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Your digital skills – how can the Health Library help?

 Use your digital skills to find the right information that you need for your assignments, studies, work, research and patient care. The Health Library also helps you to find the right information that you need for your assignments, studies, work, research and patient care.

We’ve got resources to support your skills development, resources to give you the right information and experience to help you to find the right path to achieve success in your information searching.

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Here’s a quick introduction to the facilities, services and resources you can access at the Health Library:

Get to know the Health Library

1. Watch the Health Library video for a brief overview of how we support our users

2. Complete our tutorial Using the Health Library for a photo-tour and more information about our facilities and services.

Find out more from your induction tutorial

We have a number of inductions to help our different user groups get started at the Health Library

  1. NHS Library Induction
  2. NHS Online Library for UHNM
  3. Welcome to Keele University students
  4. Online Health Library for Keele remote learners

More eTutorials

Find all our online tutorials on the Information Skills web page on the Health Library website.

More help

Contact the Health Library if you need any help finding the information you need.

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