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.…

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Last year we acquired a new resource called Anatomy TV. We wanted to raise awareness of this new resource and encourage usage so we devised a marketing plan to help us do this. We decided to focus on what the user could achieve by using this resource, rather than just simply telling them they have access to it. The message we wanted to convey was “Improve your knowledge of anatomy”. We thought this would appeal to staff wanting to update their existing knowledge and also to students needing to learn anatomy for their studies.…

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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.…

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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.…

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The 2020 LIHNN Christmas Study Day took place virtually on the 8 December.…

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This has been a year of many changes at the QE Library! To share just a few……

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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.…

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How MY Staff Library got stuck into a lucky dip.…

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As part of Libraries Week (7th- 12th October), the Library and Information Service at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals ran Digital Libraries Week to celebrate the library’s digital collection and its role in supporting patient care, research, and education.…

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My name’s John and I’m a Publicity Champion. This sounds like something you might hear in a church basement where everyone confesses their bad habits or at a seven-year-old’s fancy-dress party but for the past few months I’ve been working with other librarians up and down the country developing publicity materials for libraries to use to promote their services.…

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