by Rob Penfold | Jul 9, 2025 | Events
📰 Description
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
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by Rob Penfold | Jul 9, 2025 | Events
📰 Description
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
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by Rob Penfold | May 30, 2025 | Events
We are pleased to let you know that registrations are now open for Research Support Community Day 2025, with the event program available to view here.
Research Support Community Day continues to remain a free, annual event that offers professional development and training for anyone involved in providing research support and related services. It is an opportunity to connect with colleagues, share ideas, and build your professional network. Holding the event online across 3 days ensures we can welcome participants and presenters from a range of Australasian and New Zealand time zones.
Find out more about our previous events and speakers from the Research Community Day YouTube channel.
Once again, we are grateful to Sage Publishing Asia-Pacific & Central Asia for their continued sponsorship of the event.
With the registration, there is an option to not attend but receive access to the recordings
👉 Note – this is not an HLA event
✅ A few presentations of possible interest:
- Systematic review Fun-damentals
- Full Text Seeker: A tool to assist with systematic reviews
- Safeguarding scholarly integrity: A novel approach to detecting predatory journals
- Generative AI training: Opt in or opt out?
by Rob Penfold | Mar 11, 2025 | News
The brand new shiny 1st edition of 2025 is now available
Various articles of interest including an overview of 22 AI tools, State updates, request management and more
There is an Archive available and you can also search for past articles
by Rob Penfold | Nov 19, 2024 | Events
🎦 Watch the Recording Passcode: uy1*wypS
💘 What I love about being a health librarian
Come along and hear from colleagues about why they love being a health librarian – celebrate the profession and learn from colleagues about what inspires them.
(If you haven’t seen it yet, you may also be interested in the 🎦 US version of this (courtesy of MLA)
Presenters:
Peter Murgatroyd
Peter is the Group Manager for Library and Knowledge Services at Health New Zealand. He is a Fellow of LIANZA and a member of the IFLA Evidence for Global and Disaster Health Special Interest Group . He is also a member of the JoHILA Editorial Board. Peter believes in the power of shared knowledge to transform lives and communities.
Alana McDonald
Alana McDonald (she/her) is Senior Librarian at Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network, where she has been working for nine years. Prior to this she worked as a Research, Education and Liaison Librarian at Federation University Australia (previously University of Ballarat). Before becoming a librarian, Alana was a speech pathologist and enjoys being back in a Health environment. She has been a member of the HLA committee since 2022.
Fiona Jones
Fiona Jones is the Teaching Liaison Librarian supporting Medical, Nursing & Midwifery, Oral Health Therapy and Podiatry students at the University of Newcastle Library. She collaborates with academics to provide library support for the University’s learning and teaching curriculum, develops programs and resources to develop students’ skills in digital and information literacy, and provides advice to teaching staff on open educational resources and selecting course reading materials. Fiona’s work takes her to Clinical Schools at hospitals across both Central Coast and Hunter New England Local Health Districts.
Glynis Jones
Glynis initially trained as a registered nurse at Royal Melbourne Hospital and worked in coronary care; subsequently transitioning to a career in librarianship. After 25 years in university libraries across Australia, Glynis transitioned to a role as a Health Librarian in January 2022.
Gina Velli
Gina Velli has been a health research librarian with the Princess Alexandra Hospital for five years, providing training, advice and information brokerage for systematic reviews and research projects; her educational background is in Information Management and UX design. Supporting civil engineering research and metadata management, Gina has previously worked for QLD parliament, QLD Department of Transportation and Main Roads, QLD Department of Education and the University of Queensland. Gina is interested in applications of emerging information management technologies to research processes and methodologies.
This event may be recorded and available to view following the event
By attending for this webinar you are granting the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) and its representatives the right to use, reproduce, and publish audio and video recordings of your participation in the webinar titled ” What I love about being a health librarian” held on May 23 2024. By registering you are indicating that you understand and agree that these recordings may be used for promotional, educational, and informational purposes, including but not limited to, marketing materials, online platforms, social media, and any other medium deemed appropriate by ALIA.