Things in the library 22 November

Things to do
The Cochrane Library - An introduction for Researchers

Tuesday, 26 November 2013

Starting time:13:00, GMT Time (London, GMT)

A 1 hour online training session - you need to book here (may already be fully subscribed)

Things to read and do
Analysing your staff survey results -there is an increasing amount of interest in the links between staff and patient experience. Matthew Watt from Health Education Yorkshire & the Humber has developed a tool for NHS Employers, which allows organisations to see links between the data in the staff survey and patient data. More information here

Things you might want to try

Google Scholar have launched Scholar Library you can save articles from the search page, organize them by topic, and use the power of Scholar's full-text search & ranking to quickly find just the one you want - of course you never can be certain with Google if features will stay for ever or be discontinued. If you are interested in other reference management software come and ask us. I hope to do an InfoBite on the subject next year. More about Scholar Library here

Things about Social Media

NHS Employers have published a document called "Increasing staff engagement with social media" you can read it here.This briefing looks at how you can use social media in your organisation to improve staff engagement. It is aimed at the HR community but will also be of interest to communications teams and line managers.
It discusses how social media platforms can be used to engage staff and provides examples of engaging staff using social media. It looks at what you can do now to improve staff engagement and things you need to consider.



Things to attend
You might also be interested in our next InfoBites which is entitled 'Why social media' a quick 20 min introduction to the topic, on 3rd December at 13:00 in the library.

Things moving fast
Kate and Sarah are both runners so were interested in this report showing declining fitness in children - it's claimed that on average, children today run a mile 90 seconds slower than did their counterparts 30 years ago. Read more here

Things to buy

If you have someone in your life who loves a 'real' book you might like to look at these - please will someone point my husband in the direction of this blog! Click here for more details


Things we did and ate

Journal Club had a good discussion this week around a paper on Cerebral Palsy - the next meeting will be next week 28 Nov 8:00 to 9:00 watch out for an email with further details.
This week attendees were able to sample these excellent carrot, spinach and cumin muffins recipe here