Stewardship in Challenging Times: the Role of Libraries in Supporting Civic Society – Research Libraries UK Conference

Stewardship in Challenging Times – the Role of Libraries in Supporting Civic Society

RLUK will explore how libraries can adopt dynamic, inclusive, empathetic, and strategic approaches to successfully manage the myriad human challenges they face, embrace the contested nature of library spaces, and support world-class research.

Libraries need to navigate the increasingly complex intersections of academic freedom, freedom of speech, censorship, and the management of contested spaces and collections. These complexities call for vision and clarity to restate and communicate the values of research libraries.

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Developing Systematic Search Skills: Peer-to-Peer Learning with Practice Sets

Taubman Library Talks present a free webinar on December 15th @ 5pm on Developing Systematic Search Skills: Peer-to-Peer Learning with Practice Sets.

Presenters Jenna Lepczyk and Perry Wiedling will walk attendees through how to use self-directed, hands-on practice sets designed specifically for improving their systematic review searching.

Discover practical strategies, explore step-by-step techniques, learn what questions to ask the research team, and get your questions answered—all in a supportive and safe space! 

Early career librarians are encouraged to attend, or anyone interested in learning more about systematic searching.

This session will utilize resources on the Systematic Review Practice Sets site, created by Informationists at the University of Michigan Taubman Health Sciences Library (UM-THSL) and populated with practice sets created by UM-THSL Informationists (Practice Sets – health sciences focus) and librarians at the University of Minnesota (More Practice Sets – sciences, social sciences, and beyond).

The Practice Set used for this webinar is #37121242 (“Effectiveness of handwashing with soap for preventing acute respiratory infections in low-income and middle-income countries”), available on the Practice Sets page. We encourage attendees to preview it before the session, but it’s not required.

For more information on this and to get the Zoom link, please visit: https://guides.lib.umich.edu/TaubmanTalks/Peer2PeerSearch

Search Filters for Evidence Synthesis

Carol Lefebvre and Julie Glanville present an online workshop on Search Filters for Evidence Synthesis.

This workshop will cover a range of topics and learning objectives including:

  • Understanding the role and importance of methodological and other search filters;
  • Learning how to find and how to appraise search filters;
  • Learning how to use filters effectively to enhance and focus the search process;
  • Exploring some challenges of using search filters and how to avoid them;
  • Exploring some challenges in adapting search filters from one database / interface into another;
  • Understanding the ethical considerations of using search filters;
  • Learning how to stay up to date with new search filters; and
  • Gaining practical experience in using search filters through hands-on exercises.

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Finding Unpublished Clinical Trial Data

Online workshop on 11th December from 15.00 – 18.00

Presented by Carol Lefebvre and Julie Glanville

This workshop will cover a range of topics and learning objectives including:

  • Why do we need to know about clinical trials and ongoing research
  • Key trials and trials results registers including ClinicalTrials.gov, the WHO ICTRP and Cochrane CENTRAL
  • Other resources to identify unpublished trial data including preprints, HTA sources and trial initiatives
  • Clinical study reports
  • Obtaining trial information from regulatory agencies including Canada Health, the (European) EMA and the (US) FDA
  • Documenting and reporting searches

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Search Filters for Evidence Synthesis

Online workshop on 4th December from 15.00 – 18.00

Presented by Carol Lefebvre and Julie Ganville

This workshop will cover a range of topics and learning objectives including:

  • Understanding the role and importance of methodological and other search filters
  • Learning how to find and how to appraise search filters
  • Learning how to use filters effectively to enhance and focus the search process
  • Exploring some challenges of using search filters and how to avoid them
  • Exploring some challenges in adapting search filters from one database / interface into another
  • Understanding the ethical considerations of using search filters
  • Learning how to stay up to date with new search filters
  • Gaining practical experience in using search filters through hands-on exercise

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Springer Nature: Writing & Publishing Webinars – Oct. & Nov.

Springer Nature are holding free online webinars on writing and publishing over October & November 2025.

Upcoming author webinars

Addressing Research and Writing Challenges With the APA Style Manual

In this webinar APA Style experts will discuss how librarians can use APA Style to tackle some of the challenges in supporting students with research and writing in the current social and technological environment. The new APA Style Manual will be discussed which can provide APA Style guidance to all students, updates to AI guidance, and best practices for supporting academic writing in a world with AI and misinformation.

 

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Too good to be True? Spotting problematic trials in systematic reviews

Join Jack Wilkinson, Senior Lecturer in Clinical Trials at University of Manchester for a 1 hour interactive webinar on Spotting problematic trials in systematic reviews.

The INSPECT-SR (INveStigating ProblEmatic Clinical Trials in Systematic Reviews) tool has been developed for the purpose of assessing trustworthiness of RCTs in order to identify problematic trials. This interactive webinar will introduce the INSPECT-SR tool by way of application to a published clinical trial. Attendees will have the opportunity to use INSPECT-SR to perform trustworthiness checks themselves and learn how the tool can be incorporated when undertaking a systematic review.

For more information and to register for this event click here.