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].

Knowledge for Healthcare Briefing

Tuesday 29 July 2025

Contents

• Publicity Materials for Resident Doctors Inductions

• Make a change to Explore Collection on the Hub

• Roll-out of the new Koha ILL module

• Findings from the YorCat Aspen Pilot

• Testing Natural Language Search

• Bibliometric analysis and data visualisation for evidence searches 

• Repositories Community of Practice 

• Testing Google AI Overviews

• Copyright, TDM and AI – a reminder

• Retirement of Reading Well LTC List

• NIHR Collection on Cardiovascular Disease

• NHS Knowledge and Library Hub: Known Issues and Enhancements

Tuesday 22 July 2025

Contents

Tailored learning opportunities accredited by CILIP, the library and information association (all workshops are online):

• Knowledge Mobilisation Community of Practice Meeting: #KNOWcop, 18 September 2025, 1pm to 2pm
• 45 minutes with Leanne Kendrick, 25 September 2025, 2pm to 2:45pm
• 45 minutes with Veronica Price (Developing the KLS Researcher), 30 October 2025, 2pm to 2:45pm

News:

• Bursary Places on the Mary Seacole Leadership Programme
• Keep up to date with the latest Knowledge and Library Service Technology News
• How green is your library?
• Free Continuing Professional Development (CPD) books offer
• Develop your digital and data skills and help to shape the framework 
• Learning how to search the literature
• Last call: bursaries for International Congress on Medical Librarianship

Tuesday 8 July 2025

Contents

Tailored learning opportunities accredited by CILIP, the library and information association (all workshops are online):

• Update: Rescheduled Session: The NHS 10 Year Plan: What Might It Mean for Knowledge and Library Services? will be held on Thursday 11 September 2025

News:

• Developing the Talent Supply Pipeline: Award of Postgraduate Bursaries
• Bursary opportunities for 14th International Congress on Medical Librarianship (ICML) taking place in Glasgow, 14 to 16 July 2026

• Volunteers for project group for Health Information Week 2026

• Northern Lights is back

• Health Literacy Geodata

 

Resource Discovery Digest

Tuesday 15 July 2025

Contents

• The new Knowledge and Library Hub is now live

• Decommissioning national OUP and ProQuest contracts – the aftermath

• What do you need to know about generative AI?

• Impact of PrintDOCs

• EBSCO Host – migrating to the new user interface

• New NICE Framework for buying knowledge resources - NICENHSFA/2528

• AskTrip

• The Cochrane Library

• NHS Knowledge and Library Hub: Known Issues and Enhancements

Tuesday 1 July 2025

Contents

• Time to take action for your new Hub

• 2025 local e-resources audit

• Updated BMJ landing page

• KnowledgeShare improvements for mental health staff

• Embase reload, including adding clinical trials records

• Use of AI tools and other technologies by NICE and their partners

• NHS Knowledge and Library Hub: Known Issues and Enhancements

Tuesday 17 June 2025

Contents

• Test your preview Hub and prepare for the switch

• Decommissioning OUP and ProQuest national core content resources

• e-books and Kortext developments

• BMJ Best Practice for Safer Prescribing – Webinar, 25 June 2025, 2pm to 3pm

• Updates from Ovid

• NHS Knowledge and Library Hub: Known Issues and Enhancements