Each year the EAHIL Executive Board is pleased to announce the availability of EAHIL Scholarships to be awarded to attend the coming conference or workshop. For EAHIL 2025, the scholarships will cover the early-bird registration fee for the EAHIL Workshop in Lodz, Poland, 09-13 June 2025. The Board aims to award a maximum of four scholarships but reserves the right not to award the full number ...

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The EAHIL Conference in Riga brought together librarians and information professionals from across Europe and further afield. Check these blogs from two colleagues in Finland and read their perspective of “Small Step and a Giant Leap: Reorienting Towards a New Environment" #EAHIL2024 The English versions of the blog texts are towards the end. So, you will have to scroll in order to s...

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We are pleased to announce the extension of the call for abstracts until November 10th, 2024. You still have a chance to submit! Check our website for more details: eahil2025.umed.pl Access the submission portal here: eahil2025.umed.pl/submissions/call-for-abstracts If you need any assistance, contact the Local Organising Committee via eahil2025@umed.pl.      ...

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Voting for the EAHIL President and Executive Board positions from 2025 took place in April 2024. There was one candidate standing for President, and ten candidates standing for four executive positions (plus two co-opted members) in the EAHIL Board. Francesca Gualtieri from Italy was elected as the new EAHIL President for the period of 2025-2026. Lotta Haglund will thus become the Past Pres...

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The International Programme Committee of the 2025 European Association for Health and Information Libraries (EAHIL) Workshop is pleased to announce the call for abstracts is now open. We invite the vibrant EAHIL Community to submit a 500-word abstract for continuing educational courses and workshops, as well as for oral and 3-minute presentations. The call for abstracts will close on 3 November 20...

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The Call for nominations to the EAHIL Council, for the new 4-year term beginning January 2025, which was published on 6th September 2024. Voting members of the countries where there is a vacancy will receive an email when the election period begins. Voting / election period 31 October to 10 November 2024 Check out the election statements received from Belgium, Denmark, Portugal, and United ...

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Dear EAHIL member, As we begin a new term, it’s also time to think about next year’s EAHIL event, the workshop in Lodz, Poland. The slogan that will inspire joint work during EAHIL 2025 and build partnerships and networks is IMAGINE. This multidimensional word is formed by the first letters of the concepts that will be the themes of the planned workshops: I - Inform M - Manage ...

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Today all members have received an email asking you to nominate yourself or another member for the EAHIL Council, for the new 4-year term, beginning January 2025. The Council is an advisory group for the Board and acts as a link between the members in their country and the Association. Council members also have an important role in publicizing EAHIL and recruiting new members. The Council usual...

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My first EAHIL 2024 was kicked off with a… Nadine Jetten,  Information specialist, Utrecht University Library, Utrecht University, Netherlands. My first EAHIL 2024 was kicked off with a CEC workshop introducing me to efficient ways to approach systematic literature searching. Showing up at the wrong location for the first workshop is very inconvenient to say the least, though the 45-minut...

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Left feeling inspired and empowered Morwenna Rogers Senior Research Fellow (Information Science), Evidence Synthesis Team, NIHR ARC South West Peninsula (PenARC) University of Exeter Medical School The best thing about the EAHIL conference is the people. My first was in Dublin in 2017, and I felt comfortable immediately, as if I’d been coming for years. EAHIL is, without doubt, the fr...

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