Welcome to the Health Libraries Group Newsletter for Spring 2025. As the flowers are blooming and weather warms up, we hope you are enjoying longer days of sunshine greeting each of your respective health libraries!
This edition of the HLG newsletter features articles on library outreach projects/case studies, COP promotional activities, reflections from the LILAC conference and Kings Fund annual leadership and workforce summit, and more, as well as invites to the upcoming CILIP HLG Annual General Meeting in June and updates on other events approaching in the next few months. It also features an opportunity to publish regularly in the HLG Newsletter.
The first item in this issue is a piece in memory of Judy Palmer, one time editor in chief of the Health Information & Libraries Journal and chair of the Medical Health and Welfare Group of the Library Association (precursor of HLG).
We’re thrilled to share this edition of the HLG Newsletter with you and extend our warmest gratitude to all our contributing authors.
Articles
Judy Palmer, 1941 – 2025
Tom Roper
Elephants in the room: learning points from Kings Fund annual leadership and workforce summit 2025 (19 March 2025)
Daniel Park
Revamping digital library training – a lunch and learn journey
Eleanor Lochrie
Transforming the Barnard Classification Scheme for C21st collection and data management
Eloise Carpenter
LILAC 2025 Experience
George Jerish Choothamparambil Joseph
Libraries and the NHS
Jason Kaye
Misinformation UnMASKED – a new resource to combat health misinformation!
Joanne Naughton
Branching out… Expanding Outreach for NHS Community Teams
Kerry Booth
Navigating change in uncertain times
Paul Cannon and Hong-Anh Nguyen
Host a Display
Rosie Nightingale
Learning Academy Library
Susan Merner, Lyndsey Howell and Sarah Gardner
Junior Carers Project: Supporting the Trust to engage the next generation of healthcare workers
Victoria Harrison and Maria Walker-Reeves
Bursaries and events
CILIP Health Libraries Group annual general meeting
Hong-Anh Nguyen
SCHARR Professional Learning Programme 2025
Sonia Rizzo
News and updates
Health Information and Libraries Journal (HILJ) June 2025 running order
Maria Grant
An opportunity to publish regularly in the HLG Newsletter
The HLG Newsletter Team
Contact
Thank you for reading the Spring 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.
Contact the editorial team at: newsletter.hlg@cilip.org.uk.
HLG Newsletter Spring 2025
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