Health Library News

The latest library based training timetable for April to June 2008 is now available on the Health Library website . New courses include current awareness using RSS technology and refresher literature search training on the new Search 2.0 interface. Search 2.0 training will be open to all NHS staff as well as all Keele nursing and medicine staff and students. Priority will be given to CINAHL database users as this will be the first database to be fully released on the new interface. The Dialog interface will be available through until the end of June. There will be a reduction in the number of library run literature sessions, until the full transition to the new interface is complete. Please contact the library if you have any queries or urgent training needs.

The Outreach Librarians work in partnership with the North Staffs Health Information Forum. The Forum is holding a workshop on Promoting Mens Health on Thursday 15 May 2008, between 1.30 – 4.30pm, at Bentilee Neighbourhood Centre. This free half day workshop is for any NHS staff across North Staffs, who are interested in promoting health information or health services to men in more effective ways. The workshop will look at key facts about male health and illness and men’s attitudes towards health services. It will also help participants to draw on best practice and skills-based tools that can help improve local provision and support gender sensitive services. The facilitator is Robbie Porter, the national training officer for the Men’s Health Forum http://www.menshealthforum.org.uk/ . There is no cost for the event and a free healthy buffet lunch will be available from 1:30pm, but places are limited. Please register for the event by sending an e-mail to Pam Dunning, e-mail: p.dunning...

The Health Library will be closed from Friday 21st until Monday 24th March inclusive. Normal hours will resume on the Tuesday.

Safe Births: Everybody's business is the new independent inquiry reviewing the safety of maternity services in the UK. The executive summary and full report are available from the Kings Fund website ( www.kingsfund.org.uk/current_projects/maternity_services_inquiry/index.html ). Resource recommended by Carolyn Roth. Print copies are now on order for the library.

A recent review of NHS health libraries, by Professor Peter Hill, is now available from the National Library for Health ( http://www.library.nhs.uk/aboutnlh/review ). The review highlights the importance of library centrality within the organsation and identifies the role of the library in the support of clinical decision making, lifelong learning by health professionals, research, commissioning decision and health policy making.

The purchase model for the NHS national core content journals will be changing from the first of April. Previously most journals have been provided via Proquest. After extensive consultation it has been decided to purchase a smaller quantity of higher quality journals. This will provide users with greater access to more up to date material. The first change was the introduction of JAMA and the associated Archives collection published by the American Medical Association. From April we will be obtaining online access to the British Medical Journal and many other titles available via Full Text CINAHL (including the New England Journal of Medicine). The April launch of the new package has meant that there may be a brief lapse in electronic access to the journals. New content will be listed nationally through My Journals resource (requires NHS Athens login). For further information, please contact Susan Smith (01782) 556581 or email s.w.smith@lib.keele.ac.uk.