An Era Ends

Hello everyone, and welcome to the Healthcare Library Blog!

I hope you are sitting down, because the library blog is under new authorship.

Your previous guide to the Library, Liam has moved on to pastures new, and has secured a secondment in the lofty heights of the IT department. (Congrats Liam!) For the next year, I shall be your Sherpa to the comings and goings of the library. But wait, I hear you say, who is this we put our trust in to provide valuable information on the machinations of that sanctuary of knowledge?!

Introducing….

Gareth Hall. You may know me from my time in the Orthopaedic, Oral and Plastic Outpatients department admin team. If not, never fear as I am in the library every day of the week, just pop on down and say Hi!

I moved on down to the library to cover Liam’s adventure into IT, and have enjoyed every day of it.
The Library is in my opinion, a vastly underrated resource in this hospital. I am not even sure many hospital staff are aware we are down here. In case you are one of those uninitiated, we are in the old hospital, just down the corridor from Hedgerows café. Come stick your head in and say hello, maybe even read a book/journal!

We provide a variety of services from a quiet place to study, to performing literature searches on a topic of your choice for those of you who cannot find the time in between shifts to cram in studying for that paper/article/course you need to do.

Of course we also have books. We’re a library. I’m sure you guessed that. Our book stock ranges from Anatomy to Zygotes. We are constantly updating our stock with the newest and most up to date books, recommended by you! To see our new additions this month, check the list down the page.

 In the event that you are unable to find that elusive copy you need in our collection, we can procure one from another Library through the Inter Library Loan system. Ooooh.

Same goes for journals. Can’t find what you need? Either we can chase it down for you, or it doesn’t exist. In which case we can help you do the research to make it exist! Amazing. That’s teamwork.

In summary then, I’m new, come say hello! The library is awesome; you should try it out sometime. If you do already, great! Maybe we have a resource or tool that you were unaware of that can make your job easier. We want  to help. It’s our job, and we love it.

 

Hope to see you soon!

 

 

 

New Books in the Library

We love books. Here are the new ones we’ve got.

Title	Authors	Shelf Mark
Moorfields manual of ophthalmology	Jackson, Timothy L.	WW100
Oxford handbook of clinical haematology	Provan, Drew	WH140
Student nurse infection control	Smith, Barbara	WC195
Oxford handbook of endocrinology and diabetes	Wass, John A. H.	WK100
Neurological examination made easy	Fuller, Geraint	WL250
Rheumatology and orthopaedics	Elias-Jones, Cameron	WD900
Prostate cancer	Tewari, Ashutosh	WJ752
Colorectal cancer	Scholefield, John H.	WI435
Haematology	Hatton, Chris S. R.	WH100
Rapid infection control nursing	Ross, Shona	WC195
ABC of colorectal cancer	Young, Annie Miller	WI435
Minor injury and minor illness at a glance	Morris, Francis	WD450
ABC of major trauma	Skinner, David V.	WD450
ABC of prostate cancer	Dasgupta, Prokar	WJ752
Moving and handling people	Ruszala, Sue	W372
Moving and handling of plus size people	Muir, Mary A.	W372
Textbook of adult emergency medicine	Cameron, Peter	WD450
Wilkins' clinical assessment in respiratory care	Heuer, Albert J.	WF141
Harrison's pulmonary and critical care medicine	Loscalzo, Joseph	WF100
Harrison's rheumatology	Fauci, Anthony S.	WD900

 

 

 

Things you probably should be using but aren't.

 

In this section you can find a list of things that you'll find useful, but probably don't use, for whatever reason as a top 5 list. Because everyone likes Top 5 lists.

 

In no particular descending order...

 

5. The calendar on your phone. Really useful. I've used it a grand total of once to check what day of the year my birthday is.

 

4. That hedgehog boot scraper you bought. No one wants to stamp on a hedgehog.

 

3. Anatomy TV! OK, this one is serious. Anatomy TV is a brilliant tool accessible for Athens users. Liam wrote a piece on it earlier this year. Find it by scrolling down.

 

2.  The E-book and E-Journal facility available to you through the Library. A massive resource. If you think we have a lot of journals in the Library, you should look online. It goes on for miles.

 

1. What we've all been waiting for... Us! The staff at your friendly Healthcare Library will help with any queries, searches or requests you may have, but we can't help you unless you let us.