Welcome to the Health Libraries Group Newsletter for Autumn and Winter 2024-2025. With a new year just recently underway, we hope that this edition will help all of those searching for some inspiration for 2025!
This edition of the HLG newsletter features articles on predatory publishing, health literacy awareness and the ALIA leadership bursary, alongside invites to join the job shadowing network and contribute your impact case studies, as well as details of a range of exciting events to look out for during the forthcoming year. It also features the final Internet Sites of Interest to be penned by Keith Nockels.
On which note, the newsletter team extends its heartfelt thanks to Keith for his dedication in providing a continuously evolving and insightful column for an outstanding 20 years! We, along with past editors, offer our warmest best wishes to Keith. Below is a message from Joel Kerry Sage, a former editor of the newsletter:
Keith,
Many thanks for your hard work contributing to the HLG Newsletter. Your popular column was invaluable not only to support my role as NHS librarian, but also to many health librarians working both in the UK and internationally. Many thanks for your advice and wisdom during my time as HLG Newsletter Editor, it was great to work alongside and collaborate with you.
All the best, Joel Kerry-Sage
Our thanks also go to all of those who have generously contributed work to this edition of the HLG Newsletter: we hope you enjoy it!
Articles
A Million Decisions
Alison Day, NHS England
A call for libraries to join the shadowing network!
Paul Cannon, CILIP Health Libraries Group
Helping patients understand our jargon… expanding health literacy awareness at UHMBT
Kerry Booth, University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust
Internet Sites of Interest
Keith Nockels, University of Leicester
Is it predatory? The darker side of publishing…
Matt Holland, LKS ASE
Reflections on attending and presenting at HLG 2024
Keri Bramford-Hale, Amber Dunlop, Mandeep Heer and Bridget O’Connell, University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust
The ALIA Connection: Reflections of the ALIA Leadership Bursary
Susan Smith, Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Bursaries and events
14th International Congress on Medical Librarianship (ICML)
Imrana Ghumra, CILIP Health Libraries Group
Health Information Week – A collaboration between three NHS libraries (BDCFT, BTHFT & ANHSFT)
Maria Zaheer, Bradford District Care Foundation Trust (BDCFT)
SCHARR Short Courses 2025
Sonia Rizzo, SCHARR
UHMLG 2025 events – save the dates!
Jane Shelley, UHMLG
Upcoming MLA events and reminders
Tom Roper, CILIP Health Libraries Group
News and updates
Change NHS – have you had your say yet?
Ruth Carlyle, NHS England and Neena Shukla Morris, UH Sussex
Help us shape our CPD offer for 2025!
Hong-Anh Nguyen, The King’s Fund
Contact
Thank you for reading the Autumn/Winter 2024-2025 issue of the HLG Newsletter.
We welcome your contributions to the newsletter, such as original articles, meeting reports or book reviews. Let us know what you’d like to see in future issues.
For further information, please contact the editorial team at: newsletter.hlg@cilip.org.uk.
HLG Newsletter Autumn/Winter 2024–2025
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