Mental health & learning disability student open day Saturday March 10th

Northamptonshire Healthcare are holding a recruitment day on Saturday the 10th of March between 10 am and 2 pm at Berrywood Hospital for mental health and learning disability students.

The library at Berrywood Hospital will be open for the duration of the event and library staff will be available to talk about the role the service plays in supporting learning and nurses in practice.

This will mean it is noisier than usual at Berrywood Library for our regular users and those wanting a quiet place to work might be better off going to the Richmond Library at Northampton General Hospital.

For more information, including how to register for the event see the Northamptonshire Healthcare web site.

Isebrook Library closed due to flooding

Isebrook Library will be closed for at least the next week and possibly longer. We had a water pipe burst which has caused a flood in the Library.

We will have to wait for the everything to dry out and at least some of the flooring will have to be replaced.

On a brighter note, we were fortunate in that none of the stock appears to have been damaged.

As soon as we have more information on when we are likely to reopen we will let everyone know.

Apologies for the inconvenience.

Web site of the month: QNI Heritage

In the early stages of her training, a trainee District Nurse (left) injects a diabetes-sufferer with insulin during a home visit. She is accompanied by a Sister (right), on her first rounds. The original caption states that "whilst they are with the patient the sister says nothing, but afterwards she gives nurse her criticism of the way she has handled the case".

Launched by the Queen's Nursing Institute, the QNI Heritage site explores the history of nursing in the community since 1859 when the very first district nurse was employed in England.

The site contains a large gallery of photos, audio files and films (dating from the 1930s to the 1970s), as well as a section of stories and articles revealing the experiences and lives of district nurses.

There are even a selection of "invalid recipes" and "ration recipes" (fricassee of tripe anyone?) taken from the pages of the Queen's Nurses' Magazine, as well as exam questions (from 1914-18 and 1948-58) with answers that give an interesting incite into the medical knowledge of the day.

The QNI Heritage site offers a fascinating look at the history of community nursing since its inception and with such a broad variety of content it is well worth a look.

New clinical overviews, journals and books added to Clinical Key

Clinical Overviews

Clinical Overviews are a quick and easy way to find evidence-based answers to your clinical questions.

Whenever you do a search in Clinical Key if there is a topic overview it will appear as the first result and also in a box on the right of the page.

Clinical Overviews are not book or journal content; they are concise, easily scannable summaries which include evidence-based information, current guidelines, and the latest advances on medical conditions. Clinical Overviews are tailored for clinicians.

The following topics have been added in Februrary:

• Cleft lip and palate
• Eosinophilic esophagitis
• Stomatitis

Journals

• AORN Journal 2018 to present
• Indian Pacing and Electrophysiology Journal 2014 to present
• Journal of Ayurveda and Integrative Medicine 2016 to present

Books

Elsevier have also added new electronic books to Clinical Key this month, including:

• Atlas of Orthoses and Assistive Devices (Webster, Joseph) 5th ed
• Complications in Neuroanesthesia (Prabhakar, Hemanshu) 1st ed; New to CK
• Diagnostic Immunohistochemistry (Dabbs, David) 5th ed
• Head and Neck Pathology (Thompson, Lester) 3rd ed
• Interventional Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (Shen, Bo) 1st ed; New to CK
• Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms and Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (Morgia, Giuseppe) 1st ed; New to CK
• Practical Soft Tissue Pathology: A Diagnostic Approach (Hornick, Jason) 2nd ed
• Practice of Anesthesia for Infants and Children (Cote, Charles) 6th ed
• Principles of Neurological Surgery (Ellenbogen, Richard) 4th ed
• Principles of Pulmonary Medicine (Weinberger, Steven) 7th ed
• Seidel’s Guide to Physical Examination (Ball, Jane) 9th ed

Clinical Key is a fantastic, easy to use resource that contains huge amounts of full text content including:

• 1,400 topic pages
• Over 600 electronic journals 
• Over 1000 electronic books
• 850 First Consult monographs
• 17,000 + medical / surgical videos
• 300 + Procedures Consult videos
• 15,000 patient education handouts
• 2.2 million images
• You can find a full content list here

There is also a free app allowing you to access Clinical Key on the go.

To access Clinical Key all you need is your OpenAthens password (register online here if you don't have one) to get started.

Late opening at Isebrook Library, Tuesday the 13th of February

Isebrook library will not be open until 10.30 am on Tuesday the 13th of February.

Apologies for any inconvenience.

Web site of the month: Twitter. A guide to searching for research purposes

As it has become ubiquitous, social media is a useful source of information, but how do you get the most from it when looking for information?

Produced by an NHS Librarian from the North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust and hosted on the NHS Networks site, this short guide looks at using Twitter as a source of reference and for research purposes.

The guide takes you through the different kinds of content you can find on Twitter and the tools you can use to organise your Twitter account and some techniques to make the best of them.

The guide also includes tips of how to best search Twitter to find the information you need, including using the advanced search options.

Finally it also shows you how to cite a Tweet if you need to include it in your bibliography.

IT problems at the Richmond Library

We have had significant IT issues at the Richmond Library recently since we replaced our public PCs with newer machines with Windows 10 installed.

This has led to some technical problems with them and has seen a number of our computers having to be taken away by IT and rebuilt, which has in turn impacted our users with less PCs being available.

We did not anticipate the move to newer computers with Windows 10 would cause as many problems as it has (we had trialled the system for a month at the Berrywood Library without incident).

IT are now taking the remaining PCs away in batches and reinstalling Windows 7 which we know was stable and not causing problems whilst they look for a permanent solution.

This should be completed shortly and we hope to have all of our PCs available again.

We now also have free WiFi access so you are able to bring your own devices into the library.

We understand this has caused problems for some of our users and would like to apologise for the inconvenience. IT are working hard on a solution and we hope to have normal services resumed soon.

Disruption to power at the Richmond Library, Monday the 29th of January

Due to essential electrical systems testing there will be disruption to the power supply at the Richmond Library on the morning of Monday the 29th of January.

From 9 am the power to the whole library will be off  and computers etc. will be unavailable.

The disruption is likely to last for about an hour.

Apologies for any inconvenience. 

New clinical overviews and books added to Clinical Key

Clinical Overviews

Clinical Overviews are a quick and easy way to find evidence-based answers to your clinical questions.

Whenever you do a search in Clinical Key if there is a topic overview it will appear as the first result and also in a box on the right of the page.

Clinical Overviews are not book or journal content; they are concise, easily scannable summaries which include evidence-based information, current guidelines, and the latest advances on medical conditions. Clinical Overviews are tailored for clinicians.

The following topics have been added in January:

• Atopic dermatitis/eczema
• Branchial cleft cyst
• Cocaine toxicity
• Dental caries
• Developmental dysplasia of the hip
• Fallopian tube malignancy
• Iliotibial band syndrome
• Noonan syndrome
• Obesity in adults
• Osteoporosis
• Photodermatitis
• Respiratory distress syndrome in neonates
• Rheumatic fever
• Rotator cuff disorders
• Rubeola
• Ulcerative colitis

Books

Elsevier have also added new electronic books to Clinical Key this month, including:

• Ferri’s Fast Facts in Dermatology (Ferri, Fred) 2nd ed 
• Hematopathology: A Volume in Foundations in Diagnostic Pathology Series (Hsi, Eric) 3rd ed
• Pain Management Secrets (Argoff, Charles) 4th ed
• Rothman-Simeone and Herkowitz’s The Spine (Garfin, Steven) 7th ed

Clinical Key is a fantastic, easy to use resource that contains huge amounts of full text content including:

• 1,400 topic pages
• Over 600 electronic journals 
• Over 1000 electronic books
• 850 First Consult monographs
• 17,000 + medical / surgical videos
• 300 + Procedures Consult videos
• 15,000 patient education handouts
• 2.2 million images
• You can find a full content list here

To access Clinical Key all you need is your OpenAthens password (register online here if you don't have one) to get started.

Disruption to OpenAthens Services Tuesday 9th of January

Due to essential maintenance, there may be disruption to the OpenAthens service nationally from 7 am - 9 am (and possibly later) on Tuesday the 9th of January. 



This is to ensure OpenAthens users are protected against the recently announced security flaw identified in “virtually every modern computer, including smartphones, tablets and PCs from all vendors and running almost any operating system"

The OpenAthens self registration pages may be unavailable and there could be disruption to the Journals A-Z or HDAS (databases) and to access for services such as ClinicalKey for the duration of the maintenance.

Apologies for any inconvenience...

Our short loans are getting longer!

After feedback from some of our users we have decided to increase the loan period for all of our books that are currently available for 1 week.

As of January the 2nd they will be available for 2 weeks at at time (our 6 week items will remain unchanged).

It will take a while for us to re-label all the stock, but after the 2nd all books from our 7 day collection will be 14 day items, even if the label says otherwise.

We hope you find having the books for a longer loan helpful...

Web site of the month: eLfH - How to search for literature effectively

The Library Service offers regular training workshops and one-to-one sessions on literature searching, but if you have trouble making those, or just need a quick refresher, Health Education England's e-Learning for Healthcare programme can help.

There are currently three short modules on offer (each around 20 minutes in length) that give you a good introduction to the basic of literature searching:

• Module 1 Introduction to searching
• Module 2 Where do I start searching?
• Module 3 How do I start to develop a search strategy?

Each module can be used for reference or you can complete the whole thing to obtain a certificate (good for evidence of CPD!).

There are more modules currently in development, but if you want a good place to start to develop or refresh your searching skills, these modules might be just the thing.

You can also find a whole suite of videos on YouTube from NICE showing how to use the HDAS interface for searching the literature.