Library Resources
Stenhouse Library provides a wide range of services to support all staff and students on placement at Kingston Hospital, in their delivery of patient care, studies, research and professional interests.
In addition to books and journals, the library offers IT and study facilities, training, literature searching, online resources, and interlibrary loans. Find out more in our Library Resources page:
Our staff can find out more information about the library in the drop-downs below:
All Trust staff and students on placement are entitled to register and join the library free of charge.
A quick online registration form can be filled in and the next time you are in the library you will be issued with a barcode to give you access to borrow books on the self-issue machine outside of staffed hours.
Borrowing rights:
- Trust staff – 8 books for 4 weeks
- Students on placement – 8 books for 4 weeks
- Volunteers, locums and bank staff – 8 books for 4 weeks (managers signature required upon registration)
- Private members (staff and students not part of the Trust) will incur a charge for membership of £150 per annum or £12.50 per month. Borrowing rights and services available will be given on enquiry.
Renewals:
All books can be renewed three times providing another user has not requested the item.
Stenhouse Library offers specialist information skills training for all staff and students on placement at Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust.
Training is free and open for all. If you are unable to use the booking form or want to arrange a tailored session, email krft.
Finding the evidence – searching for literature
This session looks at using different resources to search for evidence to inform practice, research and study.
- Where: Library Training Room or Teams
- Duration: 1 hour
- When: Various dates, see our booking form for more details.
Critically appraising research - an introduction
This training session looks at how to read research using critical appraisal techniques.
- Where: Library Training Room or Teams
- Duration: 1 hour
- When: Various dates, see our booking form for more details.
Writing for publication
This session is for you if you are considering submitting an article to a journal and want to understand how to go about it. It will help you to develop the confidence and knowledge to write and publish an article.
- Where: Library Training Room or Teams
- Duration: 1 hour
- When: Various dates, see our booking form for more details.
Health Literacy
This session will help you to understand what health literacy is and why it matters. The impact of poor health literacy on patients and the link to health inequalities and the tools and techniques that an be used to support patients with low health literacy. The one-hour session is accredited by the Royal Society for Public Health. All attendees will receive a certificate as evidence of 670 mins accredited CPD.
- Where: Library Training Room or Teams
- Duration: 1 hour
- When: Various dates, see our booking form for more details.
Other sessions
The following are available to book at a time and place of your convenience:
NHS Knowledge and Library Hub
Want to find out more about how to search the NHS Knowledge and Library Hub effectively? Need some help finding reliable information? Get in touch and let one of the expert librarians help you.
Staff inductions
The library team hold introductions to the library for various departments as part of the staff inductions process. Please contact the library to arrange. We are happy to hold these online or face to face and can be for any duration ranging from 10- 30 minutes.
1 to 1 literature search training
In addition to group training sessions on finding the evidence, the librarians are able to provide one-to-one training on literature searching. This provides the opportunity to look at specific training requirements and questions and can be adapted to what the information need is.
Reading research – Quantitative and qualitative
The Library runs training sessions looking at how to read research using critical appraisal techniques. These two advanced sections of reading research follow the introduction to critically appraising research of which the details can be found above
Keeping up to date
Keeping up to date with recent health and scientific publications is vital for staff and researchers. This training course covers a range of services that will help you keep up to date.
Managing references
EndNote Basic is a free web version of EndNote and is an online referencing software that can be used for collection and organising references. To book training at a date that is suitable for you, please contact: khft.
Online training
Moodle provides a virtual learning environment allowing access to training and resources anytime, anywhere. The Trust has a Moodle site. The library has an array of online courses available including, Library Induction, Finding the Evidence, NHS Knowledge and Library Hub and Managing References all available to view, at a time that suits you. If you need any help accessing your Moodle account, please get in touch with the library team.
The Clinical Librarian, is the named librarian for specific departments to provide them with someone familiar to approach in the library. The service brings the library into the clinical areas and is present at interdisciplinary meetings to promote the use of evidence-based sources in the practice of medicine.
The Librarian is able to provide help relating to any of the library services including:
- conducting literature searching
- getting copies of articles or books if our library does not have them
- providing 1:1 training on searching for literature
- provide current awareness bulletins
- providing literature searches the updating of guidelines
If any departments are interested in having this service, please contact the library.