About the Library and Knowledge Service
- Our vision
Leading in NHS information service delivery, we will help to improve patient care by enabling and transforming the way professionals use evidence-based information.
- Services
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.
- Meet the team
Your library and knowledge service team are:
Catherine Micklethwaite – Library & Knowledge Services Manager
I manage the Library & Knowledge Services team at TSDFT. I am passionate about the role of technology within libraries. I lead on the strategic management of the regional library management system and head up the cataloguing group, as well as work with NHSE on the development of the NHS Knowledge and Library Hub. If I’m not out horse riding, I’ll be curled up in a corner with a good book with my cat on my lap or cooking.Liz Saward – Clinical Librarian
I am responsible for our evidence search service and oversee the training that we offer. I sing regularly in choirs (including the hospital choir) and enjoy walking, gardens, the arts, comedy and cooking (and eating!).Lucy Farnsworth – Specialist Librarian
I maintain the library’s website, carry out evidence searches and some training sessions. I also oversee the regional library catalogue.In my free time I enjoy crafting, baking, drinking coffee and watching films of questionable quality!
Adam Butcher – Librarian
Megane Quelvennec – Library Trainee
As the library trainee, I deliver frontline services to our users and am currently doing my MA in Information and Library Studies.
Outside of having my nose in a book, I spend my time crocheting, cooking and daydreaming.
- 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.
Contact the library team
Library and Knowledge Service
Horizon Centre, Lower Ground Floor
Torbay Hospital
TQ2 7AA
Staffed hours:
8.30am – 5pm, Mon – Fri
24/7 access available
T: 01803 656700
E: tsdft.library@nhs.net