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Graphic Design for Librarians

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After an invitation from the HSLG, Diana K. Wakimoto kindly delivered a webinar on “Graphic Design for Librarians” to over 50 attendees on 21 September 2023. 

She covered the fundamentals of graphic design to enable us to design effective and engaging visual communications as well as giving a quick introduction to some graphic design tools like Canva and Adobe Express.

Diana is a library faculty member at Cal State East Bay (Hayward, CA). She teaches information literacy, manages the archives, provide reference and research assistance, develops the collections in biological sciences. She publishes in the areas of libraries and graphic design, public services, ePortfolios, and evidence-based practice, and serves on various library and university-wide committees. She is author of the book Easy Graphic Design for Librarians: From Color to Kerning.

Slides from the webinar

Link to the resource guide provided: https://bit.ly/3Zyj3VL

Recording from Zoom of the webinar by Diana Wakimoto on “Graphic Design for Librarians”.

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Taking your Social Media to the next level!

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Saoirse de Paor, teaching & learning librarian at Maynooth University library, gave a presentation at the joint HSLG & A&SL networking evening. She has kindly agreed to share her slides of the presentation. Taking your Social Media to the Next Level!

With her social media and communications hat on, Saoirse de Paor spoke of the different ways that social media platforms can enhance how libraries engage and interact with their users and how it can further promote library services, supports and resources in a new and innovative way.

From working in social media-specific roles and the experience gained from running student initiatives and online campaigns on behalf of Maynooth University Library, Saoirse has gained an insight into the many social media tips and tricks that can help others in the profession to increase visibility and outreach strategies as well as helping to foster connections, partnerships and collaborations.

From developing a brand, to using multiple means of engagement, she will give you the tools to take your library’s social media to the next level!

Saoirse de Paor, BA, MLIS, ALAI.

Saoirse works as a Teaching & Learning Librarian at Maynooth University Library. Her interests include information literacy, development of online learning resources as well as social media promotion and outreach.

Saoirse is the social media officer for the Library Association of Ireland as well as a member of the Communications team for the Career Development Group (of the LAI). She sits on the Digital Communications team of Maynooth University Library and manages various social media campaigns and initiatives as a member of the Teaching & Research Development Team. She also co-led the Irish Communications team at IFLA’S World Library International Congress 2022 in Dublin.

Twitter: @SaoirsePeri

LinkedIn: Saoirse de Paor

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HSLG conference 2023

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The HSLG committee are excited to announce our 2023 conference will take place on Thursday 9 March in the Ashling Hotel, Dublin.

This year’s theme is ‘Time to reflect: managing our professional development’ which is relevant to all librarians and information specialists in Ireland.

Time for professional development may sometimes seem like a luxury amid hectic work-schedules. However, having a structured development plan is an investment in ourselves, our practice and our profession. This conference aims to provide practical advice on CPD management, and to enable a discussion about what organisations, including the HSLG, LAI and our employers, can do to enhance the scope, value and effectiveness of our professional development.

We have invited some well-known speakers to provide their insight:

  • Jane Burns – CPD serendipity, challenges and opportunities- developing a framework for health librarians
  • Mary Buckley & Isabelle Courtney – Making a commitment to your professional development
  • Marie O’Neill – Five key competencies for librarians

Kate Kelly (RCSI) and Liis Cotter (HLI) will lead a panel about CPD in their organisations. We want to understand what works well and what could be adopted as good practice across our sector.

Of course, we are pleased and grateful that some of our members will also present at our event:

  • Ailish Farragher – Supplemental searching in the health sciences: the view from Plato’s cave”
  • Marie Carrigan – Using PRESS for search peer review
  • Jim Healy – Continuing professional development and learning from the experience of others
  • Anne Madden – I’ll show you mine if you show me yours

Do join us for a day for chat and sharing, where we can learn how to improve and demonstrate our value together.

Register Now

Note: The Bernard Barrett Bursary is a special award to enable HSLG members from across Ireland to attend the annual conference. Members may apply for funds to cover the registration fee and/or travel expenses: https://hslg.ie/about/hslg-bursary/

 

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HSLG AGM 2022 notice

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The Health Services Libraries Group will hold our annual general meeting online on Thursday 24 November, 11–11.30am. To attend the AGM you must be a member of the HSLG. Members can email contacthslg@gmail.com for the registration link.

If you are a member of the Library Association of Ireland and wish to join the HSLG please fill in the short online form available at https://hslg.ie/about/membership/.

Nominations for new committee members takes place at every AGM. Download our nomination form here: HSLG_committee_membership_nomination_form

Note: Membership to the HSLG is open to all LAI members. It entitles you to attend CPD events and the annual conference at a reduced rate. Members can also apply for bursaries to cover the costs of attending conferences and CPD events https://hslg.ie/about/hslg-bursary/

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IFLA Heath and Biosciences Section satellite meeting

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The IFLA Health and Biosciences Libraries Section in collaboration with the Evidence for Global and Disaster Health Special Interest Group and the Health Sciences Libraries Group of the Library Association of Ireland co-sponsored a satellite meeting in conjunction with the IFLA Annual Congress at Dr Steevens’ Hospital on the 29 July 2022. The theme of the meeting was “Exploring How Open Science and Open Access Influence the Spread of Health Misinformation and Disinformation and How Librarians Can Help”.

The HSLG committee would like to thank our three speakers:

  • Juan Miguel Palma Pena, Academic Librarian at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)-Humanities: Functions of scholarly libraries to encourage open science: analysis to face disinformation.
  • Niamh Walker-Headon Library Resources Manager, Digital Knowledge Services at Health Library Ireland: The role of the institutional repository in delivering COVID-19 evidence summaries.
      
  • Michelle Dalton, Head of Research Services at University College Dublin Library in Dublin: Moving the conversation from access to evaluation: the next step for libraries in open access.

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HSLG conference 2022: presentations

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The HSLG committee would like to thank everyone who attended our 2022 conference – Open to change, on 24 March 2022 in Dublin. We would especially like to thank our speakers for their excellent, informative and engaging presentations. Where we have permission, we have uploaded their presentations here:

Louise Farragher, Health Research Board –
Citation tracking: tools and approaches – slides
Citation tracking: tools and approaches – full presentation (external link)

Liis Cotter, Health Service Executive –
Nursing journal club for mental health nurses – it will never work, will it? – slides

Richard Hollis, Cochrane –
How to integrate Cochrane Interactive Learning to deliver systematic review training for early-career stage healthcare researchers – slides.

Trish Patton, Irish College of General Practitioners –
An action research study on the design and development of an e-learning module on information skills to empower general practitioners – slides.

Niamh O’Sullivan, Irish blood Transfusion Service
Connections that count: Credit to the Crew

Aoife Lawton, Health Service Executive
A national eHealth library for Ireland: the story so far

Caitriona Lee, Health Research Board
Showing our workings: the new PRISMA 2020 and the use of search summary tables

 

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HSLG conference 2022

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The HSLG conference will take place in the Ashling Hotel on Thursday 24 March 2022, 09.15–16.00. You can register here.

The theme of our conference is Open to change and is aimed at people working or interested in library or information services in Ireland.

Our keynote is physicist, cancer researcher, and author Doctor David Robert Grimes. David’s presentation is called ‘Situation critical’. He tells us how we can be lured into making critical mistakes or drawing false conclusions, and how to avoid such errors. Given the power of modern science and the way that movements can unite to protest a cause via social media, we are in dangerous times. But fortunately, we can learn from our mistakes, and by critical thinking and scientific method we can discover how to apply these techniques to everything from deciding what insurance to buy to averting global disaster.

Our invited speaker is Library Association of Ireland president Cathal McCauley. Cathal will speak to us about current and future initiatives of the LAI.

Nikita Burke, Evidence Synthesis Ireland and Richard Hollis, Cochrane, will present the pilot findings of an evaluation of using Cochrane Interactive Learning modules in blended online learning for Evidence Synthesis Ireland in a presentation entitled: How to integrate Cochrane Interactive Learning to deliver systematic review training for early-career stage healthcare researchers.

Of course, we are delighted to showcase the knowledge and work of health librarians and information specialists in Ireland. We have the following presentations from members:

  • Aoife Lawton, Health Service Executive – A national eHealth Library for Ireland: the story so far.
  • Liis Cotter, Health Service Executive – Nursing journal club for mental health nurses – it will never work, will it?
  • Caitriona Lee, Health Research Board – Showing our workings: The new PRISMA 2020 and the use of search summary tables.
  • Louise Farragher, Health Research Board – Citation tracking: tools and approaches.
  • Trish Patton, Irish College of General Practitioners – An action research study on the design and development of an e-learning module on information skills to empower general practitioners.
  • Niamh O’Sullivan, Irish Blood Transfusion Service – Connections that count: credit to the crew.

Join us and meet members from a range of health and academic settings including hospital (HSE and voluntary) libraries, academic health libraries, state agencies, and NGOs. Please email contacthslg@gmail.com for details of registration.

For more details and to register go to our Eventbrite page https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/hslg-conference-2022-open-to-change-tickets-254555431147

Please note: HSLG members have a specially reduced registration rate of €10. Members can also apply for the Bernard Barrett bursary which is a special award specifically to enable members from across Ireland to attend the HSLG annual conference or other relevant HSLG events. Members may apply for funds to cover the registration fee and/or travel expenses (if travelling a significant distance by public transport). Details are available on: https://hslg.ie/about/hslg-bursary/

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ISSG search filter resource webinar with Julie Glanville

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The InterTASC Information Specialists’ Sub-Group (ISSG) search filter resource is a website which identifies and provides access to search filters for finding specific methods. Search filters, to find studies of a specific design, are an essential tool in searching for evidence. Broader, more sensitive search filters are useful in identifying studies for evidence syntheses such as systematic reviews and in guideline development and more precise, specific search filters are useful for answering clinical questions.

The ISSG website has undergone recent development and a webinar, presented by Julie Glanville and hosted by the HSLG on 20 January 2022, gave a tour of the site and described existing and new features.

ISSG PowerPoint presentation by Julie Glanville

ISSG Presentation from Zoom webinar (33 minutes):

Julie Glanville is a qualified librarian who has worked in systematic reviews for more than 25 years and is an independent consultant focusing on information retrieval for systematic reviews. From 2008 to June 2020, Julie was Associate Director of York Health Economics Consortium (YHEC) and coordinated its information and review services. Before 2008, Julie was Associate Director and Information Service Manager at the Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (CRD), University of York, for fourteen years. Julie is a co-convenor of the Cochrane Information Retrieval Methods Group and a co-author of the Cochrane Handbook chapter on searching for evidence.

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HSLG AGM 2021

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The HSLG will be holding our AGM online on Thursday 2 December, 11–11.30am. To attend the AGM you need to be a member of the HSLG.

All HSLG members are encouraged to join the meeting by registering for free at the following address: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/hslg-agm-2021-tickets-183163485917

We would also ask you to consider becoming a member of the committee.

Minutes of the last AGM can be read here: HSLG AGM Minutes 2020

Membership of the HSLG is open to all LAI members. It entitles you to attend CPD events and the annual conference at a reduced rate. Members can also apply for funds to cover travel expenses to CPD events.

To become a HSLG member or to join the committee go to https://hslg.ie/about/membership/ and fill in a short online form.