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 You live, work and study in a digital world. It is so important that you develop the right skills to maximise your potential to achieve success in your studies, work and for your patients. The Health Library can help you to develop, demonstrate and deliver your digital skills. We have been showcasing how the Health Library can support you in developing your skills. Please explore these blog posts which detail the training and development opportunities available to you: What are digital and information skills? Have you got them? Your digital skills – how can the Health Library help? Information skills to support literature searching Analyse your question to get your literature search off to a good start Develop your search skills with our online tutorials Learn to use the right resource Is the information you find good quality? Make sure you use information ethically Use your digital skills to share the information you find Stay up-to-date with updates in your field More traini...

   Here is a reminder that there will be reduced opening hours at the Health Library over the Easter holiday weekend. Friday 29th March -  Closed Saturday 30th March - 10am to 4pm Sunday 31st March -  Closed Monday 1st April -  Closed Online resources remain  accessible from our website .

Calling all Keele students who use the CEC (Clinical Education Centre)! Please complete our Student Survey Let us know how you use the Health Library Let us know why you don't use the Health Library Let us know how we can improve the Health Library Enter your contact details for a chance to win a £20 voucher Many thanks to everyone who has participated so far.  The survey will close at the end of this week.

 We’ve been showcasing our training options that help you to develop, demonstrate and deliver your digital skills , so supporting your work and studies. You’ve been shown presentations, interactive etutorials and videos to help you to develop your information skills and so find information effectively and efficiently. What did you think? How can we improve? We value what you think about our services and use your input to improve. Please complete our feedback form to let us know what you think about our online information skills etutorials. More help Contact the Health Library if you need any help finding the information you need.

 There will be reduced opening hours at the Health Library over the Easter holiday weekend. Friday 29th March - Closed Saturday 30th March - 10am to 4pm Sunday 31st March - Closed Monday 1st April - Closed Online resources remain accessible from our website .

 During the past couple of months we have showcased some of our online tutorial options to help you to develop, demonstrate and deliver your digital skills, so supporting your work and studies. We also have a range of in-person training delivered by our experienced, qualified librarian team. For more information about the courses and workshops they deliver, either face-to-face or online, whether in groups or as personal sessions, please see our training pages: Courses for Keele students Courses for NHS community staff Courses for UHNM staff If you need any other help you can contact the training team . Remember our online 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.

 Due to loss of funding, the wonderful blog Evidently Cochrane will be ending at the end of March 2024. This has been a useful resource providing easy to read evidence summaries on a wide range of conditions and diseases. It will be sadly missed. Message from the editors: We want to acknowledge the huge contribution that all of our bloggers have made. We are very grateful. We have had a wonderful time working on the blog, and have learned so much. A big thank you also to you, our readers, for being part of our journey. Evidently Cochrane Editors, Sarah Chapman and Selena Ryan-Vig For help using the Cochrane Library please complete our online tutorial: Searching Cochrane Library for systematic reviews

 Healthcare is a regularly changing industry and a plethora of content is published every year. Staying up-to-date, or managing your current awareness, whether for your professional regulations, current practice or keeping up with the latest research is an important element of your work and studies. You can use your digital skills to stay up-to-date and manage the increasing amount of new information. Learn more about staying up-to-date and the tools you can use by completing our etutorials: What is current awareness? And why do you need it Current awareness tools Learn more about the tools you can use to stay up-to-date Introduction to KnowledgeShare Watch this video for an overview of KnowledgeShare for NHS staff 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.

 Communicating information is an important information skill. You can demonstrate your digital skills by creating content based on your information search or research. This can help you to build your own professional portfolio and support your study and work. We’ve created etutorials to help you get started with 3 common routes of communication that you’ll come across. Writing an academic paper Get hints and tips on how to write an academic paper, whether for an assignment or to publish How to create an academic poster Hints and tips on what to consider and how to create your academic poster 10 steps to creating patient information Hints and tips to get you started developing your own patient information More eTutorials Find all our online tutorials on the Information Skills web page on the Health Library website . Take a look at the blog posts we have published so far in this series on digital skills . More help Contact the Health Library if you need any help...

  Nutrition and Hydration Week takes place every March with the aim of highlighting and educating the public on the importance of good nutrition.  Its main purpose is to spark conversation and generate energy and focus around the value of food and drink in maintaining health and wellbeing in the health and social care settings. 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      Es sentials of human nutrition ; Mann, Jim; Truswell, Stewart et al; 2023 (Oxford University Press); Sixth edition [ Also available as a Keele e-book ]. Exercise physiology: nutrition, energy, ...

 It is important that you recognise and credit the original creators of the information you use in your own studies and work. This is a significant aspect of your digital skills. You can do this by including references. Learn why this is so essential to your studies by completing our etutorial: Introduction to referencing and plagiarism Keele University students can also use RefWorks to help them to manage references. Complete the Keele online tutorial: Manage your references in a nutshell 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.

It is important that you check the information you find from your searches to ensure that it is good quality and is relevant to your question. The Health Library can help you. Complete our tutorials to develop the right digital skills to evaluate and critically appraise the information and articles you find. 1. Start by learning about the CRAAP checklist; watch this short video 2. Learn more about how to evaluate information on the Internet by completing our tutorial Evaluating information on the Internet 3. Learn more about Critical Appraisal Tools which will help you to critically appraise the research articles that you find 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.