Current awareness bulletins prepared by Richard Fallis, Specialist Librarian for Medicine, Dentistry and Healthcare Sciences, are now available as followable Read by QxMD collections. This makes it easier for you to download the full text of articles listed in bulletins on your mobile device.
The Healthcare Library of Northern Ireland ran an impact survey from 11th February 2019 to 22nd February 2019 to gather examples of how our role in providing Health and Social Care professionals with free library and information services, and expert advice and training supports patient care, evidence-based practice and continuing professional development. Invitations to participate in the survey were sent to a random sample of Healthcare Library members.
A total of three questions were asked:
Give an example of something you have asked The Healthcare Library to help you with
In what way did the Library help?
What was the impact on your professional practice, patient outcome, safety or cost?
From the survey, it can be seen that members ask the Library to help with four main categories: literature searching, access to resources, training and requesting material.
Figure 1: Pie Chart displaying what members ask for help with
The impact of this help falls into the categories of continuing professional development (CPD), patient care and safety, policy strategy and guidelines, evidence-based practice (EBP), and research.
Figure 2: Pie Chart displaying the impact of help provided by The Healthcare Library
The results of the survey will be invaluable to us in reporting to the Department of Health and to support future business cases for enhanced funding or specific projects. In the current financial climate, it is extremely important to be able to prove the value of our services and your input is crucial to this. Thank you to all who took the time to respond to the survey, and although the survey has now closed, we are always grateful for feedback especially case studies highlighting the impact of our service. If you have any such example, please contact info@healthcarelibrary.qub.ac.uk or use the online feedback form.
We
are pleased to announce that the majority of journals subscribed to by the
Healthcare Library of Northern Ireland may now be accessed via Read by QxMD, a journal discovery and
alerting app.
Read
makes it easier to connect to the full text of articles on mobile devices. Set
up Read in 3 simple steps:
Open the app, tap GET STARTED, and work
through the screens that follow to create a Read account
Finally, tap Settings > Institutional
Access, search for the Healthcare Library of Northern Ireland, choose the
Automatic Login option, and enter and save your Library number and password
You
can then start searching for journals and papers, and setting up new journal
alerts.
If you are a member of HSC Medicine, Dentistry and Healthcare Sciences staff, you can currently subscribe to current awareness bulletins relevant to your profession using the on-line Google form at: http://libguides.qub.ac.uk/healthcarelibrary/medicinebulletins
Unfortunately, this form is blocked and therefore unavailable in a number of HSC locations across Northern Ireland. That’s why we’ve introduced a Word version of the subscription form, which is available alongside the Google version. Links to the Word version of the form appear on all pages at: http://libguides.qub.ac.uk/healthcarelibrary/medicinebulletins
The Healthcare Library of Northern Ireland has relaunched its haematology current awareness bulletin under the title of Blood, to include links to new, full-text articles, guidelines and Cochrane systematic reviews relating to blood medicine and blood transfusion.
Or, if the subscription form on the above website is blocked at your location, please email Richard Fallis, Specialist Librarian for Medicine, Dentistry & Healthcare Sciences, and he will sign you up for the bulletin. Richard’s email address can be found at: https://healthcarelibrary.qub.ac.uk/TrainingandSupport/SpecialistLibrarians/
Due to a surge in demand, the Healthcare Library has relaunched its obstetrics and gynaecology current awareness bulletin, which contains links to the full text of new journal articles, Cochrane systematic reviews and more.
View the first issue of the relaunched bulletin, and subscribe to future issues via email, by going to:
The Healthcare Library has launched a new neurology current awareness bulletin, containing links to the full text of brand new journal articles, Cochrane reviews and more.
View the first issue, and subscribe to future issues via email, by going to:
The Healthcare Library is launching 2 new medicine current awareness bulletins for 2019, containing links to the full text of brand new journal articles, Cochrane reviews and more.
View the first, and subscribe to future, issues of both bulletins by clicking on the links below:
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