Hello and Welcome!

Healthcare Library at Salisbury District Hospital

Hello and welcome to the new blog for all things related to the Healthcare Library at Salisbury District Hospital. On this blog you'll get the latest news on e-resources, training, books and all manner of things relating to information for health care... sounds exciting right!

Space to study

Let me just give you a little background info on the library for those who don't already know. The library is situated in SDH Central near Hedgerows coffee shop. The library is staffed by one full time librarian, two part time librarians and two full time library assistants. There will always be a member of staff in the library from 9 to 5 (Like the Dolly Parton song), Monday to Friday excluding bank holidays. Library members can access the library 24 hours a day, 7 days a week using their trust ID badge. You can register for library membership either in the library or by completing and returning a form.
There are 13 PCs in the library, all connected to a colour printer. 9 of the PCs reside in our handsome little training room which also has a large plasma screen, perfect for training sessions or watching a DVD (educational DVDs of course, we don't encourage you to sit in there and watch the Lord of the Rings trilogy!). If you desperately want to use a computer and they're all in use, fear not because we also have 6 brand new laptops you can use in the library.

Self-issue machine

As you might expect the library has books, around 27,000 titles in medicine, surgery, psychology, nursing and management. Most titles are loaned for 28 days and can be renewed twice providing they have not been reserved by another reader. Library members can come in at 3 am on a Sunday and take out books thanks to a nifty bit of kit we like to call 'the self-issue machine'.
We've also got over 400 journal titles in the library. You can't take the journals out but you can photocopy articles.

So that's the physical library. We also have loads of brilliant electronic resources which I'll explain at a later date.

I hope you find this blog useful and mildly entertaining. Any constructive criticisms or compliments are always welcome.

Until next time...