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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 three £10 Amazon gift vouchers.

We will feed back on your input in Knowledge News and via this blog.

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Finding the Evidence: using the healthcare databases

Work, study and life is often a juggling act but knowing how to search the healthcare databases can help save you time by enabling you to find journal articles on your topic of interest.

Why not join us for a one hour hands-on session?

Friday 18 November 14.00
Monday 21 November 17.15
Tuesday 29 November 14.00
Wednesday 07 December 10.00
Monday 12 December 14.00
Tuesday 20 December 14.00

By the end of a session you will be able to:
-Plan your search strategy
-Understand how to carry out a subject search
-Combine search terms
-Apply date or other limits to the search
-View, save or print results
-Access any available full text

Book for a session on ESR or contact the library on x8016 for advice.

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Critical Appraisal

Do you want to know what to look for when critically appraising an article?

These sessions are particularly suitable for nurses and midwives but if you are doing a course or attend a journal club you are welcome to join us.

Wednesday 14 December
Quantitative critical appraisal 10.00-11.00
Qualitative critical appraisal 11.10-12.10

You can attend either session or both.
Book on ESR or contact th elibrary x8016 for advice

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Quick Introductions

Quick Introductions enable you to drop by the Cyber Room anytime during the hour that the sessions run for a quick introduction to some of the resources available to you.

E-journals access is about finding out if you have full text for a given referenece and getting access to it from work or from home.
Monday 5 December 14.00-15.00

UpToDate / TRIP / NHS Evidence provide a quick introdution to three resources you might find useful in your professional practice
Thursday 15 December 09.00-10.00

No need to book for these sessions just drop into the Cyber Room

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October New Books

Lots of brand new titles in our October New Books List, as we scan reviews and notifications to bring you the latest influential publications.

These include many midwifery titles, including Midwifery survival guide, Midwives coping with loss and grief and Supporting sucking skills in breastfeeding infants.
We also have several copies of the 2011 (14th) edition of Mayes' midwifery, the key local text for midwives.

In the field of medicine, there are two new titles in the Oxford Desk Reference series, Cardiology and Oncology. And junior doctors struggling with management concepts will be interested in Leadership and Management for Doctors in Training. The latest edition of Harrison's principles of internal medicine is also now available.

Click on the list for all the new titles, and explore our full stock on NewhamCat.

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