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.…
My name is Amy Clancy and I am documenting my year as a Graduate Library and Knowledges Trainee with Greater Manchester Mental Health and Cheshire Wirral Partnership.…
Members of the Great Up North Conference Planning Team met via Skype on 2nd July to discuss our learning from the recent event. Being good Knowledge Specialists, we chose the Retrospect from the KM Toolkit to help us to identify and record our reflections.…
When I was offered the chance to attend the Its Great Up North Conference on 6th and 7th June in Harrogate as part of job shadowing, I immediately said yes. Although I work in Health Education England,…
Health Libraries North was a friendly and well organised conference that was high energy and focused on ensuring positive experiences of the attendees. Whilst I didn’t gain any specific ideas on…
I arrived in Harrogate with much trepidation having volunteered – after too much coffee and cake – to do a 3 Minutes of Mayhem presentation telling everyone all about HCLU Library Assistant Study Days and how much I had got out of them.…
You know you’re being indulged when you ask “What are we going to use as a twitter icon?” and the answer down the phone is use a duck! So Wat the duck came to pass! Then came the challenge of sourcing the real life duck that you’ve got a picture of…. thankfully the web provided!…
Gil’s Young’s warm invitation to all Northern healthcare library staff to present at “Its Great up North” hit my in-box last November. It looked really appealing, particularly for new presenters as the emphasis was on a relaxed and enjoyable event for healthcare staff at all levels.…
I’ve not been to many conferences before, and I was extremely excited about this one as knowing it would be full of other health library staff made it less daunting than the annual CILIP conference.…
Being part of the organising conference was a largely stress free affair. There were enough of us to share the load, we had a good mix of people with different ideas and experiences, and as we all…
