Keep up to date with library news, and new developments in health information resources and services
A big thank you to everyone who took part in Telford Health Library's plant sale last week. Your kind donations reached a magnificent £140 which will go to the Shropshire Wildlife Trust. We plan to sponsor a pine marten, dormouse, bilberry bumble bee, hedgehog, barn owl and a Stiperstone holly tree!
Gardening ... boosts mood ... relieves stress ... builds strength ... creates calm
Telford health Library will be holding a Plant "Swap and buy" starting Tuesday 15 June - until stock runs out.
Choose seedlings, cuttings and plants to fill your garden with colour this summer - and a few veg too! No set prices. All donations will go to Shropshire Wildlife Trust.
Opening hours 8.30 - 17.00 Monday to Friday
Prize competition
Win a garden voucher by solving the clues and identifying the garden plants. Download the competition here. Good luck!
COVID-19 can cause symptoms that last weeks or months after the infection has gone. This is sometimes called post-COVID-19 syndrome, chronic COVID syndrome, or 'Long Covid'. The Office for National Statistics estimates that over the four-week period ending 6 March 2021, an estimated 1.1 million people in private households in the UK reported experiencing Long Covid.
Save time when looking for evidence and guidance around Long Covid. As well as including lots of new Long Covid resources in our COVID-19 Evidence Bulletin, we also have a Long Covid evidence resources page where we've collated some of the best guidance and resources on topics such as prevalance, rehabilitation, health services and resources for people living with the condition.
The UpToDate clinical decision support tool provides evidence-based advice on over 11,000 topics to support the diagnoses, treatment and management of common and rare conditions. It can be accessing onsite via the Intranet, or off-site using an NHS OpenAthens account or a personal account created onsite. Mobile apps are also available, and for more information on the various ways to access UpToDate, visit our UpToDate page.
UpToDate are offering a free 30-minute live training session to help you make the best use of UpToDate and explore some of the ways it can help you. Topics covered include:
The training is on Tuesday, May 18th at 2.30pm and is being carried on Microsoft Teams. To join, simply follow this link at the time - there is no need to book.
We've just added another package of new e-books to our collection, spanning titles from Wiley publishers from 2017 owards, for instant access to a range of textbooks covering all subject areas, including medicine and nursing. All of these are searchable on our discovery system alongside all our other print and e-books, and it's easy to search using the Books tab on OmniSearch.
All the books in the collection can be accessed with an NHS OpenAthens account and the books are available to staff and students of Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust, and Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust.
Here are just a small selection of the e-books now available in this collection:
To open a book, click the link and then select the link to 'Sign in with your OpenAthens account'. Enter your account details and you'll then have full access to the book, including the ability to download whole chapters as PDF files.
There is no mobile app, but the site is optimised for mobile devices.
To celebrate World Book Night, Shrewsbury and Telford Health Libraries will be giving away free book gift bags on Friday 23rd April. Pop the date in your diary and remember to collect your book before they run out!
'Stories T
o Make You Smile' is a collection of feelgood stories guaranteed to put the smile back on your face written especially for World Book Night by ten bestselling novelists.
While you're counting down the days until World Book Night, why not have a go at our Guess the Smile quiz. Just for fun, there are no prizes, see if you can guess which smile belongs to which comedian.
We will have copies of the book available to collect from both Shrewsbury and Telford libraries on Friday 23rd April 2021, one book per person, while stocks last!
For more information about World Book Night, or to download a free audiobook, please visit the World Book Night website.
If you're looking for an easy way to see the latest articles in your favourite journals or on keywords of interest, Read by QxMD can help.
It's an app and website that tracks articles in healthcare journals and alerts you to new ones matching your interests. More than that, it can make finding the full-text easy as it links to our journal holdings, or locates open access copies. The app version can store your NHS OpenAthens account details - no more logging into OpenAthens each time you want to access an article!
It's free to create a Read by QxMD account, and you can link your account to the journal holdings of Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust, Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust, Staffordshire University or Keele University.
You can also add papers to your own virtual collections, recommend papers, and discuss articles.
An alternative to Read by QxMD is our KnowledgeShare service that can now offer tables of contents by email.
You now have easy access to 23 additional e-books covering topics in equality and diversity. These can all be accessed with an NHS OpenAthens account from anywhere, and are all on the Kortext platform. For more information about using the Kortext e-books and the Kortext mobile app, visit our guide.
Follow the links below to open the books:
Access to information anywhere, anytime, is even easier with our growing collection of e-books. We now have a new collection of 138 titles via Kortext, and these include a number of titles in the 'at a glance' series as well as many other titles covering medicine, nursing, allied health and midwifery.
All of them can be found via OmniSearch using the 'Books' tab (where you can also search all of our other books and e-books) or you can access the Kortext collection directly (click 'Collections' after logging in to see the whole range of books available). Access is via an NHS OpenAthens account.
Titles include...
...plus another 131 titles!
You can create a personal account to make it easier to login in future (and to enable you to use the mobile app). Visit the Kortext website, select your institution and login as normal with your NHS OpenAthens account. Logout by using the three dots at the top right of the screen and selecting 'Sign Out'. When the login screen appears again, select 'Forgotten Password?'. Use the email address linked to your OpenAthens account to get a password reset link.
Once you've reset your password, you can login to the website and mobile apps with your email and chosen password.
Thursday, 4th February is #TimeToTalk day to support mental health, and we're supporting it by organising a Randomised Coffee Trial during February.
Sign up to the Randomised Coffee Trial using the form below and we'll randomly* match you up with someone else. You can then arrange a good time to have a chat with them. This could be over the phone, over Microsoft Teams, or perhaps arrange to go for a walk outside. The suggested time is half an hour, but even a small conversation can make a big difference.
It's a good way to promote your own mental wellbeing, talk about how you’re feeling, and feel more connected, but they can also help to give you a better idea of what goes on in other teams and what their challenges are, meet new people, build relationships, share learning and build community. What you talk about is up to you, and it doesn’t even necessarily need to be work-related.
Grab a hot drink and get talking! (biscuits or cake optional, but highly recommended).
You can either use the form, or simply contact Jason Curtis in the Shrewsbury Health Library (01743 492511 or extension 2511) with your details.
* May not be entirely random, as we’ll try to make sure your coffee partner is from a different team
