Reflections from a first-time CILIP conference attendee
In this article Natasha Craigs from Mid-Yorkshire NHS Trust reflects on her first experience of attending a CILIP conference.…
News from NoWAL
Nearly all NHS libraries will find themselves dealing with students at some time or another so it's always good to hear from our colleagues in higher education. North-West Academic Libraries (NoWAL) publish a newsletter every summer - here are some of the highlights and a link to the newsletter itself.…
Good citizens in a fairer world with libraries as third places
Walking along Oxford Road in Manchester brought back memories of my time studying for an MA in Library and Information Management at Manchester Metropolitan University. I have only visited this part of Manchester a couple of times since graduating and this was my first time on official library business; my first time at the CILIP conference, having received a bursary from CILIP Yorkshire & Humber.…
Failing to succeed - How to learn from failure
In this article Laura Jeffreys from Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust reflects on the University Health and Medical Librarians' Group (UHMLG) conference at Teesside University which was held on the 27th-28th June.…
Bridge, Act, SharE, Learn - BASEL
The European Association for Health Information and Libraries (EAHIL) hold an annual event with this year’s being hosted in Basel, Switzerland in June. I was asked to deliver a workshop with librarians working in the Midlands on embedding knowledge in transformation and our role in this process.…
Experience as an Exhibitor (It's Great Up North)
I started my new role with Elsevier as Commercial Product Manager for Clinical Solutions in April 2019 and I’ve been trying to visit as many customers as possible as part of my induction and to learn more about our products and the people who use them.…
Health Care Libraries Unit North: twenty years on
Just over twenty years ago two north colleagues came to see me at The Royal society of Medicine where I headed up the library and IT services. Essentially they were head-hunting me to apply for the newly created role of Regional director of Library Services in the North West. The post was one of a series of recommendations in the SECTA Review which had been commissioned by the former North West Regional Office (RO).…
LKS Managers Meeting - 11 July 2019
The Northern LKS managers meeting, took place in Newcastle on 11 July 2019.…
LIHNN/HCLU Briefing - July 2019
The LIHNN/HCLU Briefing, including the LIHNN AGM, took place at The Park Royal, Warrington on 9 July 2019. The presentations from the event, where available, are below.Nancy Kline Round - Vicky…
Getting started with PubMed's Outside Tool
PubMed recently announced that they are retiring LinkOut and urged libraries to sign up for their Outside Tool instead. LinkOut made it fairly easy for NHS libraries to get their resources into PubMed but Outside Tool is a bit trickier.…