Thursday, 25 November 2010

Training - December 2010


Finding the Evidence: searching the healthcare databases
Invest one hour of your time learning how to search for journal references / full text articles specific to your area of interest

Dates for December:
Thursday 2 December 09.30-10.30
Monday 6 December 17.15-18.15
Wednesday 15 December 10.00-11.00

Book on ESR or contact the Library on x8016 for advice


Information Advice Session
For quick information needs enquiries we are holding our drop in session:
Monday 13 December
Call into the Cyber Room anytime between 14.00 and 16.00

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Monday, 8 November 2010

Give us feedback (prizes to be won)

We need your help.

The KLS team are always busy trying to improve our service to you. To guide this we need your feedback and suggestions. Positive or negative views are welcome - as are those of people making limited or no use of the KLS at present.

So how to help? Please complete our brief survey. With eight questions it should take only a few minutes to complete.

The eight questions even includes the one to provide your email address for a chance to win one of ten 1GB USB memory sticks.
We will feed back on your input in Knowledge News.

Tuesday, 2 November 2010

October 2010 New Books List

We constantly update our stock with newly published titles and new editions of old favourites, and this month is no exception. The October New books List shows over 100 titles received in the last month, spanning a wide range of topics.


Latest editions of the Oxford handbooks (eg in Oncology) are all now available, along with new editions of many other classics (eg Ghaye's Reflecton: principles and practice for healthcare professionals and Polit's Essentials of nursing research).

New titles span the range from Aquatic exercise in pregnancy to The checklist manifesto : how to get things right which discusses how professionals deal with the complexity of their responsibilities.

The full list shows all our new titles. Meanwhile, check on NewhamCat if you are searching to see if we have a particular subject or title, as this lists our whole stock.