The library is a growing organism...

1. Books are for use.
2. Every reader his or her book.
3. Every book its reader.
4. Save the time of the reader.
5. The Library is a growing organism.

The five laws of library science of S. R. Ranganathan

Recent visitors to the library will have noticed changes to the familiar location of sections of collection. Recent years have seen a healthy increase in the number of books we hold. These take up an increasing amount of space (despite regular clear outs of older material). Fortunately we have been able to make space for these by using shelves previously occupied by journals (increasingly an electronic only affair).

Suggestions for new books are always welcome and acted on where possible. To make it clearer for users how we select books to add or remove from the shelves a Collection Management Policy has been prepared. You can find the draft of this here. We welcome your comments on this policy.

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New Books List for March 2010

The latest New Books list is now available.

Titles cover a wide variety of subjects, ranging from Accident & Emergency Medicine (eg the new edition of Practical resuscitation for healthcare professionals by Moule) to Speech therapy (Handbook of child language disorders by Schwartz).

Also covered this month are Legal Medicine (ABC of medical law from the BMJ ABC series), Cultural Diversity (Caring for Hindu patients by Thakrar & others) and Health Services Administration (eg Health care errors and patient safety by Hurwitz & Sheikh). And we link electronically to the Newham results of the National NHS Staff Survey.

We also invest in definitive clinical titles, such as the new edition of Scott-Brown's otorhinolaryngology, head and neck surgery.

Check out the full list (over 100 titles), and click on NewhamCat to see other titles held by the library.
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Drop-in Advice for E-Journals

New for 2010

No need to go to extremes to find out what electronic journals are available to you.

Drop-in to the Cyber Room for informal advice on accessing e-journals form work or home.

Mondays 14.00-16.00pm
April 12, April 19, May 10

Wednesdays 08.30-09.30
April 7, April 21, May 5

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Training Dates April / May 2010

Can't find the information you need to support your work or study?

• Thursday 8 April 08.30
• Wednesday 14 April 11.00
• Friday 23 April 14.00
• Monday 26 April 17.15
• Thursday 6 May 09.00
• Tuesday 11 May 14.00

The Knowledge and Library Service is running training sessions on searching the Healthcare Databases (Medline, BNI, CINAHL etc) on the above dates:

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