Month: July 2016

Courses · Events

Workshop: Research in libraries: Designing a study to demonstrate effectiveness, value or impact.

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[NOTE: This event booked out by 15 August 2016. Thanks for the interest shown]

The HSLG Committee, and CPD liaison Anne Madden, have arranged for renowned researcher, author, and information specialist Alison Brettle to facilitate a workshop on research and evaluation for librarians on Wednesday, 24th August 2016, 10am to 4pm.

Alison is Reader in Evidence Based Practice, University of Salford, UK. Her research interests include systematic reviews and systematic review methodology, information literacy, information skills training, the evaluation of library and information services, and effective literature searching.

Participants will work individually and in groups to design and think through the implementation of a study relevant to their work. This workshop aims to provide a user friendly, interactive introduction to research and evaluation in libraries, with a focus on demonstrating our effectiveness, value or impact.

Agenda for the day:

  1. Research, evaluation and impact
  2. Designing a study
  1. Questions, aims and objectives
  2. Quantitative v qualitative approaches
  3. Designing a survey
  4. Ethical issues
  1. Doing a study
    1. Planning your sample
    2. Collecting and analysing data
    3. Doing it routinely
  1. Ideas for disseminating your work
  2.  Q&A (about EBLIP, research or impact)

The workshop will take place in the Health Research Board, 67-72 Lower Mount Street, Dublin 2.

The cost is €60 for LAI members, €70 for non-LAI members, and €25 for students/unwaged (which includes light lunch and tea/coffee).

We have limited availability for this event.

 

HINT · Publications archive

New issue of HINT now available

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The summer issue of HINT is now available. In this issue are reports from a range of conferences and seminars such as:

  • HSLG 2016 conference by Jane Burns, Geraldine Walsh, Anne O’Byrne  and Grace Hillis
  • EAHIL 2016 in Saville by Aoife Lawton
  • EvidenceLive from Oxford by Anne Madden
  • Library as Place; Place as Library by Grace Hillis

We also have a report on HSLG activities during the last year from the Chair, Michael Doheny, a poster on the HEAR Newsletter by Caroline Rowan, a book review on altmetrics by Michelle Dalton and a Day in the Life by Bennery Rickard.

So much to get through and you can get your hands on it here.

HSLG Committee

Meeting briefing from the HSLG Committee – June 2016

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The first meeting of the new HSLG Committee took place in Dr Steevens’ Hospital on 21 June 2016.
We acknowledged, with thanks, the departing Committee members – Caroline Rowan, Diarmuid Stokes, Anne Murphy and Brian Galvin for their great work; and welcomed two new members: Mary and Shauna.

HSLG Committee Members 2016
– Michael Doheny (Chair)
– Bennery Rickard (Vice-Chair)
– Louise Bradley (Secretary)
– Louise Farragher (Treasurer)
– Mary Dunne and Shauna Barrett (Communication Officers)

We had a good discussion about the year ahead. Here are a few of the key points:
– The next issue of HINT is coming soon.
– The Committee agreed that we would take an in-depth look at continuing professional development for Irish health librarians over the next 12 months. We also hope to provide a very interesting one-day CPD course on 24 August 2016 – watch out for details coming soon!
– Because the International Congress of Medical Libraries (ICML), is taking place in Dublin next year (12-15 June 2017), we won’t be holding a HSLG conference. We will however have a session for HSLG members at ICML. An ‘open forum’ was suggested. ICML website: http://eahil2017.net/

We would be delighted to welcome new members to the HSLG Committee. If you would like to join us please get in touch at contacthslg@gmail.com

And don’t forget to visit the HSLG website for updates.

The HSLG Committee
E: contacthslg@gmail.com
T: @healthlibraries
W: https://hslg.ie/