In July this year, I was lucky enough to receive a HCLU sponsored place on the Knowledge Management Advanced Course in Henley-Upon-Thames. The course was facilitated by KM Master, Chris Collison and I joined a diverse group from the likes of KPMG to the National Lottery, to learn about knowledge management.…
In this article Natasha Craigs from Mid-Yorkshire NHS Trust reflects on her first experience of attending a CILIP conference.…
Walking along Oxford Road in Manchester brought back memories of my time studying for an MA in Library and Information Management at Manchester Metropolitan University. I have only visited this part of Manchester a couple of times since graduating and this was my first time on official library business; my first time at the CILIP conference, having received a bursary from CILIP Yorkshire & Humber.…
The European Association for Health Information and Libraries (EAHIL) hold an annual event with this year’s being hosted in Basel, Switzerland in June. I was asked to deliver a workshop with librarians working in the Midlands on embedding knowledge in transformation and our role in this process.…
I started my new role with Elsevier as Commercial Product Manager for Clinical Solutions in April 2019 and I’ve been trying to visit as many customers as possible as part of my induction and to learn more about our products and the people who use them.…
PubMed recently announced that they are retiring LinkOut and urged libraries to sign up for their Outside Tool instead. LinkOut made it fairly easy for NHS libraries to get their resources into PubMed but Outside Tool is a bit trickier.…
Members of the Great Up North Conference Planning Team met via Skype on 2nd July to discuss our learning from the recent event. Being good Knowledge Specialists, we chose the Retrospect from the KM Toolkit to help us to identify and record our reflections.…
When I was offered the chance to attend the Its Great Up North Conference on 6th and 7th June in Harrogate as part of job shadowing, I immediately said yes. Although I work in Health Education England,…
Health Libraries North was a friendly and well organised conference that was high energy and focused on ensuring positive experiences of the attendees. Whilst I didn’t gain any specific ideas on…
I arrived in Harrogate with much trepidation having volunteered – after too much coffee and cake – to do a 3 Minutes of Mayhem presentation telling everyone all about HCLU Library Assistant Study Days and how much I had got out of them.…
