Northern Library Managers Meeting - November 2020
Presentations from the northern library managers meeting, which took place in November 2020.…
Redeployment of library staff during ‘lockdown’
At the start of lockdown we were informed that the library team was being re-deployed to support staff induction as the usual group corporate induction could no longer take place. This was to support managers, particularly in clinical areas, to save them time and enable them to concentrate on caring for patients.…
LIHNN Christmas Study Day
The 2020 LIHNN Christmas Study Day took place virtually on the 8 December.…
Adapting to virtual delivery - training course report
As so often in life, timing is everything. In this case, I had spent hours trying to adapt the training course that I deliver together with a colleague to online delivery and I had become really stuck. So the advert for the ‘Adapting to virtual delivery’ course run by the Leeds Health and Care Academy in my emails couldn’t have come at a better time! I immediately signed up to a session on 28th October.…
Annual update from York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Margaret Scarce, Clinical Librarian, retired in July 2019 after 21 years working for the Trust. Following Margaret’s retirement we reviewed the team structure and created a new Assistant Librarian post. Kathryn Aylward was appointed to the new role and joined the team in February 2020.…
Service update for Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust
It’s a strange year to look back on but we have achieved the following.…
Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Library & Knowledge Service Update
2020 has been a challenging but successful year in many ways. The main reason for that remains the Library & Knowledge Team members, who have shown tremendous resilience, creativity and hard work under constantly changing and challenging circumstances.…
Northern Higher Education and NHS LKS Study Day
A partnership event for colleagues from Higher Education and NHS Library and Knowledge Services to share best practice and discuss collaborative working.…
Leeds Public Health Resource Centre (PHRC) virtual lunchtime seminars
Leeds Public Health Resource Centre (PHRC) has offered short lunchtime seminars on a range of Public Health topics for many years. Historically the ‘Want to know more about’ (WTKMA) sessions were run face to face in the PHRC which presented a barrier to access for busy frontline staff and was made impossible by the recent pandemic.…
You Don’t Need to Show Everything
How can a person be in many places at once when it’s not possible to go anywhere? I can imagine the character Jonathan Creek using this line whilst pacing around his windmill, but it is no longer the 1990s and the answer is simple; the internet will take you there. Despite the ubiquitous nature of all things digital, there seemed to be a fresh quality to online meetings and training in 2020 that I hadn’t anticipated. I hadn’t heard of Zoom before March and Microsoft Teams was only just on my radar. Nevertheless, they have proved very useful and have allowed me to see and speak with people based near and far without leaving the building.…