CILIP Conference 2025 will focus on leadership in the information, knowledge management and library sector.
North Star: Asserting our ethical principles and leading through change
Against a backdrop of sluggish growth, fast-paced tech innovation, live AI experiments, and viral mis/dis-information, our sector’s ethical framework is more relevant than ever: To preserve knowledge in secure and useful ways, now and in the future. To protect people from misleading and harmful content by upskilling them and giving them access to a wide range of trustworthy information. And to promote responsible, sustainable, and ethical practices.
CILIP Conference 2025 will explore our ‘North Star’ ethical principles in the context of how we navigate this time of great challenge and opportunity, and examine how we – as trusted information professionals – can exert our influence; demonstrate our impact; and position our sector’s expertise to secure our seat at the top table – whether that be at an organisational, local, national or international level.
The programme will cover topics such as:
- Digital inclusion
- AI literacy and critical thinking about new tools
- If we really mean ‘yes’? Big Tech, data literacy and consent
- The latest developments in AI, copyright, and licensing, including how we balance creators’, innovators, and tax-payers’ rights
- AI governance
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The forum is a unique day for people who specialise in information retrieval, systematic searching, knowledge or data mining, evidence synthesis, archiving and reference management. The day will consist of talks, workshops, networking, celebrating achievements & discussing latest innovations for information professionals.
This free in-person event is sponsored by the NIHR Methodology Incubator and NIHR Innovation Observatory and follows a team science ethos, welcoming information professionals from all disciplines to come together and share their knowledge.
Themes explored through a series of talks and workshops will include:
- Community: collaboration & networking
- Opportunities: training & development
- Research: share your methods and research
- Experience: career routes and progression
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On 1st October the HSLG committee were delighted to welcome academic & health librarians for an in person CPD event in the Health Research Board. Brian Galvin spoke about managing uncertainty through strategic foresight, and Ailish Farragher, Caitriona Lee and Louise Farragher gave a number of presentations on improving search strategy development and reporting for better evidence.
Foresight is an approach to planning and policymaking that attempts to manage uncertainty. It does that this by using a variety of tools to identify possible threats and opportunities in the medium or long-term. This is not prediction but an attempt to develop an information resource that helps with decision making in the present. Engaging in foresight work develops anticipatory capacity and enables a more active role in supporting policy making and mobilising joint action.
Improving search strategy development and reporting for better evidence – The IS team discussed how you can improve your search strategy development and reporting, ensuring your contribution to the review is to a high standard
- using PRESS peer review of search strategies to improve your search strategy and choice of search resources
- using available guidance for searching for systematic reviews, scoping reviews and rapid reviews (Cochrane, JBI etc)
- using established quality assessment tools (AMSTAR, JBI for Systematic Reviews) to guide search decisions
- using reporting standards (PRISMA-S) to guide search decisions and reporting
Guidance on terminology, application, and reporting of citation searching: using the TARCiS statement, and tools that can help.
Below are slides from these presentations:
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Document versions of the presentations:
Quality Assessment Search Strategies (PDF)
TARCiS (Powerpoint)
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 A&SL and the HSLG are inviting members to a joint networking evening on Monday June 17th at 6.30pm in the Royal Irish Academy, Dawson Street. Deirdre Madden, Assistive Technology Outreach Co-ordinator, Disability Support Service, UCC, will give a talk on inclusive/assistive technologies and how they can make the impossible possible for some people.
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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
Here’s an important date for your social diary….
The Joint Committees of the Health Sciences Libraries Group (HSLG) & the Academic & Special Libraries Section (A&SL) would like to invite you to our Joint New Year Networking Evening in the Royal Irish Academy , on Wednesday 13 January 2016 at 6pm.
This year we are delighted to have Dr Sandra Collins, Director of the National Library, as our speaker on the night. Dr Collins will give a talk on the National Library and 1916.
To whet your appetite, you might like to check out the National Library’s online exhibition The 1916 Rising: Personalities and Perspectives at http://www.nli.ie/1916/
As this is a free event with a drinks and canapés reception following the talk, it’s sure to be popular, so book your place here.
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