Access to Therese Brady Library – Thurs April 19th

Therese Brady Library

The Library will be in use for tutorial groups from 9 am until 4.30 pm on Thursday April 19th so will not be accessible to visitors.

Library users needing to return books may still do so but study facilities and access to the collection will not be available. Library members can reserve or renew library items through the online catalogue using your library reader and PIN number. If you need to borrow items or have any queries please email laura.rooneyferris@hospice-foundation.ie

Therese Brady – Easter week opening hours

  The Therese Brady Library will close for the Easter break at 5.30 on

Thursday April 5th and re-open Wednesday April 11th 

Irish Hospice Foundation staff  and students can still access the library’s electronic resources and databases remotely during this time using their usernames and passwords

Wishing all our library users a very relaxing bank holiday weekend

Therese Brady Library – Bank holiday closing

 The Therese Brady Library will be closed for the St Patrick’s Day bank holiday from Friday March 16th reopening Tuesday March 20th

Borrowing services will not be available on Friday March 16th however the library will be open to current students for study.

  Wishing you all a very Happy St Patricks Day

Library access Friday Jan 13th

Therese Brady Library Collection

Happy New Year and welcome back to all our library users.

The Library space will be in use from 9 am until 4.30 pm on Friday January 13th so will not be accessible to visitors.

Library users needing to return books may still do so but study facilities and access to the collection will not be available during this time. Remember that you can reserve or renew library items through the online catalogue using your library reader and PIN number. If you need to borrow items or have any queries please email laura.rooneyferris@hospice-foundation.ie

 

Therese Brady Library – Holiday closing dates

The Therese Brady Library will be closed up for the holiday period from;   December 22  reopening on January 4th

Wishing you all a very happy festive season & peaceful New Year

Therese Brady Library – Bank Holiday Weekend Closure

 The Therese Brady Library  will be closed for the August  bank holiday weekend from

Friday 29th of July reopening on Tuesday August 2nd

Wishing everyone a very relaxing and enjoyable bank holiday weekend.

Therese Brady Library Summer Newsletter now available

The Summer issue of the Therese Brady Library Newsletter is now available.

This issue features; updates on library developments, upcoming conference dates, resource update on using the new iphone/ipod touch app for EBSCO databases, article overviews and a review of ‘The Spirit Level‘

You can read the digital edition of the newsletter HERE

 

 

 

Bereavement resources booklet – 2011 update available to download

Therese Brady Library - Bereavement Resources booklet 2011

Last year the library compiled a booklet of bibliotherapy titles for bereaved people informed by the Irish Hospice Foundations bereavement leaflets. The booklet has now been updated and expanded to include both public and professional support material as well as information about the Therese Brady Library and QR links directed to further resource listings in the resource sections of the blog.

The professional resources section  lists recommended titles and online tools for; palliative and end-of-life care, Bereavement theory and support, self care for professional carers, working with bereaved children and bereavement in schools.

You can download the booklet in PDF format here – Bereavement resources 2011

Smart research – Smart phone apps in palliative care & bereavement

Continuing the theme of smart libraries and smart research tools here are just a few smart phone apps to make keeping up to date with new research in palliative care and bereavement even easier.

PubMed Apps – If you regularly conduct searches for medical literature online you are likely to be familiar with PubMed the National Library of Medicines Medline citation database. PubMed has several smart phone apps both free and fee based.

PubMed on Tap – This app has both a free and a paid version. Pubmed on Tap is the paid version and costs €2.39 while on tap lite is the free version. Both allow for PubMed searching and include reference storage, PDF retrieval from the web, links to full text articles will open in your phone’s browser and both apps integrate the advanced search features of the PubMed database. Of the free PubMed apps  PubMed lite is probably the best though search results are limited to ten items so if you plan on making extensive use of PubMed on your phone it may be worth opting for the full version of PubMed on Tap.

Like PubMed, The British Medical Journal (BMJ) has a number of apps catering to different specialities from disease specific apps (diabetes, depression) to apps for medical students and a doctors toolkit. Of the BMJ apps, the Best Practice Decision support app is relevant to all allied health professionals. It provides a searchable database of guidelines, evidence and symptom details and facilitates quick access to expert opinion and best practice guides across medical disciplines.

Journal RSS – This is a really useful free app which enables RSS feeds from selected journal publications direct to your phone. You can select journal titles from a range of publishers like Elsevier, Oxford and Nature and  receive RSS updates and table of content alerts.

PalliMed Blog app

PalliMed is a blog dedicated to providing information, research reviews and commentary on Palliative, End-of-Life and hospice care. Its contributors are palliative care physicians and the blog is a valuable resource for new publications and insight on end-of-life issues. The Pallimed app is free  and is available for both iphone and andriod.

Similarly the GeriPal blog aims to provide up to date insight and research reviews on palliative care and geriatrics. The Geripal app is free and provides mobile access to the blog. This is a particularly useful app for anyone with a particular interest in eldercare.

Getting smart at the Therese Brady Library – What is a QR code?

This week (Library Ireland Week) is all about smart libraries, or finding smarter ways to use libraries and access information quickly and while on the move so no better time to introduce you to QR codes.

QR or Quick Response (or Quick Reference) codes are three-dimensional barcodes designed to be scanned by smartphones (iPhone or Android). They act as embedded information links and have begun to appear in magazines, billboards, advertisements business cards and …libraries.

In a library context the QR code works as a rapid route to additional information. To use a QR code you will need a smart phone, or a phone with internet capability (like an iphone, HTC desire or wildfire or Samsung Galaxy to name but a few). The phone’s camera will be able to scan the QR code, or you can download a QR reader app to perform this function. Once scanned the code will open up embedded URL link or information on your phone’s web browser.

Libraries have begun using QR codes to embed quick links in posters and promotional flyers to take you directly to additional support material (for example the posters in the library with QR codes linking to the blog) or to link to subject portals, QR codes can even be seen in some library catalogues to link to further details about the title  (have a look at THIS library catalogue to see QR codes for titles)

To get started check that you have a QR scanner on your phone & scan the code above – for additional details contact Laura in the library.