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New Blog Post - Reflections from a first-time CILIP attendee15th August 2019In this article Natasha Craigs from Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust reflects on her first CILIP conference read more...
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New HCLU monthly report added to website9th August 2019The HCLU monthly report for aim 4 on our implementation plan "Patients, carers and the public are empowered to make health and well being choices" has been added to the website. read more...
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News from NoWAL5th August 2019Most NHS Libraries find themselves dealing with students at some point so it's always good to hear from our colleagues in higher education. North-West Academic Libraries (NoWAL) publish a summer newsletter. read more...
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Good citizens in a fairer world with libraries as third places23rd July 2019Walking along Oxford Road in Manchester brought back memories of my time studying for an MA in Library and Information Management at Manchester Metropolitan University. I have only visited this part of Manchester a couple of times since graduating and this was my first time on official library business; my first time at the CILIP conference, having received a bursary from CILIP Yorkshire & Humber. read more...
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Revalidate in an evening: A joint event hosted by CILIP NW & CILIP Academic & Research Libraries Group (ARLG) NW19th July 2019Do you hold CILIP Professional Registration (ACLIP, MCLIP or FCLIP)? Do you need to revalidate but don't know where to start? Or just struggling to find dedicated time to prepare your revalidation submission? read more...
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Training and Development Report for 2018-1918th July 2019The Training and Development report for 2018-19 is now available on the website. read more...
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New Blog Post - Failing to succeed - How to learn from failure18th July 2019In this article Laura Jeffreys from Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust reflects on the University Health and Medical Librarians' Group (UHMLG) conference at Teesside University which was held on the 27th-28th June. read more...
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New Blog Post - Bridge, Act, SharE, Learn - BASEL18th July 2019The European Association for Health Information and Libraries (EAHIL) hold an annual event with this year’s being hosted in Basel, Switzerland in June. I was asked to deliver a workshop with librarians working in the Midlands on embedding knowledge in transformation and our role in this process. read more...
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Special edition of Northern Lights published17th July 2019A special edition of Northern Lights has been published focused upon It's Great Up North. In addition to the articles referred to in David Stewart's editorial, there is an additional post on the blog focusing on the experience of one of the exhibitors attending the event. read more...
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Experience as an Exhibitor (It's Great Up North)17th July 2019I started my new role with Elsevier as Commercial Product Manager for Clinical Solutions in April 2019 and I’ve been trying to visit as many customers as possible as part of my induction and to learn more about our products and the people who use them. read more...
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Health Care Libraries Unit North: twenty years on17th July 2019Just over twenty years ago two north colleagues came to see me at The Royal society of Medicine where I headed up the library and IT services. read more...
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LKS Managers Meeting - 11 July 201916th July 2019The Northern LKS managers meeting, took place in Newcastle on 11 July 2019. read more...
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LIHNN/HCLU Briefing - July 201916th July 2019The LIHNN/HCLU Briefing, including the LIHNN AGM, took place at The Park Royal, Warrington on 9 July 2019. read more...
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New Blog Post - Getting started with PubMed's Outside Tool16th July 2019PubMed recently announced that they are retiring LinkOut and urged libraries to sign up for their Outside Tool instead. LinkOut made it fairly easy for NHS libraries to get their resources into PubMed but Outside Tool is a bit trickier. read more...
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Graduate Library and Knowledge Services Trainee – 6 Month Update15th July 2019My name is Amy Clancy and I am documenting my year as a Graduate Library and Knowledges Trainee with Greater Manchester Mental Health and Cheshire Wirral Partnership. read more...
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Getting Retro’ with the planning posse15th July 2019Members of the Great Up North Conference Planning Team met via Skype on 2nd July to discuss our learning from the recent event. Being good Knowledge Specialists, we chose the Retrospect from the KM Toolkit to help us to identify and record our reflections. read more...
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It's Great Up North - friendly and well organised (but Harrogate needs more pavements)15th July 2019Health Libraries North was a friendly and well organised conference that was high energy and focused on ensuring positive experiences of the attendees. read more...
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My Experience of It’s Great Up North 6-7th June 201915th July 2019I arrived in Harrogate with much trepidation having volunteered – after too much coffee and cake – to do a 3 Minutes of Mayhem presentation telling everyone all about HCLU Library Assistant Study Days and how much I had got out of them. read more...
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When Your Twitter Quacks, Rather Than Tweets15th July 2019You know you’re being indulged when you ask “What are we going to use as a twitter icon?” and the answer down the phone is use a duck! So Wat the duck came to pass! Then came the challenge of sourcing the real life duck that you’ve got a picture of…. thankfully the web provided! read more...
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Preparing to present at Its Great up North – reflections on the support on offer15th July 2019Gil’s Young’s warm invitation to all Northern healthcare library staff to present at “Its Great up North” hit my in-box last November. read more...
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Its Great Up North – Job Shadowing15th July 2019When I was offered the chance to attend the Its Great Up North Conference on 6th and 7thJune in Harrogate as part of job shadowing, I immediately said yes. read more...
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New Blog Post - Need help promoting your service? Ask a publicity champion15th July 2019My name’s John and I’m a Publicity Champion. This sounds like something you might hear in a church basement where everyone confesses their bad habits or at a seven-year-old’s fancy-dress party but for the past few months I’ve been working with other librarians up and down the country developing publicity materials for libraries to use to promote their services. read more...
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New Blog Post - The Garden Library is Open!4th July 2019We are delighted to announce the launch of the Garden Library, based in the Four Seasons Café, Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust (BDCFT). The Garden Library was officially opened by Chief Executive, Brent Kilmurray, as part of the Lynfest celebrations on 26th June 2019. Establishing library services for Service-Users/Carers has been an aim of ours for some time – this is largely in response to feedback from service users and staff . In November 2018 we received confirmation that we had been successful in a bid to Health Education England for funding to develop the project. Find out more here read more...
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“I’m absolutely petrified to present!”2nd July 2019I’ve not been to many conferences before, and I was extremely excited about this one as knowing it would be full of other health library staff made it less daunting than the annual CILIP conference. The first thing that I found really welcoming was the informal meet-up prior to booking in. read more...
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So long, farewell, auf Widersehen, adieu, au revoir2nd July 2019Well it is goodbye from me. After nearly 30 years I am hanging up my date stamp and accession register and moving to the delights of retirement. read more...
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New monthly report added to website1st July 2019The HCLU monthly report for our objective 3 "Organisations are more effective in mobilising evidence and internally generated knowledge" has been added to the website. This report covers the period January 2019 to June 2019. read more...
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Sharing the Load: Planning It's Great Up North27th June 2019Sharing the Load: Planning It's Great Up North read more...
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Reflections on It's Great Up North from a LKS Student/New Professional27th June 2019Reflections on It's Great Up North from a LKS Student/New Professional read more...
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Thoughts from a first-time library conference attendee26th June 2019As a fledging librarian who has recently completed a post graduate diploma in Library and Information Management at Manchester Metropolitan University, I was delighted to be able to get one of three student places offered to this years’ cohort to attend It’s Great Up North. read more...
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Poster rollercoaster. Behind the scenes of an A1 piece of paper at It’s Great Up North26th June 2019Deciding to make a poster for It’s Great Up North was no quick decision. I sat on the idea for a week at least, ummed and ahhed about the pros and cons before going for it. read more...
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New Blog Post - ELHT & BwD Libraries - working together to promote health and wellbeing26th June 2019East Lancashire Hospital NHS Trust (ELHT) held their annual Health & Wellbeing event at Royal Blackburn Hospital on Wednesday 22nd May 2019. It’s an all-day event with lots of information stands and activities promoting services including Quit Squad -smoking cessation, electric bikes, Unison, and walking activities to name but a few. The Trust library service has always gone to these events to promote our wellbeing resources and support staff; however, this year we did things slightly differently. read more...
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Presenting our “get lost in a book campaign” poster at the “It’s Great Up North” conference, June 201926th June 2019Presenting our “get lost in a book campaign” poster at the “It’s Great Up North” conference, June 2019 read more...
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New post on blog - It's Great Up North - Posters, Bake Off, Exhibitors and Winners26th June 2019New post on blog - It's Great Up North - Posters, Bake Off, Exhibitors and Winners read more...
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New post on blog - It's Great Up North21st June 2019Presentations and pictures from day 1 and day 2 of It's Great Up North are now available on the blog. read more...
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New post on blog - NHS/HE Meeting - Edge Hill University - 17 May 201914th June 2019There is a need for colleagues in NHS and Higher Education Library Knowledge Services (HE LKS) to maintain and develop links. read more...
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New Blog Post - Revisiting childhood memories on a library placement10th June 2019When I did my postgraduate diploma in Library and Information Management at Manchester Metropolitan University recently, doing a placement was strongly encouraged. It was an opportunity I was keen to take up, as I hadn’t worked in a library before. read more...
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New Monthly Report added to Website3rd June 2019The HCLU monthly report for our objective 2 "There is enhanced quality of Healthcare LKS" has been added to the website. This report covers the period December 2018 to May 2019. read more...
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New Blog Post - Summer reading leaves us bronzed in Birmingham30th May 2019Lancashire Teaching Hospitals won a bronze award for our Summer Reading Journey Campaign at CILIP’s Publicity and Public Relations Group Marketing Excellence Awards Conference. read more...
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New blog post - Shelf-Help (or, why everything is better with self-help books in Mental Health)28th May 2019The idea that a self-help book could actually be as good as a professional form of help seems like it’s a fairly recent one. Think of the titles we know and love - Feel the fear and do it anyway, How to make friends and influence people, the Overcoming… series – these all deal with modern social problems with a blend of readable psychology and a common-sense therapeutic style. Whatever did we do before them? read more...
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Greater Manchester Health Library Partnership Event21st May 2019The Greater Manchester Health Library Partnership event took place in Manchester on the 14 May 2019. read more...