Friday, 28 January 2022

Richmond Library book sale starts 1st of February

We are holding a sale of books recently withdrawn from our stock, starting at 9 am on Monday the 1st of February at the Richmond Library.

On offer will be a variety of titles, including previous editions of textbooks as well as other items covering lots of different subjects and disciplines, as well as some fiction.

Costing no more than £1, you could find yourself a real bargain, but they do tend to sell quickly so we advise you to get here early in the week for maximum choice.

Wednesday, 19 January 2022

Online membership form out of action for essential maintenance 21st - 24th January

The Trust is undertaking some essential maintenance on its web site from Friday 21st of January until noon (ish) on Monday the 24th.

This means that our online membership form for registration will not be available during this time. 

If you wish to join the library during this time please contact one of the library sites for information.

The rest of the website should be working as normal.

Apologies for the disruption.

Thursday, 13 January 2022

NHFT virtual book club - our next read is Convenience Store Woman

Following our visit to a hive in The Bees, we are off to contemporary Japan for our next read in the bestselling (and winner of the Akutagawa Prize)  Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata.

At school and university, people find Keiko odd, and her family worries she will never fit in. To make them happy, Keiko takes a job at a newly opened convenience store where she finds peace and purpose in simple daily tasks.

But in Keiko's circle it just won't do for an unmarried woman to spend her time stacking shelves and ordering green tea. As the pressure to find a new job - or worse, a husband - increases, Keiko is forced to take desperate action.

'Exhilaratingly weird and funny, unsettling and totally unpredictable' Sally Rooney

The next meeting will be Thursday the 24th 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.

Hope to see you there.

Wednesday, 5 January 2022

New edition of The Maudsley Prescribing Guidelines in Psychiatry available online

The recently published 14th edition of The Maudsley Prescribing Guidelines in Psychiatry is now available online via this link.

The Guidelines are an evidence-based handbook on the safe and effective prescribing of psychotropic agents.

Covering both common and complex prescribing situations encountered in day-to-day clinical practice, this comprehensive resource provides expert guidance on drug choice, minimum and maximum doses, adverse effects, switching medications, prescribing for special patient groups, and more. 

The book is available to read online and you can also download individual chapters as .PDF files.

To access the guidelines you will need an OpenAthens password. If you don't already have one, NHFT and NGH staff and students can register online here. 

Saturday, 18 December 2021

Christmas opening at the libraries

All of the libraries will be open up to Friday the 24th of December. 

Berrywood Hospital Library will be staffed from Wednesday the 29th until Friday the 31st of December as usual, and then will reopen on Tuesday the 4th of January.

Isebrook Hospital Library will be closed after Friday the 24th of December for the Christmas period and will reopen on Tuesday the 4th of January. Please contact one of the other libraries if you require any help during this period.

The Richmond Library at Northampton General Hospital will be staffed from Wednesday the 29th until Friday the 31st of December as usual, and then will reopen on Tuesday the 4th of January.

24 hour access will be available to registered users as normal throughout the Christmas period at the Richmond library.

We would like to wish you a very happy Christmas and a peaceful and prosperous New Year. We look forward to seeing you in what we hope will be a better 2022.

Thursday, 16 December 2021

Online membership form out of action for essential maintenance 17th - 20th December

The Trust is undertaking some essential maintenance on its web site from Friday 17th of December until noon (ish) on Monday the 20th.

This means that our online membership form for registration will not be available during this time. 

If you wish to join the library during one of these times please contact one of the library sites for information.

Apologies for the disruption.

Tuesday, 7 December 2021

NHFT virtual book club - our next read is The Bees

Following our encounter with PT Barnum in 19th century New York in The Mermaid we are going somewhere completely different for our first read of 2022, a bee hive, in The Bees by Laline Paull

Born into the lowest class of her society, Flora 717 is a sanitation bee, only fit to clean her orchard hive. Living to accept, obey and serve, she is prepared to sacrifice everything for her beloved holy mother, the Queen.

But Flora is not like other bees… 🐝

Shortlisted for the Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction, and winner of the Orion Book Award, The Bees is a thriller based on real honey bee biology. 

“Few novels create such a singular reading experience. The buzz you will hear surrounding this book and its astonishing author is utterly deserved.” The New York Times.

The next meeting will be Thursday the 13th of January 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.

Friday, 26 November 2021

Return to 24/7 opening at the Richmond Library

From the 29th of November the library the Richmond Library at Northampton General Hospital will be returning to 24/7 access for all registered members.

Anyone with one of our library cards will be able to swipe into the libraries at any time and access computers, study spaces and all of our stock. 

If you are unsure whether your library card is still current, please contact us.

You will also be able to borrow and return items using our self-issue machines.

We do ask all users of the libraries out of hours to:

  • Continue to wear face masks at all times in line with trust policy 
  • Continue to practice social distancing
  • Clean down any computer or study area you have used with the wipes provided when finished
We hope to reinstitute 24/7 access at the Berrywood Hospital Library shortly.

Friday, 29 October 2021

NHFT virtual book club - our next read is The Mermaid

Following our visit to Sheffield in the excellent crime thriller Firewatching by Russ Thomas, our next novel for the 11th NHFT virtual book club will take us to 19th century America, and the world of P.T. Barnum in The Mermaid by Christina Henry.

Once there was a mermaid called Amelia who could never be content in the sea, a mermaid who longed to know all the world and all its wonders, and so she came to live on land.

Once there was a man called P. T. Barnum, a man who longed to make his fortune by selling the wondrous and miraculous, and there is nothing more miraculous than a real mermaid.

Amelia agrees to play the mermaid for Barnum and walk among men in their world, believing she can leave anytime she likes. But Barnum has never given up a money-making scheme in his life, and he’s determined to hold on to his mermaid.

"Wild things ought to be free. They can't belong to anybody.”

The next meeting will be Thursday the 2nd of December 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.

Sunday, 10 October 2021

Allied Health Professions Day Thursday 14th October 2021

Allied Health Professions day takes place on Thursday the 14th of October. 

To celebrate the library service has put together a resource guide aimed at Allied Health Professionals with a wide variety of different resources to support clinical practice, education and research.

The guide covers a selection of the different resources the library has to support AHPs in lots of different disciplines. In it you'll find links to electronic journals, databases, books and relevant organisations.

If you are a physiotherapist, OT, podiatrist, radiographer, speech therapist or one of the many other varieties of AHP, we hope you'll find it useful.

You can find the guide on our website here.

Friday, 24 September 2021

NHFT virtual book club - our next read is Firewatching

Following our  immersion in the myths of ancient Greece with our reading of Circe by Madeline Miller, our next novel for the 10th NHFT virtual book club will be the Sheffield set crime thriller Firewatching by Russ Thomas.

A body is found bricked into a wall of the Old Vicarage. From the state of the hands, it’s clear the dead man was buried alive. When the man is connected to an old missing person’s case, Detective Sergeant Adam Tyler is called.

After an ‘incident’, Tyler needs this case to go well in order to prove himself and get his career back on track. But he soon discovers that he has a connection to the case that hopelessly compromises him. 

Meanwhile, someone in the city knows exactly what happened to the body. Someone who is watching Tyler closely. Someone with an unhealthy obsession with fire . . .

The next meeting will be Thursday the 28th 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.

Tuesday, 24 August 2021

Libraries closed Monday 30th August for the summer bank holiday

The libraries will be closed on Monday the 30th of  August for the bank holiday.

We reopen as normal on Tuesday the 31st.

Apologies for any inconvenience.