Trust Library Xmas Opening Times

Library opening hours over Christmas period

Open as usual to 21 December, then:

24 December, 8.30-1.00

25 / 26 December closed

27 / 28 / 31 December 9.00 to 5.00

1 January closed

2 January onwards, usual hours

24/7 access is available as usual

Latest health stories on TW Library news board

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Urology and Renal Library Resources

This month the Trust Library Service has created a bulletin on Urology and Renal  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 Urology and Renal bulletin and other bulletins are available by clicking
here

Thank you

Trust Libraries: Change in Opening Hours

The Trust Libraries

Change of hours

From 3^rd December 2012

Staff will be available on

Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday 8.30-17.30

Monday and Thursday 8.30-19.30

24/7 access is available at both sites

  

For further information please contact

Maidstone 01622 224647

Tunbridge Wells 01892 635884

Email gm.e.mtw-tr.library@nhs.net 

Obstetrics and Gynaecology library resources

This month the Trust Library Service has created a bulletin on Obstetrics and Gynaecology 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 Obstetrics and Gynaecology bulletin and other bulletins are available by clicking
here

Thank you

BMJ Case Reports Videos

Need help writing or submitting a Case Report for BMJ Case Reports?  Why not give these how to videos a try?

BMJ Case Reports website overview

How to write a full text case report

How to submit a full text case report

Remember, the MTW institutional submission code is 805267

Pharmaceutical Journal ONLINE

Access to the Pharmaceutical Journal Online is now available from your Trust library service.

To access, ask library staff for the log in details and go to: http://www.pjonline.com/

Access with the above is only for MTW Trust library members; please do not share the log in details with anyone who is not a MTW Trust library member.

Thank you

                          

Maidstone Library Stocktake 13th and 14th November 2012

Due to a full stocktake on the 13th and 14th November 2012 in the Maidstone Library we will only be able to offer a reduced service.
Please note NO books will be available for the two days.
Opening times for the two days will be 8.30-5pm.
24/7 access will still be available.

Netvibes

We have some new topic additions to our Netvibes pages:

Emergency Care
http://www.netvibes.com/mtwlibrary#Emergency_Care

Renal/ Urology
http://www.netvibes.com/mtwlibrary#Renal%2FUrology

Surgery
http://www.netvibes.com/mtwlibrary#Surgery

Trauma and Orthopaedics
http://www.netvibes.com/mtwlibrary#Trauma_and_Orthopaedics

Want a tab for your department/ specialty? Contact Emma on emma.aldrich@nhs.net

Paediatric Resources

This month the Trust Library Service has created a bulletin on Paediatric 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 Paediatrics bulletin and other bulletins are available by clicking
here

Thank you

The Explorer, The Trust Library Newsletter

The latest issue of the Explorer, the Trust Library Newsletter, is now available at the following link -

http://www.mtw.nhs.uk/library-and-information-services/the-explorer.asp

Library resources for Medicine

This month the Trust Library Service has created a bulletin on Medicine 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 Medicine bulletin and other bulletins are available by clicking
here

Thank you

Final 2 Weeks of Clinical Key Trial

CLINICAL KEY TRIAL

The Trust Library Service has a trial to

Clinical Key, ending 30^th September:

Clinical Key is not just a conventional clinical search engine, but a clinical insight engine designed specifically to address physicians' 3 key search requirements

Comprehensive: Supplies answers from the largest collection of published medical resources in every medical and surgical specialty, and includes all MEDLINE abstracts and links to full-text where available

Trusted: Authoritative medical and surgical content from Elsevier

Speed to answer: Smart Content enables fast discovery of the most relevant answers, plus more intuitive searching AND

Intuitive: Information is structured to align with doctors' workflows, whether they are treating and diagnosing patients, staying current in their field, or preparing care plans

Clinical Key includes access to 500+ journal titles, 900+ medical reference books (including "Gray's Anatomy" and Kumar and Clark's "Clinical Medicine" titles), 2000+ EBM First Consult Summaries, 2000+ medical procedure instructional videos, 30,000+ images) and the interface tools, including the PowerPoint presentation builder.

Go to www.clinicalkey.com and log in with your NHS Athens account to try it out for yourself

Please let us have any feedback on Clinical Key in person or by email gm.e.mtw-tr.library@nhs.net

If you need any help using this resource, please ask library staff. Help guides are on the Clinical Key website and in the libraries

NEW E-BOOKS!

New E-books now available with your Athens account!

Simply go to http://ovidsp.ovid.com log in with your Athens account and click on Books

Access these titles anywhere and at anytime

Go to www.library.nhs.uk to register for an Athens account if you don’t already have one

The NEW e-books include:

The popular Fast Facts series:

Fast Facts: Asthma, Bi-polar Disorder, Bladder Disorders, Brain Tumors, Cardiac Arrhythmias, Colorectal Cancer, Chronic and Cancer Pain, Glaucoma, Hypertension, Hyperlipidemia, Parkinson’s Disease & Rheumatoid Arthritis.

These are quick reference titles which give you a fast overview of a topic

Other NEW e-books:

Black’s medical dictionary

ECG workout: exercises in arrhythmia interpretation

Handbook of nursing diagnosis

HIV essentials 2011

Manual of emergency medicine

Manual of neonatal care

Neonatal respiratory handbook

Pain management pocketpedia

Spinal cord injury

Traumatic brain injury

Wound care essentials

Wound care made incredibly visual!

Other e-books are available, search for titles on the library catalogue: www.southeastlibrarysearch.nhs.uk

Latest Health Stories on TW Library News Board

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Royal Marsden Manual ONLINE

Calling all nurses!

Don't forget that the Royal Marsden Manual of Clinical Nursing Procedures (8th ed) is available ONLINE!

Simply go to www.rmmonline.co.uk and log in with your NHS Athens account to access, anywhere and at anytime.

Sign up for your NHS Athens account by going to www.library.nhs.uk and click on register for NHS Athens.  Once you have your account, you will be able to access this and many other resources from anywhere and at anytime, 24 hours a day.

Free trial to European Journal of Hospital Pharmacy

The Trust library service has set up a free trial to European Journal of Hospital Pharmacy, ending 5th October.

Simply visit http://ejhp.bmj.com and log in with your Athens account to access the journal.

Please let the library have any feedback you may have on this e-journal.

Thank you

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.

Library Survey

Earlier this year we conducted a Library Users survey.


Our main purposes in running a service evaluation survey were to:

• Establish levels of satisfaction with services we offer

• Establish levels of use of various elements of our service

• Gauge levels of awareness of both the service as a whole and of various elements of the service.

• Use the survey as a marketing tool.

We are very grateful to all participants in the survey for taking the time to complete it for us. 

The results of the survey can be seen here.

The Explorer, the Trust Library Newsletter

The latest issue of the Explorer, the Trust Library Newsletter, is now available at the following link -

http://www.mtw.nhs.uk/library-and-information-services/the-explorer.asp

Surgery Resources

This month the Trust Library Service has created a bulletin on Surgery resources and a Surgery 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 Surgery bulletin and other bulletins are available by clicking
here

Thank you

Trial to Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition and Metabolic Care

At the request of the Trust Dietetics Department, the Trust Library Service has set up a 2 month FREE trial to the e-journal

Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition and Metabolic Care.

Click here to access the e-journal and log in with your NHS Athens account to access 2006 to present.

You can also access the e-journal by going to www.ovidsp.ovid.com  and then by searching for the journal name.

Go to www.library.nhs.uk to self-register for an NHS Athens account if you do not already have an Athens account.  You need an Athens account to access all the library electronic resources.

You can also check out what other e-journals, e-books and printed resources we have by going to the library catalogue at www.southeastlibrarysearch.nhs.uk

Please let us have any resource purchase suggestions YOU or YOUR department have and we may also be able to set up trials for you.

TRIAL ENDS 18^TH AUGUST 2012

Launch of the new BNF mobile app

The new British National Formulary (BNF) mobile app is now available.

Download the FREE app to Android smartphones via the Google Play Store at:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.org.nice.bnf

For iPhone users, the app is available to download via the Apple App Store at:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/nice-bnf/id523093958

The app can also be downloaded to the iPod Touch.

You need an NHS Athens account to access the BNF content.  Go to www.library.nhs.uk  to self-register for an NHS Athens account or from your mobile phone at http://m.evidence.nhs.uk/athens-registration

Please let the Trust Library Service have any feedback about this app or any library resource

Jubilee Bank Holiday

The Trust Libraries will be closed on Monday 4th and Tuesday 5th June for the Jubilee Bank Holiday.

24/7 access will be available as usual.

Thank you
The Trust Library Team

HDAS databases

Please note the Healthcare Databases Advanced Search on NHS Evidence (www.evidence.nhs.uk) will be unavailable from 17:00 today (29th May) until 9.00 on Wednesday 30th May.  This is due to the HDAS redesign.

We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

MTW Trust Library Service

Clinical Key Trial

CLINICAL KEY TRIAL

The Trust Library Service has a 3 month trial to

Clinical Key, ending 31^st August:

Clinical Key is not just a conventional clinical search engine, but a clinical insight engine designed specifically to address physicians' 3 key search requirements

·  Comprehensive: Supplies answers from the largest collection of published medical resources in every medical and surgical specialty, and includes all MEDLINE abstracts and links to full-text where available

·        Trusted: Authoritative medical and surgical content from Elsevier

·       Speed to answer: Smart Content enables fast discovery of the most relevant answers, plus more intuitive searching AND

·   Intuitive: Information is structured to align with doctors' workflows, whether they are treating and diagnosing patients, staying current in their field, or preparing care plans

Go to www.clinicalkey.com and log in with your NHS Athens account to try it out for yourself

Please let us have any feedback on Clinical Key in person or by email gm.e.mtw-tr.library@nhs.net

If you need any help using this resource, please ask library staff. Help guides are on the Clinical Key website and in the libraries

Physiotherapy resources

This month the Trust Library Service has created a bulletin on Physiotherapy resources and a Physiotherapy 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 Physiotherapy bulletin and other bulletins are available by clicking
here

Thank you

May Bank Holiday

The Trust Libraries will be closed for the May Bank Holiday on Monday 7th May 2012.  Please note that 24/7 access will be available as usual.

Paperback Exchange!

The library on the Maidstone site is trialling a Book Exchange Scheme. We have a wide collection of novels from a variety of different authors/genres available on a trolley in the library; why not bring in a couple of your unwanted paperbacks and see what you can swap them for?

The exchange scheme will be fairly low-key, but to ensure that we do not have a negative impact on the work of the League of Friends, we will make regular donations of books to them, and purchase replacements to keep the exchange topped-up and of interest to all.

If the scheme is successful, we will roll it out to the Tunbridge Wells site later in the year.

So – come over to The Library, Academic Centre, and sort out your Spring-time reads!

The Trust Library Newsletter

The latest issue of the Explorer, the Trust Library Newsletter, is now available on the following link -

http://www.mtw.nhs.uk/library-and-information-services/the-explorer.asp

Neurology Resources

This month the Trust Library Service has created a bulletin outlining Neurology resources and a Neurology 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

Read the Neurology Bulletin here

Other bulletins are available, please click here to view them

Easier way to access UpToDate!

You can now access UpToDate simply by going to the MTW Trust intranet home page. The link is just below the NHS evidence search bar on the home page.


UpToDate is a popular point of care clinical reference tool which gives you access to evidence-based, peer-reviewed information to help with patient care. MTW staff are using UpToDate to help them to answer clinical questions, on average around 500 times a month. Why don’t you give it try? UpToDate is only accessible on MTW Trust PCs.

Did you know that you can also access and search NHS Evidence direct from the MTW Trust intranet home page too?

Nursing Resources

This month the Trust Library Service has created a bulletin outlining Nursing resources and a Nursing 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, rebecca.england@nhs.net.


Read the Nursing Bulletin here.

Endocrinology Resources

A new bulletin outlining endocrinology resources is now available on our website.

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, rebecca.england@nhs.net.

Read the Endocrinology Bulletin now.

Libraries closed

Please note that the Trust Libraries will be closed on Monday morning for a whole-team meeting.

Maidstone will be closed from 11.30-14.00 and Tunbridge Wells will be closed from 10.30-14.45.

Usual 24/7 access arrangements apply.

The Explorer

The latest edition of the libraries newsletter, The Explorer, is available on our website.

Click here to read our latest news, including reports from our new apprentices!

Midwifery Bulletin

A new library bulletin outlining resources available to midwives is now on our website. Click here to find it, along  with other subject specialty bulletins.

Your topic not there yet? Contact Ann Foreman to make a subject suggestion: ann.foreman@nhs.net

Library Survey

Have you completed the Trust Libraries Survey yet? You could still be in with a chance of winning a £20 voucher for a store of your choice, winner to be drawn at random after 20th January 2012.


Your views really are important to us. We have had a good response so far, with comments ranging from resource suggestions to our physical environment. All will help us shape our future service direction. Take this opportunity to tell us what you think - even if you have never used the libraries here before, your views about library services are still valuable to us.

Don't forget to fill in your details if you wish to be entered into the draw!

The survey should not take more than 5 minutes to complete.


CLICK HERE TO TAKE THE SURVEY


Many thanks for your time.
The Library & Knowledge Services Team.