I was grateful of a bursary to attend this years’ Green Libraries Conference at the British Library as it benefited my wider knowledge and understanding our fabulous profession through networking with a range of colleagues from health, academic and public libraries.…
On 7th November the Bradford District Care Library and Research Team hosted the Collaborative Learning through Evidence and Research (CLEAR) conference. When I joined the team in September preparations were well underway, and it has been a major focus for everyone ever since! Now that the dust has settled, I wanted to take this opportunity to reflect on the event, and all the work that made it a success.…
As part of our commitment to become a greener library we’ve recently been thinking of practical ideas to make our library service more sustainable and to help promote sustainability within our Trust. These are two of our new initiatives, where colleagues, library users and a book supplier have supported us, and we’re already planning more, including permanent displays in our libraries to chart our ‘green’ progress. We’re hoping from little acorns….…
We couldn’t afford UpToDate’s price increase but due to its popularity we knew we would have complaints in stopping the service. The only option left was to demonstrate by comparison the features in UpToDate vs Dynamed. After reading a few articles, comparing costs, collections, and features we prepared a document to go with our survey. We showed that Dynamed not only had more resources, cost less but also had more features.…
We have a new venture we’re undertaking within Doncaster & Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals, aimed at engagement with staff who are at a very early stage of research interest, which we have identified as “research curious”. The Trust’s research department understandably have put a lot of effort into engaging with staff who are already research active. As a member of the Trust’s Clinical Academic Research Steering Group I could see there were stages before research active, since before research active you have to be research interested, and before interested comes research curious. Ideas started fizzing at that point, so I took a meeting action to consider it further and come up with a plan.…
Hi, my name is Zara Andrews. I joined the Library and Evidence Research Centre at Leeds General Infirmary in April this year, as a receptionist. This is my first time working in the NHS libraries, but I have been enjoying the challenges it brings, and the people I meet.…
Few months ago, when I completed my Carbon Literacy training; I was thinking about the pledge I needed to make so I can help to initiate steps at work to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. I was brainstorming on it when my manager asked me if I want to be a part of Seed Library project. For me it was the first step to give my pledge a chance to be executed in way which will not be limited to the workplace only.…
Since moving across to Koha in September last year the Operational Team at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals have been trying to promote the library catalogue to make users aware of the huge amount of books they now have access to through this consortia.…
Trying to work out how to teach library skills in an engaging way is an ongoing mission for lots of us. My latest attempt at thinking about why we need to consider alternate terms when we search involved shaking down my 3 year old niece for some of her beautiful drawings (don’t worry, I actually just asked her if she would mind me using them in my classes; also checked with her parents; and only photographed them so they could keep and treasure the works of art forever.)…
In September, we bought 11 new books for the Northern NHS Libraries CPD collection. An odd number because odd numbers are more memorable. I’m sure I read that somewhere……
