Welcome to NHS Bolton Library -
Part of Bolton Health Library Service
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Library Mission Statement:
"NHS Bolton Library provides an able, efficient and effective library, intelligence and knowledge service that offers comprehensive support to staff enabling decision making underpinned by sound knowledge & evidence base whilst providing health information and resources for use in and by Bolton’s health community."
The Library Service offers all staff access to:
E-journals, E-books, Databases, Current Awareness,
Books, Reports, Teaching Packs, Videos, DVD's, Leaflets
Information skills training
Document supply / inter library loans
Open access computers, printers, photocopiers, scanners, plus much more!
NHS Bolton Library is located within 'The Crescent' but is a seperatae organisation with a seperate membership system. Bolton Council Library Members ARE NOT automatically members of NHS Bolton Library and vice versa. To join us you need to liver, work or study in Bolton or be a NHS member of staff. There is no cost to join! NHS Bolton Library is aware that many of our users need to access our services remotely so we try to ensure that where possible NHS Bolton Library services can be accessed this way, making best use of the available resources.
Leaflets
Health Promotion Leaflets cover a wide variety of topics from the Department of Health and other health professional approved sources. The leaflets available to order and download can be viewed here, and can be ordered (where applicable) by either ringing us on (01204) 462490 or emailing by clicking here . These can be ordered by anybody.
Health Promotion Resources
These health promotion resources are for use within any publi9c group setting, be it classroom, community group or health centre. They come in a variety of formats - posters and leaflets which can be ordered or DVD's, Videos & Teaching Packs which can be borrowed as a library resource and are located within NHS Bolton Library. These can be ordered/borrowed by any member of NHS Bolton Library.
Resources
These are traditional primary care specific library resources such as books and paper journals. The journals are reference only. The books cover over 60 + topic areas, can be borrowed by any member of NHS Bolton Library and are located within NHS Bolton Library.
NHS Information
NHS Bolton Library is happy to provide information be it about a particular service or information of a medical/clinical nature. This information can be accessed via email, phone or popping into see us!
Open Access Computers
NHS Bolton Library offers 5 open access computers that are available for NHS Bolton staff, NHS staff as part of the GMHelp agreement and NHS Bolton projects with agreement from NHS Bolton Library management. These are not availabe for general public use. The use of these computers is bound by NHS Bolton regulations and the NHS Bolton Library computer use policy.
Information Literarcy/Information Skills Training
NHS Bolton Library offers a variety of infromation retrieval skills development sessions both within NHS Bolton Library and within your workplace. These are for NHS Bolton staff only and are available in both indivudal and group sessions. For further details click here or conatct NHS Bolton Library to arrange a session.
E-Resources
NHS Bolton Library offers a vast array of electronic resources (e-journals/e-books/clinical knowledge etc.) for use by NHS Bolton Library Staff. These can be accessed from ANY COMPUTER but require an Athens Account available from NHS Bolton Library.
Information Consultancy
NHS Bolton Library offers Information Consultancy in different forms. These are available to NHS Bolton Library Staff Only:
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Literature Searching - Literature searching is a mediated seach on a topic/key words selected by you. Several specific health information resources (including Medline, NHS Evidence, Specialist Collections and Cinahl) will be used to formulate the best possible search results relevant to your needs.
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Current Awareness/Horizon Scanning - NHS Bolton Library supplies relevant user groups with the latest current awareness and 'horizon scanning' on over 20 topics. To request access or to create a new one specific to your needs please contact the library
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Document Supply - Document Supply is the accessing of documents (articles, reviews, grey literature etc.) via different methods and networks. To request documents please click here a fill out the form.
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Book Supply - Book supply is the accessing of resources that are not stocked within NHS Bolton Library. This is a joint servcie offered by all North West health Libraries and enables us to provide you with access to 100,000's of resources in the most cost effective manner possible.
Reprographics Service
NHS Bolton Library offers a reprographics service for NHS Bolton Staff Only. Please click here for a price list
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