Introducing eBrary ebooks

Library and Knowledge Services has just purchased these eBook collections from eBrary:

• Medicine collection — 2,854 titles



• Nursing and Allied Health collection — 3,619 titles

Search for titles or browse specific subjects for an overview of what’s available. Click on a book title and the Table of Contents will display – use this to open chapters and then use the tools to scroll through pages, save and print.

Go to: http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ulhnhs

You will need a ULH Athens username and password to view the books in these collections.

Farewell Shirley

Shirley Whaley, Library & Information Supervisor at Pilgrim Staff Library is taking early retirement at the end of December.

Shirley started as the first Library Assistant on 1st September 1976. She worked with Anne Willis, Librarian, to set up and expand the Pilgrim Hospital Library Service. The Library, consisting of the General Library, a journal room and the Staff Library was housed in 3 rooms on the first floor of the tower block. In 1993 the Staff Library and journals moved to the present home within the Education Centre. The General Library moved to a new purpose built room on the ground floor in 1995. There have been many staff working within the service, but no one else has stayed for 35 years.

Shirley has seen many changes both in staff and services. When she started everything was done manually, there were no e-resources, no internet and no biometric finger prints to issue books.

We have all valued working with Shirley and wish her a long and happy retirement.

Don’t get frustrated trying to obtain journal articles!

Use the library's journal article request service instead; we'll even email articles to you if we can.

If you cannot find the full text of a journal article, ask the library to find it for you. We will source it from other libraries, up to and including the British Library.

If we receive the article as a PDF we will forward it to your NHS email address. If we receive it as a photocopy, we will either post it to your work address or hold it in the library for you to collect.

Contact your local library or request an article via the following website

www.hello.nhs.uk/journal_articles.asp

Christmas library opening times

All four hospital library sites will be unstaffed on the following days over Christmas:

Monday 26th December
to
Tuesday 3rd January

24 hour access during this time applies to all sites.

Louth Hospital Medical Library

The Medical Library at Louth Hospital is currently staffed one day a week on a Friday from 10am – 5pm.

If you have any journal article or book requests then please email the details to the following

louth.library@ulh.nhs.uk

We will process your request and post the articles out to you. Should you have any queries regarding Louth Library, please contact The Professional Library, Lincoln County Hospital on ext. 3952

Macmillan Coffee Morning

Lincoln County’s Professional Library would like to thank all those who attended the Macmillan coffee morning on 30th September . The Total raised was £105.65.

Request an eToC alert

Electronic Table of Contents (EToC) alerts will help you keep up-to-date with the latest research in your field. You will be emailed the table of contents of articles published in the latest issues of journals you specify.

To request an eToc, visit the website below

http://www.hello.nhs.uk/etoc_alert.asp

The Big Five Journals - RSS Feeds on HeLLO

The Big Five journals are :

• Annals of Internal Medicine


• BMJ


• JAMA


• Lancet


• New England Journal of Medicine.

RSS feeds for these full text journals are available via our website

http://www.hello.nhs.uk/big_five.asp

You will need an NHS Athens username and password to access these journals