Dynamed is an evidence-based, clinical reference tool providing you with the most up-to-date information on a wide range of diseases and conditions.
A simple and easy to use search tool helps you to find clinical summaries and guidelines as well as the latest practice-changing research.
The project found that the Australian academic librarians and the public librarians who participated in the project experienced six elements as evidence: observation, feedback, professional colleagues, research literature, statistics, and intuition. Each of these will be described and highlighted with examples from each of the two studies.
Although Amazon.com provides multiple reviews of a book on one convenient site, traditional sources of professionally written reviews would most likely save librarians more time in making purchasing decisions, given the higher quality of the review assessment.
Overall, e-books purchased in packages had a 50% use rate and an average cost per use of $3.39, e-books purchased through firm orders had a 52% use rate and an average cost per use of $22.21, and e-books purchased through demand driven acquisitions had an average cost per use of $8.88 and 13.9 average uses per title. Package purchasing was cost effective for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) materials and medicine (MED) materials. Demand driven acquisition was a particularly good strategy for humanities and social sciences (HSS) titles.
The library is a key resource for faculty and residents undertaking scholarly activity. However, faculty members use the library’s services and resources for publishing articles and book chapters more than residents do.
because students are open to instruction via the chat service when they are creating and revising their research question and delving into subject research, chat can be viewed as a key teaching and learning opportunity.
We’ve recently made 24-hour access available in both our libraries, and we’re shortly making a small change to staffed opening hours.
From the 3rd April, both libraries will be staffed from 8.30am – 5.00pm five days a week.
This guidance provides information about a number of information databases that hold useful data about mortality, drug use and other relevant topics for public health teams who are involved in licensing decisions.
It also includes information about data-sharing agreements.
Evidently Cochrane is a blog that aims to make Cochrane evidence more accessible and encourage discussion around it. The blogs are written by Cochrane staff as well as guest bloggers. Items are posted on a regular basis with themed issues and special events added throughout the year. You can select to view content based on a number of categories. You can sign-up to receive blog posts and digests via email in your inbox.
The library has a set of "Pictures to Share" books for loan which are ideal for use with dementia patients. We even have one in Welsh. Some of them are shown below.
This year, we’re doing things a bit differently, working more closely with a select number of organisations including libraries, prisons, colleges, hospitals and homeless shelters to match our brilliant list of books donated by publishers with new readers. You can read more about the changes to the programme.
Shropshire Libraries have teamed up with FutureLearn to highlight career and personal development opportunities using free online courses that can be easily accessed in libraries across our county.
People can choose from hundreds of free courses from top universities and specialist organisations. Courses include topics such as history, managing finances, innovation, science, languages, and many more.
In this feature, guest writer Aoife Lawton discusses the outcomes of an information skills workshop delivered at a continuing professional development conference for health and social care professionals in Ireland. The primary aim of the study was to evaluate perceptions of the effectiveness of the workshop. The study provides details of how, through collaborative partnership, the workshop was developed and delivered. Application of an adapted version of the Kirkpatrick model of evaluation is presented alongside details of what impact the event had on the attendees both immediately after the workshop and 3 months post-workshop. The authors also reflect on the benefits delivery of the workshops had for professional health library practice and service improvement.
As a result of this research, practical recommendations on how library support can be improved were developed including enhanced collaboration and learning with NHS colleagues, and knowledge sharing with other departments within the University who support our students.
The Snipping Tool is a really useful tool available from Microsoft. You should have access to it via NHS and Keele computers. It allows you to take a snap-shot of your computer screen.
I use this tool to create the images in the step-by-step instructions that I create for this blog. You might find it useful to capture on-screen error messages, online feedback, items for your portfolio or information for your assignments or presentations.
Shropshire Libraries is to launch five new Shared Memory bags at an event at Oswestry Library on Saturday 4 March 2017.
Largely funded by a grant from the Mary Hignett Bequest (administered by the Rotary Club of Oswestry), the new bags contain Pictures to Share books and tactile items to trigger memories and are designed to be easy to carry. They can be borrowed by those living with dementia for use at home or by those leading group reminiscence activities. Each bag is based on a theme and the featured topics are travelling, world of work, pets, childhood days, and sporting life.
Over the years we’ve heard from Google News users that our efforts to label stories ranging from local to satire to user-generated have helped expand their view of what is happening in the world. Last October we added a new Fact Check tag to help people find news stories that have been fact checked, so they can understand the value of what they’re reading. Soon after, we introduced the tag in France and Germany.
We’ve worked with industry experts to create a Social Media Toolkit to instruct, educate and guide healthcare organisations on how to best use social media. Covering a wide range of topics; from writing your social media strategy and making sure you’re measuring your efforts, to how you can engage those within your organisation to also see the value of social media. Featuring contributions from leading thinkers in social media from within healthcare and across the public sector, the toolkit also gives examples of organisations already doing great things on social media and seeing the rewards.
This toolkit is free to access for all.
It’s also your toolkit, so if it’s missing anything or you want to add to it, then let us know.
One of the recommendations of the legal services review was to have a central place to store legal advice so we could share it across the organisation. It has grown to have the potential for it to be implemented across the whole NHS.
Although doctors increasingly engage in online information seeking to complement their medical practice, little is known regarding what online information sources are used and how effective they are.
This study presents an overview of recent research activities in assistive technology (AT) for people with dementia. Bibliometric studies are used to explore breadth and depth of different research areas, yet this method has not yet been fully utilised in AT research for people with dementia. Please contact the library to request a copy of this article - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai
The ‘This Way Up’ workshops are being organised by Creative Health CIC in conjunction with Staffordshire County Council’s Arts team who want people to take some creative time out for themselves.
The sessions will run from 23 February to 23 March, from 1.30pm to 3pm. Participants will get the chance to work with professional artists, learn more about what they do and then have a go themselves. Working with a range of materials and approaches, plus expert guidance, people will get the chance to try out many different visual art techniques.
To help you make the most of the opportunities social media can provide, we have launched a comprehensive social media toolkit packed full of sector-specific insight, advice and best practice on how to use social media effectively.
Printing to PDF is a useful tip that can help you to save information, web pages and your work.
It can really help if you can’t print or want to print later.
A literature search was carried out to find information on the topic of repeat child protection proceedings. A scoping search was performed to gather search terms. These were used to systematically search across five databases. The citations of the documents were also hand searched in order to locate further documents. The results were collated into a report which contained full text access to the relevant documents, wherever possible.