Due to the COVID-19 outbreak, most of us are working differently to the way we usually would. At Greater Manchester Mental Health (GMMH), both of our library sites have closed and we are providing virtual library services from home. Working from home is both a challenge and an opportunity, so here’s my personal experience of surviving it through a typical daily routine!…
Hi everyone, I’m Iris and I’ve recently joined Andrew, Helen, Erica and Dawn at the Evidence Service in Mersey Care. I’m training to become a fully-fledged researcher, doing literature based discovery, this is my first time working in healthcare so everything is quite new to me.…
I am watching with interest as eMails announcing that one NHS library service after another has “gone virtual”. It’s a process that has many dimensions, new software and new ways of working in teams. Anyway, as a lone home worker I don’t have any insights into remote team working and I don’t have any additional special software. So I thought I would share some reflections on the intangible aspects of running a virtual service. Things I am guessing that might be over looked in the excitement of change!…
I have just read a piece on the BBC website that had the wise advice to get dressed. Really. I have to tell you I am writing this wearing … hmm … perhaps we won’t go there dear reader. Rest assured all the important bits are covered. Anyway I can reveal that lots of underemployed scribes are going to be writing lots of rubbish at 50p a word on working from home. This advice is based on experience and it’s free.…
Yvonne Stubbington's take on the Big Day Out Up North event.…
Highlights from the Big Day Out Up North event in Manchester…
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Last year I did an online course on Developing Effective Networks for Change and Improvement #DEN4CI delivered by Source for Networks and London South Bank University. Here I want to highlight the resources available on the website and the course that you might find useful in your networks.…
We have had a non-medical book collection for many years because we think that reading is good for healthcare professionals and students – it reduces stress and improves thinking and communication skills all of which can have a positive effect on the way people go about their work.…
Five years ago, a move back up north after the best part of 20 years in London made it logistically and financially possible to fulfil my long held ambition to retrain. I trained as a journalist in my early 20s and had been freelancing part time since having my children but librarianship was always something I was interested in.…
