About

About the Library and Knowledge Service

Our services include:

• Teaching information skills via group sessions, one-to-ones and Teams
• Evidence searches to support clinical work and research
• Expertise from trained, knowledgeable staff
• Library resource guides (contact us for alternative formats, e.g. large print)
• A regularly updated website available from work and home
• Quiet study spaces and informal group study areas
• Access to clinical journals, about 4,500 print texts and 1,200 ebooks
• Access to wellbeing resources including fiction, hobby books, video games, DVDs and puzzles
• IT facilities with Internet access and Microsoft Office
• Printing and scanning facilities

Library Membership

Library membership is available to:

• TSDFT and Children and Family Health Devon staff, placement students and volunteers
• all NHS Trust (e.g. SWASFT, DPT) and primary health care staff working in South Devon
• students on clinical placement with the NHS in South Devon
• Rowcroft Hospice Staff

Join the library by completing our online registration form.

Accessibility

We aim to provide a service which is accessible to all eligible staff and students on placement.

All of our leaflets and guides can be provided in a range of formats, on request, to suit individual needs. We also have a range of transparent coloured overlays and reading rulers which have been shown to make reading easier for some people by increasing fluency and/or reducing eye strain, fatigue and headaches.

A lift is available next to the stairs.

Please let a member of the Library and Information Service team know if you require any assistance when using the Library.

Your library and knowledge service team are:

Catherine Micklethwaite – Library Manager

Liz Saward – Clinical Librarian

Lucy Farnsworth – Specialist Librarian

Tim Worth – Librarian

Megane Quelvennec – Library Trainee

Contact the library team