They say there is no such thing as a free lunch. The KLS is pleased to announce that you can now satisfy one hunger for free.
Newham General Reads is our new leisure reading collection. Thanks to kind donations from your colleagues you can pop down to the Knowledge & Library Service to pick up free fiction to read.
The books are located near the comfy chairs close to the entrance of the main library room. You do not need to register with us to take one (or more) and you won't be chased to return things. Please note the Well @ Work healthy living books and DVDs still need to be borrowed in the usual way.
When you have finished with a Newham General Reads book you can return it to us, pass it to a colleague or just gift it on in some other way. Donations are welcome.
There is a great range of books available from all kinds of authors. Please come by and have a look and tell us what you think.
Friday, 28 May 2010
Pick up a FREE book from Newham General Reads
Wednesday, 12 May 2010
Training Dates June 2010
Need to track down journal articles to support your work or study? Want to be able to save your searches or download a subset of your results?
Tues 6 June 14.00
Fri 18 June 14.00
Mon 21 June 17.15
Wed 30 June 08.30
To enrol on any of the above training dates: call the Library on x8016 for advice or book on ESR under Finding the Evidence: using the healthcare databases
Sessions are hands-on in small groups and last for 1 hour.
Monday, 26 April 2010
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.
Tuesday, 13 April 2010
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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Monday, 12 April 2010
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
April 7, April 21, May 5
Tuesday, 6 April 2010
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
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Friday, 5 March 2010
New Books for February
Here is the link to the February New Books List.
We have a couple of new titles for occupational therapists this month Curtin's Occupational therapy and physical dysfunction, & Occupational therapy for people with learning disabilities by Goodman.
If you work in orthopaedics, then you will be pleased to see Dandy's latest edition of Essential orthopaedics and trauma now in stock. We also have the 8th edition of the weighty 2-volume Surgery of foot and ankle by Coughlin & others, along with Gowned and gloved orthopaedics: introduction to common procedures by Sheth & Lonner.
And another heavyweight title is the newly acquired 7th ed of Mandell, Douglas, and Bennett's Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases.
There are many more new purchases - see the list for details, and to check what else we have in stock, go to NewhamCat.
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