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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.]
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Developing strategic foresight and quality reviews: insight from the HRB

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On 1st October the HSLG committee were delighted to welcome academic & health librarians for an in person CPD event in the Health Research Board. Brian Galvin spoke about managing uncertainty through strategic foresight, and Ailish Farragher, Caitriona Lee and Louise Farragher gave a number of presentations on improving search strategy development and reporting for better evidence.

Foresight is an approach to planning and policymaking that attempts to manage uncertainty. It does that this by using a variety of tools to identify possible threats and opportunities in the medium or long-term. This is not prediction but an attempt to develop an information resource that helps with decision making in the present. Engaging in foresight work develops anticipatory capacity and enables a more active role in supporting policy making and mobilising joint action.

Improving search strategy development and reporting for better evidence – The IS team discussed how you can improve your search strategy development and reporting, ensuring your contribution to the review is to a high standard

  • using PRESS peer review of search strategies to improve your search strategy and choice of search resources
  • using available guidance for searching for systematic reviews, scoping reviews and rapid reviews (Cochrane, JBI etc)
  • using established quality assessment tools (AMSTAR, JBI for Systematic Reviews) to guide search decisions
  • using reporting standards (PRISMA-S) to guide search decisions and reporting

Guidance on terminology, application, and reporting of citation searching: using the TARCiS statement, and tools that can help.

Below are slides from these presentations:

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Document versions of the presentations:

Quality Assessment Search Strategies (PDF)

TARCiS (Powerpoint)

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Summer 2024 HINT Newsletter

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Another packed issue of the Health Sciences Libraries Group newsletter: HINT is available now from https://hslg.ie/hint/

Issue contents:

CILIP Health Libraries Group Conference 2024 – Niamh Lucey
HINT Fiction Competition—3rd Place Winner – Marie Carrigan
Train the Trainer: Two Librarians’ Experiences – Fiona Ellis & Julianne O’Callaghan
Claire Kelly Schultz: Librarian, Researcher, Documentalist, Professor, President – Caitríona Lee
Mentoring Update – Jean McMahon
2024 Graphic Medicine Conference: Finding your magic!- Jessica Eustace-Cook
Librarians in Interesting Roles – Bridgette Comanda
Listening as a Research, Information and Knowledge Technique – Bernard Barrett
Developing a Bibliotherapy Collection for the Mercy Cancer Care Centre – Breeda Herlihy
LITE Reading (Library, Information, Technology & Evidence) – Mary Dunne

Journal club meetings

HSLG Virtual Journal Club, Thursday 18th July 2024 – Google is Goodish

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HSLG Virtual Journal Club, 18 July 2024, 11:00 – 11:45am

Our next journal club meeting will be hosted by Delia Foley, Library Learning Support, SETU Libraries.

View Delia’s presentation slides

Article:

Lacey, P. (2022). Google is goodish: An information literacy course designed to teach users why Google may not always be the best place to search for evidence. Health Information & Libraries Journal, 39, 91–95. https://doi.org/10.1111/hir.12401

Discussion Questions

  • How do you deal with Google/Google Scholar in your library training?
  • Discuss the good side to Google. Does being able to search Google transfer to being able to search library databases?
  • Does Google Scholar and its Library Links feature lead students/researchers/healthcare staff to researching with library resources?
  • Discuss the importance and value of accepting what students are using and working with that resource to guide students to library resources.
  • The article highlights the need for a library training course to be “informative, but light-hearted” (p. 92). Do you have any suggestions on how to do this? What has worked for you?
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HSLG Virtual Journal Club, Thursday 23rd May 2024 – E-book use by healthcare staff

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HSLG Virtual Journal Club, 23 May 2024, 11:00 – 11:45am

Our next journal club meeting will be hosted by Nicola O’Shea, Assistant Librarian in CHI at Crumlin.

Nicola’s slides are available to view here: Journal Club E-Book use by healthcare staff

Article:

Gorring, H., Duffy, D., Forde, A., Irving, D., Morgan, K., & Nicholas, K. (2023). How research into healthcare staff use and non-use of e-books led to planning a joint approach to e-book policy and practice across UK and Ireland healthcare libraries. Health information and libraries journal, 40(1), 114–119. https://doi.org/10.1111/hir.12469

Discussion Questions:

  • What kind of e-book provision is in place in your institution, and has it changed in any way since 2020 as a result of pandemic/cyber attack/increasing costs?
  • The article found that users value support from librarians. Do you provide support or training materials specific to e-books?
  • Do you collect feedback from your users re e-books? Format preferences, barriers to access, purchase recommendations etc. Would this article encourage you to investigate your own users experiences with e-books?
  • A number of actions resulted from the research to improve visibility, promotion, and training around e-books. Do you think they could be implemented to improve usage in your institution? Are you doing similar initiatives already?
  • Are e-books worth it?

 

The journal club is always welcoming new members – membership is open to everyone included in the HSLG email discussion list. If you wish to join please email contacthslg@gmail.com.

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Spring 2024 HINT Newsletter

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Our Spring 2024 issue of the Health Sciences Libraries Group newsletter ‘Health Information News & Thinking’ (HINT) is available now at https://hslg.ie/hint/
Issue contents:
HSLG Annual Conference 2024
HSLG Conference 2024: feedback from attendees – Mary Dunne
HINT Fiction Competition – 2nd place winner –  Lisa O’Leary
HSE Library launches its new strategy 2024 – 2029 –  Aoife Lawton
Librarians and Irish-language resources –  Caitríona Lee
Reflections on developing a digital literacy OER –  Ann Byrne
Leveraging our professional and intellectual skills – Bernard Barrett
Latest News from the HSLG Mentoring Programme
Book Recommendation: A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles –  Jean McMahon
LITE reading (Library, Information, Technology & Evidence) – Mary Dunne
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HSLG conference 2024 – presentations

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Our 2024 conference – Who’s afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? took place in the Ashling Hotel, Dublin on 7 March 2024.

We would like to thank our wonderful speakers for their permission to add their presentation slides here.

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The Anne Madden EAHIL Bursary 2024

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In honour of our retired colleague Anne Madden, the HSLG provides a bursary award to attend the annual EAHIL (European Association for Health Information and Libraries) conference. https://eahil2024.rsu.lv/

The bursary is available to HSLG members and provides funding for early-bird registration, and reasonable travel and accommodation costs.

This year, the conference is being held in Riga, Latvia on 12-14 June. Early bird registration closes on 2 April. Closing date for this bursary is 3pm 26 March.

Information about HSLG bursaries and the application form can be found on our bursary webpage.

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Bursary for 2024 Graphic Medicine pre-Conference workshop, RCSI, Dublin

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The HSLG committee are delighted to announce our support for the 2024 Graphic Medicine Conference being held in TUS, Athlone, July 2024.

We are offering 5 bursaries for HSLG members to attend the 2-hour, pre-conference workshop which is taking place in RCSI, Dublin on 16 July 2024: Developing Graphic Medicine Collection.  The workshop leader is Matthew Noe, Lead Collection & Knowledge Management Librarian at Harvard Medical School.

Target group: All librarians interested in health and comics

Registration: €50

Venue: RCSI, York Street, Dublin

The bursary will cover the cost of registration and public transport costs for those travelling to a long distance to the event. Bursaries and places at the workshop are limited so please apply as early as possible.

Information on applying for bursaries and the application form can be found on our bursaries webpage.