Knowledge Services Briefings

Briefings for Knowledge and Library Services staff on the latest news and development opportunities.

There are currently two briefings published.

Knowledge for Healthcare Briefing

Published fortnightly on Tuesdays.

This briefing covers national and regional initiatives, training opportunities and network news.

Resource Discovery Digest

Published fortnightly on Tuesdays.  This briefing covers national and local resource discovery initiatives.

Contributions

If you wish to contribute, email the Knowledge and Library Services team on [email protected].

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  • Subscribe to the Resource Discovery Digest.

Knowledge for Healthcare Briefing

29 April 2025

Contents

Knowledge for Healthcare Learning Academy Opportunities - All workshops are online:

  • Knowledge Mobilisation Community of Practice Meeting, 14 May 2025, 2pm to 3pm
  • 45 minutes with Richard Looney and Jodie Reeves (Developing the Knowledge and Library Services Researcher), 24 July 2025, 2pm to 2:45pm
  • NHS 10 Year Plan - what might it mean for Knowledge and Library Services? 24 July 2025, 2pm to 3pm

News:

  • Opportunity to apply for funding to complete an accredited course in academic year 2025-26
  • Open now: sponsored places available on the PGCert Clinical Data Science course  
  • Misinformation UnMASKED

  • Act now to take part in the Virtual Knowledge and Library Services Celebration Day on Wednesday 3 December 2025

  • Green Library reflections as part of International Earth Day

  • The value of Action Learning Sets

  • Sustainability in NHS Knowledge and Library Services

15 April 2025

Contents

Knowledge for Healthcare Learning Academy Opportunities - All workshops are online:

  • Line Managing Neurodiverse Teams, 4 June 2025, 2pm to 4pm
  • 45 Minutes with Dom Gilroy, 12 June 2025, 2pm to 2:45pm
  • Health Literacy Train the Trainer with Joanne Naughton & Kaye Bagshaw, 18 June 2025, 9:30am to 12:30pm

News:

  • Act now to take part in the Virtual Knowledge and Library Services Celebration
  • “Flourish: Growing Our Communities” 14th International Congress on Medical Librarianship 14 to 16 July 2026 Glasgow, Scotland
  • Support during times of change
  • Any Library Staff Leavers / New Starters in your Service?
  • The 10 Year Health Plan
  • NHS ConfedExpo 2025 agenda now live: book your pass today

 

1 April 2025

Contents

  • Changes to contracts affecting National Core Content Collection from 1 July 2025
  • National Statistics Collection Part 1 and Part 2
  • Help Shape a Development and Career Pathway Tool for Library Assistants
  • New managers' checklist
  • Change NHS: a health service fit for the future

  • NHS KLS Health Literacy Community of Practice Meeting, Tuesday 29 April 2025, 10am to 12pm

  • Core Collection of Dental Books:  Are you able to help HLG and partners to compile the new 2nd edition?

  • Supporting our library assistants: Insights from the 2024 Development Survey

  • Communications during the Pre-Election Period

 

Resource Discovery Digest

6 May 2025

Contents

  • Tell us your Library Management System requirements

  • PrintDOCs: evaluating the impact

  • Cleansing data for repository lists

  • Principles and practice of MARC cataloguing

  • Latest changes to the Wessex Classification Scheme

  • KnowledgeShare now has embedded LibKey links

  • NHS Knowledge and Library Hub: Known Issues and Enhancements

22 April 2025

Contents

  • Reminder – complete your new Hub interface data collection

  • Koha Upgrade Dates

  • Maudsley Prescribing and Deprescribing Guidelines

  • Data on OUP and ProQuest usage

  • NHS OpenAthens and change to National Core Content

  • RefWorks Upgrade and Redesign

  • NHS Knowledge and Library Hub: Known Issues and Enhancements

8 April 2025

Contents

  • Changes to National Core Content – what happens next?

  • Data collection for the new Hub interface

  • EBSCO adds TIAB

  • Contacts from Eolas

  • NIHR Evidence Updates

  • Clinical trials to be added to Ovid Embase

  • Update from March’s Resource Discovery Reference Group

  • EBSCO’s AI Natural Language Search – last call for testers

  • Support for OpenAthens administrators

  • Change to BMJ titles in NCC

  • From data to dashboard: pipelines and visualisation

  • NHS Knowledge and Library Hub: Known Issues and Enhancements

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