Library and Knowledge Services

Giving you the gift of time and knowledge

The Library and Knowledge Service (LKS) team has many years of experience working within healthcare libraries, in acute, primary care and community settings.

Let us help you access resources, find evidence-based information, and keep you up to date, saving you precious time and effort.

Our Library and Knowledge Service provides proactive services to support evidence-based practice and the knowledge requirements of all our customers including:

Our Library and Knowledge Service provides proactive services to support evidence based practice and the knowledge requirements of all our customers including:
Online resources - thousands of free e-journals, e-books and databases Evidence searches – our information professionals can find the information you need to support your decision-making Document supply - ask us to obtain the documents and articles you can’t find or access Outreach Service - bringing the library to your workplace to support your information and educational requirements Information skills – in-person or virtual training sessions on topics including how to access online resources, evidence searching and critical appraisal Knowledge Service – an online current awareness service that can be personalised to alert you to the latest information from a choice of over 90 topics

Our Library and Knowledge Service provides proactive services to support evidence based practice and the knowledge requirements of all our customers including:

Online resources - thousands of free e-journals, e-books and databases
Evidence searches – our information professionals can find the information you need to support your decision-making
Document supply - ask us to obtain the documents and articles you can’t find or access
Outreach Service - bringing the library to your workplace to support your information and educational requirements
Information skills – in-person or virtual training sessions on topics including how to access online resources, evidence searching and critical appraisal
Knowledge Service – an online current awareness service that can be personalised to alert you to the latest information from a choice of over 90 topics

Together, these services help to build a community of informed healthcare professionals.

The LKS has a large, well-resourced library available at Whiston Hospital. However, many users of the Library are not suitably located or have the time to be able to visit the library in person, and so we provide an outreach service as well as ensuring that the vast majority of resources and services are accessible online via the LKS website https://www.knowledge-nw.nhs.uk/

For enquiries or requests for resources, information and support, you can contact the LKS Team via email as well as through the LKS website.

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