presentations from the event, where available, are below.
Introduction and Welcome - David Stewart, Director of Health Library and Knowledge Services North
Topol for LKS - Sue Lacey Bryant, Senior Advisor, Knowledge for Healthcare
Getting ready for Quality Improvement Outcomes Framework - Dom Gilroy, LKS Development Manager STEMClub: working together at the system level - Shona Haining North of England Commissioning Support Unit
One QIO at a time: Getting to grips with a staffing skills audit - Suzanne Wilson
LitSense [1] is a unique search system for making sense of the biomedical literature at the sentence level, providing a unified access to over half a billion statements extracted from PubMed and PubMed Central.
Given a query, LitSense finds the best-matching sentences based on overlapping terms as well as semantic similarity via a cutting-edge neural embedding approach.
Conclusion – The roles of information professionals are continually changing, both in practice and in description. In particular, information professionals expanded their roles in teaching during the review period, shedding light on institutional and professional priorities.
Search planning is advisable to enable decisions about which and how many sources to search. This could improve with more work on modelling search scenarios, particularly in public health topics, to examine where publications were found and guide future research. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
LitCovid (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/research/coronavirus/)-first launched in February 2020-is a first-of-its-kind literature hub for tracking up-to-date published research on COVID-19. The number of articles in LitCovid has increased from 55 000 to ∼300 000 over the past 2.5 years, with a consistent growth rate of ∼10 000 articles per month.
In 2022, a benchmarking survey was completed to gage learner satisfaction with library services, spaces, and resources across 10 Mayo Clinic Libraries. The discussion for this project began around a previously published survey of what medical students wanted from their library. Librarians were asked if Mayo Clinic Libraries could do a similar survey, as a full survey of the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science had not been done. Overall, the findings were positive and provide a baseline for future surveys.
The presentations from the event, where available, are below.
Nancy Kline Round and Shared Developments (updated 18 July 2019) - Vicky Bramwell and Kieron Lamb
Northern Lights - Andrew Craig
LIHNN AGM - Kieron Lamb
Treasurers report
Group updates
Cheshire and Merseyside
Clinical Librarians and Trainers
Greater Manchester
Mental Health Libraries
Northern Lights Newsletter
PANDDA Group
It’s Great Up North - LIHNN Winners
Best 3 Minutes of Mayhem Winner – Julie Potter
Best Session Winner - Sinead English
How do you use information for your work and CPD? What do you think of MPFT library services? Tell us here and you could win £25 vouchers: https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/B2JVNPR
Recently, we were involved in a project to update the Fertility Centre website and Andrew James of the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust’s Transformation Team had this to say.
By analyzing library programming for the dementia community and assessing its strengths and challenges, the paper highlights librarians’ awareness of the community’s evolving needs and their collaboration with other professionals. It offers practical insights on useful resources and emerging best practices that will hopefully inspire other initiatives in which information professionals can help improve the well-being of vulnerable populations.
This report to ministers (via Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport) and the Local Government Association describes the work done by the Libraries Taskforce between April and September 2018.