Dear Colleagues:
 
Following  the  "Pearls of Wisdom" theme of the upcoming conference of 
the Canadian Health Libraries Association / Association des 
bibliothèques de la santé du Canada (CHLA/ABSC), we are asking for 
your website "gems." 
 
The Consumer Health Information Providers Interest Group 
(CHIPIG), an affiliate member of CHLA/ABSC, is conducting a short survey.
 
We want to know what are your favourite, most useful Canadian consumer 
health sites - you can
submit  up to 10 suggestions.  We will use this information to compile a 
list of the Top Ten Canadian Consumer Health Websites that will be 
presented at a Roundtable at the CHLA/ABSC Conference  in Vancouver on 
Monday, May 15 from 1 - 2 p.m.
 
Criteria are the standard ones when evaluating websites:
credible, timely and relevant information; clear and adequate disclosure 
and caution statements/disclaimers
on the site, and user-friendly.  The sites also must provide free access 
and not require password authentication. 
 
We hope to receive a far-ranging list of sites, including multicultural 
and easy-to-read recommendations. 
 
The survey link is at:
 http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=78151988745
 
Deadline:  Friday, April 21, 2006
 
We've tried to make it easy to submit multiple suggestions and hope that 
you will take a few minutes to submit those "gems."   
 
We have extended our survey to include others who work with consumers of 
health information and invite you and your colleagues to add your 
favourites. This survey is being sent to the following lists: CANMEDLIB, 
CHIPIG, OLA, THLA, ABQLA, HLABC, CASLIS, CPHA, CLICK4HP and to 
individual Canadian members of CAPHIS.   Please feel free to 
forward....and excuse receiving duplicate messages! 
 
In addition to discussing the results of the survey at the Roundtable, 
we plan to share the information with everyone by posting the Top Ten on 
the CHIPIG website: www.chipig.ca <http://www.chipig.ca/>
 
Shameless plug for CHIPIG:
Check out the CHIPIG website and consider becoming a member - there are 
no membership dues.
 
Thanks in advance for your time, and  we hope to see many of you at 
CHLA/ABSC!
 
- Top Ten Canadian Consumer Health Website Committee
          Susan Murray
          Michelle Arbuckle
          Kimberley Meighan
          Elizabeth Puckering
          Jean Williams
          Elsie Petch
          Dean Giustini
 

     


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