Christmas opening

Christmas opening at the libraries

Berrywood and Richmond Library, NGH are both open up to Dec 22nd. Isebrook Library is currently closed because of staff shortages and we will post again when it re-opens.

Over Christmas and New Year:

Richmond Library, NGH is unstaffed on Dec. 25th - 26th and Jan 1st but library members have 24/7 access and can swipe in at any time.

Berrywood Library will be closed on the Bank Holidays but open Dec. 27th - 29th, and from Jan. 2nd on.

Isebrook Library will be closed between Christmas and the New Year and re-open on Jan 2nd.

We wish you a happy and peaceful Christmas and look forward to seeing you in 2024.
 

Isebrook Library closed

Isebrook Library will still be closed today and tomorrow (Mon/Tues 18th/19th Dec). We apologise for any inconvenience. Please contact us on 01604 545929 / richmondlibrary@nhft.nhs.uk if you need any help. 

Isebrook Library will be closed today (Friday 15th December) due to staff shortages. We apologise if you have made the trip there and found it closed. You can contact us on 01604 545929 / richmondlibrary@nhft.nhs.uk if you need any help

NHFT virtual book club meeting #31 - The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas terror

After our heart stopping last read, the creepy No Good Deed, we are moving on to a California-set festive read in Christopher Moore's comic fantasy, The Stupidest Angel. However, this is no Christmas Carol...

T’was the night (okay, more like the week) before Christmas and little Joshua Barker is in desperate need of a Christmas miracle. No, he's not on his deathbed; no, his dog hasn't run away from home. But Josh is sure that he saw Santa take a shovel to the head, and now the seven-year-old has only one prayer: Please, Santa, come back from the dead.

But coming to Earth, seeking a small child whose wish needs granting, is none other than Archangel Raziel. Unfortunately, he's not sporting the brightest halo in the bunch and before you can say 'Kris Kringle,' he's botched his sacred mission and sent the residents of Pine Cove headlong into Christmas chaos, culminating in the most hilarious and horrifying holiday party the town has ever seen.

‘Pacy and engaging, this is a comic fantasy crammed with sharp and funny one-liners’ The Guardian

‘If you're buying this book as a gift for your grandma or a kid, you should be aware that it contains cuss words as well as tasteful descriptions of cannibalism... Don't blame me. I told you.’ The author

We'll be meeting on Thursday 18th of January via MS Teams where we will be discussing the novel. You can find the link via the Events Calendar on the Staff Room.

Hope to see you there... 

NHFT virtual book club meeting #30 - No Good Deed

After our visit to the Ashokan Reservoir, in upstate New York, with John Langan's delightfully scary The Fisherman, we are returning to more familiar territory for our 30th book club read, David Jackson's UK set thriller, One Good Deed.

Elliott has never thought of himself as a hero. Until one dark night he meets Rebecca, a scared and vulnerable young woman who needs his help. There's a man harassing her, following her; would he mind pretending to be her boyfriend, just while she walks home, to put him off?

And that is that - just a favour for a stranger - until there is a knock at Elliott's door. It's the man who was following Rebecca. He claims he's her ex-boyfriend, but it's clear that he's been stalking her. He's obsessed, dangerously so. He wants Rebecca, and he will do anything to have her.

When Elliott eventually tries to tell him the truth, the man doesn't believe him. The only way to save himself is to get Rebecca to explain. There's just one problem: Rebecca is nowhere to be found. And now it looks like one good deed will cost Elliott everything...

‘One Good Deed is an addictive, fast-paced and suspenseful thriller. If you like your thrillers action-packed and nail-bitingly tense and/or you love a cat-loving antihero to root for, One Good Deed should be at the top of your shopping list.’ Kelly Van Damme (Goodreads)

We'll be meeting on Thursday 14th of December via MS Teams where we will be discussing the novel. You can find the link via the Events Calendar on the Staff Room.

Hope to see you there... 

Isebrook Library opening hours: 3rd November 2023

Isebrook Library will not open until 11.30 am on Friday 3rd November.

We are sorry for any inconvenience this causes.

NHFT virtual book club meeting #29 - The Fisherman

Following on from our visit to Japan and the world of the gig economy in Kikuko Tsumara's There's no such thing as an easy job, things are taking a darker turn in our creepy Halloween read (and Bram Stoker award winner), The Fisherman by John Langan.

In upstate New York, within the woods, Dutchman’s Creek flows out of the Ashokan Reservoir. Steep-banked and fast-moving, it offers the promise of fine fishing, and of something more, a possibility too fantastic to be true.

When Abe and Dan, two widowers who have found solace in each other’s company and a shared passion for fishing, hear rumours of the Creek and what might be found there, the remedy to both their losses, they dismiss them. Soon, though, the men find themselves drawn into a tale as deep and old as the Reservoir.

It’s a tale of dark pacts, of long-buried secrets, and of a mysterious figure known as Der Fisher: the Fisherman. It will bring Abe and Dan face to face with all that they have lost, and with the price they must pay to regain it.

‘What starts as a slow, melancholy tale gains momentum and drops you headfirst into a churning nightmare from which you might escape, but you’ll never forget” - Richard Kadrey (author)

‘The Fisherman is a treasure, the kind of book you just want to snuggle up and shiver through. I can’t say enough good things about the confidence, the patience, the satisfying cumulative power of this book. It was a pleasure to read from the first page to the last’ - Victor LaValle (author)

We'll be meeting on Thursday 16th of November  via MS Teams where we will be discussing the novel. You can find the link via the Events Calendar on the Staff Room.

Hope to see you there... 

We are recruiting - could you be our next Library Services Manager?

Due to the retirement of the current post holder, we are looking to recruit a librarian to manage the library service for Northamptonshire Healthcare and Northampton General Hospital.

This is a great opportunity to shape services for community, mental health, and acute staff, across the county, ensuring knowledge and evidence are available and accessible to support clinical practice, management, education, research, continuing professional development and all decision making across the organisations we serve.

The service has a well-established team of experienced professional and para-professional staff across three sites, and you would be working for an outstanding trust that understands the value of what the library service offers, within a supportive management structure.

We are looking for a professionally qualified librarian with extensive experience in health to lead on the library service across both trusts. You will be proactive, adaptable and able to identify opportunities for further embedding service provision into the organisations we serve.

For more information about the role, contact details and to apply, please see the vacancies section of the Trust web site.

NHFT virtual book club meeting #28 - There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job

Following on from our absinthe soaked visit to fog-shrouded San Francisco in Jonathan Moore's twisty psychological thriller, The Poison Artist, we are moving across the Pacific to Japan in the shape of award winning author Kikuko Tsumura's surreal comic novel, There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job.

A young woman walks into an employment agency and requests a job that has the following traits: it is close to her home, and it requires no reading, no writing – and ideally, very little thinking.

She is sent to a nondescript office building where she is tasked with watching the hidden-camera feed of an author suspected of storing contraband goods. But observing someone for hours on end can be so inconvenient and tiresome. How will she stay awake? When can she take delivery of her favourite brand of tea? And, perhaps more importantly – how did she find herself in this situation in the first place?

As she moves from job to job, writing bus adverts for shops that mysteriously disappear, and composing advice for rice cracker wrappers that generate thousands of devoted followers, it becomes increasingly apparent that she's not searching for the easiest job at all, but something altogether more meaningful...

"An irreverent but thoughtful voice, with light echoes of Haruki Murakami... the book is uncannily timely... a novel as smart as is quietly funny" - Financial Times

'Quietly hilarious and deeply attuned to the uncanny rhythms and deadpan absurdity of the daily grind' - Sharlene Teo

The next meeting will be Thursday the 5th of October at 7pm via MS Teams where we will be discussing the novel. You can find the link via the Events Calendar on the Staff Room.

Hope to see you there...

Library catalogue and system out of action Tuesday 29th of August

Our library management system, Koha, along with our online catalogue and our self-issue machines, will be out of action from 7:00 am on Tuesday the 29th of August. This is for a system upgrade.

We expect the the upgrade will be completed and the system up and running again by lunch time, although it may be longer, depending on how the process goes.

During this time users will not be able to search our catalogue or renew their books.

Apologies for any inconvenience.

August bank holiday closure

 All the Libraries will be unstaffed on Monday the 28th of August for the bank holiday.

24 hour access will be available as usual to registered members via our swipe card system at the Richmond Library.

The Berrywood and Isebrook Libraries will be closed over the bank holiday.

We reopen as normal on Tuesday the 29th at all of our sites.

NHFT virtual book club meeting #27 - The Poison Artist

After our visit to revolutionary France with Madame Tussaud in Edward Carey's Little, we are moving to a contemporary, fog-shrouded San Francisco in the shape of Jonathan Moore's twisty psychological thriller, The Poison Artist.

Caleb Maddox is a toxicologist who just wants to drown his sorrows after an ugly breakup with his girlfriend

At a bar he meets the beautiful and bewitching Emmeline who has a taste for absinthe but then vanishes into the night.

He must find her.

As his search begins, Caleb becomes entangled in a serial-murder investigation. The police have been fishing men from the bay, and the post-mortems are inconclusive. One of the victims vanished from the bar the night Caleb met Emmeline. When questioned, Caleb can’t offer any information, nor does he tell them he’s been secretly helping the city’s medical examiner, an old friend, study the chemical evidence on the victims’ remains. 

The search for the killer soon entwines with Caleb’s hunt for Emmeline, and the closer he gets to each, the more dangerous his world becomes...

'An electrifying read... I haven't read anything so terrifying since Red Dragon.’ Stephen King

The next meeting will be Thursday the 24th of August at 7pm via MS Teams where we will be discussing the novel. You can find the link via the Events Calendar on the Staff Room.

The NHFT Virtual Book Club - the video!

We were really pleased to be asked to take part in the 2023 Northamptonshire Virtual Wellbeing Festival to talk about the virtual book club and our love of reading.

You can find more about all the books we have shared on our blog or watch the video on YouTube from the Wellbeing Festival.

Health Information Week - children's health

Today is the last day of the Northamptonshire Virtual Wellbeing Festival and day 5 of Health Information Week #HIW2023.

Today’s headliner is Gok Wan, who has talked in the past about childhood obesity and bullying. This ties in with the theme for #HIW203 which is Children’s health.

You can access a range of books from the library on various aspects of children’s health, see our catalogue at https://nhft.koha-ptfs.co.uk/

There are also online resources you can access such as:

• Better Health, Healthier Families: https://www.nhs.uk/healthier-families/
  
  
• Young Minds: https://www.youngminds.org.uk/
  
  
• Action for Children: https://www.actionforchildren.org.uk/
  
  
• Podcasts from the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health: https://www.rcpch.ac.uk/news-events/podcasts      

Health Information Week - mental health and wellbeing

It is Health Information Week #HIW2023 and today is all about mental health and wellbeing, which ties in nicely with the Northamptonshire Virtual Wellbeing Festival which started on Monday.

Do you know how the library can support your mental health and wellbeing?

•  Leisure collection: find your summer reading here! A mix of fiction (including the virtual book club books) and non-fiction books supported by the Northamptonshire Health Charitable Fund.
  
  
• Your Health collection: includes how to reduce stress, menopause management and using nature for wellbeing.
  
  
• Lots of other books on topics such as managing stress, anxiety, overcoming depression, men’s  health, being happy and wellbeing (both clinical and non-clinical).
  
  
• Games: alternatively why not try a game in a team meeting for a fun and different way to learn? Try the Working stress game or the Teams that care game.

 Find all these on the library catalogue https://nhft.koha-ptfs.co.uk/

A reading list for Pride Month

June is Pride Month and to celebrate we have put together a reading list of all the resources we have to support our LGBTQ+ colleagues, patients and the wider community.

These are available for all staff and students in Northamptonshire Healthcare and Northampton General Hospital to borrow from the libraries.

The list contains a mixture of clinical, management and healthcare related titles (both in print and electronic), as well as fiction and nonfiction books from our leisure reading collections with an LGBTQ+ theme.

You can find the reading list on our catalogue here.

The EBSCO mobile app - information on the move

The EBSCO mobile app is a new way for you to easily access high quality healthcare information on the go.

The app is a really useful tool for searching, providing quick and easy access to content wherever you are. From one search box you can search across library resources and online content including journal articles, guidelines, e-books, evidence summaries and more.

It features simple, mobile-friendly displays for searching, scanning results, liking, and sharing. 

You can also save content into your folder which will then be accessible on the EBSCO platform, meaning you can synchronise your searches and saved information automatically across multiple devices.

To get you started we have created a quick guide to the app, covering setting up and logging in, as well as searching and saving content. You can find on our website here.

EBSCO also have a video tutorial which you can find on YouTube.

The only other thing you will need is an OpenAthens password, and if you don't already have one, it is the work of a few minutes to register online at https://openathens.nice.org.uk/.

The app is free to download and available on Google Play for Android devices and Apple's App Store for iOS, or you can scan the QR code below.

If you have any questions or need any help with the EBSCO app, or any other library resources, we'd be happy to help...

NHFT virtual book club meeting #26 - Little

After our visit to New Caledonia with Marge Benson and Enid Pretty in Miss Benson's Beetle, we are stepping further back in time to revolutionary France with Edward Carey's Little.

In 1761, a tiny, odd-looking girl named Marie Grosholtz is born in a village in Switzerland. After the death of her parents, she is apprenticed to an eccentric wax sculptor and whisked off to the seamy streets of Paris, where they meet a domineering widow and her quiet, pale son. Together, they convert an abandoned monkey house into an exhibition hall for wax heads, and the spectacle becomes a sensation. 

As word of her artistic talent spreads, Marie is called to Versailles, where she tutors a princess and saves Marie Antoinette in childbirth. But outside the palace walls, Paris is roiling: The revolutionary mob is demanding heads, and... at the wax museum, heads are what they do.

"this is a visceral, vivid and moving novel about finding and honouring one’s talent; about searching out where one belongs and who one loves, however strange and politically fraught the result might be." The Guardian

"Don’t miss this eccentric charmer! Little, by Edward Carey, narrated by Madame Tussaud of waxworks fame, [on] her strange life and times, including the almost fatal French Revolution, a prime season for heads." —Margaret Atwood

The next meeting will be Thursday the 20th of July at 7pm via MS Teams where we will be discussing the novel. You can find the link via the Events Calendar on the Staff Room.

The NHS Knowledge and Library Hub - now with extra Best Practice!

The NHS Knowledge and Library Hub connects NHS staff and learners seamlessly to a range of high quality knowledge and evidence resources all in one place.

The Hub is a single point of access for finding high quality evidence, and through it you can access databases, electronic journals, ebooks (such as the Royal Marsden Manual or the Maudsley Prescribing Guidelines), evidence summary tools and more.

A new feature has been rolled out to the Hub so that whenever you do a search, if it matches a topic (or topics) in BMJ Best Practice, they will automatically feature at the top of your results.

This makes it even easier for you to quickly click through to a summary of high quality evidence on clinical topics.

BMJ Best Practice is an evidence-based point-of-care tool, structured around the patient consultation with advice on symptom evaluation, test ordering and treatment approach that also allows you to factor in co-morbidities. You can also download whole topics as a .PDF document.

You will need a Trust OpenAthens account to access BMJ Best Practice (and all the other fantastic resources on the Hub. If you don't have one of those you can register online here.

Please contact one of the libraries if you have any questions or need any help.

Spring bank holiday closure

All the Libraries will be unstaffed on Monday the 29th of May for the spring bank holiday.

24 hour access will be available as usual to registered members over the Easter period via our swipe card system at the Richmond Library.

The Berrywood and Isebrook Libraries will be closed over the bank holiday.

We reopen as normal on Tuesday the 30th at all of our sites.

NHFT virtual book club meeting #25 - Miss Benson's Beetle

Following our trip round the globe with David Mitchell's extraordinary novel Ghostwritten, we are going back to 1950 with Rachel Joyce's award winning book, Miss Benson's Beetle.

It is 1950. In a devastating moment of clarity, Margery Benson abandons her dead-end job and advertises for an assistant to accompany her on an expedition. She is going to travel to the other side of the world to search for a beetle that may or may not exist.

Enid Pretty, in her unlikely pink travel suit, is not the companion Margery had in mind. And yet together they will be drawn into an adventure that will exceed every expectation. They will risk everything, break all the rules, and at the top of a red mountain, discover their best selves.

Find out more about the book in this handy video introduction from the author.

'A girl's own adventure...This is Rachel Joyce's best book yet ...Exciting, moving and full of unexpected turns.' The Times

'A joy of a novel' The Guardian

The next meeting will be Thursday the 8th of June at 7pm via MS Teams where we will be discussing the novel. You can find the link via the Events Calendar on the Staff Room. 

Coronation bank holiday closure

 All the libraries will be unstaffed on Monday the 8th of May for the coronation bank holiday.

24 hour access will be available as usual to registered members via our swipe card system at the Richmond Library.

The Berrywood and Isebrook Libraries will be closed over the bank holiday.

We reopen as normal on Tuesday the 9th at all of our sites.

Updated Clinical Key app now available

An updated version of the Clinical Key mobile app is now available.

Clinical Key is an easy to use resource with a wealth of content including:

• Over 800 full text electronic journals, including the complete Lancet series of titles
• Over 960 full text electronic books
• Over 1,300 clinical overviews giving comprehensive clinical topic summaries 
• Over 2,500 drug monographs by Gold Standard
• Over 300 procedures consult topics
• Clinical guidelines (including NICE)
• Videos and other multimedia content
• Patient education materials in a variety of languages

Clinical Key also allows you to:

• Capture the information you use to develop CME credits
• Create presentations from multimedia content
• Store favourite items for easy access
• Save searches

The enhanced and redesigned mobile app is available now for iOS (Apple) and Android devices. There is a quick reference sheet for guidance on how to download, authenticate and optimize the mobile experience.

You can also access Clinical Key online with a web browser.

For both App and online access, you will need a trust OpenAthens account. NHFT and NGH staff and students on placement can register for one here https://openathens.nice.org.uk/.

Consultation on the future of Isebrook Hospital Library

As a service we are conscious that many Trust staff do not have direct access to a library and there is a need to develop more services that are delivered in the workplace and outside of the library sites to improve the equity of access to our services.

As part of this development we have been reviewing the levels of use at Isebrook Library, which have been relatively low since the end of the pandemic.

We are proposing to close the library at the Isebrook hospital site in order to enable more outreach services that can be delivered at all trust sites.

Closing the library would free up library staff time and enable members of the team to go out to trust sites across the county, potentially delivering training, dealing with enquiries and better enabling us to ensure the evidence you need is available at your location of choice.

However, we are aware that for some staff, Isebrook library is a useful resource, so we are asking our users to comment on this proposal and what the impact of the closure might be.

If you have a view on the closure of the library at Isebrook Hospital, we would really like to hear from you.

Please take a few minutes to complete our brief online survey and tell us what you think https://forms.office.com/e/3Ragcyiaii

The consultation survey will be open from Friday the 28th of April until the 25th of May.

May Bank Holiday closure

 All the Libraries will be unstaffed on Monday the 1st of May for the bank holiday.

24 hour access will be available as usual to registered members over the Easter period via our swipe card system at the Richmond Library.

The Berrywood and Isebrook Libraries will be closed over the bank holiday.

We reopen as normal on Tuesday the 2nd at all of our sites.

Online critical appraisal skills training

There is now a full suite of critical appraisal skills training available on the NHS eLearning for Healthcare Hub developed by Health Education England.

Critical appraisal is a vital skill in today's evidence-based healthcare environment, allowing you to read a piece of research, understand what it is saying, how useful it is, and how likely it is to be true. 

The training consists of 8 separate modules, each taking around 30 minutes to complete. There is an introductory module and the rest of the programme covers all the main research methods in health care.  

eLFH critical appraisal modules

The programme is ideal as a starting point for those new to critical appraisal, but would also make an excellent refresher if you want to brush up on your skills or are interested in one type of research (e.g. randomised control trials or systematic reviews).

The modules are aimed at all NHS and social care staff and are freely available to anyone who wants to register to use the eLFH Hub. They are also accessible with an NHS OpenAthens account.

The eLFH Hub can also record your training and produce reports on what you have completed, which may be useful for revalidation or being able to demonstrate CPD.

You can access the training here. 

You can also access a two-part critical appraisal training programme via the Library Service.

Access the Oxford Handbooks (and more) online

Did you know, you can access over 250 titles from Oxford University Press online? This includes the Oxford Handbooks and Oxford Specialist Handbooks. Recent additions to the collections include the latest editions of popular titles such as Drugs in palliative care, Oxford handbook of clinical surgery and Training in ophthalmology, and new titles such as Oxford clinical guidelines: newly qualified doctor, Handbook of patient safety and the Oxford handbook of sleep medicine.

You can view the full selection of titles available via our catalogue or via the NHS OUP site. To access the books you will need to login with your OpenAthens username and password. If you don’t have an account you can register for one here.

NHFT virtual book club meeting #24 - Ghostwritten

Following our rather tense (and sometimes painful) visit to Syria with former CIA analyst David McCloskey's spy thriller, Damascus Station, we are moving around the globe with David Mitchell's extraordinary debut novel, Ghostwritten.

“Are you what you believe yourself to be?”

Ghostwritten is a novel of nine interconnected stories, taking us to Tokyo, Hong Kong, China, Mongolia, St Petersburg, London, New York and Ireland.

It weaves together a host of characters including a doomsday cult member in Japan, a Mongolian gangster, a woman on a holy mountain who talks to a tree, and a late night New York DJ.

Winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for the best work of literature, the novel was described as "an astonishing debut" by the Independent and "a dazzling piece of work" by the Washington Post.

The next meeting will be Thursday the 4th of May at 7pm via MS Teams where we will be discussing the novel. You can find the link via the Events Calendar on the Staff Room. 

Easter opening

 All the libraries will be unstaffed on Friday the 7th and Monday the 10th of April for the Easter bank holidays.

24 hour access will be available as usual to registered members over the Easter period via our swipe card system at the Richmond Library.

The Berrywood and Isebrook Libraries will be closed over the bank holiday.

We reopen as normal on Tuesday the 11th at all of our sites.

Health literacy data

Health literacy is the degree to which individuals have the ability to find, understand, and use information and services to inform health-related decisions and actions, and is a major issue for health care services. 

In the UK 43% of adults struggle to understand written health related information and this rises to 61% when numeric information is included (Rowlands, 2015).

Health Education England, along with the University of Southampton have created an online tool that provides estimates of low health literacy, which can be viewed at the level of local authorities. 

The tool can further be combined with low health numeracy to give an overall picture of the challenges in producing accessible health information for the local population.

As well as searching by area, the site has a clickable map that allows you to explore the data visually.

You can find the online tool here http://healthliteracy.geodata.uk/

NHFT virtual book club meeting #23 - Damascus Station

Following our aquatic adventure in 1940's Manhattan Beach, we are off to Syria with former CIA analyst David McCloskey's spy thriller, Damascus Station.

CIA case officer Sam Joseph is dispatched to Paris to recruit Syrian official Mariam Haddad. The two fall into a forbidden relationship creating danger when they enter Damascus to find the man responsible for the disappearance of another American spy. 

But the cat-and-mouse chase for the killer soon leads to a trail of high-profile assassinations and the discovery of a dark secret at the heart of the Syrian regime, bringing the pair under the all-seeing eyes of Asad’s spycatcher, Ali Hassan, and his brother Rustum, the head of the Republican Guard.

Set against the backdrop of a Syria pulsing with murder, fear, and rebellion, and drawing on real events and authentic CIA tradecraft, Damascus Station is a gripping thriller that offers a textured portrayal of espionage, love, loyalty, and betrayal in one of the most difficult CIA assignments on the planet.

"The power of this book is that it tells this devastating story through the eyes of those who suffered and survived because of love, the human relationship, and the power of what makes life worth living.“ Leon E. Panetta, former Director of the CIA and former Secretary of Defence

'One of the best - and most authentic - spy thrillers in years' The Times

The next meeting will be Thursday the 30th of March at 7pm via MS Teams where we will be discussing the novel. You can find the link via the Events Calendar on the Staff Room. 

It’s National Apprenticeship Week!

For those of you on your apprenticeship journey we want to make sure you know how the library can support you in your work and studies. We can give you ‘space to think and knowledge to act’:

If you need space to work, away from your department and home, we have 3 libraries (at Berrywood Hospital; Northampton General Hospital and Isebrook Hospital in Wellingborough) and you can use any or all of them. NGH has 24/7 opening for members so you can use it in the evenings or weekends. All 3 libraries have computers and Wi-Fi if you want to bring your own laptop.

You will need to find information throughout your course, we have a wide stock, both print and online, of clinical and non-clinical books and journals, including books on study skills. If you can’t find what you need locally we can usually get hold of a copy for you from another library. We can also help you develop the skills you need to find information from the NHS Knowledge and Library Hub.

Interested in how we can help?

Fill in the form linked from here to join the library or contact one of the libraries if you have any questions:

Berrywood Library | 03000 271585 | berrywoodlibrary@nhft.nhs.uk

Isebrook Library | 03000 272095 | isebrooklibrary@nhft.nhs.uk

Richmond Library, NGH | 01604 545929 | richmondlibrary@nhft.nhs.uk

Richmond Library book sale starts 1st of February

"Not had a word out of him since the library sale"

We are holding a sale of books recently withdrawn from our stock, starting at 9 am on Wednesday 1st February at Richmond Library, NGH

On offer will be a variety of titles, including previous editions of some Oxford Handbooks, some of the ‘Crash course’ series and many other titles, including some fiction books.

We are asking for a donation, mostly 50p a book so you could find yourself a real bargain.

If you aren't able to get to the library, we have a list of the titles available to buy on our web site here. Just contact us with any you would like to arrange payment.

The books do tend to sell quickly, so don't wait if there is something you want...

Berrywood Library - closed Friday 3rd Feb and opening at 10.30am Tuesday 7th Feb

Unfortunately due to staff shortages Berrywood Library will be closed on Friday 3rd February. Tuesday 7th February the library will open at 10.30am. All other days will be normal hours.

Richmond Library at NGH is available 24/7 (use your library card to swipe in out of hours). Isebrook Hospital Library is also available 9am-12.30 and 1pm-5pm, Monday to Friday.

Emails to berrywoodlibrary@nhft.nhs.uk will be checked.

We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

Need help with referencing? We have updated our guide to Harvard.

Citing documents in the text, and referencing the resources you have used when writing can be tricky, but we can help.

Harvard is one of the most common forms of referencing for documents and academic assignments, and should be used for all trust policies, guidelines and reports.

We have updated our guide to Harvard, which will take you through the basics of citing and referencing, as well as providing numerous specific examples of the correct format for items such as:

• Books and reports
• Journal articles
• Act of Parliament, Statutory Instruments, and other government publications
• British Standards
• NICE guidelines, Cochrane reviews and UpToDate topics
• EU documents
• eBooks and online journals
• Podcasts and webinars
• Websites, online images, videos and streamed content

Whatever resource you have used in your document, our guide to Harvard will show you the right way to cite it in the text and add to your bibliography.

You can also find lots of other useful guides on our website here, covering eBooks and journals, literature searching, OpenAthens, the BNF and more. 

NHFT virtual book club meeting #22 - Manhattan Beach

Following our visit to Brixton and splashing around in The Lido, we are crossing the Atlantic to New York and stepping back to the 1930s/1940s with Jennifer Egan in the much deeper waters of Manhattan Beach.

Anna Kerrigan, nearly twelve years old, accompanies her father to visit Dexter Styles, a man who, she gleans, is crucial to the survival of her father and her family. She is mesmerized by the sea beyond the house and by some charged mystery between the two men.

‎Years later, her father has disappeared and the country is at war. Anna works at the Brooklyn Naval Yard, where women are allowed to hold jobs that once belonged to men, now soldiers abroad. She becomes the first female diver, the most dangerous and exclusive of occupations, repairing the ships that will help America win the war. One evening at a nightclub, she meets Dexter Styles again, and begins to understand the complexity of her father’s life, the reasons he might have vanished.

"At once a suspenseful novel of noir intrigue, a gorgeously wrought and richly allusive literary tapestry, and a transporting work of lyrical beauty and emotional heft, “Manhattan Beach’’ is a magnificent achievement.” The Boston Globe

The next meeting will be Thursday the 23rd of February at 7pm via MS Teams where we will be discussing the novel. You can find the link via the Events Calendar on the Staff Room.