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New team member

Hello from your new outreach librarian

Hello everyone,

I wanted to formally introduce myself. My name is Katie Roper and I am the newly appointed outreach librarian across Lancashire and South Cumbria. I have a background in education, and it was during my time teaching in Birmingham Children’s Hospital, I realised I wanted to work for the NHS rather than alongside it.. now here we are.

My role involves supporting all staff, students, and service users to effectively and efficiently use electronic resources to make decisions and judgements based on evidence based practice.

Struggling to find evidence in your field of work? Short of time to find your own evidence?  Contact the library service to aid you with a literature search. Training can also be provided to support your own professional development.

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Need help keeping up to date with current information? Contact us for KnowledgeShare request forms or speak to a member of our team where alerts can be personalised to suit your needs.

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Do you know where to find the latest clinical information?  Contact the library team to ensure you have access to a wide range of resources- including; Athens, BMJ, Anatomy. TV,  individual journals and e-books accessible at home and work.

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We are here to support you throughout. Feel free to pop into the library for free tea and coffee, computer access, hotdesking spaces and relaxed meeting areas.

Looking forward to working collaboratively with you all. Please send any completed forms to: academic.library@lancashirecare.nhs.uk. Remember to subsribe to this blog, using the link on the top right of the page for daily updates, bulletins and current awareness updates. Alternatively, feel free to contact me with any questions, queries or support needs; katie.roper@lancashirecare.nhs.uk

Katie Roper

Coronavirus: Gosall Library Services

Due to the current COVID19 situation and following the Government’s guidance, the Gosall Library issue desk remains closed until further notice

Library enquiries are being dealt with, where possible, by email only.  Unfortunately we are not able to deal with postal or telephone enquiries.  The Lantern Centre building is currently open and staff are welcome to visit the library to work in the hot desk areas as usual or to take out/return books using the self issue machine in the main library. Library staff are still available, by email only, to renew books, carry out literature searches and search for journals and to deal with other enquiries where possible.

All existing loans of books from this library are now renewed until 13th July 2020. Further details on library services will be posted on this blog as the situation develops.

Please email us with any enquiries at: academic.library@lancashirecare.nhs.uk

The Gosall Library Team

Nephrology Nursing Journal

ProQuest: Nurses need to publish scholarly articles: overcoming reticence to sharing valuable experience

This article is part of the “Exploring the Evidence: Focusing on the Fundamentals” series. It provides nephrology nurses with basic principles related to writing for publication, information regarding different types of professional articles that may be used for the dissemination of nursing knowledge, as well as steps to follow and issues to consider in the planning and preparation of a manuscript.

For details of the article read here

To request the full text email the library staff academic.library@lancashirecare.co.uk

Jhalak Prize

Longlist for 2020 announced

First awarded in March 2017, the Jhalak Prize, seeks to celebrate books by British/British resident BAME writers. ​ The prize is unique in that it accepts entries published in the UK by writers of colour. These include (and not limited to) fiction, non-fiction, short stories, graphic novels, poetry, children’s books, YA, teen and all other genres. The prize is also open to self-published writers.

Read more about the prize and see the 2020 longlist here

World Book Day

Thursday 5th March

World Book Day is a registered charity on a mission to give every child and young person a book of their own. It’s also a celebration of authors, illustrators, books and (most importantly) it’s a celebration of reading. In fact, it’s the biggest celebration of its kind, designated by UNESCO as a worldwide celebration of books and reading, and marked in over 100 countries all over the world.

Read more here

To celebrate World Book Day here in the library we have put together a fine collection of fiction books to take you on a trip around the world. Through these books we can travel from the country lanes of Britain to the silk roads of the east, reading short stories, historical novels, a travel memoir and a Pulitzer Prize winner. We can read of cocktails being sipped in 1930’s Paris, murder in Tuscany and even the travels of a cat…. if you love reading there is a book here waiting for you!

Consultation on the rehabilitation of adults with complex psychosis and related mental health

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has published a new draft guideline for consultation on the rehabilitation of adults with complex psychosis and related mental health conditions. The consultation closes on 5 February 2020.

To view click here

Get a move on: Steps to increase activity levels in the UK

British Medical Association, October 2019

British Medical Association briefing that examines the wide range of benefits of physical activity, the current low levels of physical activity in the UK and the significant inequalities that exist in levels of physical activity within the population. Policy recommendations across four core parts of people’s lives

• travel,

• leisure,

• school

• work

It sets out the steps government and policy-makers should take to increase physical activity levels across the UK.

Click here to view the full report.