Discover The Anatomy 💀 of a Journal: Who, What, When, Where, Why and How! 🧠📚
In 2025, the HSLG became publishers—yes, really! We break down every step of building a free, professional journal and why it matters for our community.

journals.ucc.ie/index.php/hs...

Image of the book cover for the open educational resource, Advanced Information Research Skills (AIRS) by QUT Library, published in QUT Pressbooks.

I'm thrilled to share that Queensland University of Technology (QUT) Library's Advanced Information Research Skills (AIRS) has been published as an Open Educational Resource on QUT Pressbooks.

doi.org/10.5204/OGWN...

#AIRS #QUT #QUTLibrary #QUTHDR #QUTResearch

Job Vacancies | University College Cork Learn, Study and Research in UCC, Ireland's first 5 star university. Our tradition of independent thinking will prepare you for the world and the workplace in a vibrant, modern, green campus.

💼 Digital Learning Services Officer in @ucclibrary.bsky.social
📅 noon, Tuesday, 13th January 2026
🔗 www.ucc.ie/en/hr/vacanc...

#LISjobsIE

Collective Nouns for Garden Birds - BirdWatch Ireland We say 'flock' to describe multiples of birds, but there are much more interesting and poetic descriptions out there - see here for more!

With our Irish Garden Bird Survey now well into its second week, we thought you might like to know some of the collective nouns used to describe flocks of our feathered friends: birdwatchireland.ie/collective-n...

Research Guides: Taubman Library Talks: Developing Systematic Search Skills: Peer-to-Peer Learning with Practice Sets (December 2025) The home for videos and webinars created by Informationists at the Taubman Health Sciences Library

New FREE webinar from the U-M Taubman Library! December 15 - "Developing Systematic Search Skills: Peer-to-Peer Learning with Practice Sets"

More info: guides.lib.umich.edu/TaubmanTalks...

#medlibs #SystematicReviews #ExpertSearching #SystematicSearching #SystematicReview #EvidenceSynthesis

I'm so glad you said that, as I'm on a packed train reading this and unable to turn to the random stranger beside me to say SEE?? THIS!! So much this!! :-) It is powerful stuff!

Ross-White A. Search is a verb: systematic review searching as invisible labor. J Med Libr Assoc. 2021 Jul 1;109(3):505-506. doi: 10.5195/jmla.2021.1226. PMID: 34629983; PMCID: PMC8485967.

Comparison between RoB-1 and RoB-2 tool and impact on network meta-analysis results – a case study from a living Cochrane review on psoriasis - Journal of Clinical Epidemiology www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...

GRADE guidance 44: Strategies to enhance the utilization of randomized and non-randomized studies in evidence syntheses of health interventions - Journal of Clinical Epidemiology www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...

Repair Café at Leixlip Library in partnership with Kildare County Council Climate Action Office
Saturday 13 December
Book a 30 minute slot with the library and bring:
• Clothes and accessories
• Toys
• Small electrical appliances and electronics
More info and booking links
www.tog.ie/2025/12/repa...

☕💬 A heart warming initiative led by MUH & AMHS Cork librarians: Time for SerendipiTEA paired staff from across hospital and mental health services for informal chats that opened minds and strengthened connections.
Worth a read: 👇
journals.ucc.ie/index.php/hslj

#hslg #medlibs #SerendipiTea

Reporting guidelines in medicine in the AI era!
Here's CHART 2025 and summarized on my wiki:
wiki.ubc.ca/Chatbot_Asse...
CHART is "...designed for studies that evaluate generative-AI chatbots when used to summarize clinical evidence or to provide health advice"🍁 #librarians #medlibs

But then there was more. The Minister, following the examples of Republican State legislators in the US, suggests this State's ID system would then also be embedded into the tech monopolies of Apple and Google's iPhone and Android operating systems. In the US this has been a lobbying aim of Mark Zuckerberg's Meta, over the objections of privacy minded Apple. Who can tell if our Minister independently came up with this same idea that happens to focus all the regulatory effort away from Meta or if it might have been suggested by a Meta policy lobbiest? We do know that Meta has registered that it met and/or emailed the Minister to lobby. him "to explain Meta's position on app-store age verification". And the Minister's plan was announced after that lobbying took place.

Because of external factors, this weekend’s Gist came out on Tuesday.

So if you got a chance to hit repost that would be very helpful.

It’s on Patrick O’Donovan’s plans to implement Meta’s preferred form of ‘regulation’, but also to make it worse.

www.thegist.ie/the-gist-wav...

Blaiseadh de thearmaí úra an Fhoclóra👏Tuilleadh ar fáil ar www.focloir.ie/ga

Neurodivergent Library and Information Staff Network Supporting Neurodivergent Library Staff in the UK

Be sure to follow @nlisn.bsky.social here on Bluesky! And here's their website for more info: nlisn.org #CDGND

NLISN is a peer support network for neurodivergent individuals working in the library and information science sector in the UK and Ireland. NLISN welcomes individuals who are both diagnosed, waiting for diagnosis, or are suspected or self-diagnosed neurodivergent.

What does NLISN do? Maintain resources online including a website. Provide a mailing list/membership platform. Run in person and online events. Evidence representation and impact. See more details in their annual report and plan.

If you're neurodivergent and working in the library or info sector in the UK and Ireland, @nlisn.bsky.social is a peer support network that welcomes all neurodiverse individuals. They have resources on their website, a mailing list, run events and evidence representation and impact #CDGND

📢 Last few tickets available for our free event tonight on Neurodiversity in Libraries!

www.eventbrite.ie/e/neurodiver...

Beyond black and white: A framework for identifying grey literature in palliative care research - Raechel Damarell, Seth Nicholls, Jessica Tyndall, Caroline Phelan, 2025 Background: Research evidence is fundamental to informing clinical decision-making and advancing palliative care practice. Although academic, peer-reviewed jour...

URL:
doi.org/10.1177/0269...

Damarell R, Nicholls S, Tyndall J, Phelan C. Beyond black and white: A framework for identifying grey literature in palliative care research. Palliative Medicine. 2025;39(10):1109-1118. doi:10.1177/02692163251381487 #Medlibs #LiteratureSearching

A&SL logo over the following text: #ASL2026, Academic & Special Libraries Conference. Reimagining librarianship: purpose, practice and possibility. Royal Irish Academy, Dublin 2. Save the date! Tuesday 24th March 2026.

Save The Date! We are excited to announce that the Academic & Special Libraries Section Conference will take place on Tuesday 24th March 2026 in @ria.ie in Dublin. The #ASL2026 conference theme is Reimagining Librarianship: Purpose, Practice and Possibility - call for papers coming soon...

Cuirfear teanga agus litríocht na Gaeilge chun cinn trí scéim nua An Leabharlann Fháilteach Beidh lán fáilte roimh an nGaeilge i leabharlanna timpeall Baile Átha Cliath.

Beidh lán fáilte roimh an nGaeilge i leabharlanna timpeall Baile Átha Cliath.
www.thejournal.ie/an-leabharla... @thejournal.ie #Leabharlann #Library #Gaeilge

A note from your friendly bookseller watching the #LateLateToyShow – here are all the books featured so you can show your local bookshop exactly which one you’re looking for 📚

Be sure to follow #BookElves2025 for more book recommendations all week long!

The #bookelves2025 are getting ready for the @latelateshow.rte.ie #latelatetoyshow
We will be recommending great books for children - ask away if you’d like one for the young reader in your life!

Get ready for the Irish Garden Bird Survey, which kicks off on Monday 1st December! We need records from as many gardens across Ireland as possible, so please spread the word! birdwatchireland.ie/irish-garden...

🎉 The Winter 2025 issue of the Health Sciences Libraries Journal (Vol. 1, Issue 2) is now live!

Discover fresh perspectives, innovative practice, and standout contributions from across the field.

Read the Winter issue ➡️ journals.ucc.ie/index.php/hslj

🗓️Summer 2026 deadlines: hslg.ie

#HSLG #HSLJ

Landmark glyphosate safety study retracted for Monsanto ghostwriting, other ethics problems A scientific study that regulators around the world relied on for decades to justify continued approval of glyphosate was quietly retracted last Friday.

2025 retraction of paper flagged in 2017. Landmark glyphosate safety study retracted for Monsanto ghostwriting, other ethics problems. US Right To Know: usrtk.org/pesticides/l... Retraction: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Kaurov & Oreskes 2025: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Just published in Health Sciences Library Journal: “We all have a story to tell…” a piece I wrote on why librarians should write and share what they do what colleagues across the profession

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Thrilled to have collaborated with @mlrethlefsen.bsky.social & Sara Schroter (& the wonderful librarians involved in our study) on this new article in BMJ Open.

TL;DR: Librarians have expertise to support evidence synthesis & many would happily be peer reviewers!

bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/1...

US steel baron helped found Mayo's library service - Archives - Western People US steel baron helped found Mayo's library service - Archives - Western People

US steel baron helped found Mayo's library service. By James Laffey in the Western People www.westernpeople.ie/archives/us-...

Managing hedgerows for biodiversity: Disentangling the effects of trimming, structure and connectivity on the use of linear features by bats Our findings underscore the value of extensive hedgerow management in promoting on-farm bat activity and support the integration of simple hedgerow quality assessment protocols into agri-environment ...

Tarcy, Froidevaux, Kerbiriou, Leroux & Matutini, 2025. Managing hedgerows for biodiversity: Disentangling the effects of trimming, structure and connectivity on the use of linear features by bats. J Appl Ecol, 62, 3300–3313. doi.org/10.1111/1365... @jappliedecology.bsky.social #bats #ecology