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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.

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Registration for HSLG Conference 2024 opens

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The HSLG committee are delighted to announce that registration is now open for the Annual HSLG Conference which takes place on Thursday 7th March in the Ashling Hotel, Dublin.

Our theme for 2024 will be “Who’s afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?”. There’s always something that can potentially disrupt our professional work (remember search engines were meant to herald our doom?). We’ve managed to survive, and often thrive, in the face of adversity, but can produce a better response when we work together and plan ahead.

Sharing our ideas and innovations at this conference is one way to become stronger.

In the library of “Howling Innovation,” the big bad wolf of change is not to be feared but embraced — could it be a companion in the quest for knowledge, a catalyst for evolution, and a muse for the ever-changing melody of progress? Join Dr Lollie Mancey for an exploration of the changing landscape of libraries in an AI world, questioning how we safeguard our core values and functions to ensure that libraries not only survive challenges but thrive in the ever-evolving landscape of information and technology.

Register Now: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/hslg-conference-2024-whos-afraid-of-the-big-bad-wolf-tickets-757718395117?aff=oddtdtcreator

The programme will include the following speakers:

  • Dr Lollie Mancey – Howling innovation: unleashing the spirit of change in libraries
  • Mairéad McKeown and Lauren Sneyd – How the Bord Bia Library is helping its users learn, know and sustainably grow with AI
  • Caitríona Lee – Literature searches and AI in health libraries
  • Eimear Carney and Jean McMahon – Mentoring for librarians ‘fireside chat’
  • Breeda Herlihy – First year of the HSLG literature search peer review buddy scheme
  • Louise Farragher – Mind the Gap: mapping reviews and evidence gap maps
  • Marie Carrigan – Using citation-based literature mapping tools for scoping reviews

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/

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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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Call for Abstracts for HSLG Annual Conference 2024

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The HSLG will hold our annual conference in the Ashling Hotel, Dublin on Thursday 7th March 2024.

Our theme for 2024 will be “Who’s afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?”. There’s always something that can potentially disrupt our professional work (remember search engines were meant to herald our doom?). We’ve managed to survive, and often thrive, in the face of adversity, but can produce a better response when we work together and plan ahead.

  • What can we do to prepare for the future?
  • What issues should we be talking about?
  • Are potentially scary issues challenges or opportunities?
  • How can we produce a strong, structured approach to practice that will withstand potential assaults?

Sharing our ideas and innovations are one way to become stronger, so we’d also like to hear about any subject that interests you. We would like to invite you to submit an abstract for a presentation on our theme or sub-themes. Subthemes include:

  • artificial intelligence
  • environmental issues
  • library community support
  • CPD
  • workforce challenges
  • censorship

Presentations will be 20 minutes. You can submit your abstract to contacthslg@gmail.com by Friday 19th January 2024. Please include a presentation title, name of presenter(s), organization, and abstract of 300 – 500 words.