Trimester
Library Newsletter
Newsletter of the Rotunda Hospital Library & Information Service Volume 5 Issue 1 March 2012
New Year,
New Design
Inside
Editorial:
New Year New Design
1
Unlocking Your Potential:
2
A&SL Seminar
New Directions:
HSLG Conference
3
Lenus - The Online Irish
Health Repository
4
Book Review by
Dr Michael Geary
5
Clinical Audit Meets
Midwifery Journal Club
5
Notice Board
6
From the Literature
7
Sites to Visit
7
Focus On BiomedExperts
8
Welcome to the first issue of TRIMESTER for 2012. This Spring issue is the first using
our Rotunda unique branding , logo and colour scheme. We hope you find it attractive but
rest assured and for ease of use our layout and topic selection remains the same.
In this issue we focus on educational issues and in particular the Irish Health Sciences
Library (HSLG) Conference (page 3) and the Academic and Special Libraries Group
Seminar (page 2) of the Library Association of Ireland. Both are firm favourites in our
calendar of events. Our thanks to the Rotunda and the HSLG for funding staff attendance
at these events. The conference this year centred around the recently commissioned and
published report Irish Health Libraries: new directions. Report on the status of librarianship and
libraries in Ireland, hereafter referred to as the SHeLLI Report. I encourage you to familiarise
yourself with the report which can be downloaded from www.hslg.ie/shelli. This report is
paramount to the current status and availability of access to health libraries, during a time
when resources and staffing are limited. Access to information is essential in our
environment and the report outlines the importance of libraries and librarians in facilitating
this access to resources and information. Health librarian’s roles are changing and there is a
need for librarians to make relevant information available to practitioners when and where it
is needed and to health care managers to support the decisions they make. We, your library
staff, understand the environment we support and strive to expand our roles so that we can
assist you, our users.
Further developments include our current research status in relation to the LENUS
Research database www.lenus.ie/hse (page 4). We briefly introduced you to the LENUS
database in 2009 but now it is a viable, searchable base for research undertaken in our
hospitals’ research communities. We continue to support its development at a local level.
Our Midwifery Journal Club recent review is on page 5 and our thanks to Dr M Geary for
providing a book review also on page 5. We welcome contributions from you, the reader,
and value your clinical and administrative opinions regarding library book acquisitions.
We hope you enjoy this issue and as always, appreciate your feedback.
A M. O’Byrne
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S taff
Librarian: Anne M. O’Byrne
Snr Library Assistant: Geraldine Walsh
(l-r) Aoife Lawton, Systems Librarian, HSE; Louise Farragher, Health Research Board; Dr Janet Harrison, Department of
Information Science, Loughborough University; Fionnuala Hanrahan, President, Library Association of Ireland; Leo Kearns,
CEO, RCPI; Brian Galvin, Senior Information Specialist, HRB; and Bennery Rickard, Regional Librarian, HSE.