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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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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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HINT Fiction Competition

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The Editors of HINT, the newsletter of the Health Sciences Libraries Group are pleased to announce that the Christmas Fiction Competition is now open. Entries must mention books, libraries or librarians, however briefly, and be no more than 1,000 words.

The winner will receive a One for All Voucher for €100 and the Runner Up will receive a One for All Voucher for €50

Entrants must be a member of the Library Association of Ireland.

The winning entry will be published in the winter issue of HINT and the second-place entry will be published in the spring issue.

Please send your entries to jean.mcmahon@tuh.ie by the 25th of November. Jean will anonymise the entries and submit them to the judging panel. If you wish to remain anonymous and write under a nom de plume, you can do that too!  You can remain a mystery writer!

So, get that piece out of your bottom drawer or just start writing. You know you’ve always wanted to!

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Summer issue of the HSLG newsletter HINT available now

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Our Summer 2023 issue of the Health Sciences Libraries Group newsletter ‘Health Information News & Thinking’ (HINT) is available now at https://hslg.ie/hint/

Issue contents:

Editorial – Jean McMahon
HSLG Continuing Professional Development website support – Mary Dunne
AI in libraries: a rapidly-developing field – Caitríona Lee
Library Internship at Tallaght University Hospital – Miriam Williams
Study Within a Review: Text mining tools to support evidence searching – Marie Carrigan
Librarians in Interesting Roles: Tom Martin, Educational Technologist – Tom Martin
Librarians of the World—Past and Present: Charlotte Serber: Librarian of Los Alamos – Caitríona Lee
EAHIL Annual Conference 2023 – Marie Carrigan
ESI Workshop ‘Designing Systematic Searches’ – Jim Healy
UXLibs Conference, Brighton 6th-8th June 2023 – Pamela Doyle
Research and Information Intersection: Can You Manage Knowledge? – Bernard Barrett
Book Review: The Lost Village by Camilla Sten – Elaine Peppard
LITE Reading (Library, Information, Technology & Evidence) – Mary Dunne
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HINT Spring 2023

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Our Spring 2023 issue of the HSLG newsletter is available HINT_Spring_2023

Issue contents:

Time to Reflect on the HSLG Conference by Niamh Lucey p.2
Anne Madden—a fond farewell by HSLG Committee p.5
HSLG conference 2023, feedback from attendees by Mairea Nelson p.6
HSLG CPD framework — progress by Mary Dunne p.8
New online training diary from EAHIL by Mary Dunne p.9
What do we need Libraries for? by Bernard Barrett p.10
Book review: You Let Me In by Camilla Bruce by Elaine Peppard p.11
LITE Reading (Library, Information, Technology & Evidence) by Mary Dunne p.12
Upcoming events p.18

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HINT Summer 2022

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HINT 20(2) Summer 2022

P.2 CONTENTS CPD(1): IFLA WLIC 2022, Dublin

  • IFLA WLIC 2022: Some Reflections, Jean McMahon
  • Plenty of Food for Thought at IFLA WLIC: A Personal Narrative, Emma Quinn
  • IFLA 2022 Health Satellite Meeting, Mary Dunne
  • Poster Gallery from IFLA WLIC 2022, Mairea Nelson

P.8 A Pilot Decluttering Day for Heath Library Ireland, Clare Healy Murphy
P.9 My Athens+, Pamela Doyle
P.11 Research and Information Intersection, Research, Information and Leadership Bernard Barrett

P.12 CPD(2): EAHIL 2022, Rotterdam

  • BROADEN THE HORIZONS – diversity, partnership, and innovation with a human touch, Noreen McHugh
  • Memories of EAHIL 2022, Anne Madden
  • Mary Dunne’s Award Winning Poster Presentation, HSLG Committee

P.19 Poster Presentation Tips, Aoife Lawton
P.20 Health Library Ireland Go Live with Koha Interlibrary Loan, Niamh Walker-Headon
P.22 LITE Reading (Library, Information, Technology & Evidence), Mary Dunne

HINT is the bulletin of the HSLG, members can send content to contacthslg@gmail.com

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HINT – Winter 2021

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We have a new issue of our newsletter HINT (Health Information News & Thinking)

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Contents:

  • A Christmas message from the HSLG by Niamh Lucey, p.2
  • IFLA Congress 2021 by Mary Dunne, p.3
  • Research and information intersection: All research starts with a question by Bernard Barrett, p.9
  • New beginnings for two HSE libraries by Shauna Barrett and Linda Halton, p.10
  • L2L Joint Digital Badge 2021: Experiences of health sciences librarians by Maura Flynn, p.14
  • How to add bookmarks & internal hyperlinks to a Word/PDF document by Niamh O’Sullivan, p.16
  • LITE reading (Library, Information, Technology & Evidence) by Mary Dunne, p.18
  • Book review: Fever Dream by Samantha Schewblin by Elaine Peppard, p.24
  • Feature of frivolity! Tilda as a library: a thread on Twitter by Niamh O’Sullivan, p.25

For past issues go to our HINT archive

 

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HINT Summer 2021

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HINT 19(2) Summer 2021

Contents:

  • A Message to the Future: Rotunda’s Time Capsule (Elaine Peppard)
  • The Library Becomes a Place to ‘Spark’ and Make Ideas a Reality (Natasha Smith & Miriam Williams)
  • HSLG Virtual Journal Club Report: Reflective Practice in Health Sciences Librarianship (Breeda Herlihy)
  • Review of YHEC Zoom Training: Advanced Search Strategy Design for Complex Topics:
  • Strategy Development, Text Analytics and Text Mining (Anne Madden)  
  • Research and Information Intersection (3): Creating a Research and Information Needs Analysis (Bernard Barrett)
  • Tips for Writing in Plain English  (Niamh O’Sullivan)
  • Book Review: “The Adventures of China Iron” by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara (Elaine Peppard)
  • LITE Reading (Library, Information, Technology & Evidence) (MaryDunne)