Trimester
Library Newsletter
Newsletter of the Rotunda Hospital Library & Information Service Volume 6 Issue 2 June 2013
Learn and Lead
Inside this issue:
Learn and Lead
Content Creators The Digital Frontier.
The A&SL Annual Seminar
Visible Evidence -
1
2
The HSLG Annual
Conference 2013
3
Notice Board
4
Training Days at LIS
4
Health Literacy Approaching the Challenges
of Health Literacy
5
Midwifery Journal Club - 6
The Productive Ward
From the Literature
7
E-Newsletters
7
Focus On -
8
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W
elcome to the Summer edition of TRIMESTER. As in previous years
we have devoted this edition to our continuing professional development
pursuits and sharing the varied content from these events. Access to
training and education is essential for motivation in periods of recession but it’s difficult
to equitably achieve within tight budget constraints. As a result we are thankful to our
professional bodies who provide bursaries for such events. My thanks goes to the
Health Sciences Libraries Group who supplied a bursary for staff attendance and for
giving me an opportunity to showcase the Rotunda Hospital and its research activities
at the HSLG Annual Conference. We share this experience with you in our article,
Visible Evidence, on page 3.
The Academic and Special Libraries Group of the Library Association of Ireland
hosted its annual seminar on the 1st of March. Entitled Content Creators: the Digital
Frontier, the seminar explored the many ways in which digitisation is being used to
bring collections in specialist libraries to the forefront and increase access for all. Our
keynote speaker Simon Tanner from Kings College, London, introduced us to the
world of digitisation and its many uses in specialist collections. Our full report on
this annual seminar can be found on page 2.
Our own staff training days are discussed on page 4. We welcomed instructors from
Ebsco and Ovid who gave concise training sessions on their respective products,
CINAHL and Medline.
Please remember these
training dates are free of
charge, all that is required is
your participation.
Any suggestions you have
for training would be very
welcome.
Our Midwifery Journal
Club hosted the work of
staff in the Lillie Suite in an
interesting presentation
entitled Making Quality Count:
releasing time to care - the
Productive Ward which you
can read about on page 6.
We hope you enjoy this
June issue of Trimester.
Our next issue will be due
out in September.