What is OLRN?

In June 2001, Margaret (Peg) Allen produced a report for the Ontario Learning Resources Nursing Project (OLRN). The Provincial government mandated the requirement that all new Registered Nurses have a Baccalaureate Degree. This meant a collaboration would need to exist between Colleges and Universities that had varying levels of library resources.
Peg put forth two Guiding principles
• All nursing students, faculty, librarians, and preceptors should have access to a common set of knowledge-based nursing and interdisciplinary health information resources to support their education, research, and clinical practice.
• For the most effective pricing, the colleges and universities should license resources on a consortium basis.

Read the Report

Since 2001, the OLRN group has worked to these guiding principles in negotiating for a set of core resources that all BScN students should have access to during their studies.

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Welcome!

On May 12th we will be holding a stakeholders Meeting at the University of Toronto, Gerstein Science Information Centre, which will include presentations around a variety of aspects of Nursing Education including resources, scholarship, collaboration between Colleges and Universities and collaboration between librarians and faculty. The intent of the day is for library and faculty representatives from all Ontario sites to meet again (it has been 8 years) and to do some learning and sharing. We hope that each institution will be able to send a Nursing or Health Sciences Librarian/Library Technician as well as a Nursing Faculty member.
Once we have a complete itinerary, specific information about the presentations, and any additional information about the event, we will post it here.

View the Agenda

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