Month: December 2024

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Final issue of HINT – Winter 2024

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The first issue of HINT, the newsletter of the Health Sciences Libraries Group was published in Autumn 2003. Over the years, more than 50 issues have been produced. We would like to take this opportunity to thank every single person who has written for, edited, and produced these issues. HINT has been a vital way for health librarians to stay connected, share developments in our profession, and support one another.  The Winter 2024 issue will be our final issue as we move our publication to an open access journal in 2025. We look forward to receiving your future contributions.

HINT Winter 2024 is available now from https://hslg.ie/hint/

Issue contents:

Christmas Message from the HSLG Committee – Niamh Lucey
Rotunda Hospital Commemorative Plaque Unveiling – Anne O’Byrne
Renovation of the Library at University Hospital, Kerry – Jennifer Butler
Belle da Costa Greene: A Librarian’s Legacy – M. J. Tooey
Librarians in interesting roles – Louise Farragher
Latest News from the HSLG Mentoring Programme – Jean McMahon
HINT Transition to Open Access Journal – Mary Dunne, Breeda Herlihy
Book Recommendation: Self-care for winter by Suzy Reading – Yohanna Anderson
Research, Knowledge, Information and Relationships – Bernard Barrett
LITE reading (Library, Information, Technology & Evidence)- Mary Dunne

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Dive down the ‘rabbit hole’ with us at HSLG conference 2025 – call for abstracts now open

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We will hold our annual conference in the Ashling Hotel, Dublin on Thursday 6th March 2025.

Our theme is “Cultivating curiosity: a wonderland for librarians”. Maybe you are finding these times are ‘curiouser and curiouser’? (Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland). We would like to invite you to submit an abstract for a presentation.

Subthemes include
• Innovating, challenging and being open to new ideas, experiences and perspectives (new developments, critical appraisal, AI, technology, tools etc)
• Planning for the future / creating or adapting to environments of change (planning, forecasting, work roles, change etc.)
• Delving deep. Understanding and providing evidence of value (user experience, marketing, research, evaluation)
• Lifelong learning (such as CPD)
• Believing impossible things – and making them happen (success stories or adventures)

Submit your abstract to contacthslg@gmail.com by Monday 13 January 2025. Please include a presentation title, name of presenter(s), organization, abstract of 250 – 300 words, and whether you will speak for 10 or 20 minutes.

Successful presenters will have the conference fee waived.*

Ticket prices:

HSLG member: €35

Non-LAI member: €80

LAI member/student/unemployed €50

[*Note: Standard presentations will be limited to a maximum of two presenters, with short presentations limited to one.]