The Library and Knowledge Service for NHS Ambulance Services in England (LKS ASE) serves about 36,000 users in eight of the ten ambulance service trusts in England. With so many users the library needs to come up with creative ways to reach them, in particular non-users of the service. One solution is to put information in places they are likely to find it, typically professional journals and newsletters.…
This was the year that LKS ASE became “normal” having been delivered virtually by staff working from home since 2012. Not surprisingly we haven’t needed to make too many changes to adapt to COVID19. It was business as usual. However, we did contribute some work to the LKS North Blog to share some of the LKS ASE experience. We also produced a guide to COVID19 resources and each month we send out a COVID19 Special Issue of our Current Awareness Service.…
The 2020 LIHNN Christmas Study Day took place virtually on the 8 December.…
The major project for LKS ASE last year (2019) and this year (2020) is amber, tagged as the home of ambulance service research. Working with Manchester University NHS Trust Library, LKS ASE has successfully achieved a number of milestones in the roll out of amber.…
