For several years, the Leeds Community Healthcare (LCH) NHS Trust Library team has subscribed to BrowZine (from ThirdIron) for LCH users. In 2020 we extended the subscription to include NHS Leeds Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) staff, including all primary care colleagues in Leeds, giving a much more consistent service to our users.…
In the final parallel session of LILAC’s online mini-conference this year, I learned about King’s College London’s experience of applying a ‘flipped classroom’ approach to information skills training from Karen Poole, one of their learning and teaching librarians.…
How do you follow on from a legend? With the retirement of David Stewart, it is my very great pleasure to work with knowledge and library services in the North West, North East and Yorkshire. Thank you to Northern Lights for the opportunity to introduce myself and my role.…
Due to the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic the annual Librarians Information Literacy Annual Conference (LILAC) festival had to be postponed for another year. Stepping into its place was FestivIL, an online event organised by the LILAC Committee. The event aimed to bring the information literacy community together and allowed them to share their knowledge and experiences.…
Prior to the pandemic the library at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals Trust produced a monthly newsletter of about four pages with information on library resources, outreach and staff news. The newsletter goes out to several hundred staff; recipients generally sign up to receive it when they join the library. Once we entered the first lockdown the library staff were working from home and it was decided the library news should be fortnightly to keep users informed about the latest service developments. We had been taking it in turns to edit the newsletter but I volunteered to become the sole editor.…
I’d like to thank you for invitation to contribute a piece to Northern Lights on my role within the Health Education Knowledge and Library Services Team. It provides me with an opportunity to stop and reflect on my new relatively new role as Deputy Head of Knowledge and Library Services.…
In April 2020, the Leeds Community Healthcare (LCH) library team were asked to support the Weekly Health and Social Care Intelligence Reports that were being pulled together by Health and Care Evaluation Service (NHS Leeds CCG) and the Leeds Health Partnership Team (Leeds City Council).…
In common with services everywhere, the service we have been able to provide over the past year has been coloured by the Trust’s response to COVID-19 and the guidance around that. The physical service was provided from the Library & Evidence Research Centre at Leeds General Infirmary, with staff coming into LGI on a rota to maintain safe minimal staffing, and working from home the rest of the time. We managed to maintain five-day opening for much of the year, but dropped to three days for March and April 2021, and are now back up to four days a week. Alongside the physical service we promoted electronic access, continued to deliver our literature search and enquiry services, and moved training over to remote delivery.…
Digging up an old management textbook may not seem the most productive thing to do with your spare time, but Jim Collins and Jerry Porras’ 1994 best-seller “Built to last: successful habits of visionary companies” might just buck the trend.…
In March 2020, Greater Manchester Mental Health Library and Knowledge Service began operating a purely virtual service as a result of the pandemic and lockdown.…
