Career conversations
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Career conversations
Capturing conversations with members of our occupational therapy community , RCOT has recorded and produced a series of vodcasts ( video podcasts ) and podcasts .
The series , which launched on Tuesday 2 May , focuses on hearing and sharing the career stories of our diverse workforce . Each vodcast is also available in traditional audio podcast format with text transcription .
This series of career conversations uses the Kawa Model of occupational therapy , and the analogy career journey as a river and provides a living library of different narratives and possibilities in occupational therapy through the power of shared narratives .
See the April issue of OTnews ( pages 30-32 ) and visit https :// bit . ly / 3APtqIZ .
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The RCOT Library , an update
Last year , RCOT announced that the physical reference Library was to close and we would provide an entirely digital Library service . By doing this it means you can :
• Use the Library wherever and whenever you need .
• Browse online journals and read full-text articles .
• Search the CINAHL and Medline databases .
• Read e-books and online PhD theses via the catalogue .
• Access information skills guides to help with literature searching , using databases , navigating the Library catalogue and keeping up to date .
• Ask for support from our enquiry service .
In terms of what ’ s new , the Library has :
• 77 new e-books , 78 online theses , 35 RCOT publicaitons and 28 open access documents .
• An upgraded catalogue – you can even segment search results by format .
• A broader range of e-books .
• And you can see how we aquire , maintain and develop the Library in our Collection Management Policy .
You ’ ve increased your use of e-books by 28 % and the CINAHL and Medline databases by 33 %. But what happened to the physical resources ?
Over the past year , we rehomed many books , journals and other printed materials . We returned printed dissertations and theses to 37 authors . Better World Books , a for-profit social enterprise , took 90 boxes of books .
And print resources were sent to the following 17 institutions : British Library ; Brunel University ; Cambridge University ; Canterbury Christ Church University ; Chartered Society of Physiotherapy ; Coventry University ; Edinburgh Napier University ; London South Bank University ; National Library of Wales ; Queen Margaret University ; UK Research Reserve ; University of Brighton ; University of Central Lancashire ; University of Derby ; University of Hertfordshire ; and University of Liverpool .
Our two librarians continue to work with other professionals across the library , archive and museum sector to ensure that as much material as possible is placed in publicly accessible collections – homes are now being sought for the older printed resources and items that require special care .
A reserve collection of RCOT ( and COT ) materials is being kept , which we hope to digitise in the future . Records for these are on the Library catalogue . Visit https :// bit . ly / 3VrtGHw .
If you need help using the digital resources , contact our Library team between 9am – 5pm , Monday – Friday at library @ rcot . co . uk . Or for more information visit https :// bit . ly / 3HApdNa .
56 OTnews May 2023