These are our closing dates for Christmas - I am posting them now as I am on annual leave next week so this will be the last blog before Christmas.
Mon 21 Dec Closed for Stock Taking
Tues 22 Dec – Sun 3 Jan Closed for Christmas & New Year
We will reopen Mon 4 Jan 2021
As always there is a book drop box outside the library if you need to return items whilst we are closed.
Things finished, until the next one...
The recent Randomised Coffee Trial is receiving good feedback from people who took part. Some people found it difficult meeting online without disturbing colleagues in their workplaces. Not much we can do to help with that I'm afraid - hopefully people will be able to meet up again physically at some point next year - you will perhaps have to encourage your colleagues to sign up too!. Some people based on the Acute site went for a socially distanced walk in the park. Meeting virtually is not ideal but it does make it easier to meet colleagues from different sites. We expect the next RCT to be in February with sign-up being available anytime from now until the end of January.
Things about autism...
This article was highlighted to us from our colleagues in CAMHS 'The effectiveness of parent training for children with autism spectrum disorder: a systematic review and meta-analyses' it is available on open access.
Things about training...
If you are clinical staff you may be directed to use Clinical Skills Net for some of your training. If so and you have not previously registered to use this, then please email the library and tell us your NHS email address, staff assignment number (you can find this when you log in to ESR) and your staff category/job role. We will then set up your account so you can access the courses.
Things to attend...
The next Journal Club meeting is on Tuesday 15th December 13:00 - 14:00.
Venue: Virtually & from the Education & Skills Centre. Click here to join the meeting.
Paper: Primary care faecal calprotectin testing in children with suspected inflammatory bowel disease: a diagnostic accuracy study
Things about Christmas past...
I have just been re-reading Charles Dickens 'A Christmas Carol' as I try to do each year. One of the things I always enjoy is the glimpses of life in 1843, of the Cratchit’s Christmas pudding he writes:
"A great deal of steam! the pudding was out of the copper. A smell like a washing-day! That was the cloth. A smell like an eating-house and a pastry cook's next door to each other, with a laundress's next door to that. That was the pudding."
Not many people make their own puddings these days and if they do I hope they don't use their washing machines, but if you have left over Christmas pudding this year there are many options. I have seen one suggestion that you fry up a slice to go with a full English breakfast in the place of black pudding!. Perhaps a little more conventional is Christmas pudding ice cream.
Illingworth Library staff would like to wish everyone a
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
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