Things in the Library 28 February

Things to attend
Sheffield University Psychiatry Society would like to invite you to a free event they are holding on the 8th March in the Richard Roberts Auditorium, called 'Medicine, Madness and the Media'. Speakers include:
Simon Buckden    'A personal experience of PTSD and the stigma of mental illness'
(our very own) Dr Girish Vaidya   'ADHD - Mad, Bad or Sad?'and 
Professor Femi Oyebode   'Madness at the Theatre'.
Followed by Medfest -an annual national (and now-international!) film festival.
It is an afternoon of short films, clips and animations about aspects of health, mental illness and medicine in general, followed by a discussion by a panel of locally and nationally distinguished people.More information here The films will start at 1pm, feel free to attend just the morning/just the afternoon if that suits you better. The event is free but please register 

Things to read
This week the report 'Focus On: Distance from home to emergency care' was published. The report examines the typical distances from home that people travel to receive emergency care, and how this has changed over time. It explores the distances between a person’s home and the hospital at which they attended A&E, or received an emergency inpatient admission, using Hospital Episode Statistics from the 10-year period from 2001/02 to 2011/12. It can be read in full here 

Things to pledge
Don't forget Monday 3rd March is NHS Change Day where we are all encouraged to do something better together in the workplace. More information here and you can register your pledges here


Things have gone from bad...
We arrived in the library one morning this week to find that our library overdues hadn't been sent during the night. This meant the library staff had to engage their dusty brains and remember which buttons to press to send them manually. It transpired that a Microsoft update had been installed on the server where our system is hosted and the system had sulked - despite being tested first. Fortunately all was solved the next day. Please remember that if you borrow books from us you will get an nice little email the day before your item is due back so you can just hit reply and ask if you need to renew your items. If you don't respond the the emails gradually get less nice as the fines and admin charges increase but we really don't like taking lots of money off people so talk to us if you have a problem returning your items.

...to worse
A different morning this week we came in to find that following an overnight interruption to the power supply our best colour printer wasn't working and after a visit from a nice electrician it seems the problem may be terminal...18 months old and not cheap! Being without it wouldn't have been a particular problem as we have a lovely new colour photocopier except that we were planning a print job which wasn't compatible with the photocopier settings. Don't forget you can scan documents from our copier to your SCH email address without charge.
...BREAKING NEWS...nice IT guy from Uni may be able to help us with our printer.

...but all's well
So if you were in the library on Thursday you would have seen Kate and Gill with lots of bits of paper coming up with a 'Blue Peter' solution. This meant the Orders of Service for the hospitals annual Service of Remembrance were safely delivered to the chaplaincy in time for the event on 9th March.

Things Fairly Traided
Today I have a Fair Trade muffin recipe for you here.
On Tuesday evening after the library had closed at 19:00 (as it does Monday-Thursday) I went to the opening of a new shop  just up the road from the hospital in Broomhill. It is called Fair Grounds and during Fairtrade fortnight, which runs to March 9, the shop will be open Monday to Saturday from 10am to 5pm. From March 11 the shop will be open Tuesday to Saturday.