This issue of HEAR – Health Evidence Awareness Report is focused on Skin Cancer.
This newsletter contains information for patients, families and carers with links to support groups & organisations, nutrition, legal information, books, multimedia and patient education. Other sections include links to clinical articles, guidelines and UV information.
HEAR is now in its second year and is a result of collaboration between librarians from a variety of health organisations in Ireland.
Team Ireland had a very successful sojourn in sunny Seville last week for the EAHIL 2016 Conference. In total there were 6 of us there, so expect to hear some reports in HINT and other for a in the coming months.
As you can imagine, there were lots of really interesting presentations and poster – many soon to be uploaded onto the EAHIL conference website http://www.bvsspa.es/eahil2016/
I thought you might be interested in this blog post by Cambridge health librarian Isla Kuhn which came about in response to a presented paper on the quality of reporting of systematic reviews.
It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing
It is well worth a read and there are useful links to all the standards for reporting SRs and search strategies – always handy to have on standby.
I also suggest reading her other blog posts – there are lots covering presentations from the latest EAHIL, all well worth reading.
Also, you may also be interested in (yet another!) Database of Systematic Reviews http://www.epistemonikos.org/
Epistemonikos is a collaborative, multilingual database of research evidence and knowledge translation products. Epistemonikos was developed and is maintained by systematically searching electronic databases and other sources for relevant systematic reviews and broad syntheses of reviews.
The aim of Epistemonikos is to provide rapid access to systematic reviews in health. You can read an interesting paper presented by Hilde Stromme comparing Epistemonikos to the Cochrane Library as soon as the papers are uploaded.
Louise Farragher
After a fantastic conference in May, we thought we’d give you an extra chance for reflection by adding the presentations to the website. Check out your favourite presentations below.
Day 1, 12 May 2016
Keynote speech: Something Old, Something New: Health Librarian Capabilities for the Knowledge Economy and the Digital Age by Ann Wales
“Building value into a core skill.” by Anne Madden, St. Vincent’s University Hospital,
“Advancing our skillset: building the Rudai 23 e-learning course for information professionals” by Caroline Rowan, St Michael’s Hospital and Stephanie Ronan, Marine Institute
Making Our Skills Visible Through Research by Aoife Lawton, Health Service Executive
Advancing skills: from ‘lovely librarians’ to knowledge ninjas by Mary Dunne & Mairea Nelson, Health Research Board,
Learning from e-learning in other organisations by Joanne Callinan, Milford Care Centre,
Putting it into Practice: applying the skill set by Kate Kelly, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
Why and What to Measure? Understanding & Using Altmetrics to evaluate impact. by Jane Burns, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland & School of Information & Communication Studies, University College Dublin
Posters
The Skillset of a Health Science Library Assistant by Jesse Walters, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
Sharing our expertise: Lets HEAR about it! by Caroline Rowan, St. Michael’s Hospital, Dun Laoghaire
Development of Rotunda: Birth of a Nation 1916 Centenary Exhibition at the Rotunda by Anne M. O’Byrne, Rotunda Hospital
Day 2, 13 May 2016
Bibliometrics: Maximising & Assessing Research Impact by Fintan Bracken, University of Limerick
Our inaugural HSLG Twitterchat was held on 26 May. Kicking off at 8pm, the discussion followed on from the theme of our annual conference “Advancing Health Library Skill Sets”.
To get a sense of what the Twitterchat was like, check out our Storify of the event. This is a curated rendering of the conversations. Not all tweets are included, but there should be more than enough for you to get a sense of what it was like.
We are open to suggestions for future themes, so if you have topics you feel we should discuss, please send your recommendations along to contacthslg@gmail.com
