Health Library News

 The Health Library is your Health Library. We are here to support Keele University healthcare students and NHS staff working for our partner organisations; giving you a pleasant study or work environment, providing specialist services to support your studies and patient care and getting you the best healthcare evidence. Come along and visit the Health Library to study in a quiet environment, use the university or NHS IT facilities, get help from our experienced staff or even pick up a book. Contact our specialist services to develop your skills or get help finding the best evidence you need. Search our wide range of healthcare specialist resources for books, articles, research and evidence to help you complete your assignments or make the best healthcare decisions. Complete our tutorial Using the Health Library to learn more about what we offer you. Access all our services and resources from the Health library website . More Libraries You can also visit our partn...

  Get ready for your assignments, exams or dissertation. Update your skills so that you can find the right evidence you need quickly. Prepare yourself to make your studies more successful. Are you ready? Complete our etutorial Check your skills to find out if you’re ready. Get your action plan to start to update your skills. Starting with an Internet search? Be prepared for Google: take a look at our presentation Finding Good Stuff on the Internet , then follow up with Evaluating Information on the Internet to make sure you only use good quality information. Completing your dissertation? Want to submit the best assignments? Start with an Introduction to literature searching . We’ll take you through the steps you need to complete to make sure you get the evidence you need. Make the most of library resources – book a webinar to learn how to use healthcare databases. Get ready to revise for your exams Borrow from our specialist collection of Medical Exam Revision ...

 Improve your skills to get good marks, produce a good dissertation, complete your research project and write academically. Make the most of our collections to develop your study skills. Check out our special Study Skills collection . Here you’ll find books – both in print and as ebooks – to help you to: Manage your study time Develop your writing skills Make better notes Plan your dissertation Develop critical thinking skills Present your work Use the Search option to look for a particular study skills topic You can access some titles online – check whether the ebook is available for your user group (Keele or NHS) and login with either your Keele login details or your NHS OpenAthens username. You can request a title from campus library and pick it up at the Health Library.

Whether you need a quiet space to revise or want to work with friends and colleagues there are plenty of options at the Health Library: Silent Study Room – individual study space and desk-top power for use with IT equipment Individual Study Space – within the rotunda you can use our flexible study boards to give yourself privacy for studying Group Study Space – use the group study pod to work with friends and colleagues or use the tables by the windows Relaxed Study Space – if you want to relax while you read you can use our more relaxing furniture Desk-top power – many of our desks have desk-top power plugs for use with IT equipment Images of study areas in the Health Library Please remember to be considerate of other users during your visit to the Health Library.

Whether you need a quiet space to revise or want to work with friends and colleagues there are plenty of options at the Health Library: Silent Study Room – individual study space and desk-top power for use with IT equipment Individual Study Space – within the rotunda you can use our flexible study boards to give yourself privacy for studying Group Study Space – use the group study pod to work with friends and colleagues or use the tables by the windows Relaxed Study Space – if you want to relax while you read you can use our more relaxing furniture Desk-top power – many of our desks now have desk-top power plugs for use with IT equipment Photos of the Health Library