Health Care Libraries Unit North – some changes from 1st May 2019
As you will know the HCLU team are transferring to direct employment by Health Education England from Wednesday 1st May 2019. This has resulted in a number of changes.…
Seasonal Splendour in Halifax
March 22nd was a pleasant spring day in Halifax, West Yorkshire, for the grand reopening of Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust’s library space.…
Final places now available! It’s Great Up North – Northern Healthcare LKS Conference 6th and 7th June 2019 Old Swan, Harrogate
The It’s Great Up North conference planning committee are pleased to announce that bookings for the conference are nearly full.…
FADE to grey
The Northern Libraries’ grey literature course took place in March 2019, delivered by Jo Hopper, organised by the Knowledge for Healthcare CPD Group and attended by librarians from all over the Northern region – it was a very informative course and I learned a lot from it.…
Did we get a grasp of CASP?
Between the 6th and the 8th March 2019 a truckload of librarians and knowledge specialists from across the North headed to Lancaster for an intense three-day train-the-trainer course on the Critical Appraisal Skills Programme (CASP). In this post some of the participants share their initial reflections on the training.…
Graduate Library and Knowledge Services Trainee – Three Month Summary
My name is Amy Clancy and I am documenting my year as a graduate trainee at Greater Manchester Mental Health and Cheshire Wirral Partnership. I am now three months into my graduate trainee year, and it’s hard to believe I am already a quarter of the way through! In this blog post I’ll discuss changes that have occurred within my role since my last post, as well as reflect on my first three months as a graduate trainee.…
Not quite seven stories
This year the UK Knowledge Mobilisation Forum was held at Seven Stories: The National Centre for Children’s Books in Newcastle. It was an instant hit with the organising committee and conference…
Health Literacy Awareness Training – coming to a venue near you soon
If you missed the health literacy awareness raising sessions towards the end of 2018, more sessions are being planned for this year.…
The more things change the more they stay the same – a library view
At the heart of the modern library service are information sharing and collaboration. We may think that modern IT infrastructure and the migration of evidence to an online environment is what really drives this forward. But is this right? Is the 21st century approach really that different from the experience of our library colleagues of days past?…
HUB LIFE - A new chapter for Keyll Darree Library: Developing and building Cooill Darree Hub
In the beginning ... there was feedback, and the feedback was good. But we never settle for good, we wanted to be the best health and social care library on the Isle of Man. (Technically we're the only health and social care library on the Isle of Man, but ambition is good!)…