Our 2025 Annual Conference on Cultivating Curiosity: a Wonderland for Librarians was held in Ashling Hotel on Thursday 6th March.

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

Keynote Speaker: Sue Lacey-Bryant – Making Curiosity Count

Mary Dunne – Conceptualising Curiosity 

Peter Reilly – Cultivate your Creativity by Being Curious!

Dympna McGettigan – Health Information Calendar: a health calendar for all

HSE Library ILL Team – Everything, Everywhere All at Once…But in One Place!

Ann Byrne – Follow the White Rabbit: Guiding Nursing Students to Creative Poster Presentations

Niall O’Brien – Following Protocols: adventures in tracking the lifecycle of review protocols

Aoife Lawton – LAI Library Labour Market Taskforce Report: key findings

Mingli Gong – What are the CPD Needs & Challenges in Engaging ICT for Librarians in Ireland?

Mairéad McKeown & Amy Bond – Knowledge Cafe: How We Make Better Sense of a Rapidly Changing and Complex World

Amy’s Top 10 Tips for Hosting a Knowledge Cafe

The HSLG committee are delighted to announce that registration is now open for the Annual HSLG Conference which takes place on Thursday 6th March in the Ashling Hotel, Dublin.

Our theme for 2025 is “Cultivating curiosity: a wonderland for librarians”.

Our theme explores the role of curiosity within librarianship, which includes:

• Innovating, challenging and being open to new ideas, experiences and perspectives
• Planning for the future / creating or adapting to environments of change
• Delving deep. Understanding and providing evidence of value
• Lifelong learning
• Believing impossible things – and making them happen

Register now: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/hslg-conference-2025-cultivating-curiosity-a-wonderland-for-librarians-tickets-1092203563259?aff=oddtdtcreator

The programme is packed with interesting and relevant speakers, with plenty of time to network. Highlights include keynote speaker Sue Lacey Bryant, CILIP President, and a knowledge café led by Mairéad McKeown and Amy Bond of Bord Bia.

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The HSLG makes the Bernard Barrett Bursary award available to HSLG members from across Ireland to enable members 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/

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.]