James goes on to bigger and better(?) things

Rumours that James will be leaving us are absolutely true. He will be moving onto an excellent post at Salford University and we are more than sorry to see him go. His last day at work will be Thursday 24th July.

Over the last 2 years, James has

• developed further our online access and resources. This has helped users. He has also made the processes behind them as efficient and idiot proof as possible (he will be leaving them for us non-techies to operate).


• He has entertained and educated with his talks and training sessions


• His photographs have graced our newsletters


• His patience with those struggling with this complex electronic world is legendary


• He has introduced us to electronic newsletters, countless databases and Mark Miller photographs of brain cells


• He has been nominated for support staff of the year


• He has tidied shelves, stamped books and made countless cups of tea


• But best of all, he has been great company, making us laugh with his wry sense of humour
  

I am speaking for everyone when I say, he will be very much missed but we do wish him all the very best and hope that Salford appreciate him as much as we do.

James (right) doing what he does best - working with people and computers

We have appointed his replacement who will be starting on Wednesday 6th August. Her name is Vicki Ferri and she is coming to us from the University of Chester Library in Warrington.

The Competition Results

Thanks to those who participated in our caption competition. We could only select from those who gave us enough information to contact them.

So the winner is Margaret Field

with the quote "Caring for all, even the baby bird. By the way does my bum look big in this?"

Many thanks to Gwynneth who fed the poor fledgling who fell out the tree, allowed us to use her photograph and chose the winning comment.

What happened to Blackwell Synergy?

Blackwell Synergy journals, such as BJOG and the Journal of Advanced Nursing, are now owned by Wiley. This has resulted in a few changes when you access titles

• you can still access them from the A-Z, both from the intranet and internet
• you still need to logon using Athens.
• Find the article you want as before. Once at the article, click on the html (extra features) or pdf (printable) versions
• Click on the small link to Athens either at the top right hand corner or below the registered users login on the left
• You will be taken to an Athens authentication page where you type in your username and password which should grant to you access

Currently we are experiencing problems with the actual logon to articles. We have contacted Wiley and hopefully this will be quickly resolved.

Journal Survey

We want to buy the best journal collection we can for all specialities for the money we have. So from 14th July - 1st August we will be running a very simple online survey which should take the minimum amount of time to complete. Look out for this and complete it when you see it. It will help us make the best decision for the journals we purchase in 2009.

Search 2

The demise of Dialog access has again been moved back and is now given as Thursday 31st July 2008 and we have been assured that this will be the final date.

There have been some recent changes which have improved stability and added some new features.

BEST NEW FEATURE: You can now search the Health Business (management journals) database from the advanced search facility.

Want to improve your searching? Attend one of our training sessions. Click here for a list

Team Knowledge Officers

In June 2007 the National Library for Health (NLH) Board commissioned a review of NHS Libraries in England to make recommendations for the future of such services. The report, known as the Hill Review, was published in March 2008 and includes 50 recommendations.

One recommendation is that Trusts identify a Board level Chief Knowledge Officer (CKO). For Stockport NHS Foundation Trust this will be Nicola Reucroft and for Stockport PCT it will be Stephen Watkins.

A second is to develop the Team Knowledge Officer (TKO) role within Trusts. Every clinical or management team in the NHS should identify someone in the team as “Team Knowledge Officer” (or equivalent). The TKO will have responsibility for ensuring the effective input of evidence to enable the team to function properly. The Library Service will very much support this role and will liaise with this person by offering training on our resources to teams or individuals; helping to keep your team up to date; help with finding evidence; building the resources you need, to name but a few.

Bill Cheetham is the TKO for the Infection Prevention and Control Team. As somebody interested in the importance of evidence you might like to consider taking on the role for your team. Anyone who liked to find out more, please contact Mary Hill by e-mail or on 5809.

Exciting new e-books

Nationally a new set of e-books have been bought which include a number of Oxford Handbooks. Unfortunately we are loosing access to the WHO collection which has not been well used.

To get a list of the new titles and those that we are loosing, click here

Do take a look. You will need an Athens username and password. Logon to http://www.library.nhs.uk/ with this password & select e-books from under Resources.

Note: These titles may not be available until the end of June