WORKSHOP OVERVIEW:

Reviews (systematic or scoping) are a great way to answer research questions or summarise evidence on a topic, but they take a long time and are a lot of work. Fortunately, there are now tools and methodological innovations that can help with doing reviews. One of these tools available is the Evidence Review Accelerator (TERA) built in Australia by a team at Bond University. TERA improves the speed of conducting reviews by accelerating all the tasks in a review. This workshop will cover all the tools available in TERA, but will focus on using the tools of most value to information specialist/librarians.  Attendees will gain practical experience using TERA quickly design and run precise search strategies, while also gaining background information on the other review tasks to better enable review support at their institution. TERA is available at the following website: https://tera-tools.com/, and a 12-month subscription to TERA is included in the workshop fee.

🗣️ PRESENTER:

The workshop will be presented by Justin Clark, a Research Fellow in Evidence Review Acceleration and lead of the Automation program at the Institute for Evidence-Based Practice (IEBH) at Bond University, Gold Coast Australia. He is also the Cochrane Information Specialist for the Acute Respiratory Infections Group, was a member of the Cochrane Information Specialists Executive and the Co-Lead of the search group of the Living Evidence Network. He is one of the inventors of the Two-Week Systematic Review (2weekSR) method, a founding member of the International Collaboration for the Automation of Systematic Reviews (ICASR) and leads the development of the Evidence Review Accelerator (TERA), a suite of automation tools that accelerate the production of evidence synthesis.  His research focuses on improving evidence synthesis methods to reduce the resources needed to conduct reviews of the evidence. For more information about Justin’s research please visit his Research Profile: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=55311800800

💸 COST: ALIA – $120; Non-ALIA – $180

🕧 TIME: 10am – 4pm (face to face)

WHAT TO BRING:

BYO laptop; lunch (or head to nearby eatery at lunchtime)

🌏 WHERE: Face to face in either Melbourne, Brisbane or Sydney

Melbourne

Tuesday May 26^th 2026

Royal Australasian College of Surgeons – Skills & Education Space

250/290 Spring St, East Melbourne VIC 3002

Register here: Advances in Systematic Review Automation Methods – Melbourne Workshop

Brisbane

Thursday May 28^th 2026

Pathology Queensland (CSIRO site)

Block 1 (make yourself known at security)

39 Kessels Rd, Coopers Plains QLD 4108

https://maps.app.goo.gl/14zowXMdZuUg6w61A

Register here: Advances in Systematic Review Automation Methods – Brisbane

Sydney

Friday June 12th 2026

Royal North Shore Hospital – Kolling Institute

10 Westbourne Street, St Leonards NSW 2065

Register here: Advances in Systematic Review Automation Methods – Sydney Workshop

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Join ALIA HLA and VHLC (Victorian Health Libraries Consortia) for an insightful session on navigating the complex world of publisher negotiations. Learn practical approaches to securing better deals, managing costs, and building strong partnerships that benefit your health library and community. Whether you’re new to negotiations or looking to refine your skills, this event will provide actionable tips and real-world examples to help you achieve the best outcomes.

🎁 Presenters

Cass Gorton – VHLC & Monash Health
 
John Prentice – VHLC & ANZCA

Juliet Marconi – SA Health

Gnana Segar – Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District 

Cass is the Manager – Access and Discovery at Monash Health Library and the Chair of the Victorian Health Libraries Consortium (VHLC). Cass has a background in librarianship, archives, and records management in health, government, and higher education.

John has been the library manager at the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists for over 9 years, and has been a VHLC committee member for much of that time working on deals with Springer, McGraw-Hill, Taylor and Francis and Elsevier. In a previous life at Victoria University he worked on licensing as part of the library e-services team.

Juliet is the Knowledge Manager for SA Health Library Service (SAHLS), responsible for the strategic directions for the Service and enterprise-wide procurement of online resources. Juliet rejoined SA Health in March 2021 when she returned from Cairns, Queensland. She joined the SAHLS team as Manager Library Services for the Northern Adelaide Local Health Network team in late 2022. Juliet was permanently appointed to the SAHLS Knowledge Manager role in January 2025. Since qualifying as a librarian, Juliet has worked in various health library management roles within both South Australia and Queensland, including project management roles in digital health, online services and information & knowledge management services. She is passionate about strategic planning and empowering staff to achieve their professional goals.
 
Gnana was educated in India and possesses 36 years of experience across three countries. He has dedicated his career to the evolution of Academic and Hospital libraries. Gnana is a specialist in leveraging technology to bridge the gap between complex information and user engagement. His career highlights include leading the creation of the first union catalogue across five universities and implementing the first open-source catalogue within NSW Health. His mission is to champion evidence-based clinical decision-making by providing timely, high-impact information services. Alongside his team, he focuses on empowering health practitioners with the skills to find, appraise, and apply research. By ensuring the best research is at the fingertips of those who need it, they directly contribute to superior patient outcomes and the long-term vision of healthy people and resilient communities.

✅ ALIA HLA Competencies

C3: Resources
C5: Digital, ehealth & technology
View HLA Competencies

🕑 When

Wed 25 Mar 2026

 1-2 pm (Vic/NSW/TAS/ACT) / 12-1 pm (QLD) / 12:30-1:30 pm (SA) / 11:30am-12:30 pm (NT) / 10-11 am (WA) / 3-4 pm (NZ)

🗺️ Where

Online webinar Zoom – a link will be sent the day prior.

This event will be recorded and sent to attendees following the event.

💵 Cost

ALIA Members – Free (one of 14 reasons to consider HLA membership)
Non-Members – $30

📝 Register

Register / Additional Information

🧗‍♀️ Professional Development

One CPD hour towards Health Professional Development Scheme

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Join us for an engaging lunchtime session exploring the vital role health libraries play in safeguarding organisational history.

Discover practical strategies for building and caring for historical collections, and learn how to access National Library of Australia Community Heritage Grants to support preservation and digitisation projects.

Whether you’re starting a collection or planning a heritage initiative, this session will provide actionable tips and inspiration to keep your health service’s story alive.

🗣️ Presenters

Pat Stott – Eastern Health

Michelle Pitman – Grampians Health 

Tania Barry – Northern Health 

Cherish Mcdonald – Hunter New England Local Health District 

Pat graduated as a Library Technician and worked extensively in primary schools. Joined Eastern Health in about 2008 as a Technician. Completed a Librarian Degree in 2017 with an interest in archives. Gained a Masters Degree in Data Management. Loves learning new stuff, loves discarding and weeding stuff, doesn’t want to specialise, and has a paint and art supply addiction.

Michelle qualified as a late-in-life librarian from Curtin University in 2019 and has worked at the Horsham campus of Grampians Health since November that year. This role has her straddling the vicissitudes of being, simultaneously, a “solo” librarian, while also being part of the library team at the Ballarat campus. She’s however, very grateful for this support or it would get very challenging very quickly!  Her professional interests are library marketing, health history and generative artificial intelligence in health and scholarly communications. Her personal interests are her cat ‘Lola’, sourdough bread making, reading Sci-Fi & epic fantasy novels and watching endless YouTube chateau renovation channels!

Tania is an experienced information and knowledge professional with over 20 years’ experience across academic, local government and health sectors. Her work focuses on strategic leadership, workforce development and building high-performing teams that deliver inclusive, community-focused services.  In her current role at Northern Health, she leads library and information literacy services, ensuring staff, students and community members can access and apply evidence-based information to support health outcomes.
  
Cherish a wearer of multiple hats, she can wax an eyebrow (was a beauty therapist in a past life) while doing a literature review (poorly, area of PD) and whip up a smart-looking CANVA graphic to market library services. Cherish is passionate about equity of access to health information and library services, a good espresso, the collection and maintenance of organisational history, and library marketing. She recently completed a Master of Library & Information Science at CSU, and is on the organising committee for the Hospital Librarians COP. Most importantly, she has an honorary PhD in snack collection for her two chaotic children and French bulldogs, in the words of Em Rusciano, a “maximalist power queen” and very tired.

✅ ALIA HLA Competencies

CA3: Resources

View HLA Competencies

🕐 When

Tuesday, 28 April 2026

 1-2pm (Vic/NSW/TAS/ACT/QLD);

12:30-1:30pm (SA/NT);

11am-12pm (WA);

3-4pm (NZ)

🗺️ Where

Online webinar Zoom – a link will be sent the day prior.

This event will be recorded and sent to attendees following the event.

💵 Cost

ALIA Members – Free (One of 14 reasons to consider HLA Membership)
Non-Members – $30

✍️ Register

Register / Additional Information

🧗‍♀️ Professional Development

One CPD hour towards Health Professional Development Scheme

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This hands-on workshop will show you how to use Canva to create engaging and professional videos for library promotion and education resources. This session covers:

• Editing a Canva video template
• Image and text editing, animations and effects 
• Using Canva record and screen capture
 
By the end of this training, you will have created your own short video ready to share for library promotion or educational purposes.
 
People who have prior experience with Canva will get the most out of this session. There will be hands-on activities. Participants will need access to a Canva account prior to the webinar.

👉 Numbers restricted to 40 participants – get in quick

🧑‍🏫 Trainers

• Eunice Ang – Medical Librarian, Northern Health
• Keren Moskal – Clinical Librarian and Education Lead – Monash Health

✅ ALIA HLA Competencies

C4: Leadership and management
C6: Health literacy and teaching
View HLA Competencies

🧗‍♀️ Continuing Professional Development (CPD)

Worth 1 hour towards the Health Professional Development Scheme

🕐 When

Tuesday, 5 May 2026   1:00 pm – 2:15 pm AEST  (75 minutes)

🌏 Where

Online Zoom webinar – a link will be sent the day prior.

💸 Cost

ALIA Members – $40 (savings of $35 if you were an HLA Member)
Non-Members – $75

✍️ Register

Register / More information

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Registration is free and includes the full schedule of symposium sessions. All sessions will in English, held on Zoom, with Zoom-integrated captioning and transcripts available.

Shortly before the event, you will receive an access link for the LESSS Zoom event by email

Registration closes on June 11, 2026.

Sessions (except for networking events and roundtables) will be recorded with transcripts, but presenters may chose to not release that recording for viewing after the conference

View the Symposium home page

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Join us for a practical session on literature searches, focusing on how to present results effectively to clients.

Learn strategies to make your search outputs clear, actionable, and tailored to client needs.

🗣️ Presenters

Jana Waldmann – The King Prince Charles Hospital – Metro North Health

Susie Moreton – Epworth Healthcare (Epworth Knowledge Services)

Jackie Edwards – Murrumbidgee Local Health District
 
Maddie Beer – Monash Health 

Jana is the Manager, Library Services at The Prince Charles Hospital in Brisbane, Queensland. You’ll find her most days trawling medical databases for evidence to support patient care, organisational change, and research. With a background in magazine and technical publishing, she is a big fan of templates and making documents functional but pretty. She has a passion for evidence synthesis methods, working with research teams on reviews and raising awareness of best practice through education and training.

Susie trained as a teacher before completing her Masters in Information Science. She has worked in academic libraries and publishing, and joined Epworth in 2009 where her passion for autodidactism, discovery and access has enabled her to contribute across all domains.  EKS is a fully accessible web-based knowledge service which is integrated with Epworth’s clinical, education, research and quality activities.  Susie has positioned literature searching as EKS’s premier service for doctors and senior staff, leveraging our expertise in discovery, access and understanding of our requestors’ needs.  

Jackie is Library Manager at Murrumbidgee Local Health District, located at Wagga Base Hospital. I support MLHD staff and affiliated students from UNSW Rural Medical School and CSU School of Rural Medicine. I have extensive experience in local government, health, and University libraries. My interests include user experience, digital resources, and research.

Madeleine is a Medical Librarian at Monash Health Library with extensive experience in advanced literature searching to support clinical care, research, and organizational decision-making. She also delivers training webinars to enhance literature searching skills among healthcare professionals.

✅ ALIA HLA Competencies

C3: Resources
C5: Digital, ehealth & technology

View HLA Competencies

🕐 When

Thursday, 5 March 2026

 1-2 pm (Vic/NSW/TAS/ACT) | 12-1 pm (QLD) | 12:30-1:30pm (SA) | 11:30am-12:30pm (NT) | 10-11 am (WA) | 3-4 pm (NZ)

🗺️ Where

Online webinar Zoom – a link will be sent the day prior.

This event will be recorded and sent to attendees following the event.

💰 Cost

ALIA Members – Free (One of 14 reasons to consider HLA Membership)
Non-Members – $30

📝 Register

Register / Additional Information

🧗‍♀️ Professional Development

One CPD hour towards Health Professional Development Scheme

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Looking to level up your grey literature skills? This interactive event brings health librarians together to:

* Share practical strategies
* Explore real-world examples
* Discuss challenges in finding and using grey literature

You’ll gain actionable techniques to:

* Improve your searches
* Enhance your training sessions
* Deliver better results for your clients

Connect with peers, learn proven approaches, and walk away with tools you can implement immediately

🗣️ Presenters

Rachel Davis & Sonny Chandra – Canberra Health Services Library

Rachel is a Senior Client Services Librarian at Canberra Health Services Library. Having moved to health libraries after 15 years in public libraries, her passion is empowering people through critical literacies, quality information and lifelong learning. Rachel draws on her background in government and library services to navigate complex information landscapes, including grey literature. 

Sonny brings over 26 years of experience in library services across Fiji and Australia, with a strong focus on academic and special libraries. His expertise includes library leadership and management, digital and information literacy, teaching, training, and research support. A Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, Sonny is passionate about enhancing learner engagement and interaction. He specializes in designing, delivering, and evaluating library training programs that empower learners and improve learning outcomes.

✅ ALIA HLA Competencies

C2: Reference and Research Services
C6: Health Literacy and Teaching
C7: Health Research

View HLA Competencies

🕐 When

Wed 18 Feb 26

 1:00-2:00 pm (Vic / NSW / Tas / ACT)

12:00-1:00 pm 👑 QLD / 12:30-1:30 pm 🍷 SA / 11:30-12:30 pm 🐊 NT / 10:00-11:00 am 🐟 WA / 3:00-4:00 pm 🥝 NZ

🌐 Where

Online webinar Zoom – a link will be sent the day prior.

This event will be recorded and sent to attendees following the event.

💲 Cost

ALIA Members – Free (👉 one of 14 benefits of HLA Membership)
Non-Members – $30

🖥️ Register

Register

Additional Information

🧗‍♀️ Professional Development

One CPD hour towards Health Professional Development Scheme

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In this session, we’re shining a spotlight on the creative and impactful ways hospital libraries are reaching out to their communities. You’ll hear from passionate professionals who are doing fantastic work through pop-up libraries and outreach services in their health settings. Each speaker will share their unique approach—how they’ve brought library services beyond traditional walls, connected with staff in new ways, and made health information more accessible and engaging.

Whether you’re looking for inspiration, practical ideas, or just curious about what’s possible, we hope you come along and learn from others and share your own successes with us all.

📢 Presenters

• Cherish Mcdonald – Hunter New England Local Health District
• Megan Giles & Sue Bethune – Sunshine Coast Hospital and Health Service
• Michelle Pitman – Grampians Health

Cherish a wearer of multiple hats, she can wax an eyebrow (was a beauty therapist in a past life) while doing a literature review (poorly, area of PD) and whip up a smart-looking CANVA graphic to market library services. Cherish is passionate about equity of access to health information and library services, a good espresso, the collection and maintenance of organisational history, and library marketing. She recently completed a Master of Library & Information Science at CSU, and is on the organising committee for the Hospital Librarians COP. Most importantly, she has an honorary PhD in snack collection for her two chaotic children and French bulldogs, in the words of Em Rusciano, a “maximalist power queen” and very tired.

Megan is a librarian with a special interest in hospital librarianship, committed to partnering with clinicians, students and partner organisations to enable improved health outcomes through evidence-based practice, research and collaboration. Coupled with extensive experience as a psychologist (organisational) and health professional, she is passionate about creating a welcoming learning environment, enabling access to contemporary evidence, and leveraging ‘teachable moments’ to build capacity and confidence amongst library clients.

Sue is a passionate health sciences librarian who uses her extensive background in education to foster self-efficacy and independent learning in library clientele. This is achieved through recognition that all learning environments must be non-threatening, relaxed, and based on hands-on activities if new skills and ideas are to be embedded. Sue particularly enjoys the intricacies of specialised librarianship and has worked in law, music, health and university libraries.

Michelle qualified as a late-in-life librarian from Curtin University in 2019 and has worked at the Horsham campus of Grampians Health since November that year. This role has her straddling the vicissitudes of being, simultaneously, a “solo” librarian, while also being part of the library team at the Ballarat campus. She’s however, very grateful for this support or it would get very challenging very quickly!  Her professional interests are library marketing, health history and generative artificial intelligence in health and scholarly communications. Her personal interests are her cat ‘Lola’, sourdough bread making, reading Sci-Fi & epic fantasy novels and watching endless YouTube chateau renovation channels!

✅ ALIA Competencies

C2: Reference and Research Services
C6: Health Literacy and Teaching

🕐 When

Wednesday, 26 November 2025

 1:00-2:00 pm (VIC / NSW / TAS / ACT)

12:00-1:00 pm (QLD)

12:30-1:30 pm (SA)

11:30-12:30 pm (NT)

11:00-12:00 (WA)

3:00-4:00 pm (NZ)

🌏 Where

Online webinar Zoom – a link will be sent the day prior.

This event will be recorded and sent to attendees following the event.

💲 Cost

ALIA Members – Free
Non-Members – $25

✍ Register

Register | Additional information

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📝 Register

Speaker: Dr Farhad Shokraneh

This free session will delve into the most recent developments in the field of using AI in evidence synthesis, highlighting the gaps between research and practice. The session will include a summary of research, useful tools with brief practical points, guidance on responsible use, and reporting guidelines. Since it is expected that most participants will have expertise in library and information science, there will be a greater focus on using AI in information retrieval for systematic reviews.

Health Technology Assessment international (HTAi) Information Retrieval Group (IRG)

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👉 These are not run by ALIA or HLA

1️⃣ Open Science & Evidence Synthesis Thursday, October 23, 2025 @ 15:00 UTC/11 am EDT Register here

In this webinar, attendees will learn about the importance of Open Science principles in evidence synthesis and how adopting Open and FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) workflows are vital for maintaining rigour in evidence synthesis. The session will cover both theory and practical advice, indicating the tradeoffs and cost implications of each component of Open Synthesis. We will discuss examples of good and bad practice, as well as becoming aware of tools to support open practices.

2️⃣ Framing the Research Question & Managing Search Volumes Monday, November 24, 2025 @ 16:00 UTC/11 am EST Register here

We’ll cover the importance of question framing in evidence synthesis as the foundational step in any review project. Attendees will learn about what types of questions can be answered with evidence synthesis and see examples of diverse types of questions. We will cover the theory of question formulation and practical examples of questions formulated for real-world review projects. We’ll discuss the practicalities of the implications of question framing – namely, the volume of evidence we then have to screen for relevance. The session will discuss how to manage this tradeoff of sensitivity (getting everything) versus specificity (staying manageable), and show examples of the time needed for different breadths and types of question.

3️⃣ Adaptive Approaches to Reviewing Evidence & Diverse Workflows Thursday, December 11, 2025 @ 16:00 UTC/11 am EST Register here

What happens if your review isn’t quite standard practice? How can you ensure you finish your review if time runs out? This webinar will focus on real-world application of evidence synthesis methodology best practice and give practical suggestions of ways to ensure you finish your review if resources, time or staff are limited. We will cover the nooks and crannies that lie between standard review types, not the traditional systematic review and meta-analysis but the more unconventional types of review – part-map, part framework. These often more exploratory methods are vital for maintaining rigour and allowing for ongoing work whilst still producing a high-quality, publishable output. We will cover what to do and what to call them. We will also cover practical ways in which you can plan for limitations in your workflows, ensuring you still have a rigorous product even if you run out of time.

About the Speaker

Neal Haddaway is an independent interdisciplinary researcher working in the field of environmental and social policy, but with a particular interest in agri-food supply chains. He has been working as an evidence synthesis methodologist since 2012 and has authored almost 200 publications, including methodology articles, systematic reviews, systematic maps and other forms of syntheses. He has contributed to best practice guidance for systematic reviews and maps. He has worked with the Collaboration for Environmental Evidence as Centre Director and Trustee, the Campbell Collaboration as Co-lead of the Climate Solutions Coordinating Group, and within the Cochrane Climate-Health Working Group. He established the Evidence Synthesis Hackathon and Evidence Synthesis and Meta-Analysis in R Conference, and has personally produced a suite of free online tools, including PRISMA2020 flowcharts and citationchaser. He has been teaching evidence synthesis methodology for 13 years and provides methods courses and training workshops across the world.

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Description

This session is being delivered in collaboration with HLI and ALIA Research Advisory Committee.

Focus groups  can be a great way  for health librarians seeking  to explore attitudes, perceptions, and experiences of their patrons. They can also be used as a brainstorming session to help bring in to focus the issue at hand, which can then be followed by more targeted data collection using a questionnaire or semi-structured interview.   This  session will outline the pros and cons of  using focus groups in a health library context. Whether you’re new to focus groups or looking to refine your approach, this session will provide useful insights to support your evidence-based practice!

Presenter: Katherine Howard

Dr Katherine Howard is Intersect Australia’s Digital Research Analyst for UniSA. She supports UniSA researchers by providing expertise in various digital tools and technologies, facilitating access to NCI’s HPC (Gadi), and coordinating Intersect’s training program for UniSA staff and students. Katherine’s background is in Information Science and she has extensive national and international experience as a researcher and academic. Katherine was most recently a Research Fellow with the ARC-funded ‘Library and Information Science Research in Australia’ (LISRA) project, aimed at enabling and encouraging research in Australia’s library and information profession. Prior to this, she was an Early Career Development Fellow at RMIT; has held academic positions at QUT and UniSA; and undertaken sessional work with Curtin University and Charles Sturt University. Dr Howard has received many scholarships and research awards. She was awarded a two-year scholarship to undertake the Erasmus Mundus International Master in Digital Library Learning, studying with world-renowned Information Science scholars in Norway, Estonia and Italy. Katherine was the first person outside of North America to win a Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, and her PhD, completed at QUT, was nominated for an Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award. Katherine’s research focuses on new and emerging roles for information professionals, particularly around data science, research data management, and in the GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives and museums) sector. She also has a keen interest in the Digital Humanities.

ALIA Competencies

C2: Reference and Research Services
C7: Health Research

See also: HLA Competencies

🕥 When

Tuesday, 16 September 2025
1.00pm to 2.00pm (AEST)

🌏 Where

Online webinar Zoom – a link will be sent the day prior.

This event will be recorded and sent to attendees following the event.

💲 Cost

ALIA Members – Free (just 1 of 14 benefits of HLA Membership)
Non-Members – $22

✍ Register

Register | Additional Information

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This session will demonstrate how artificial intelligence (AI) can enhance grant writing. Attendees will discover techniques to leverage AI for developing ideas, creating initial proposal drafts, enhancing content quality by improving clarity and aligning language with funder priorities, and developing supplemental documents such as letter of support, budget development. We will also briefly discuss challenges and responsible use of AI for grant writing. 

Leila is a senior research librarian and a published researcher with over twenty years work experience in academic and health libraries. Leila has extensive knowledge and deep understanding of research paradigm and methodology, research process, dissemination, and implementation. During her career, Leila has been supporting research and teaching needs of staff and students from established researchers to HDR students. She has contributed to large scale research projects such as national level public health research, international polices, clinical guidelines developments and systematic reviews as a consultant and co-author. Leila supports researchers’ needs through research life cycle and provides consultation and assistance with literature reviews, grant applications, data management planning, scholarly publishing and open access, research promotion and impact assessment. As part of her current role, Leila is a scholarly communication advisor for Central Coast Local Health District (CCLHD) supporting research staff and faculty conjoints in conducting and publishing research projects.

🗓️ When

Wednesday 6 August 2025
1.00pm to 2.00pm (AEST)

🌍 Where

Online webinar Zoom – a link will be sent the day prior.

This event will be recorded and sent to attendees following the event.

💲 Cost

ALIA Members – Free
Non-Members – $22. Another reason to consider HLA Membership

📝 Register

Register | Additional Information

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Catchii is a web-based software for systematic review screening, developed here in Australia. It supports all stages of the screening process, from duplicate removal to data extraction, and includes features such as multi-user collaboration, advanced keyword highlighting and AI-assisted screening. Most importantly, Catchii is completely free to use, offering a viable alternative to paid tools while remaining comparable in functionality. This session will present Catchii’s features and demonstrate its use in systematic reviews. For more information: https://catchii.org

🗓️ When

Wednesday 23/7/25
1:00pm – 2:00pm AEST 

🌍 Where

Online webinar Zoom – a link will be sent the day prior.

This event will be recorded and sent to attendees following the event.

💲 Cost

ALIA Members – Free. Another reason to consider HLA Membership
Non-Members – $22

📝 Register

Register | Additional Information

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Registrants will be able to view recordings / slides after the event (as times involved are not Australian friendly)

More details available here

This course provides a comprehensive guide to peer reviewing search strategies, essential for improving the quality and accuracy of research findings across multiple disciplines. Participants will gain valuable skills in evaluating and optimizing search methodologies, contributing to more robust and credible research outcomes.

The course will cover key topics and learning objectives, which include:

• Understanding the purpose of the peer review process.
• Learning about peer review guidelines: the PRESS checklist.
• Identifying common pitfalls and challenges in search strategy structure.
• Learning how to check the search terms within search strategies.
• Learning how to check the search syntax within search strategies.
• Understanding the best use of limiting options within search strategies.
• Critiquing the use of search filters within search strategies.
• Learning how to check translations of search strategies (across databases and interfaces).
• Learning about the practicalities of peer review: time taken, approach, writeup, keeping up to date.

An official Instats certificate of completion is provided at the conclusion of all seminars. For European students, our seminars offer ECTS Equivalent points, which is indicated on the certificate of completion that is provided at the conclusion of each seminar (see the Instats FAQ for details).

The fee for the course (over 2 half-days) is 351 AUD (i.e. 180 GBP, 208 EUR, 236 USD or 1,729 CNY). 

There are reductions on the above prices for students and also for those who are based at partner institutions to Instats – see link above. 

Course presenters:

Julie Glanville, Independent Consultant in Information Retrieval, Glanville.Info

Carol Lefebvre, Independent Information Consultant, Lefebvre Associates Ltd.

For further details, including the course descriptions, and to register, please see the link above.

Recordings and materials (including slides) will be available online, to those registered for the course, for 30 days after the course, in case you would prefer to attend asynchronously, or you would like to go back and revisit the course content after the course concludes.  An online seminar chat forum will also be monitored by us for 30 days after the seminar concludes, so that you can ask questions related to seminar content outside of the live seminar sessions.

Please feel free to contact us for further details about this course, or to discuss tailor-made options for your workplace.

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✅ Theme:

The 2025 HLA Conference theme is:

Innovation, Transition, & Growth: Thriving in a Shifting Health Ecosystem

Health libraries and librarians are continuously adapting to an evolving landscape of healthcare, technology, and information management. How can we embrace change, drive innovation and support our clients and our own wellbeing?

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📃 Program & Bios:

2025 HLA Conference Two-Day Program

New 2025 HLA Conference Program Booklet (Presentation backgrounds and presenter biographies)


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🌏 Location:

CONFERENCE VENUE 

HLA Conference site – Lakeside Hotel & Conference Centre:
Address: 1 Executive Road, Macquarie Park NSW 2113
Phone: +61 2 9850 9300 (24 hour access) 

TRANSPORT 

https://www.hotel.mgsm.com.au/executive-accommodation/contact-hotel#directions
Includes map and information for travel by car, train, and bus. 

ACCOMODATION 

Lakeside Hotel and Conference Centre (conference hotel) 

https://www.hotel.mgsm.com.au

The Lakeside Hotel and conference centre is 10 minutes’ walk from Macquarie Centre. Sydney Olympic Park is a 20-minute drive, and Sydney International Airport is a 35-minute drive away. Free on-site parking, free Wi-Fi and restaurant. 

Getting to Lakeside Hotel and Conference Centre 

Other Hotels Nearby 

Mecure Sydney Macquarie Park (distance from conference hotel: 300m) 

81 Talavera Road, North Ryde 

Adjacent to Macquarie University Hospital and Macquarie University and Macquarie Shopping Centre with 120 spacious rooms with private kitchenette, free Wi-Fi and restaurant.  

Meriton Suites North Ryde (distance from conference hotel: 800m) 

88 Talavera Road, North Ryde 

The modern air-conditioned suites boast a well-equipped kitchenette or kitchen where you can enjoy preparing a fresh home-cooked meal. Each suite has a spacious seating area with a flat-screen TV, internal laundry and free Wi-Fi. 

Nightcap at the Ranch Hotel (distance from conference hotel: 1.7 km) 

Corner Epping Road and Herring Road, Marsfield, NSW 

Nightcap at the Ranch Hotel offers 15 comfortable and affordable 3.5-star guest rooms with free Wi-Fi. Nightcap at the Ranch Hotel features a bistro and two bars. 

Holiday Inn Express Sydney Macquarie Park by IHG (distance from conference hotel: 1.5 km) 

10 Byfield Street, Macquarie Park, NSW 

The location of the hotel makes it ideal for servicing businesses and residents in North Ryde and Macquarie Park with 192 rooms. Free Wi-Fi, Free Express Start™ Breakfast or a Grab & Go option. 

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💲 Cost:

Members: $180

Non-Members: $250 (one of 14 reasons to consider HLA Membership)

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📝 Registrations:

Registrations now open

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📝 Keynote speakers:

Sophie Scott OAM | Adjunct Professor The University of Sydney Sydney School of Public Health | Prevention Research Collaboration Faculty of Medicine and Health Keynote Speaker & Mental Wellbeing & Neuroscience Authority

SOPHIE SCOTT OAM is an international speaker, award-winning broadcast journalist, educator, Associate Professor Author, TedX speaker and was named a TopVoice on LinkedIn. Sophie understands public health and how to communicate it effectively. She has been a leading voice on Australian TV, radio and online in health and science for more than 2 decades. She’s won numerous awards for her ground-breaking health journalism and has a strong reputation for integrity and balance. She was awarded the Order of Australia Medal (an award instigated by Queen Elizabeth ll) for services to Australian broadcasting and community health. Her professional expertise is health journalism, patient safety investigations and advocacy for health prevention. She was awarded an Australian Museum Eureka Award for excellence in medical reporting in 2004. She is a skilful communicator, with a strong history as a keynote speaker at leading medical conferences, a TEDx speaker and now presentation coach for health and science experts. Sophie has degrees in history, a Certificate in Applied Positive Psychology and has written 3 science-based health books.

Dr. Susan McLaine | Creative Director of Bibliotherapy Australia 

Dr. Susan McLaine is a leading advocate and practitioner of bibliotherapy, which uses literature and storytelling to promote wellbeing. For nearly 20 years, she has researched, delivered, written, and spoken about bibliotherapy both in Australia and internationally. Dr. McLaine has offered bibliotherapy in a facilitated, self-reflective format for both adults and children through programs at St Vincents Health Australia, the State Library Victoria, BUPA, and Vision Australia. Her innovative podcasts have been described by The Guardian as “the closest thing to a hug.” Additionally, she travels across the country and offers online training for professionals and non-professionals looking to enhance their wellbeing practices. 

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🥇 Gold Sponsors:

EBSCO	Elsevier	Wolters Kluwer

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🥈 Silver Sponsors:

MIMS	MCGRAW HILL	JR MEDICAL	BMJ Group
SAGE	SCIENCE	TAYLOR & FRANCIS	SPRINGER NATURE
TELSTRA HEALTH	COVIDENCE	AMH

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In response to student and staff needs, librarians at Federation University created an Open Education Resource to introduce a complex topic in an easy to understand, step by step way. This lunchtime session will describe the process of creating the resource from inception to publication, and demonstrate the content, features and interactive elements of the resource.

Presenters

• Erin Roga
• Karen Pruis

Erin Roga has a Masters of Information Management from the University of South Australia. Her minor thesis explored the impact of digital skills classes for first year nursing students. In 2022, she attended the Australian Evidence Based Practice Librarians’ Institute. Erin is a liaison librarian for the Institute of Health and Wellbeing at Federation University Australia, and supports students and academics in their teaching, learning and research, with a focus on training for conducting systematic and scoping reviews. She is interested in promoting the need for rigourous methodology and reporting of reviews. In her spare time, she loves to potter in her vegetable patch and hang out with her chicken friends, and is now learning to keep bees and cultivate mushrooms.

Dr. Karen Pruis obtained her PhD from Federation University Australia, and her qualitative thesis explored the lived experience of Chinese international students communicating in English while studying abroad. In 2023, she attended the Australian Evidence Based Practice Librarians’ Institute. Karen is a liaison librarian with the Institute of Health and Wellbeing at Federation University Australia with extensive experience in supporting students and researchers with evidenced-based literature searching. She loves to teach them how to construct a replicable search strategy for scoping and systematic reviews. Finally, Karen has two poodles named CoCo and Margaux who are her best friends and give her a lot of joy.

🕚 When

Tuesday, 27 May 2025

1.00pm – 2.00pm (Vic, NSW, Tas, ACT, QLD),

12:30pm – 1:30pm (SA, NT),

11am – 12:00pm (WA),

3pm – 4pm (NZ)

🌏 Where

Online webinar Zoom – a link will be sent the day prior.

💰 Cost

ALIA Members – FREE (One of 14 benefits of HLA ALIA membership)
Non-Members – $22

📝 Register

Register

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Brisbane: Monday June 16, Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre, South Bank, Brisbane
Melbourne: Wednesday June 18, The Events Centre, Collins Square, Melbourne CBD
Adelaide: Friday June 20, Adelaide Convention Centre, Adelaide CBD

💰 COST

Free / nothing / zip / gratis / zilch / complimentary

📝 REGISTER

You can find more details and register on the CAUL website https://www.caul.edu.au/events/caul-exhibition-events-2025
👉 Note – registrations close Wed 30 April

📚 INFORMATION

The upcoming CAUL Exhibition Event, is an invaluable opportunity for library staff, particularly those with an interest in acquisitions, collections, and procurement.

Building on the success of previous years, this event offers a fantastic chance to connect with up to 35 key exhibitors, network with fellow library professionals, and stay updated on the latest trends and innovations in the library sector.

The event will be hosted in Brisbane, Melbourne, and Adelaide in June this year. Best of all, it’s completely free for library staff from all sectors, not just higher education. We would love to see library staff from public, school, TAFE, special, government, 👉 health, law, and corporate libraries.

I encourage you to register and join us for this exciting and informative event.

📞 CONTACT FOR ANY QUESTIONS

Rani McLennan | Coordinator, Operations & Engagement 

Turrbal and Jagera Country | Brisbane, Queensland | AEST / GMT +10 

rani.mclennan@caul.edu.au| www.caul.edu.au  | Book a meeting with me

Council of Australasian University Librarians

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🎦 To view the video, visit the HLA Videos page

👉 Session Details

Survey Research is a popular methodology to collect information from a sample of individuals, but perhaps what is less known is that there are multiple ways (methods) that you can collect this information. In this session, you will learn about different Survey Research methods, with a focus on good questionnaire design. You will learn:

• the importance of well-structured data collection instruments
• consequences of bad design
• examples of how to ask questions to avoid bias, loaded and leading questions
  

✅ ALIA Competencies

C2: Reference and Research Services

C7: Health Research

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👱‍♀️ Presenter Bio

Dr Katherine Howard is Intersect Australia’s Digital Research Analyst for UniSA. She supports UniSA researchers by providing expertise in various digital tools and technologies, facilitating access to NCI’s HPC (Gadi), and coordinating Intersect’s training program for UniSA staff and students. Katherine’s background is in Information Science and she has extensive national and international experience as a researcher and academic. Katherine was most recently a Research Fellow with the ARC-funded ‘Library and Information Science Research in Australia’ (LISRA) project, aimed at enabling and encouraging research in Australia’s library and information profession. Prior to this, she was an Early Career Development Fellow at RMIT; has held academic positions at QUT and UniSA; and undertaken sessional work with Curtin University and Charles Sturt University. Dr Howard has received many scholarships and research awards. She was awarded a two-year scholarship to undertake the Erasmus Mundus International Master in Digital Library Learning, studying with world-renowned Information Science scholars in Norway, Estonia and Italy. Katherine was the first person outside of North America to win a Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, and her PhD, completed at QUT, was nominated for an Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award. Katherine’s research focuses on new and emerging roles for information professionals, particularly around data science, research data management, and in the GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives and museums) sector. She also has a keen interest in the Digital Humanities.

🌎 Zoom Room

https://alia-org-au.zoom.us/j/83084755873?pwd=OtgDbbc2aXkckdtT6OHpRv6V9E3nFR.1

ID: 830 8475 5873 / Passcode: 794846

💰 Free

📅 March 05, 2025 12:30 PM Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney

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