Develop your Digital Literacy Skills – Study & Learn in a Digital Environment

There are many opportunities these days to complete online learning and you will most likely come across this either at university or work. You may opt to develop your own skills through online professional development.

The Library also offers you an online, technology-enriched environment, helping you to develop the right set of information skills to find the information you need.

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You can complete our etutorials to learn how to use our resources and develop your skills:

We also have online guides and links to providers support pages to help you to use our resources.

You can follow our Information Skills for Health blog. Here we publish posts about different resources, how to use them and how to develop your skills.

Our learning opportunities include demos, step-by-step instructions, video, and interactive elements.

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Discover even more resources in the NHS Knowledge and Library Hub!

We’ve added even more resources to the NHS Knowledge and Library Hub. The print books at the Health Library (Royal Stoke) and the Health Library at County, and more e-books can now be found in the Hub. What does it mean? When you carry out a search in the NHS Knowledge and Library Hub, print books and e-books from our library catalogue LibrarySearch will be included in the results; along with the items from our other NHS resources. If you wish to narrow the results down to just the items from our library catalogue – click on the ‘Library catalogue only’ limiter on the left hand side of the screen. This is also the best option to use if you want to restrict your results to view the print stock from both health libraries. If you wish to filter the results to just the print stock from a particular library - scroll down the left hand side of the screen to ‘Library Location’. Click on ‘Library Location’ to open the list of libraries and select the library you wish to

Diabetes Awareness Month - November 2024

According to the charity Diabetes UK, there are 4.3 million people living with a diagnosis of diabetes in the UK. The NHS spends approximately £10 billion a year on diabetes – almost 80% of this is spent on treating the complications. Diabetes Awareness Month takes place every November with the aim of highlighting the health challenges diabetes presents and providing help and support to those affected. RELATED LIBRARY RESOURCES   The Health Libraries, both at the Royal Stoke and County Hospitals, offer numerous resources related to this topic. In the lists below you’ll find a small selection of items from our collection. To locate these items, simply go to our online catalogue or ask at the counter. This document covers the following resources – books , journals , journal articles and patient information . BOOKS Textbook of diabetes ; Holt, Richard I. G.; Flyvbjerg, Allan; 2024 (Wiley-Blackwell); 6 th edition. Diabetes care at a glance ; Phillips, Anne; 2023

Request Online...

We have a number of services that you can request online via our website: Inter-Library Loan (ILL) – if we don’t have a book or article that you need, you can request an inter-library loan and we will try to find it from another library. Literature Search Service – if you don’t have time to do your own literature search we can do it for you. Complete our online form to make your request. Information Skills Training – we offer a comprehensive training programme throughout the year. You can book on a scheduled course via our online booking form . Stock Suggestion – if you think we are missing a vital text from our collection you can make a stock suggestion online . Anything else? Just use our Contact Us Online form if you want to get in touch about any other issues. You’ll find all our contact details on our website if you want to contact us in any other way.

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