May Day bank holiday closure

All the libraries will be unstaffed on Monday the 2nd of May for the bank holiday

24 hour access is available as usual to our registered members by swiping in using your library card at the Berrywood and Richmond libraries.

We reopen as normal on Tuesday the 3rd at all of our sites.

Northampton General Hospital: The early years

The Historical Archive at Northampton General have produced a booklet on the early history of the hospital.

Starting with its foundation in 1743, the booklet traces the history of the hospital from its inception as an infirmary to the foundation of the NHS in 1948.

As well as being available in the Richmond Library, the booklet is available from the Historical Archive (priced just £3.50).

For more information contact the archive on 01604 544868 or email historicalarchive@ngh.nhs.uk

Web site of the month: Daily Health News

Do you struggle to keep up with the volume of health related news? Want to stay current with policies, reports, publications, events and media coverage?

It's hard to know where to look, with so many different sources of information out there, but we can help.

Our Daily Health News service scans feeds from over 60 different sources every day. We look through them and the ones we think you will find most useful are then posted onto our Blogger site, giving you just one place to look if you want to find out what is new in health and the NHS.

We don't include a lot of clinical items (you can find more of that via our Twitter account). Our feeds include:

• Local media coverage of Northamptonshire health issues
• NHS, DoH and other government sites
• Think tanks like the King's Fund and Health Foundation
• Royal Colleges
• Voluntary groups and charities
• Health related news sites like OnMedica
• Mainstream media sites like the BBC, and newspapers including the Daily Telegraph and the Guardian

You can access this service in a number of different ways:

• Visit the web site
• Subscribe to our RSS feed (you can find it here)
• Most conveniently - you can subscribe to the service by email and receive one message a day with a digest of all the news, complete with links to take you straight to the item. Simply enter your email address here and you will be sent a confirmation email. Once you have clicked on the link in the email your subscription will be live. We will never use your email address for anything else or share it with anyone, and you can unsubscribe from the service at any time.

Our Daily Health News Service is an easy way to keep up to date with the issues facing the NHS and health care and we hope you will find it useful...

Easter opening

Happy Easter courtesy of
the Met Museum 

All the Libraries will be unstaffed on Friday the 25th and Monday the 28th of March for the Easter holiday.

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

Isebrook Library will be closed over the bank holiday.

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

Library training: Evidence into Practice: a CPD opportunity for nurses undertaking revalidation

This course offers the opportunity to refresh your skills in searching for the latest evidence, while finding information that is relevant to your day to day work.

Come to the course with a question related to your scope of practice and go away not only with updated skills, but also with evidence to feed back in to your department. 

You will log 3 hours of CPD time and at the end of the session will complete one of the 5 reflective accounts required by the NMC for revalidation, based on what you have learned.

The course will be running on the following dates in the Rowan Room at Berrywood Hospital:

• Monday 16th May 1.30-4.30
• Thursday 16th June 9.30-12.30
• Tuesday 12th July 1.30-4.30
• Thursday 18th August 1.30-4.30
• Tuesday 20th September 9.30-12.30

Please contact any of our libraries to book a place or for more information:

• Berrywood Library: berrywoodlibrary@nhft.nhs.uk / 01604 682650
• Isebrook Library: isebrooklibrary@nhft.nhs.uk / 01933 235862
• Richmond Library, Northampton General Hospital: richmondlibrary@nhft.nhs.uk / 01604 545929

Web site of the month: ERIC - Education and Resources for Improving Childhood Continence

This month's pick is ERIC (the eagle eyed among you will have noticed last month's web site was also (albeit a rather different sort of) ERIC). This month's ERIC is a UK site providing information on continence in children.

ERIC provides lots of resources and support aimed at parents, including guides to different conditions, tips for managing them and links to further information.

There is a section aimed at children and another for teenagers, with information specifically tailored to them, as well as message boards allowing them to share stories and ask questions.

ERIC also has information aimed at health professionals with more information as well as leaflets and resources that are free to download.

ERIC is a useful site for parents, children, teenagers and professionals with good quality information on continence issues, newsletters, free leaflets, a blog and other resources and a number of discussion areas. 

Lights, camera, action - filming in the libraries on the 29th of February and 1st of March.

There will be two student film makers in the libraries on Monday the 29th and Tuesday the 1st, shooting a promotional film for us.

They won't be asking anyone to appear in the film to be interviewed (unless you would like to volunteer!), but if you prefer not to be featured in any of the background shots, please let us know and we will ensure you will not end up appearing in the final footage.

New titles added to Clinical Key

Elsevier have added a new electronic journal and selection of books to Clinical Key this month, including:

Journals

• IJC Heart & Vasculature (formerly IJC Heart & Vessels) (2014 to present)
• Pathology (2016 to present)

Books

• Middleton’s Allergy Essentials (O’Hehir, Robyn) 1st ed;
• Textbook of Histology (Gartner, Leslie) 4th ed; New to CK; 

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.

Our 2015-16 subscription to Clinical Key was generously funded by the Northamptonshire Health Charitable Fund.

Updated resource guides

Image courtesy of the MetMuseum

We have updated two of our guides to using different information resources.

• Cochrane Library - our detailed guide shows you how to get the best from the Cochrane Library, including basic search tips, browsing for information and using MESH and the search manager for more complex queries.
  
• Electronic Journals - shows you how to access full text electronic journals online via the NICE Evidence Services site. The guide shows you how to find the title you are looking for and how to read the articles, illustrating the different platforms our titles are on.

Of course, to access most of our electronic content, you will need an OpenAthens account. To make it easier for you we have  also created a (very) brief guide to OpenAthens Self Registration. This takes you through the process of getting an Athens account and includes an FAQs section which outlines the common questions and pitfalls of getting started.

All our guides contain lots of screenshots and images, and you can find all of them here.

We have a new selection of books for review

We have just taken delivery of a new set of on approval books. The scheme gives you the chance to
browse a selection of newly published titles covering a variety of health and related topics and let us know if there are any you would like us to buy for the Library's collection.

Our current selections are available at the Berrywood and Richmond libraries until the 18th of March. The topics covered include:

• Anaesthesiology
• Autism
• Dementia
• Education and learning
• Mental health, psychiatry and psychology
• Oncology
• Orthopaedics
• Paediatrics
• Public health
• ...and more

Of course, we are always happy to have recommendations for new stock on any health related topic.

You can also find a list of titles we have recently purchased (including previous on approvals) on our web site, and all of our stock via our catalogue.

February Eyes on Evidence

Eyes on Evidence is a free monthly bulletin from NICE Evidence Services which reviews significant new evidence as it emerges and what this might mean for current practice.

In the February issue you can find:

• Risk of intracranial bleeding when antidepressants are used with NSAIDs
• Early identification of dementia with IQCODE in secondary care
• Smoking during pregnancy and risk of stillbirth
• Parental perceptions of child weight
• Long working hours, stroke and coronary heart disease

Evidence summaries from NICE’s Medicines and Prescribing Programme:

• Restless legs syndrome: Oxycodone/naloxone prolonged release
• External genital and perianal warts: green tea (Camellia sinensis) leaf extract 10% ointment
• Pregnancy: Effect of metformin on pregnancy outcomes in obese women without diabetes (EMPOWaR study)
• Obesity: liraglutide for weight loss among people with type 2 diabetes (SCALE study)

You can find subscribe to receive the bulletin by email on the NICE Evidence Services site.

New Library Services training for nurses going through revalidation

Library Services are running a course for nurses who are undergoing revalidation. It will give you the opportunity to refresh your skills in searching for the latest evidence, while finding information that is relevant to your day to day work.

Come to the course with a question related to your scope of practice and go away not only with updated skills, but also with evidence to feed back in to your department. 

You will log 3 hours of CPD time and at the end of the session will complete a reflective account based on what you have learned.

The course will be held  in The Rowan Room at Berrywood Hospital, Northampton on:

• Tuesday 23rd Feb 9.30 - 12.30
• Thursday 17th March 1.30 - 4.30
• Tuesday 26th April 9.30 - 12.30

To book please contact one of our libraries:

• Berrywood Library: berrywoodlibrary@nhft.nhs.uk / 01604 682650
• Isebrook Library: isebrooklibrary@nhft.nhs.uk / 01933 235862
• Richmond Library, Northampton General Hospital: richmondlibrary@nhft.nhs.uk / 01604 545929