Library - MESH

Staff Library and Knowledge Service

We offer a library and knowledge service to all Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust staff across all sites and within the community, students on placement, and volunteers. We also have a service level agreement to provide a service to NHS Wakefield Clinical Commissioning Group.

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The physical library and knowledge service is in Trust Headquarters on the Pinderfields site. Online resources can be accessed anywhere with internet access.

The service provides training and resources to support:

• Education & Study
• Research & Innovation
• Professional Development
• Clinical Decision Making
• Resources to support exam preparation and career progression
• Service Development

Further Information

What do we offer?

Evidence into practice
Quality Standards

Putting evidence into practice by

1 Providing a 24/7 library space for work and learning with supportive, skilful and knowledgeable staff.
2 Offering access to a wide range of high quality resources both online and in print.
3 Affording access to over 600 peer reviewed journal titles online.
4 Providing an efficient document delivery and inter-library lending service, free to the end-user.
5 Offering a comprehensive and expert literature searching service and delivering advanced information skills training
6 Keeping all our stakeholders up-to-date with current awareness bulletins.

Quality standards

1 We will aim to respond to all general enquiries within 24hrs
2 We aim to respond to emails and social media messages within 48 hours.
3 We aim to complete literature searches within 5 working days.
4 We aim to supply inter-library loans and requested articles within 3-5 working days.

More about the library service

During the last 12 months, the knowledge service has provided our staff with vast amounts of help, evidence and information including:

135 literature searches performed
390 inter-library loans supplied to customers

The library service has access to over 630 online journals and 230 eBooks. Why not get in touch with them and see how they can help you bring evidence into practice?