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.

See the last three of the briefings.

Resource Discovery Digest

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

See the last three of the digests.

Contributions

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

Knowledge for Healthcare Briefing

3 September 2024

Contents

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

• Health Literacy Train the Trainer, 11 November 2024, 9:30am to 12:30pm
• An Introduction to Summarising and Synthesising Evidence Cohorts 1 and 2, 21 October 2024 - 16 December 2024

News:

• #Knowvember24
• Health information partnership with public libraries
• Act now to take part in the virtual celebration event on 10 December 2024

• Read the latest newsletter from CILIP Health Libraries Group

• Mailing list for Public Health Knowledge Specialists

• Recording of the Knowledge and Library Services Managers' Meetings held in July 2024

 

20 August 2024

Contents 

• Virtual Introduction to Knowledge Mobilisation, 5 December 2024, 10am to 12pm
• Act now to take part in the virtual celebration event on 10 December 2024
• Skills and Career Development Survey for NHS-funded Library Assistants and Apprentices
• Bursaries now available for CILIP Libraries Rewired Conference 2024
• Mailing list for Public Health Knowledge Specialists

• Green Libraries Week 2024: submit your events and activities

• Health Literacy Month: promoting health information through public libraries

 

6 August 2024

Contents

• Thinking about Quality Metrics (online workshop), 3 September 2024, 2pm to 3:30pm
• Act now to take part in the virtual celebration event 10 December 2024
• Skills and Career Development Survey for NHS-funded Library Assistants and Apprentices
• Find and share workforce and education research with WE-R NHS
• Any Library Staff Leavers / New Staters in your Service?

 

 

Resource Discovery Digest

10 September 2024

Contents 

• PrintDOCs update
• Maudsley Deprescribing Guidelines – an update
• Sign up for EBSCO training courses
• Third Iron Update – 10 October 2024, 3pm to 4pm
• OUP Landing Page Redirect
• Recent KnowledgeShare developments
• Collection Management Guideline – texts to support Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
• NHS Knowledge and Library Hub: known issues and enhancements

 

27 August 2024

Contents

• Input required: update your Ask-A-Librarian Hub settings

• Blog post – e-book evaluation project

• Make the embedded Hub search box your own

• Changes to EBSCO login and shared links

• Ovid notification about Embase and Emcare

• NHS Knowledge and Library Hub: known issues and enhancements

 

13 August 2024

Contents

• You asked, we’ve delivered: fewer emails from the Service Desk
• PrintDOCs: check your data

• Wessex Classification Scheme update

• Current and Emerging Technologies webinar: Developing a Health Equity Evidence Centre, 9 September 2024

• CILIP Libraries Rewired Conference 2024 – bursaries now available

• Royal Marsden Manual (RMM) training - change of November date

• Mark Allen collections - 2025 pricing

• ProQuest academic platform enhancements

• Overdrive now a member of OpenAthens

• NHS Knowledge and Library Hub: known issues and enhancements