Cochrane Library Users’ Group Report

to the Cochrane Collaboration Steering Group

for discussion at its meeting in October 2005

No decisions requested of the Steering Group.

1. How many meetings, and of what type (e.g. face-to-face, by teleconference), has your Advisory Group had since April 2005?
   
   
• Two, face to face.
  
  Is this what you expected when you set your budget for the year?
  
  
• Yes.

2. Supply an up-to-date list of the members of your Advisory Group:
   
   
• The convening group currently comprises Emma Irvin, Quenby Mahood, and Doreen Day of the Institute for Work & Health. The Convenor is currently in the process of recruiting a new member from outside of the Institute.
  
  
3. Summarise any significant actions taken by your Advisory Group since your last report, and significant actions planned between now and the next meeting of the CCSG in Melbourne in October 2005.
   
   
• Planning for a Cochrane Library training session to be held in southern Ontario.
  
  
• Moving the CLUG website from the CRD to the Institute for Work & Health.
  
  
4. Does your Advisory Group have any questions that you would like the Steering Group to answer? If so, please list them.
   
   
• No.
  
  
5. Does your Advisory Group wish to raise any problems, and recommended solutions, which you would like the Steering Group to discuss? If so, please list them.
   
   
• No.
  
  
6. Do you foresee any problems in keeping within the budget you submitted for the current financial year (April 2005 to March 2006)? This is to help in the Steering Group’s planning of expenditure over that time period.
   
   
• No.