It’s Libraries Week (5-9th October) and the theme this year is “Books and reading” As the cooler and darker evenings draw in, you may be turning your attention to indoor activities such as reading which can be beneficial to personal Read More …
Library News
Health Information Week 2020
High-quality health information can have a huge impact upon our ability to stay healthy, manage illnesses effectively, and achieve a better quality of life. We all need information that we can trust, particularly in this time of coronavirus. Read More …
Downtime for ebooks – 27/06/2020
The hosting database for our ebook collection is being updated tomorrow evening – Saturday, 27th June 2020 – between 5pm and 8pm. Full service should resume after this. You can login to our e-book collection via OpenAthens – https://bsmhft-test.wordpress.ptfs-europe.co.uk/e-books/
Mental Health Awareness Week 2020
In the run-up to Mental Health Awareness Week, we in the library team reflected on the ways in which we have been expressing kindness to ourselves and others. We have organised our ideas by the five ways to wellbeing, Read More …
Celebrate World Book Night on 23 April 2020
World Book Night celebrates the pleasure and benefits of reading. It is promoted each year by the Reading Agency, a national charity with a clear message, that it doesn’t matter what you read, as long as you read! #ReadingHour Read More …
Updated access to BSMHFT Library Services (25 March 2020)
Due to all library staff now working remotely from home, Uffculme Library remains closed with Barberry Library open for 24hr access to hot-desking, copying and remote book loans. We are continuing to offer remote services such as enquiries, ebook loans, Read More …
Temporary changes to BSMHFT Library Services from Monday, 16 March 2020
From Monday, 16th March 2020, Uffculme Library will be temporarily closed and we will instead be providing Library and Knowledge Services to the fullest extent possible from Barberry Library only. Alternative hot-desk facilities are available at Juniper and Barberry sites. Read More …
Keeping up to date with Browzine
The library service is trialling a new resource to help make accessing our e-journal collection easier BrowZine Keep up to date with your favourite journals, or download articles from our subscribed titles Visit: https://browzine.com/libraries/1797/subjects to begin searching. You can browse Read More …
Mind Reading – a two day conference at University of Birmingham, 18th – 19th June 2018
For details of an upcoming conference at University of Birmingham, with a keynote address by Professor Femi Oyebode on ‘Madness at the Theatre: Plays and Inner Life’ please follow the links below. The conference will “….seek to explore productive interactions between narrative Read More …
Do you need to find the time to read more….?
Are you preparing for revalidation or updating your cpd? Are you keeping up to date with current research? Are you just looking to find some time to relax? Are you beach-book ready? Whether you would like to find more time Read More …