2025 UHMLG Spring Forum
Stop! Collaborate & Listen: Partnerships in Libraries
We’ve lined-up another fantastic range of speakers for the afternoon of Thursday 27 March and morning of Friday 28 March. “Stop! Collaborate & Listen: Partnerships in Libraries” is a completely free, fully online conference and will look at topics related to partnership working, whether that’s with colleagues in faculties, students, other departments in your own institution, other organisations/institutions, or any other way you can define ‘partnership working’.
Programme: Thursday 27 March
| Time | Item |
| 13:00 | Zoom Opens. Login to check everything’s working for you, and chat with fellow delegates |
| 13:25 | Welcome Isla Kuhn / Ric Paul, Co-Chairs of UHMLG |
| 13:30 | Library of Sanctuary Bob Frost, University of Lancaster |
| 14:20 | Break |
| 14:30 | Working with Students as Partners to Diversify Reading Lists at the University of Chester Debbie Spencer, University of Chester |
| 14:45 | Working in Partnership to Set Up a Library for a New Medical School Manfred Gschwandtner, Kent and Medway Medical School |
| 15:00 | Coffee Across the Pond – Implementing a Transatlantic Randomised Coffee Trial for Hospital Nurses Phillip Barlow & Louise Levitt, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, Ryan Norman and Jeannine Creazzo, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, Somerset & Hamilton, U |
| 15:15 | Break |
| 15:25 | Collaboration and Communication: Partnership Working to Develop an Integrated Information Literacy Programme for our Health and Social Care Curriculum Karen Dolman & Beth Davies, Sheffield Hallam University |
| 16:00 | An Untapped Resource? Opportunities for Faculty-Librarian Collaboration to Enhance Drug Information Resource Utilization in Pharmacy Education Kayce Gill & Robin Parker, Vanderbilt University |
| 16:50 | Closing Words Isla Kuhn / Ric Paul |
| 17:00 | Close |
Programme: Friday 28 March
| Time | Item |
| 09:00 | Zoom Opens. Login to check everything’s working for you, and chat with fellow delegates |
| 09:25 | Welcome Isla Kuhn / Ric Paul, Co-Chairs of UHMLG |
| 09:30 | Health Information Week: an Opportunity to Hear About Some of the Activities Undertaken by Colleges During Health Information Week in January Literature Searching Partnerships: How Library Input is Recorded and Acknowledged in Journal Articles Janet Clapton, Royal Colleague of Surgeons in England Developing an MoU agreement between HWEICS NHS Knowledge and Library Services Isatou N’jie, Library Manager, East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust |
| 10:20 | Break |
| 10:35 | Randomised Coffee Trial |
| 11:15 | RCT Feedback |
| 11:25 | Break |
| 11:40 | The Hive: Sustainably in Partnership Steph Jones, University of Worcester |
| 12:20 | Closing Words Isla Kuhn / Ric Paul |
| 12:30 | Close |
Do You Want More?
If this event is of interest, do also consider joining us in person at our 2025 Summer Conference in Worcester. Booking and speaker details will be confirmed soon.