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2026

Presenter slides (PDF) from the HLA/HLI 2026 Conference in order of presentation:

Thursday, 15 October 2026

Fuelling Partnerships: Libraries Supporting Allied Health Research Capability (Ruth Lawrence, Eunice Ang & Keren Moskal)

Embedded expertise: A health librarian’s collaborative experience with clinical projects (Fraces Guinness)

Libraries Without Walls: Connecting Hospital Patients to Public Library Resources (Alice Anderson & Heidi Babatsikos)

Bibliotherapy for wellbeing: Creating space for reflection (Mina Nichols-Boyd)

Spark, Fan, Flame: Growing a Repository That Delivers (A’Mhara McKey)

Advancing Equity in Clinical Research Publishing (Gemma Siemensma, Cassandra Gorton & John Prentice)

Fuel for advocacy: Mapping the value of health libraries (Tania Barry)

Reframing the profession: the 2026 edition of the Competencies for Health Librarians and Health Library Technicians (Ann Ritchie)

Lighting the path to reliable health information: A collaborative, consumer focused guide (Teija Ruuska)

Search Filters: a ‘Net Gain’ for literature searching (Cecily Gilbert)

Burning questions: Preliminary results of the health librarians’ search filters survey (Eunice Ang)

Systematic and scoping review challenges in the midst of change (Patrick Splawa-Neyman)

Health literacy in context: Understanding health literacy among individuals with mild cognitive impairment and their family members (Elahe Zare-Farashbandi)

Fuelling better services: Using patron mapping and lean thinking to redesign library evidence services (Nikki May)

I didn’t know we had a library! Building awareness through a promotions strategy (Madeleine Beer)

Fan the flames: ensure your library burns bright (Megan Giles)

Saving Our Past, Informing Our Future: Health Libraries and Organisational History (Cherish McDonald)

Friday, 16 October 2026

Igniting AI Literacy: The evolving role of health librarians in building workforce capability (Liz Harris & Mozhdeh Dehghani)

Follow the money: why funding models matter for ethical AI adoption in health libraries (Amy McKenzie)

GenAI assisted screening compared to manual screening: the MechaScreener trial (Sarah Bateup)

Global Sparks: Innovations from Health Libraries Worldwide (Cassandra Gorton)

Workshop 1: The Evidence Review Accelerator Toolkit: Exploring a New AI Summarisation Tool, Comparing Eight Deduplication Automation Tools, and Hands-on TERA Practice (Sarah Bateup)

Workshop 2: From Invisible to Indispensable: Marketing Health Libraries in Busy Clinical Environments (Cherish McDonald) and Workbook

Research Community Day (click on the any of the videos for the three days, then under the video click on More to get timestamps and titles for all the various presentations)

2025

Research Community Support Day 2025 (around 25 videos)

Responsible Use of AI in Evidence Synthesis: Filling the Gap Between Research and Practice (Information Retrieval Group, Health Technology International)

AI Meets Evidence: Practical Applications for Librarians in the Review Workflow / Slides (Choice – sign up for alerts)

Presenter’s slides – 9 presentations from the 2025 Health Libraries Inc (HLi) Conference

The Wild West of AI – A critical look at Al within the context of literature searching and summarization (UX Caucus, US. They have a useful database tips blog)

Using AI in Automation of Evidence Synthesis: What Does Research Tell Us? (Farhad Shokraneh)

The role of AI tools in developing search strategies and identifying evidence for systematic reviews (Julie Glanville / Evidence Synthesis Ireland) Link to Resources Discussed

MLA UX Caucus Database Tips ⚡ Lightning Round II | Associated documents

🕓 Timestamps

05:40 – Sneaky Solution: Searching for Articles on Ethical Values
18:59 – RSS Feeds for Librarians: Tracking Subtopics and Trends
34:58 – Using Ovid’s Basic Search Function to Build Search Strategies
46:07 – Quotations Around Single-Word Terms in PubMed
59:23 – Special Characters in PubMed

TERA Workshop (Justin Clark, Bond University, worth a watch / TERA : The Evidence Review Accelerator is the successor to The Systematic Review Accelerator)

Searching for studies: Basics of a systematic search (JBI Apr 2025)

Research Methods for Health Librarians 1: Survey Research (Passcode: H4HBLP!6 / 5th Mar, Dr Katherine Howard – Intersect Australia’s Digital Research Analyst for UniSA)

Here I am! Making the invisible library 👻 visible in healthcare (Passcode: jisHd.3A / 19th Feb, Lori Korodaj, Canberra Health Services Library).

(How) can AI-based automation tools assist with systematic searching? (Requires free Cochrane account to view / January 2025 by Cochrane Training – view upcoming Evidence Synthesis webinars)

2024

How AI & Large Language Models are Changing Academic Search (Aaron Tay)

Using Covidence to maximise efficiency for systematic reviews (Passcode: &R&7CZIQ / 7th Nov)

MLA UX Caucus Database Tips Lightning Round October

🕓 Timestamps. Visit the UX Caucus post page for associated documents

00:40 – Methodology and Publication Type Filters in EBSCOhost Databases
07:15 – Tricky Truncation in ProQuest Databases
12:52 – The Embase Query Translator
19:20 – What’s Included in Emtree’s /syn and /br
24:55 – Fun with PMIDs
30:55 – Questions

GAIL (Generative AI in Libraries) 2024 Conference videos (includes a number that look at research tools like Elicit, Consensus etc)

Leveraging Wikipedia for Health Research Dissemination (Passcode: 7v8S^B02 / Jun 2024)

What I love about being a health librarian (Passcode: uy1*wypS / May 2024)
(There is also a US version of this)

MEDLINE & Embase on Ovid: Comparing the content (Only available if you registered for the event (if you are keen to view – send an email / Ovid)

LibTech Tools (several videos)

2023

The HLA Great Debate (Passcode: QQxd61T?)

Is it dis-information or mis-information? (Passcode: o@7J6ETL

Helping researchers publish – a health librarian perspective (Passcode: U^E65Ci2)

Streamlining Reference Services (Passcode: Fng@qW8R)

Automated interlibrary loan/document delivery (ILL/DD) database for health libraries (Passcode: 6fqe%d3=)

Research Impact: How & Why We Use Social Media (Passcode: ?n1AR?&d)

Automation Tool workshop (Passcode: KA5+cBHR)

How to search PubMed effectively (Julie Glanville, Evidence Synthesis Ireland)

2022

Presentations (PDF) from the HLA 2022 Conference

KEYNOTE Riding the wave of transformation in scholarly communication and open access (Prof Virginia Barbour)
KEYNOTE knowledge engineering : librarians driving the management of consumer health information at HealthDirect Australia (James Humffray)
Advancing the research ecosystem (Liz Smee & Jess Reynolds)
JoHILA’s journey into a Diamond journal (Daniel McDonald)
The calm after the storm (Lynette Frazer)
Alright STOP, collaborate and listen: making your library website a portal for medical education (Julia Gollan)
Impact of a Hospital Library Service at a Regional Health Service in Australia (Gemma Siemensma, Catriona Clayworth & Michelle Pitman)
The design of a methodologically rigorous systematic review: empowering health librarians to support evidence syntheses (Leila Mohammadi)
Don’t stop believin’ : cost-effective ways to maximise the use of print and electronic holdings (Cass Gorton)
Ovid product updates (Wolters Kluwer)

HLA Awards Update 2022

🕓 Timestamps

000:00 Improving the development and reporting of search filters (Anne Harrison Award 2020)
017:00 Shoosh – a podcast about health libraries (Medical Director Digital Innovation Award 2020)
042:30 Digital room booking system (Medical Director Digital Innovation Award 2021)