With the inclusion of DynaMed Plus to Trip I felt it was time to update the graphic that attempts to convey what users search when they use Trip. It’s a tough ask and below is my attempt (slight update on a previous graphic). Comments welcome!!
Library Search is the online catalogue and library account system for the Health Library and its partners. It includes the collections of:
Health Library for North Staffordshire
Library, Education and Resource Centre (LERC) at County (Stafford) hospital
Campus Library at Keele University
NELFT celebrated its first quality improvement week – One Small Change – from the 18th- 22nd of September.
The aim of the week was to engage with our staff and service users and ask the question “what one small change would you recommend to improve the care and services at NELFT?”
Pledge Ensuring that a pilot Trust Staff Reading Group event occurs in the new library lounge.
This is a service enhancement responding to library members suggestions and will be delivered with Wirral Public Library Service
The IQVIA Institute for Human Data Science (IQVIA) have published a report examining trends in digital health tools, including apps and wearable sensors.
The All Party Parliamentary Group for Health (APPGH) have published a blog on their website by Alison Tavare, a Bristol GP, about using videos to provide health information.
Health Education England have published a guide to support the development of digital literacy by people working in health and care.
The guide maps existing resources that areavailable to individuals, line managers and organisations. It includes a wide range of resources that can help you in developing your own skills, and tools to support education and training for your team.
The boxes are themed, and at Shrewsbury we have one that covers household items (including kitchen items, a ration book, coin packs etc.), while the other contains childhood games. At Telford we have a box that cover seaside and holiday memories, and another that covers gardening.
All boxes contain copies of ‘Picture books to share’ that tie in with the box’s theme, and these books are specially designed for use with people with dementia, with large colourful pictures and photographs along with some accompanying text.
Staffordshire’s new Children and Young People’s Health and Wellbeing programme, for those aged 0-19, will see the current school nursing and children’s centre services brought together with health visiting.
Google really does seem set on a path of self destruction, at least as far as search engine functionality goes. They've changed the way that the search operator 'info:' works, and it's severely damaged the functionality.
The Finding Articles etutorial has now been replaced by 3 new etutorials:
What is an Article? - learn what an academic article is
Find Articles for a Project - what are the steps you need to follow to find articles for a particular project
Find an Article from a Reference - how can you find the full-text of an article from a reference
A "random item" link in every information system would serve a number of purposes. First and most simplistically, it would bring our systems just a bit closer to the user experience of one of the most popular websites ever. Libraries have invested millions of dollars over the last decade to make their systems more like Google, so why not introduce a minor tweak to make them more like Wikipedia?
A random item link provides a unique and surprising- and therefore fun-entry point into an information system.
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