Libraries closed: Bank Holiday 27th August

Both Trust Libraries will be closed on Monday 27th August for the Bank holiday.

24/7 access is available as usual.

Thank you

Elderly Care inc. Dementia Resources

This month the Trust Library Service has created a bulletin on Elderly Care (inc. Dementia) resources and a display is on show in both libraries.

If you have any questions about the resources, or would like to suggest a topic for next month's bulletin, please contact Ann Foreman or Becky England, ann.foreman@nhs.net or rebecca.england@nhs.net

Click here to read the Elderly Care bulletin and other bulletins are available by clicking
here

Thank you

The King's Speech

The Dress Circle Film Club tonight: The King's Speech, 6.00pm, The Auditorium, Academic Centre, Maidstone Hospital; Open to MTW Trust Staff and GPs. See you there?

Jane Beeley Retires

Don't forget that Jane Beeley retires today after 10 years with the Trust Library services. We are holding a retirement party for Jane today at 3pm, in the Lecture Theatre, Education and Training Centre, TWH. Trust Staff are welcome to come along and wish Jane well in her retirement!

(The libraries will both be closed from 2.30 but usual access arrangements apply)

Cheers Jane!

This month's nursing e-journals

What’s new in this month’s Nursing e-journals?

Click on the links below to access the August issues of these Nursing e-journals, purchased for YOU by the MTW Trust Library Service.  Log in with your NHS Athens account to access the full text.  Go to www.library.nhs.uk to self-register for an NHS Athens account if you don’t already have one.

American Journal of Nursing

CIN: Computers, Informatics and Nursing

Nursing Research (all Ovid e-journals)

Journal of Advanced Nursing

Journal of Clinical Nursing

Journal of Nursing Management

Research in Nursing and Health (all Wiley e-journals)

British Journal of Healthcare Assistants

Journal of Wound Care

Reflective Practice (all Swetswise e-journals)

If any of these links do not take you direct to the journal, simply search for the journal name on the website homepage.

Other e-journals are available, search and access them on the library catalogue:

www.southeastlibrarysearch.nhs.uk

Summer Reads

Both MTW Trust Libraries offer a range of fiction for your summer reads: At TWH staff can use the Patients' Library to borrow fiction titles, and at Maidstone we offer a book exchange - bring in books you've finished with and swap them for something else!

Film Club and Book Club

Don't forget we have both a Book Club and a Film Club running as part of our Medical Humanities remit: Next Book Club Meeting is at 17:30 on 21st August 2012 at TWH - Doctor's Lounge, Level -2, the book is 'A Perfectly Good Man' by Patrick Gale.

Next film Club meeting is at 18:00 on Monday 13th August, at Maidstone Hospital, Academic Centre. The Film is the Oscar Award Winning The King's Speech starring Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush.

Both are open to MTW staff and local GPs. See you there?

The benefits of ebooks

Discover Medical E Books on your PC

     

· No more lugging heavy books around

· No fines for non-return to library

· Available at the click of a mouse

· You can’t lose an E-Book

· More than one person can have access to the same book at the same time

· Free to all library members

· Search for titles on our catalogue: 

www.southeastlibrarysearch.nhs.uk

Or find details on the library shelves

Access with an NHS Athens account

Jane Beeley Retirement

Jane Beeley, MTW Library Operations Manager, will retire on 10th August 2012. We are holding a retirement party for her at TWH, in the Education and Training Centre from 3-5pm. All trust staff who want to wish Jane well in her retirement are welcome to attend.