Colleagues from the information, research, cultural, and heritage communities come together at Research Libraries UK’s Digital Shift Forum to discuss the future of the digital shift in collections, services and audiences.
On Wednesday 8th October the Digital Shift Forum will explore how research libraries can lead and support the use of AI.
Professor Paul Gooding will explore the impact and adoption of AI in libraries through the lens of time: specifically, how the principles of fast and slow design might allow us to spend productive time with AI.
The Digital Shift Forum is open to all, you do not need to belong to an RLUK member institution to attend or participate.
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Join this free, online event to help future-proof your career and provide you with guidance on steps you might take to support your career development.
The event is on Thursday October 30th from 2 – 4.30pm
This event is open to anyone working in academic libraries or a related organisation.
The event might particularly appeal to early or mid-career academic library workers, regardless of job level who want to develop and progress in their career, whether that be within their current role or in a different role entirely. The event will help you think about the skills you need to do that, and how you might undertake future activities to support you.
You do not need to be connected to or a member of CILIPS, SALCTG and SCURL to book a place.
The event will feature:
- An opening talk from Martina McChrystal, Director of Library Services, University of Glasgow on succession planning and future proofing your career
- Career journeys – some shared examples from a variety of library colleagues
- Professional qualifications and values – ways that everyone can develop, regardless of prior experience or qualifications
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Julie Glanville presents an online workshop on Tuesday 23rd September on new citation analysis tools and new uses of citation analysis tools, from the perspective of identifying research for systematic reviews.
With the introduction of new tools and more access to citation indexes, citation analysis may offer new opportunities for assisting with systematic reviews, particularly reviews of complex questions where searchers may not always be confident that their subject searches are exhaustive.
Early bird price £50 (ex. Vat), full price £75 (ex. Vat).
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Presented by the American Medical Library Association (MLA) on Wednesday 23rd July, this webinar is designed for early career health sciences librarians.
This webinar will:
- Explore a wide range of research tools, including scholarly databases, eBook platforms, and standards and guidelines resources.
- Consider how to select appropriate resources, the nuances of differing controlled vocabularies, and strategies for sharing these skills with health science researchers.
- Through a combination of interactive lecture, live demonstration, and scenario-based discussions, attendees will learn how to apply their new knowledge when responding to user inquiries. During this webinar, you will receive a comprehensive handout detailing key resources and rationale for use.
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Scoping Review Workshop 10th & 11th November, online using Microsoft Teams
Delivered over two half-days, this workshop explores the theories and concepts relating to scoping reviews and other types of evidence synthesis and will equip participants with the knowledge and tools required to successfully plan for and undertake and report a scoping review following the JBI approach.
This course is useful for anyone interested in conducting scoping reviews.
At the end of the training participants will be able to:
- construct an answerable scoping question
- develop inclusion and exclusion criteria to identify literature to answer the question
- construct complex searches for literature appropriate to the scoping question
- extract relevant data from the literature
- synthesise extracted research data to form conclusions and answer the review question
- construct a publishable protocol and review report
Attendees will only need a computer with good internet connection and a camera function, and the ability to sign into Microsoft Teams.
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Scoping Review Workshop 24th & 25th September, online using Microsoft Teams
Delivered over two half-days, this workshop explores the theories and
concepts relating to scoping reviews and other types of evidence synthesis.
- Designed for health professionals, academics, researchers and students.
- Explores the distinction between a scoping review and other review types.
- Enables participants to choose the most appropriate methodology
for their review question, with a particular focus on scoping reviews.
- Equips participants with the knowledge and tools to successfully plan
and undertake all stages of a scoping review following the JBI
approach, including developing a protocol and reporting the scoping
review.For more information click here
On 6th November this lunchtime webinar will host speakers Susan Spillane & Conor Teljeur discussing the challenges in evidence synthesis when the best available evidence may not answer all the questions.
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At this lunchtime webinar, presenter Alison Bethel will share her experiences of completing search summary tables and search evaluations within evidence syntheses projects.
Search summary tables can help make search methods and decisions more evidence informed.
They can provide information on:
- which searches in which databases retrieved the included articles for your specific project
- which searches in which databases retrieved unique articles
- whether specific types of study were retrieved by searching specific databases
- which supplementary search methods retrieved additional relevant studies/articles
- were there included articles in the databases which our search did not retrieve
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Presented by Andrew Dullea, a Health Services Researcher with HIQA, this webinar will present findings from a Study Within A Review (SWAR) evaluating the use of PubReMiner, a text-mining word frequency tool, for developing systematic search strategies used in various evidence syntheses.
The session will outline the methodology, key outcomes, and considerations for incorporating such tools into systematic and rapid review processes.
The webinar is particularly relevant for researchers, information specialists, librarians and others involved in evidence-based practice or policy who are interested in the evaluation of emerging approaches to literature searching.
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On October 14th & 21st, Naomi Korn Associates and CILIP Partnership Training will provide a two-part online program on Copyright Essentials.
This course is an introduction to the basic copyright principles and is for anybody who is reproducing, creating, sharing, publishing, commissioning or digitising content.
It is designed for employees in all library, information, and knowledge management domains and is ideal for new copyright learners or those who need a refresher.
Part 1: Tuesday, October 14 from 9.30 to 1 pm
Part 2: Tuesday, October 21 from 9.30 to 1 pm
Both components must be attended in order to finish the program. Delegates will have the opportunity to earn CPD points by taking a brief quiz at the conclusion of the training session.
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