tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306839822011-04-21T22:34:10.542-07:00This blog tells the story of the National Health Informatics Collection at the University of Central Lancashire Library. The materials inherited from the NHS, will be integrated into the library, but will maintain a distinct identity in terms of the catalogue record and the collection development policy. The collection will be developed with new texts, continued runs of key series etc. as a historical and contemporary resource for all UK Health Informatics professionals and students.Team Healthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10243360221832016675noreply@blogger.comBlogger61100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30683982.post-1159954388727507462006-10-04T02:32:00.000-07:002006-10-04T02:33:08.740-07:00

Apologies for the length of time it has been since my last post, we have been doing many training sessions for the new students over the past weeks. The health team also attended the launch of the health informatics collection, and a blog about this should be arriving shortly.Here are the book reviews for this week, selected by Helen and with no particular topic in mind!The art of waking

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I’m off on my holidays next week, but here are 4 titles recently added to stock for you to enjoy!Harnessing health librariesBruce MadgeRadcliffe Medical Press 2001The rise of evidence based healthcare has put emphasis on finding specific evidence. Finding exactly the right article can be vital especially when meeting a tight deadline or trying to find evidence for a particular treatment.This

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As an on going contribution to the health informatics blog site we are intending to review a couple of the new titles added to stock each week. This will give an overview of the varied nature of the collection and will highlight some of the subject areas covered.This weeks titles are;The Ultimate Digital Library: Where the new information players meetAndrew K. PaceAmerican Library Association

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As a part of our intention to establish this collection as the focus of a centre of excellence and an actively developing resource for the Health Informatics community we hope to be able to consolidate and build on the journal runs we recieved as part of the library.We have performed a thorough edit of all the journals and decided to maintain only those titles which relate specifically to Health

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The collection is begining to appear on the UCLan Library catalogue ( www.uclan.ac.uk/library/ and choose Library Catalogue) A search with keyword: National Health Informatics Collection shows 347 items (mainly books) available or loan so far.

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The National Health Informatics Collection arrived at the Library in May 2006 contained in 48 orange boxes. Included in the delivery was everything a library could need; not only books journals reports but shelving, date stamps and labels. The collection had been kept in storage for over a year, but was in exceptionally good condition.Over the next few months the collection will be catalogued and

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