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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