Transcript for the video ‘Library Services at Gloucestershire Hospitals’

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Eric Choong, Advanced Physiotherapist:
So most recently the library has helped me with a literature search.
I contacted the library and someone met me, and they patiently listened to what I needed.
And they helped me with defining the search terms and looking through the literature database so that the search was as thorough as could be.

Julie Bruce-Watt, Lecturer Practitioner:
They provide quality information, saving time for us and allowing us to be confident in the subject matter that we are delivering.

Lynne McEwan, Senior Nurse Safeguarding Adult Team:
Our Trust library staff are core to our safeguarding, our board, their expert reference members as part of the group.
So I think to me the library works flexibly. They’re very helpful, they’re very resourceful.
I think particularly some of the literature searches – they’ve been able to pull information that’s helped us to take forward some new innovations.

Peter Fletcher, Consultant Physician and Medical Education Lead:
It’s not just a big room full of books and journals – it’s really about the librarians and about the digital resources that help us in the day job.

Andy Champion, Clinical Psychologist Brain Injury Team:
So I was able to ask the library to alert me if there are any new updates, and it’s helped me keep my practice not just up to date, but actually helped me develop the service.

Ben King, Resuscitation Service Lead:
We were able to get some good evidence that gave us confidence that this was the right way the right way to go with this sort of teaching.
I think the one thing I that I would highlight about the library service at this organisation is the good humour and the patience of the people that work there.
Their expertise doesn’t need to be mentioned, because it just is.
So I would like to say thank you to the library service and the individuals within it because it genuinely is a very useful service and you only…
when you need it, boy, do you need it, and you’ll undoubtedly find that there’s enormous amounts of help and expertise available within the service.