You know when you’ve been meaning to get round to something and you finally do, and it feels great? Well this is a day for that sort of thing. I’ve submitted my expression of interest to do something at It’s Great Up North and I’ve started typing this. It’ll be a great conference because it’s aimed at us all from para-professional to professional and if you not presented, run a workshop or done a poster at a conference what better place to start? You’ll be amongst the Northern Networks finest at the conference, well with the exception of me and the least said about that the better.
Ingrid over at the Christie and myself are gearing up for wall to wall twitter coverage on @itsgreatupnorth with the hashtag #itsgreatupnth so feel free to follow the conference on twitter.
Anyway more importantly if you are interested in taking part in any of the sessions
Either a:
Parallel Session Presentation: Presentation can be on any Healthcare LKS topic and will be allocated 20 minutes (15 minutes presenting time and 5 minutes for questions) but we might be able to adjust – if you feel that you need longer, please specify in your proposal.
Examples of possible presentations could include an event you staged in your library, or a project you were involved in that went well (or not!)
Tip: Worried about going it alone? Co-present with a colleague!
Parallel Session Workshop: These are practical sessions and will be allocated 45 minutes. Make sure delegates can actively participate in your workshop. Examples: Have you been on a really interesting course recently? or acquired a new skill? This would be an ideal opportunity for colleagues to share knowledge or spark debate.
Tip: This could be a great practice run for something you want to take to other conference such as HLG, EAHIL, or LILAC.
Minutes of Mayhem: A fun succession of short presentations on any aspect of Healthcare LKS. Presenters will be allocated three minutes.
Tip: Nervous about presenting? These are only 3 minutes – the perfect change to give it a go!
Poster Presentation: Posters should be on healthcare topics and will be on display during the conference. Delegates will vote for their favourites in a secret ballot. There’s prizes up for grabs. Have a look at these examples for inspiration:
https://www.cilip.org.uk/members/group_content_view.asp?group=200697&id=746810
and
https://www.lilacconference.com/lilac-archive/lilac-2018#papersandposters
then please complete the application form at https://healtheducationyh.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/its-great-up-north-northern-healthcare-lks-conference. If you would like to deliver more than one session you will need to complete a form for each one. Completed forms should be submitted by Friday 1st February 2019 at 5pm.
It’s super easy to do…. Even I managed it!
Kieran Lamb
Knowledge and Library Services Manager, Stockport NHS Foundation Trust
The 2018 LIHNN Christmas Study Day took place at the Lancaster House Hotel on the 4 December.
Keynote Speaker
NHS at 70 “The Story of Our Lives” – Angela Whitecross (Project Manager, University of Manchester)
The Director of Health Libraries North Award
This was awarded to Emily Hurt (Lancashire Teaching Hospitals) and Dawn Grundy (University of Bolton)
LIHNN Quality Improvement Awards
Gold Award: Art Exhibition – JET Library & Liverpool Medical Institution
Silver Award: Resource Events Blog – The Christie Library & Knowledge Service
Bronze Award: Topol Review – Knowledge Management Team, Health Education England
The LIHNN Quality Improvement Awards – Three Minutes of Mayhem
Winner: Book Courier Service – Library Services, Royal Bolton Hospital
Runners Up:
Knowledge Assets – JET Library
Critical Care – Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Focus Games – University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust Library and Knowledge Services
NHS 70th Museums Exhibit – Wirral & Cheshire Libraries
Mentorship Course and Website – Pennine Acute Trust
Why every Library needs Lego – JET Library
Pop-Up library – Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
Skype – JET Library
LIHNNK-Up Article of the Year
Winner: Our summer reading journey @ Lancashire Teaching Hospitals
The LIHNN Christmas Quiz 2018 (plus answers)
Happy Christmas from the LIHNN Groups
Feedback
“It is a good event to meet a range of people in different roles and hear their ideas and opinions.”
“It was a really enjoyable day – the talk in the morning was interesting. And it’s always good to hear what new and innovative things are going on in the library world. Thanks all.”
“It was a really nice day and great to network with colleagues not seen frequently.”
Things People Said They Are Going To Do Differently In The Workplace As A Result Of Attending This Event
“We have arranged to hook up with Angela & Stephanie Snow to link in a number of oral history projects we are starting. The Gold Award Trophy is helping to leverage a paper that is going to the Board from the Charity Manager, who is trying to introduce a steering group for a broader art initiative in the Trust. Everyone involved in the project is really thrilled with the award.”
“We will be looking at getting some Lego, investigating a book courier service, thinking about how we could use oral histories in our Trust”
“book courier service could easily be implemented in our workplace and would be a nice way to get out and about and meet staff”
Calling healthcare library staff of all levels, we want your submissions for our conference next year! We would like to encourage as many as possible of you to submit proposals for workshops, presentations, or posters. There are no themes other than that of Healthcare LKS.
This conference will be a relaxed and enjoyable event and we particularly welcome proposals from those of you who have never presented at a conference before. It will be a great place to have your first go at giving a paper, or the ideal opportunity to try out a different training technique.
Want to give it a go? You’ve got options:
Parallel Session Presentation: Presentation can be on any Healthcare LKS topic and will be allocated 20 minutes (15 minutes presenting time and 5 minutes for questions) but we might be able to adjust – if you feel that you need longer, please specify in your proposal.
Examples of possible presentations could include an event you staged in your library, or a project you were involved in that went well (or not!)
Tip: Worried about going it alone? Co-present with a colleague!
Parallel Session Workshop: These are practical sessions and will be allocated 45 minutes. Make sure delegates can actively participate in your workshop. Examples: Have you been on a really interesting course recently? or acquired a new skill? This would be an ideal opportunity for colleagues to share knowledge or spark debate.
Tip: This could be a great practice run for something you want to take to other conference such as HLG, EAHIL, or LILAC.
Minutes of Madness: A fun succession of short presentations on any aspect of Healthcare LKS. Presenters will be allocated three minutes.
Tip: Nervous about presenting? These are only 3 minutes – the perfect change to give it a go!
Poster Presentation: Posters should be on healthcare topics and will be on display during the conference. Delegates will vote for their favourites in a secret ballot. There’s prizes up for grabs. Have a look at these examples for inspiration:
https://www.cilip.org.uk/members/group_content_view.asp?group=200697&id=746810
and
https://www.lilacconference.com/lilac-archive/lilac-2018#papersandposters
Tip: Remember that posters need to look good, be focused – less can be more!
If you are interested in taking part in any of the sessions above then please complete the application form at https://healtheducationyh.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/its-great-up-north-northern-healthcare-lks-conference. If you would like to deliver more than one session you will need to complete a form for each one. Completed forms should be submitted by Friday 1st February 2019 at 5pm.
If you require any further information or would like a chat about your proposal, then please contact gil.young@hee.nhs.uk
We are planning to run some WebEx sessions in the spring aimed at those presenting at the conference giving hints and tips on presenting posters and conference sessions.
Gil Young on behalf of the Organising Committee for It’s Great Up North – Northern Healthcare LKS Conference
“the queerest place with the strangest people in it leading the oddest lives…”
Well that’s what Charles Dickens thought of Harrogate and he hadn’t even seen the conference agenda…
The venue looks wonderful https://www.classiclodges.co.uk/our-hotels/the-old-swan/) Agatha Christie stayed here when she came on her holidays (but she forgot to tell anyone she was going.) It’s in super smart Harrogate birthplace of the legendary Betty’s Tea Room and Yorkshire tea. It’s got a really nice free art gallery (nice and free being my favourite combination) and for the horticulturally inclined you can walk to RHS Harlow Carr from the town centre. You must be tempted now surely? Bookings for the conference will open in January 2019 so you will have something nice to look forward to in the midst of the post-Christmas gloom.
So now that the venue is arranged and all the guests have been invited there is much work behind the scenes to make it a memorable and enjoyable conference for everyone for all the right reasons. I am sure that the programme will be diverse enough to have something for everyone but like my old PE teacher used to say you only get out what you put in so that’s where we need your help. We are calling for papers in November from you all so you have got a month to contemplate what you might like to present. Don’t be shy we are all friends here and even if your submission is rubbish at least you will have given the selection committee a good chuckle so it’s a win whichever way you look at it…
Regular update and developments can be followed via the conference twitter account @itsgreatupnorth
Helen Curtis
Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust
Social Prescribing
Jo Ward, Change Maker
Fed-IP
Dominic Gilroy, Library and Knowledge Services Development Manager – Yorkshire and the Humber
NWFabCAN
Leeanne Lockley, Quality Improvement Programme Manager, Kidney Quality Improvement Partnership (KQuIP), UK Renal Registry
Knowledge for Healthcare & HCLU Update
David Stewart, Director of Health Library and Knowledge Services North
BMJ Best Practice
Elin Goodwin, Deputy Product Manager, BMJ
Plans are underway for a Northern Health Libraries Conference – name, date and venue still to be confirmed!
This morning I made the trip into Leeds to meet with the organising committee for the first time. I did feel slightly guilty when I realised that I was the only one from the Yorkshire part of the north and everyone else had travelled further than me. Still – I’m sure a trip to sunny Yorkshire was a treat for all! The call went out a little while ago for volunteers to help with organising the conference and I am really pleased to be involved. It is a really great opportunity to meet and work with colleagues from across the wider northern region and I do love to work on a project.
Anyway, back to the conference. The initial planning meeting focused on the following:
Overall it was a really productive first meeting and I have got a really good feeling about this conference – I’m sure that it is going to be a great success. It has been quite a number of years since we had a regional conference and it made me feel quite old when I realised that not everyone will remember the “old” conferences that we used to have in Yorkshire! Even better we will have colleagues from the north-west this time too. I’m looking forward to working with the organising committee and hope that we can put on a good show!
If anyone has any suggestions for the conference please do get in touch with your ideas. Email gil.young@hee.nhs.uk
Becky Williams
Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust
At the moment GDPR is at the forefront of all our minds, with some great shared experience and learning from colleague in the NHS, charities and higher education.
We have had a great presentation from Adrienne Mayers from the Liverpool Medical Institute about running exhibitions, which has inspired some of us to collaborate around NHS 70th and Health Information Week.
Last year week shared innovative ways of running inductions with quizzes, use of 360 cameras and how to best get in contact with our new starters.
Next up we are running a Teach Meet, with a focus on helping each other overcome our challenges.
ebooks collection goes from strength to strength with all Trusts based in Greater Manchester now having joined the consortium
Meeting with Philip Cooke from Manchester Libraries in January was very informative, especially around their access to library services during hospital stays and home delivery service. Leaflets have gone out to a number of libraries to help promote the offers.
The Spring Issue of LIHNNK up has been published and all libraries should have received their copy. A call for papers has been sent out for the summer edition: the deadline is the 8th June. We are in the process of trying to organise a WebEx meeting to discuss the future of the magazine, which is likely to take place in June. Under discussion will be plans to move to an online version.
HCLU Update/Knowledge for Healthcare Update – David Stewart
LIHNN Update and AGM – Susan Smith
Random Coffee Trial – Katie Nicholas and Fran Wilkie
The tale of LILAC and the flamingos – Emily Hurt
Health literacy: drawing on skills of library and knowledge services – Ruth Carlyle
LIHNN Clinical Librarians 