Things in the library 17 Jan

Things to read
If you watched Panorama last Monday 'I want my baby back', which investigated the family courts system, you will have seen that our very own Prof Nick Bishop was one of the interviewees talking about his work on Vitamin D and rickets. This week he and Dr Charlie Elder have an article published in the Lancet  on rickets - the link to the pdf is here and you will be able to access the full text with your OpenAthens login. The library has supported their work by searching the literature and sourcing articles so please make use of these services if you need such support.
Prof Bishop's interview also took place in the library and for any of you whose mind was wandering (surely not!) you may have wondered why a nice run of bound journals was interspersed with a couple of different coloured volumes...the cameraman thought it looked prettier...sigh...

Things about Librarians

Librarian from Disney's 'Monsters University'©

As a profession we work in a myriad different companies and organisations so we go by all sorts of weird and wonderful job titles. We thought this fun Librarian Title Generator was a good way to give you an idea of what can be encompassed by our job. The complexity and scope of the profession is often not realised in the wider world (and certainly not in the world of films where glasses, hair in a bun and a 'sshhh' is the usual stereotype.)

Things to follow
We have a Twitter account so you can follow us here - we tend to mostly retweet items we think may be of interest to staff working in paediatrics.We also automatically post these on Facebook and our library catalogue page. So if you don't Tweet but you do use Facebook then please 'Like' our page here.


Things that are new

Many will have come across TripDatabase (not the one for booking holidays) which is an excellent free resource for finding quality evidence.This week they have launched a new Twitter feed @TripChildHealth - this will post all the latest evidence, added to the Trip Database, focused on child health. We will be monitoring it but if you use Twitter you might want to follow it directly.

Things you may want to attend

Introduction to Quality Improvement and Patient Safety 14 February 2014 . For those working in child health who are motivated to improve the quality of healthcare of children and young people. The RCPCH has launched an important new series of education courses on Quality Improvement and Patient Safety. The series offers a range of training for all child health practitioners interested in encouraging quality improvement.As a trainee, consultant, nurse, manager or administrator, you are in an ideal position to see areas that need improvement, whether it is about access to resources, more support, poorly functioning systems, wasting of resources by unnecessary duplication or poor communication then this is where you can bring these to the attention of your department and work together to make the patient journey safer and more efficient.

Things to make - a new skill?

If you have never tackled making flaky pastry then Delia has a very easy foolproof method which you can use for making her sausage rolls (meat and vegetarian)

As for me I'm off to have a second family Christmas this weekend...although we are having a Summer Pudding not a Christmas one..a little early but made with frozen berry packs works really well. This recipe looks similar to the one my husband makes - although adding a couple of tablespoons of cassis or blackcurrant cordial is good too.