Christmas opening and on to 2010

Wishing all our colleagues a very merry Christmas and happy new year!

There will be slightly reduced hours with no late opening for the two weeks either side of Christmas. The Knowledge Hub and Cyber Room are available 24 hours as usual.

Mon 21st - Wed 23rd Dec: OPEN 8:30am-5pm

Thu 24th - Mon 28th Dec: CLOSED

Tue 29th -Thu 31st Dec: OPEN 8:30am-5pm

Fri 1st Jan 2010: CLOSED

Mon 4th Jan 2010: Back to normal! 8:30am-7pm Mon-Tue and 8:30am-5pm Wed-Fri

Latest book purchases

The November list of our latest book purchases has just been published.

This month we added several new titles on CBT, including Kinsella's Cognitive behavioural therapy for mental health workers: a beginner's guide, and in neurology we have the new edition of Brain's diseases of the nervous system, and also Evidence-based neurology by Candelise.

End of life carers will find the two titles Speaking of dying: a practical guide to using counselling skills in palliative care and Why is it so difficult to die of great help in communicating with and understanding their patients.

And for those seeking funding for education or research, the 2010 edition of the Grants Register is available in our Quick reference section, while Hickson's Research handbook for health professionals is a new title in our extensive research section.

There are many more new items in the list, and you can search for our other titles on NewhamCat, our library catalogue. Do let us know if there is a book which you think we should have and, if it is appropriate, we will purchase it.

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UpToDate - online now...

We are pleased to announce that UpToDate is now available to all Newham University Hospital NHS Trust Staff.

UpToDate is a tool to help you answer clinical questions quickly. It has a helpful straightforward search facility and offers topic reviews that include a synthesis of the literature, recent evidence and specific recommendations for patient care.

Access is provided via the Intranet and not via the main UpToDate website. The simplest way to gain access is to click on NewhamCat and then look for the UpToDate logo.

Please report any access difficulties to us so that we can look into them.

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Have your say 2009 - five minutes for knowledge

UPDATED - Thanks for your input the current survey is now closed - we will let you know about the results in the not too distant future - UPDATED

Please take five minutes to complete the Knowledge & Library Service survey.

Your feedback is key in guiding the future development of the service.

You can see how we responded to last years survey in this post.

Since this feedback we have completed the creation of the Knowledge Hub (in place of the old Reading Room) offering a 24 hours a day venue for small informal group work with extra computers.

So - have your say!

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October New Books

Here is our list of new titles purchased during October 2009.

Nurses and mentors will be pleased to see the 4th edition of the classic The practitioner as teacher by Hinchliff, and educators on the clinical side will be interested in several new titles in their field, including How to teach continuing medical education.

The GMC's new code on Confidentiality has just been published, and we have a copy in the library, plus an electronic link via our network catalogue NewhamCat; similarly with NUHT's Annual report 2008/2009. NewhamCat also has links to the Performance Rating 2008/09 for NUHT and Newham PCT.

For those worried about swine flu there is Dread: How fear and fantasy have fueled epidemics from the Black Death to avian flu to counter any alarmist tendencies.... And maybe Maggot therapy: a handbook of maggot-assisted wound healing will offer some new thoughts on an ancient therapy.

Of course, we also have many new clinical, nursing, & midwifery textbooks - the list has full details. And NewhamCat has details of our complete book stock. Carry out a single word search to find items with your word in the title (eg 'stroke').

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New book titles in stock!

The list of recently acquired book titles is now available.

We have several items for anaesthetists this month, including the new edition of the 4-volume set of Clinical Pain Management, & the 6th edition of Barash's Clinical Anaesthesia together with its accomanying Handbook.


Dermatologists will appreciate the new edition of Goodheart's photoguide to common skin disorders as an aid to diagnosis, and all clinicians and student will be pleased to see the arrival of the latest Kumar & Clark's Clinical Medicine.




Of more general interest, we now have several books on Project Management & PRINCE2, including Project management demystified, and Prince2 for dummies.




And to relax you after a hard day at the NHS coalface, our Well @Work collection now boasts two new titles: Everyday calm: relaxing rituals for busy people & Office yoga: simple stretches for busy people.

Check out the full list for all our September new books, and go to out NewhamCat on the Trust network to see the rest of our stock.

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New books added in August 2009

Here's the link to the August New Books List.

Midwives will be pleased to know that the new edition of Myles' textbookbook for midwives is now available to borrow, and we have purchased several new nursing texts including the UK editions of the Made Incredibly Easy! series, & books on clinical nursing supervision, eg Milne's Evidence-based clincial supervision: principles and practice. Check out the list for more new nursing & midwifery/obstetrics books.

Surgeons will be interested in Clinical surgery made easy: a companion to problem-based learning and Top knife: the art and craft of trauma surgery, while Medical London: city of diseases, city of cures will make fascinating reading for anyone interested in the medical history of our city.

A couple of new titles on stroke management will be of use to both therapists and clinicians: The Stroke clinician's handbook and Stroke treatment and prevention.

As usual, this is just a tiny selection of our new titles. Check the list for the full range, and go to NewhamCat on our Trust network to see our full stock.

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