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.

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Knowledge for Healthcare Briefing

Tuesday 19 August 2025

Contents

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

  • Health Literacy Awareness Training, 23 September 2025, 9:30am to 12:30pm 

News:

  • #AMillionDecisions: Creating your own impact case study and endorsement cards
  • The NHS launches new WhatsApp Channel

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

  • CILIP Mentor of the Year nominations

  • Trainers' Forum Annual Conference 2025

  • Responsible AI in Evidence Synthesis webinar opportunity

  • Spotlight reminder and resource of the month

  • BMJ Best Practice and state-of-the-art care for asthma in adults webinar

  • Top tips in health teaching: a knowledge sharing workshop, Thursday 4 September 2025, 1pm to 3pm

  • Literature Searching Clinics in 2025

  • Any Library Staff Leavers / New Starters in your Service?

  • New post added to Northern Lights

Tuesday 5 August 2025

Contents

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

  • Knowledge Mobilisation Lite Workshop, Tuesday 14 October and Thursday 27 November 2025

News:

  • Second Misinformation UnMASKED animation

  • Volunteers for project group to get involved in Health Information Week 2026

  • Report on NHS App and health information in public libraries

  • Introducing Northern Lights

  • Signing up to NHS England e-Bulletins

 

Resource Discovery Digest

Tuesday 26 August 2025

Contents

  • Frequently asked questions (FAQs) on generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) now published

  • NHS OpenAthens and phishing issues

  • Combining Hub searches in ‘Recent Activity’

  • New Koha ILL module roll-out

  • Default citation style in the Hub

  • Testing Scholarly Graph features on the new EBSCO interfaces

  • EBSCO and its approach to AI and generative AI tools webinar, Monday 15 September 2025, 10:30am to 11:30am

  • BMJ Best Practice and state-of-the-art care for asthma in adults webinar, Thursday 4 September, 2pm to 3pm

  • NHS Knowledge and Library Hub: Known Issues and Enhancements

Tuesday 16 August 2025

Contents

  • Frequently asked questions (FAQs) on generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) now published

  • NHS OpenAthens and phishing issues

  • Combining Hub searches in ‘Recent Activity’

  • New Koha ILL module roll-out

  • Default citation style in the Hub

  • Testing Scholarly Graph features on the new EBSCO interfaces

  • EBSCO and its approach to AI and generative AI tools webinar, Monday 15 September 2025, 10:30am to 11:30am

  • BMJ Best Practice and state-of-the-art care for asthma in adults webinar, Thursday 4 September, 2pm to 3pm

  • NHS Knowledge and Library Hub: Known Issues and Enhancements

Tuesday 12 August 2025

Contents

  • Testing Google AI Overviews – call for participation

  • Wessex Classification Scheme Update for July 2025

  • Is The Salt Path still an uplifting resource?

  • Trip introduces a new way of scoring Randomised Controlled Trials

  • NHS Knowledge and Library Hub: Known Issues and Enhancements

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

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