Photo:  Imrana Ghumra (Former Co-Chair of HLG) with prize winners at the HLG 2016 Conference held in Scarborough. HLG offers a number of grants and bursaries to support the continuing professional development of our members. These include conference bursaries to attend both national and international conferences, financial assistance to support unemployed members attending our courses. Additional awards include the Cyril Barnard Memorial Prize.  Guidelines: Unless otherwise indicated, applicants for HLG grants and bursaries must be current CILIP members. The value of the grants and bursaries is at the discretion of the Health Libraries Group Committee. The Committee’s decision is final and no correspondence can be entered into. The Committee reserves the right not to make an award. A condition of being awarded funding is that recipients will share their experiences with HLG members and, if requested, will provide a report, conforming to the guidelines on the HLG website.

FEDIP CPD Bursary Prize Draw

Bishop and LeFanu Lecture

The Bishop and LeFanu Memorial Lecture was established in 1968 and is currently given at the biennial HLG Conference on the occasion of the Annual General Meeting. Find out more about the lecture via our dedicated page.

Cyril Barnard Memorial Prize

Established in 1962, this prize is awarded by the Health Libraries Group Committee in recognition of outstanding services to medical librarianship and is awarded at the biennial HLG Conference.  Read more about the prize via our dedicated page.

The 2020 recipient was Tom Roper for his outstanding contribution to medical librarianship.

Nominations closed on the 31st March 2024 for the Cyril Barnard Memorial Prize for 2024.  The recipient will be announced and presented with their prize at our conference in June 2024.

Leslie Morton Bursary

The 2019 recipient of the Leslie Morton bursary was Anne Gray, Knowledge Officer at Arden & GEM Commissioning Support Unit to attend EAHIL in Basel.

The Bursary was established to encourage attendance at international conferences in health librarianship, medical bibliography or medical history and awards up to £1,000 to the successful recipient.  Read more about the bursary via our dedicated page.

International Clinical Librarians Conference (ICLC) Bursaries

Watch this space for news about bursaries for ICLC.

LILAC Conferences

Bursary opportunity: LILAC 2025

The Health Libraries Group (HLG) Committee is offering an exciting opportunity to fund an HLG member to attend the LILAC Conference being held in Cardiff from 14-16 April 2025 (LILAC 2025) Keynote speakers can be found via the LILAC website.

The LILAC Conference will be held at Cardiff University. LILAC is aimed at librarians and information professionals who teach information literacy skills, are interested in digital literacies and who want to improve the information seeking and evaluation skills of all library users whoever they may be.

The bursary covers the cost for a Full Conference (including networking and conference dinner) ticket (cost £435.00). Please note that the bursary does not include accommodation or travel.

To submit your application for the bursary place, please complete the online application form. Applications should demonstrate why you would like to attend this specific conference and what benefits you would gain from attending, it should also show your interest in Health Libraries and Information. The closing date for applications is 11:59pm on Friday 7th March 2025.

The successful applicant will be notified as soon as possible after 14th March.  We would particularly like to encourage applications from any HLG members who haven't attended LILAC before, and those who wouldn't ordinarily be able to attend. We look forward to receiving your application.