Navigating Health Information: Adapting to a Rapidly Changing Ecosystem
The Health Sciences Library Symposium – 4th Edition explores today’s challenges with insights from expert practitioners from Qatar, the wider Middle East, and around the globe fostering diverse perspectives. Participants will present and discuss strategies to enhance teaching methods, consider new or expanded methods for evidence generation and synthesis, explore opportunities to support health literacy development, and enhance our communication for more impactful science and health communication.
Who Should Attend? – We welcome participation from health sciences librarians, health or science communicators, public health professionals, medical educators, and anyone else with an interest in health information.
Why? – The Health Sciences Library Symposium – 4th Edition is an inclusive platform for everyone invested in promoting a dynamic and healthy information environment.
Explore evolving roles in scholarly communication and health literacy.
Discover opportunities for further research.
Share new and creative ways of teaching.
View the full event schedule here
Register to attend here
Our 2025 HSLG Conference title is Cultivating curiosity: a wonderland for librarians.
Date: Thursday, 6 March 2025
Venue: Ashling Hotel, Dublin 8
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
The conference will be relevant to many library sectors, with speakers from health, academic and
specialist libraries, and will introduce ideas, practical tools and key updates of significance to your
work and professional development.
Discounted prices are available for LAI members and library students, and registration includes
lunch and coffee break.
Curious? Register for this event 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.
The 9th annual international User Experience in Libraries (UX in Libraries or ‘UXLibs’ for short) conference will take place in Liverpool from Tuesday 10 to Thursday 12 June 2025.
The conference will incorporate keynotes and plenary talks from speakers from inside and outside libraries. There’s also the legendary team challenge, our interactive workshops presented by UX practitioners and, of course, social events allowing delegates to make connections and, just as importantly, to relax and have fun.
The title of DARTS9 is Opening Doors: Empowering Librarians to conduct and support research. The overall theme focuses on developing librarians (and related roles) as researchers.
The conference attracts delegates from across the global knowledge community, including librarians, publishers, intermediaries, technology vendors, consultants and more. It provides a friendly and inclusive forum with a reputation for showcasing initiatives, exploring trends and connecting people from across the sector.
Champions of knowledge: Libraries as beacons of trust and integrity
Libraries seek to build their practices on strong foundations of integrity, critical thinking, and ethical values. These foundations underpin a commitment to civic duty, positioning libraries as highly trusted partners and authorities in their communities.
In an age of misinformation and disinformation, maintaining information integrity is fundamental to a well-functioning society and democracy. The spread of false narratives, fake news, and censorship poses significant challenges that require a multifaceted approach to address. It is a complex challenge and one in which libraries play a crucial role. RLUK25 will explore the philosophical and pragmatic challenges for research libraries and their role in upholding the values of trust and integrity.
Register here.
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.
The programme for HSLG conference 2024 is now available.
Join us on Thursday 7 March in the Ashling hotel for a day of learning, sharing and networking (registration link).
Click here for PDF of conference programme
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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/
LIBER 2024 Annual Conference Theme: ‘State-of-the-art libraries in the service of science and society’.
Research libraries are dynamic entities that evolve rapidly within society, research, and academia, in times when there is an urgency to solve critical global problems. While we often need time to reflect and assess what we have done, we are challenged to respond to the demands of our communities and of global society. What kind of leadership should be exhibited within our organisations and beyond? What kind of synergies should be pursued to address the issues of a ‘post-truth’ world? What purpose do technological advancements bring, and how can we adapt to them?
Following the paths of openness and trust that we collectively trod at the LIBER 2023 Annual Conference in Budapest, it is time to show how state of the art services, spaces, and collections are not just a state of mind, but real implementations that respond to the great challenges in research and society of our time.
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