Month: December 2023

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Winter issue of the HSLG newsletter HINT available now

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Just in time for the Christmas break, our Winter 2023 issue of the Health Sciences Libraries Group newsletter ‘Health Information News & Thinking’ (HINT) is available now at https://hslg.ie/hint/

Issue contents:

A Christmas message from the HSLG Committee – Niamh Lucey
Fiction Competition 2023 – Jean McMahon
Fiction Competition 2023: First placed piece
Thoughts on locally managed library marketing activities – Liis Cotter
Irish Medical Families – Ailish Farragher
A librarian’s contribution in establishing a successful multidisciplinary journal club – Fiona Lawler
The HSLG Mentoring Programme – Jean McMahon
Librarians in interesting roles: Technology Enhanced Learning Manager – Manon van Alphen
Research and Information Intersection – Bernard Barrett
Report from HSLG Bursary Award Winner: LAI/CILIP Ireland Annual Joint Conference 2023 – Mingli Gong
LITE Reading (Library, Information, Technology & Evidence) – Mary Dunne
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Bestselling crime author, Louise Phillips to judge HINT Fiction Competition

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The HSLG Committee are delighted to announce that bestselling author, Louise Phillips, has kindly agreed to judge the HINT Fiction Competition. All entries have now been received and the winner and runner-up will be announced in the new issue of HINT, which is due out soon!

Louise Phillips is an Irish Times Bestselling author of six crime novels, five of which were shortlisted for the Best Irish Crime Novel of the Year in the Irish Book Awards. Her second novel, ‘The Doll’s House’, won the award. Her novels have been published in the U.S., and she has been longlisted for the Crime Writers Association (CWA) Dagger in the Library Award in the U.K. Her fifth novel, The Hiding Game, was optioned by a major U.S. film company, and her sixth novel, ‘They All Lied’ was published last year to critical acclaim. A regular public speaker, panellist and facilitator, Louise has also been a judge on the Irish panel for the EU Literary Award. In 2022 she was also awarded an Arts Bursary for Literature from the Arts Council of Ireland, as well as winning the Jack Harte Award for her latest work- in-progress, ‘In All the Unexpected Places’.

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Call for Abstracts for HSLG Annual Conference 2024

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The HSLG will hold our annual conference in the Ashling Hotel, Dublin on Thursday 7th March 2024.

Our theme for 2024 will be “Who’s afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?”. There’s always something that can potentially disrupt our professional work (remember search engines were meant to herald our doom?). We’ve managed to survive, and often thrive, in the face of adversity, but can produce a better response when we work together and plan ahead.

  • What can we do to prepare for the future?
  • What issues should we be talking about?
  • Are potentially scary issues challenges or opportunities?
  • How can we produce a strong, structured approach to practice that will withstand potential assaults?

Sharing our ideas and innovations are one way to become stronger, so we’d also like to hear about any subject that interests you. We would like to invite you to submit an abstract for a presentation on our theme or sub-themes. Subthemes include:

  • artificial intelligence
  • environmental issues
  • library community support
  • CPD
  • workforce challenges
  • censorship

Presentations will be 20 minutes. You can submit your abstract to contacthslg@gmail.com by Friday 19th January 2024. Please include a presentation title, name of presenter(s), organization, and abstract of 300 – 500 words.