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  NHS staff - Your help is required to build understanding of needs for access to evidence in the NHS. The national team for Knowledge and Library Services are researching how NHS staff currently access and use evidence. We have completed interviews with people from all parts of the team and in all settings across the NHS in England. The next phase of the research will seek to validate the needs that have been identified as a result. We want to understand the picture for clinical and non-clinical staff, students and apprentices, those in regular contact with their Knowledge and Library Service and those who are not. You can read about previous user research that informed the creation of the Knowledge and Library Hub and be assured that your input can make the difference. If you can help, please complete this brief survey The survey will close 12 April 2026

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.

Our eLearning Survey will be ending at the end of January. Make sure your voice is heard and let us know how we can help you to learn about library resources. Complete the survey online ; make sure you submit your response.

Here at the Health Library for North Staffordshire we offer you a number of online learning opportunities: eTutorials Online Guides & Support Health Library YouTube channel Information Skills for Health blog You can use these services to learn more about the Health Library’s resources and develop your information skills. Online learning is sometimes also referred to as elearning, technology-enhanced learning, technology-enabled learning or learning online. We would like to know more about what online learning opportunities you need from the Health Library and how we can best deliver them. Please complete our   survey to let us know how we can improve our service. Even if you don’t use our services we would like to learn more about why that is.

Here is an opportunity to share your thoughts about Medicines Complete with the publisher. Medicines Complete is one of our most used resources so I hope you can take the opportunity to let them know what you think about it. Complete the short survey from Medicines Complete for your chance to win £75 worth of Amazon vouchers! The deadline for completing the survey is March 31st 2016. Click here to get started

Don’t forget to complete our Health Library survey to let us know how we can improve to help you find the online resources you need. You can: Go online and submit it automatically Complete the survey in the library and post it the boxes at the counter or in the rotunda Complete our survey in the IT suite

Let us know what you think about our online resources and how we can help you to find the information you need. Complete our survey to let us know. You can: Go online and submit it automatically Complete the survey in the library and post it the boxes at the counter or in the rotunda Complete the survey in the rotunda

Let us know what you think about our NHS Athens resources and what can we do to improve them? Please complete our survey to help us to improve our service. You can: Go online and submit it automatically Complete the survey in the library and post it the boxes at the counter or in the rotunda Pick up a print survey from the IT suite

Help us to improve the Health Library online resources by completing our survey. Let us know what information you need, how you find it and how we can help. You can: Go online and submit it automatically Complete the survey in the library and post it in the boxes at the counter or in the rotunda

Did you take part in our survey? What did you think about us? Did other people agree? You can read the executive summary or watch the slide show to find out what our users thought of the Health Library. Results from Health Library Survey 2014

Let us know if you use our print journals. We are running a survey during March and April to assess how much the print journals are used. Please use the yellow tick sheets attached to the journals, or journal boxes, to record if you have used them. Use the journal tick sheet to record your usage

Don’t forget to complete our Health Library survey to let us know what you think about our facilities, services and resources. You can: Go online and submit it automatically Complete the survey in the library and post it the boxes at the counter or in the rotunda Survey  closes Monday 31 st March. You can pick up a survey in the rotunda

Let us know which facilities, services and resources are important to you. Is it: **  ebooks  **  study space  **  training  **  databases  **  literature searching  ** Or something else? Complete our survey to let us know. You can: Go online and submit it automatically Complete the survey in the library and post it the boxes at the counter or in the rotunda

What would you like us to improve? ** books ** journals ** opening hours ** study space ** online access ** Or something else? How often do you find the information you need from us? Let us know by completing our survey. You can: Go online and submit it automatically Complete the survey in the library and post it the boxes at the counter or in the rotunda Pick up a survey from the rotunda and post it in the box Survey closes Monday 31 st March

Help us to improve the Health Library Service by completing our survey. Let us know what you think about the library and what services are important to you. You can: Go online and submit it automatically Complete the survey in the library and post it in the boxes at the counter or in the rotunda

Let us know if you use our print journals. We are running a survey during March and April to assess how much the print journals are used. Please use the tick sheets attached to the journals, or journal boxes, to record if you have used them. Use the journal tick sheet to record your usage

We have completed our prize draw for the etutorial survey today. Health Library manager Jonathan Hutchins drew the winning entries this morning. Health Library manager Jonathan Hutchins with Mariet Schepers, training and information support librarian and lead for the etutorial project All winners will be contact by email and asked to come to the Health Library to collect their prize.Thanks to everyone who competed the etutorial survey and gave their feedback. Our etutorials are available to help you to find and use our popular resources. You can still provide feedback via the online form.

We need your help – help us to improve our etutorials and you could win a free memory stick and a range of stationery goods. Just try one of our etutorials and complete the survey. If you include your name and email address we will add you to the prize draw. The lucky first 3 out of the hat will win a range of prizes; first prize includes a £20 voucher . But hurry you only have until 29 th March. You can find a full list of all our etutorials on our new a-z list at I want to learn about…  

All our YouTube videos have been updated to include subtitles and a transcript of the audio. So now you don’t need to use headphones if you’d prefer not to or it is inconvenient. Simply click on the subtitle option or click the transcript tab. Screen-shot showing the subtitle option and view transcript tab Our videos form part of our etutorial collection . Let us know what you think about them by completing our survey and we’ll enter you into our prize draw. Don’t forget that you can borrow headphones from the library for use in the IT suite. Just ask at the counter.

Do you need a bit of help finding the right information? Are your searches not giving you enough material? Try out etutorials to help you to improve your search skills. Get the question right with our PICO tutorial   Make sure you are looking in the right place – select the right resource   Improve your Search Skills   Get results faster by Using a Thesaurus   Screen-shot of search Skills etutorial Did you find our etutorials helpful? Make sure you let us know by completing our survey form – we’ll enter you into our prize draw!  You could win a selection of useful stationery goods, including a memory stick, and the lucky first prize also gets a £20 voucher. Our etutorials include presentations, photo tours, video demonstrations and interactive quizzes. They are short and most only take a couple of minutes to complete. You can access them online via our website at any time.