote clientele, consumer health information and information literacy, plus inter-disciplinary collaboration. This interview was recorded on 26 November 2019.
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05 | Bronia Renison
60mins
Bronia was formerly director of library services for Townsville Hospital and Health Service, in Queensland, Australia. You can learn more about the library service here. You can read a reflection on Bronia's career in JoHILA vol 1 iss 1, 2020.
This episode was originally recorded on 19 August 2019. -
04 | Anna Tynan
80mins
Anna is a research fellow with Darling Downs Health, and a senior research fellow with the University of Queensland. You can see a list of 24 articles Anna has authored or co-authored here.
This episode was originally recorded on 6 December 2019.