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News from SALIS

Join / Rejoin SALIS Today

The 2021 SALIS Membership Campaign is underway. It’s time to join or rejoin SALIS. There are many reasons to be a member of SALIS.
Look forward to an amazing year!

Be a part of an international organization. It’s a small world with much to learn and share beyond our borders. Members come from many countries working in diverse areas of ATOD: Canada, US, UK, EU, Australia.

2021 Joint Annual Conference

Join us for the virtual Joint SALIS / AMHL (Association of Mental Health Librarians) 2021 Online Conference: April 27 – 29
It will be held over three days, two hours per day, time TBA.
Expert guests are being lined up to offer presentations relevant to our work and the field. (Link to conference page.)

Contribute to building The SALIS Collection in partnership with the Internet Archive.

SALIS collection

The SALIS Digitization Project team needs your expertise and suggestions and we need you to promote this amazing resource. To date, the collection holds almost 5,000 books and reports, preserving and providing access to core resources in the ATOD field.

The SALIS Collection: Update

SALIS collection

The SALIS Collection is a free, digital collection of full-text alcohol, tobacco and other drug (ATOD) books and documents being created/built by SALIS in partnership with the Internet Archive through its Digitization Project. Currently there are almost 5,000 books and reports in this online, e-lending library and it continues to grow.

Updates: IA Lending Library
Take note of these updates affecting the IA Lending Library. The majority of The SALIS Collection is in the IA Lending Library as most books are still in copyright.

Loan Period. Registered borrowers can borrow books for one hour. If there are two copies, one can be borrowed for up to two weeks. There is no waitlist for one hour loans. Why? Trends showed that most borrowers only borrow books for a short period of time. This enables greater use of the collection.

Option to Buy. IA has partnered with Better World Books (BWB), a socially responsible bookstore that sells used and new books. For some books, when you click on a title for more information, you will see an option to purchase if BWB has copies available for sale.

Recent Books. IA only loans books published before 2015, except for users with print disabilities. This will change to 2016 in 2021. SALIS has not sent many books published this recently to the IA for digitization but be aware of this if you are searching for current books.

Did you know? The IA Lending Library is based on the concept of Controlled Digital Lending (CDL). There are challenges as CDL is relatively new territory for librarians, publishers and creators. SALIS is committed to ensuring that ATOD books published over the decades not be lost due to library closures and will continue to build the Collection. CDL, as offered by the IA, is the ideal solution for SALIS to preserve and make accessible the ATOD literature.