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Northern Soul collection at Lynfield Mount Hospital

My name is Ethanual Crabtree, and I am a Graduate Trainee Librarian at Lynfield Mount Hospital in Bradford, West Yorkshire. My role in the library includes many responsibilities such as being on the front counter desk, being first point of call for staff on site, supporting the librarians, and being involved in the development of the Health Promotion resources. Within our Health Promotion collection there is a reminiscence section which is frequently used for older peoples’ services. This is looking to be updated currently as the generation of people changes and what they knew in their younger life is different. This can be from childhood to adult age and include objects such as toys, tv shows, music and even household items. Carl Challinor and I sat down and discussed what could be relevant to the North of England as well as something being a middle ground for age groups. Through many side-tracks we came out with Northern Soul!…

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Hello from Opeyemi Soyemi – New Starter

Hello everyone, my name is Opeyemi Soyemi and I have recently joined the Library and Knowledge Service team at Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation as a Trainee Clinical Librarian. This is an exciting opportunity to learn, develop and deliver support to staff and learners in the hospital.…

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The library video…

Seen Ridley Scott’s Napoleon and you want to make a library video? What could go wrong? It could be an epic tale of eBooks and eBook worms. The library video is a niche genre of not much explored content. If you must contribute, then here are ten tips on what to do and what not to do based entirely on my own experience and many continuing failures.…

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Festive Hamper Competition - a success for staff well-being!

Between Nov 6th 2023 and Dec 8th 2023 the operational team (Sarah, Louisa, Deirdre, Georgia, Sarah Jane and Niamh) at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals library ran our annual festive hamper competition. To enter people had to be a member of the library, borrow a book from our fiction or well-being collections between the specified dates and submit a review of the book borrowed. People could submit a paper review – we handed these out when they joined – or they could email them in.…

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Working with the Patient Experience team

Working with the Patient Experience (PE) team was an opportunity for the LKS to better support this team and also a continuing professional development opportunity for me to explore new ways of working. I worked with my PE colleagues for 2 days a week in October 2022 for an initial 3-month period which was then extended to end in September 2023. The PE team works with staff across the Trust, bringing together a variety of feedback from patients, relatives and carers; staff can then utilise this feedback to improve services. The team also manage the Trust volunteers.…

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Hello from Michael Boyes - New Starter

Hello everyone. My name is Michael Boyes and I am just settling nicely into my new role as Librarian in Liverpool University Hospitals NHS FT [LUHFT] where I’m based principally at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital site. This is my first job following my time at the University of Liverpool where I studied for an undergraduate degree in Anatomy and Physiology, a master’s in Biomedical Sciences and finally a PhD in Cellular and Molecular Physiology.…

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