Do you value the Specialist Libraries / Collections?

The recent launch of NHS Evidence is part of a wider set of changes to the knowledge and library environment in the NHS. The old National Library for Health included what were then called the Specialist Libraries bringing together high quality evidence on a specialty or topic area and publishing regular updates. You can sign up to receive these via email using our Knowledge Alerts service.

The Specialist Libraries have been renamed Specialist Collections but currently remain largely unchanged. They are now being reviewed by NHS Evidence to decide what form they will take in future (or whether they need to continue at all). We would encourage you to have your say via this survey. It will take around 5 minutes to complete and closes very soon (17th July).

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New Books for June 2009

The list of new books for June is now available, a bumper month with over 90 titles added to our collection.

We've been concentrating on updating our IT support section with new titles on various aspects of Microsoft Office 2007, including the Teach Yourself Visually Series on Office 2007, Powerpoint, Access, Outlook & Word. The Excel title in this series will arrive next month.


We now have the new 2-volume edition of the New Oxford textbook of psychiatry by Gelder & the 11th edition of the weighty Williams textbook of endocrinology. In response to a request from the Greenway Centre we have also purchased the 4th edition of Mildvan's International atlas of AIDS.


To assist managers in all disciplines there is The 80 minute MBA: everything you'll never learn at business school by Reeves, & Seamless teamwork: using Microsoft Sharepoint technologies to collaborate, innovate & drive business in new ways by Sampson, along with the 5 volumes of Better Partnership working.


As always, this is just a tiny selection from the list. Go to New Books June 2009 to see all the new titles. They can also be found in our network catalogue NewhamCat. And do let us know if there is a title that you think would be a useful addition to the library.


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More journals on your desktop

People often ask us if we have a particular journal and then look over hopefully at the display shelves where the current paper issues live. While we do have a small collection of titles in print these are only a tiny fraction of our actual journal collection which is now nearly all electronic.

Recently we have added a new collection of high quality electronic titles from the publisher Lippincott Williams and Wilkins. Access is simple either

• browse them using MyJournals (you will need to be logged in using Athens though)
• or search them using Healthcare Databases Advanced Search (again Athens required)

Titles include - AIDS, American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, Anesthesiology, Circulation, Critical Care Medicine, the Current Opinion series, the Endocrinologist, European Journal of Emergency Medicine, JAIDS, J Patient Safety, J of Trauma IICC, Journal of WOCN, Nurse Educator, Obstetrics & Gynecology, Simulation in Healthcare and so on.

Please get in touch if you have any difficulties accessing these titles.

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