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.