Margaret Scarce, Clinical Librarian, retired in July 2019 after 21 years working for the Trust. Following Margaret’s retirement we reviewed the team structure and created a new Assistant Librarian post. Kathryn Aylward was appointed to the new role and joined the team in February 2020.…
It’s a strange year to look back on but we have achieved the following.…
2020 has been a challenging but successful year in many ways. The main reason for that remains the Library & Knowledge Team members, who have shown tremendous resilience, creativity and hard work under constantly changing and challenging circumstances.…
A partnership event for colleagues from Higher Education and NHS Library and Knowledge Services to share best practice and discuss collaborative working.…
Leeds Public Health Resource Centre (PHRC) has offered short lunchtime seminars on a range of Public Health topics for many years. Historically the ‘Want to know more about’ (WTKMA) sessions were run face to face in the PHRC which presented a barrier to access for busy frontline staff and was made impossible by the recent pandemic.…
How can a person be in many places at once when it’s not possible to go anywhere? I can imagine the character Jonathan Creek using this line whilst pacing around his windmill, but it is no longer the 1990s and the answer is simple; the internet will take you there. Despite the ubiquitous nature of all things digital, there seemed to be a fresh quality to online meetings and training in 2020 that I hadn’t anticipated. I hadn’t heard of Zoom before March and Microsoft Teams was only just on my radar. Nevertheless, they have proved very useful and have allowed me to see and speak with people based near and far without leaving the building.…
Following the first wave of Covid, Tracey Pratchett was involved in a trust project to capture key learning to assist with planning for the second wave and inform organisational culture in the longer term. This piece discusses her involvement in the work and reviews the tools that they used to capture learning.…
Expanding our health & wellbeing section was something the East Lancashire Hospital NHS Trust (ELHT) team had talked about back in December 2019, and we had planned to do this early in 2020. However, COVID 19 stopped us in our tracks,…
This year Keyll Darree was lucky enough to be selected as World Book Night givers. We wrote an impassioned essay about our willingness to throw copies of Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy at people from all sectors of society while yelling at them about how great it was, and the kind people at World Book Night actually believed in us.…
My name is Kirsty and I joined Bradford District Care NHS Trust as Research & Library Administrator in November 2020. Starting a new job can be quite daunting and even more so during the COVID pandemic.…
