Bridges to New Horizons: Innovations in Health Information and Medical Libraries
8 – 12 June 2026, Antalya, Turkey
Under the theme Bridging Horizons, the conference will explore how emerging technologies, ethical practices, and collaborative partnerships are transforming medical libraries and health information systems worldwide.
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Information on conference theme and subtheme here.
Key Deadlines
- Call for Papers Opens: 15 September 2025
- Abstract Submission Deadline: 14 November 2025
- Notification of Acceptance: 15 December 2025
- Early Registration Opens: 1 December 2025
- Early Registration Closes: 8 May 2026
- Preliminary Programme Release: March 2026
The EAHIL 2025 Workshop will be held in the post-industrial city of Lodz, Poland, from 9th – 13th June.
The Workshop’s main theme, IMAGINE, consists of 7 letters each representing the keywords – Inform, Manage, AI, Grow, Integrate, Network, Explore.
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Welcome to the first European Association of Health Information and Libraries (EAHIL) Conference being held in Riga, the capital city of Latvia, from 11th to 14th June 2024.
The Conference theme “Small Step and a Giant Leap: Reorienting Towards a New Environment” captures the need for libraries to adapt and thrive in an evolving landscape by embracing both incremental changes and significant advancements. We are excited to announce the conference theme has been carefully crafted to build upon the inspiring ideas of the 2023 theme.
The Conference theme addresses various questions, such as:
- How can libraries serve as catalysts for innovation, facilitate interdisciplinary collaborations, and empower users to actively participate in the creation and sharing of knowledge?
- How will libraries and librarians support research in their new environment in the foreseeable future?
- How can technology be leveraged to support and engage users of health-related information and data?
Let’s contribute and create an environment where libraries are not just repositories of knowledge, but agents of change in the quest for supporting research and innovation!
We look forward to offering you a warm welcome with opportunities for engaging discussion and a chance for librarians and friends from around the world to meet here in Riga!
- Abstract submission opens: September 2023
- Deadline abstract submission: end October 2023
- Notification of acceptance: December 2023
- Authors confirm final versions of abstracts: January 2024
- Authors confirm attendance: March 2024
Team Ireland had a very successful sojourn in sunny Seville last week for the EAHIL 2016 Conference. In total there were 6 of us there, so expect to hear some reports in HINT and other for a in the coming months.
As you can imagine, there were lots of really interesting presentations and poster – many soon to be uploaded onto the EAHIL conference website http://www.bvsspa.es/eahil2016/
I thought you might be interested in this blog post by Cambridge health librarian Isla Kuhn which came about in response to a presented paper on the quality of reporting of systematic reviews.
It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing
It is well worth a read and there are useful links to all the standards for reporting SRs and search strategies – always handy to have on standby.
I also suggest reading her other blog posts – there are lots covering presentations from the latest EAHIL, all well worth reading.
Also, you may also be interested in (yet another!) Database of Systematic Reviews http://www.epistemonikos.org/
Epistemonikos is a collaborative, multilingual database of research evidence and knowledge translation products. Epistemonikos was developed and is maintained by systematically searching electronic databases and other sources for relevant systematic reviews and broad syntheses of reviews.
The aim of Epistemonikos is to provide rapid access to systematic reviews in health. You can read an interesting paper presented by Hilde Stromme comparing Epistemonikos to the Cochrane Library as soon as the papers are uploaded.
Louise Farragher
