Literature Search Training

FREE TRAINING FOR DIALOG (Medline, Cinahl, BNI, Embase, PsycInfo)

We offer free training sessions to help you get the best out of the core databases offered through Athens. These sessions aim to provide participants with the skills to conduct effective searches and print full-text results.

OBJECTIVES:

By the end of the session, you will:

• Have set up an Athens user account
• Know which databases you should use for your searches
• Be able to construct a search strategy in preparation for your online search
• Be able to log into Athens and conduct an effective search
• Be able to print / save/ email your results, including full-text, as appropriate
• Be able to review your results, amend and repeat your searches as necessary

These sessions are offered:

• At MAIDSTONE in the Staff Education Centre, 13:00-14:00, on the FIRST TUESDAY of each month.

Please contact Myriam Nelmes to book your place, or call 01622 224647.

• At KENT & SUSSEX in the Library, 13:00-14:00, on the THIRD TUESDAY of each month.

Please contact Jane Beeley to book your place, or call 01892 632384

Free Training in your workplace

The Outreach Library Service is for NHS staff working in the community in Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust.

I can assist you to access books, journals and electronic resources, and to help you get the information you want, without the need to visit the Health Library. I can introduce you to a range of useful health knowledge resources and point you towards sources for evidence-based. I can also help you with Athens registration and to make the best use of the NHS databases and electronic journals.

I provide a flexible service and sessions can take place at your workplace at a time to suit you. The training is informal and tailored to your interests and the time you have available.

Topics include:
Finding quality health information on the Internet
Finding the evidence
Searching healthcare databases
Searching the National Library for Health
Literature searching skills
Using e-mail effectively

For more information or to book training sessions please contact:

Alison Paul, Outreach Training Manager
Library, Pembury Hospital.
01892 633019 (answer phone)
07811 487547
alison.paul@nhs.net

CD ROMS available for loan

We are pleased to advise that the library at Maidstone Hospital now has a large quantity of CD Roms available for seven day loan. You will find the them listed in our book catalogue with the cases filed in with our book stock. If you wish to borrow any of these items please bring the case to the counter where we will issue the disc to you for loan.

National Knowledge Week For Asthma 22nd-26th May 2006

This week is the National Knowledge Week for Asthma.

The National Library for Health has "the latest available evidence and information within the topics chosen in Asthma. A short article was written for each topic by experts representing the different professional groups involved in respiratory medicine and healthcare. Each topic is accompanied by supporting evidence and patient information, and in the majority of cases a list of references provided by the author. The supporting evidence has been limited to that published in the last two years...."

For more detials and to view these articles, please visit the National Library for Health Website:
http://www.library.nhs.uk/respiratory/ViewResource.aspx?resID=125034&tabID=290&catID=5872

Maidstone Library PCs

The PCs at the Maidstone Library get very busy during peak times (typically lunchtime and 17:00-18:00). Don't forget that you can phone ahead and reserve a PC for any times during staffed hours.

PCs on all sites are available 24/7 to library members who have signed-up for out of hours access. Contact library staff for details of how register for this service, and use the libraries at any time of day or night.

Contact details can be found on our website.