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| Public Health Ontario establishes the Shared Library Services Partnership (SLSP) |
With the SLSP, selected health units with existing libraries act as hubs to provide access to library services and resources for health units without libraries. Each hub library will support a predetermined group of client health units. Clients have been designated to hubs based on the number of staff (i.e. potential clients) within each client health unit and their geographical location. This model builds on the existing capacity of public health library services in Ontario, and utilizes the active community of practice of the Ontario Public Health Libraries Association (OPHLA). The SLSP was developed in collaboration with the field through an environmental scan, conducted in spring 2011, of health unit access to library resources and services, as well as through the work of the SLSP Working Group, which met from June to September 2011.
The four hubs and their clients are as follows:
Middlesex-London Health Unit |
Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox & Addington Public Health |
Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit |
Thunder Bay District Health Unit |
Chatham-Kent Health
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Eastern Ontario Health Unit |
Brant County Health Unit |
Algoma Public Health Unit |
Elgin St.Thomas Public Health |
Leeds, Grenville and Lanark District Health Unit
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Grey Bruce Health Unit |
North Bay Parry Sound District Health Unit |
Haldimand Norfolk Health Unit
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Ottawa Public Health |
Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge District Health Unit |
Northwestern Health Unit |
Niagara Region Public Health Department
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Huron County Health Unit |
Porcupine Health Unit |
Windsor-Essex County Health Unit |
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Oxford County Public Health & Emergency Services
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Renfrew County and District Health Unit |
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Perth District Health Unit
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Timiskaming Health Unit |
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Peterborough County- City Health Unit |
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Services that will be rolled out in the first year of the Partnership’s operation are:
- Article retrieval/document delivery
- Comprehensive literature searches
- Reference questions
- Library-related training for client health unit staff
- Help desk (related to technical issues when using library resources and services)
- Book loans
For more information about the Shared Library Services Partnership, please contact Beata Pach, manager, Library Services, at beata.pach@oahpp.ca.
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