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18th January 2008

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DEC 2007/JAN 2008 "KNOWLEDGE INSIGHTS" bulletin

The latest edition of our regular round up of Royal College publications, Department of Health documents and other items is now available here.

WELCOME to our new Library and Knowledge Services Manager, Debra Thornton who joins us 14th January !

NATIONAL KNOWLEDGE WEEKS - November

The following National Knowledge Weeks were scheduled for November:

5th    Psoriasis and psoriatric disorders (Skin Disorders Specialist Library)

12th  Oral cancer (Oral Health Specialist Library)

19th  Lung cancer (Cancer Specialist Library)

19th  Glaucoma (Eyes and Vision Specialist Library)

26th  Patient safety (Patient and Public Involvement Specialist Library)

15th October 2007

NEW ELECTRONIC JOURNALS for PRIMARY CARE STAFF

The following journals are now available online:

Journals Flyer - Primary Care Staff1

If you are Primary Care staff, to access these journals, click here

You will need to enter your NHS Athens username and password. If you do not already have one, register here, or contact the library for assistance.

The licence allows Acute Trust staff also to access the journals online - but only in the library itself. These staff should please ask at the library desk for the 'walk-in' access password.

10th October 2007

OUT OF HOURS ACCESS

Following the change earlier this year in the Library's opening hours, please be aware that out of hours access to electronic health information will be available via 6 PCs in the Library’s annex in the Cardiac Education Centre.

The ‘Library and Reading Area’ in the Cardiac Education Centre will therefore be available from 6 pm until 8.30 am Monday to Thursday and from 5.30 pm Friday through the weekend to 8.30 am on Monday.

Swipe Card Access to the Cardiac Education Centre will be available using Trust ID badges.  The Library door will  be unlocked.

The entrance to the Cardiac Centre has facilities for the purchase and consumption of cold drinks.

8th October 2007

ETHNICITY AND HEALTH (National Knowledge Week)

The Specialist Library for Ethnicity and Health is holding an 'annual evidence update', highlighting selected areas of clinical importance in UK practice.

1st October 2007

OCTOBER 'KNOWLEDGE WEEKS' - Evidence based medicine

Updates of the evidence currently available on these topics:

National Knowledge Week on Ante-natal Care 1st-7th Oct

National Knowledge Week on Osteoarthritis 1st-5th Oct

National Knowledge Week on Complementary and Alternative Medicine for Low Back Pain 1st-5th Oct

Published by the National Library for Health Specialist Libraries.

12th September 2007

ALTERNATIVE MEDICAL DEFINITIONS QUIZ

Thanks to all who entered this fun quiz. The lucky winner is Gwen James, Medical Equipment Manager, who receives one of our brilliant new memory sticks. Remember, you too can own one of these sought-after sticks, on sale now in the Library at the price of £9!

If you want to check the answers, click here.

20th August 2007

FANTASTIC QUIZ  -  WIN A BRAND NEW MEMORY STICK!!

ALTERNATIVE MEDICAL DEFINITIONS!

We now sell 512MB memory sticks in the Library - but you could WIN one, just by entering our exciting 'Altemative Medical Definitions' Quiz

Just match the answers to the definitions. Not difficult, just a bit of fun! Think  'Poorly fowl = coccyx'  and you about have the measure of it!

Send us your completed quiz forms by 31st August 2007 to enter.

24th July 2007    Health Library Blogline

Please click here for the library's newest Current Awareness Service.  For more information please see the Current Awareness page.

9th July 2007    NEW BOOKS - NOW AVAILABLE

The Trust Library has acquired a wide range of new books over the past few months, for the use of all staff, across the professions. UCLAN has also purchased new books recently. All are available to all staff, from the library.

Jan - June 2007 (Trust)

March - June 2007 (UCLAN)

25th April 2007      Change to Library Opening Hours

Please note that the Library’s Opening Hours will be revised from Tuesday 1st May 2007.  The Library’s hours from that date will be 8.30 am to 6 pm Monday to Thursday and 8.30 am to 5.30 pm on Friday. 

Electronic access to e-mail, the Trust’s Intranet and the wider Internet for health information, will be provided outside these core hours via 6 PCs in the Library’s annex in the Cardiac Education Centre.

The ‘Library and Reading Area’ in the Cardiac Education Centre will therefore be available from 6 pm until 8.30 am Monday to Thursday and from 5.30 pm Friday through the weekend to 8.30 am on Monday.

Swipe Card Access to the Cardiac Education Centre will be available using Trust ID badges.  The Library door will  be unlocked.

The entrance to the Cardiac Centre has facilities for the purchase and consumption of cold drinks.

26th March 2007      NEW e-books available to all staff

The NHS Libraries of Cumbria and Lancashire have recently purchased a good collection of key textbooks, available online to any member of staff, and accessible from work or from home. Click here for the list of new titles.

An NHS Athens login is required, so staff who have not yet registered for Athens should do so here. These new e-books are in addition to the various Oxford Textbooks and other publications which were already available to us locally and nationally.

12th - 17th March 2007

National Knowledge Week For The Prevention Of Type 2 Diabetes

The National Library for Health's Diabetes Specialist Library has conducted a systematic up-to-date review of the literature in this important area, and produced a number of expert summaries in addition. All are published this week, coinciding with the Diabetes UK Annual Professional Conference.

Full details here.

2 March 2007    NEW BOOKS - NOW AVAILABLE

The Trust Library has acquired a wide range of new books over the past few months, for the use of all staff, across the professions. UCLAN has also purchased new books recently. All are available to all staff, from the library.

June - October 2006 (Trust)

November 2006 - January 2007 (Trust)

June - October 2006 (UCLAN)

January 2007 (UCLAN)

** NEW FEATURE**  LONG AWAITED COMPLETE JOURNALS LIST!

ALL journals currently available to staff - whether through local or regional subscriptions, or through National Library for Health - are now accessible through one consolidated A-Z listing. This makes it much easier to search, as everything - usernames and passwords included - is listed in one place. See our Journals page to try this out! NHS Athens login required.

NEW JOURNALS ONLINE

Excellent news! The following additional journals are now available to all staff online. You will need to use your NHS Athens login to see the articles full text. If you do not already have an NHS Athens login, please register here.

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Anesthesiology

Annals of Surgery

Circulation

Clinical Orthopaedics and related research

Critical Care Medicine

Laryngoscope

Neurology

Stroke

UpToDate

Regular users may have realised already that UpToDate, a favourite evidence-based resource, is back, by popular demand! Available to staff only, there is a quick link to UpToDate from the Trust Intranet homepage. We are not, however, able to make it available to users from home via the Internet, due to the licence restrictions. Please contact the library if you require assistance to access this invaluable, easy-to-search, and very comprehensive medical resource.

TRIP database

Turning Research into Practice. This easy-to-use database once restricted the number of free searches you could do, but is now freely available to all for unlimited searching. Finds the highest quality evidence-based material available on the web. Search it from here.

BMJ Journals now available online