Image showing a calendar detailing our staffed hours over the Christmas period. Details can also be found on our website.
📅 Here are details of when our libraries are staffed over the Christmas and new year period.
🔓 All sites should be available 24/7 to access tag holders throughout.
📩 You can find a downloadable version here: uhl-library.nhs.uk/pdfs/christmas.pdf
A photo of the stained glass window of St Ursula
A picture of St Ursula
A short reflection on the life of St Ursula
Today is the feast day of St Ursula!
While we don't encourage feasting in the library, feel free to come to Odames Library at Leicester Royal Infirmary & feast your eyes on our beautiful stained glass window of St Ursula which used to be in St Luke's chapel.
The 6 stages of evidence-based health care
An advert for our critical appraisal training
An advert for our literature searching training
📆 2025 training dates can be found here (uhl-library.nhs.uk/training) & places can be booked via HELM (uhlhelm.com) & KnowledgeShare (knowledgeshare.nhs.uk)
Topics including:
🔎 Literature searching
📋 Critical appraisal
🤷 Health literacy
✍️ Writing for publication
Graph showing increased confidence of participants
Image showing evaluation comments of participants
📋 Today we ran a Critical Reading Made Easy course. Here is what the participants thought of it and how it helped.
✅ Seems like it was a success.
🗓️ Dates for September-December will be out soon.
ℹ️ Info: uhl-library.nhs.uk/training
#uhllibcrme
LADS - Gen AI is *all* hallucinations, some of which happen to be accurate.
If I give you hundreds of books in French, then ask you questions in French, and you piece together a plausible sequence of French words to be an answer based on looking at all the books, you *STILL CANNOT SPEAK FRENCH.*
📋 This morning's critical appraisal training session gave us some really great feedback.
📈 It really increased confidence in this crucial part of #evidencebasedhealthcare
🗓️ We're currently taking bookings for:
22nd May @ LGH
26th June @ LRI
🤝 Join us!
#uhllibCRME
👇 Yesterday was our latest health literacy awareness course & here is the full feedback from attendees.
🤡 Another fun, helpful session it seems.
✉️ Why not join us later in the year or invite us to your team meeting?
#uhllibHLA
🎂Yesterday was the🔟 year anniversary of the opening of Odames Library. 🎈
👍We have been delighted to serve everyone from here over the last decade.
🗣️ Let us know what the library has meant to you and how it has helped you? 👇
Our final training session of 2024 was health literacy awareness and here's the full feedback ⬇️
Understanding went up by over 1️⃣3️⃣5️⃣%
📅 Dates for 2025 are out now!
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Someone even gave us a 5 star review - (presumably out of 5!)
#uhllibHLA
🕰️ Here are our Christmas and new year staffing times.
🎟️ Please remember that access is available at all times with a 24-hour tag which can be collected from any library site for a £10 deposit. Eligibility criteria apply.
Our training dates for the first part of 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣5️⃣ are now out.
Including on:
ℹ️ Health literacy
📋 Critical appraisal
🔎 Literature searching
📝 Writing for publication
Browse: uhl-library.nhs.uk/trainingcalendar
Book: uhlhelm.com or knowledgeshare.nhs.uk
More information: uhl-library.nhs.uk/training
The International Clinical Librarian Conference 2025 is now taking abstracts for sessions. Submit your abstract here: uhl-library.nhs.uk/iclc/abstracts…
We welcome any topic in the field of clinical/outreach librarian work.
#medlibs #ukmedlibs #canmedlibs
👩🎓 We're currently doing our final Health Literacy Awareness session of the year at Glenfield Hospital.
🔜 Dates for 2025 will be out soon here: uhl-library.nhs.uk/training