Yesterday I spent the day at the William Harvey Library at George Eliot Hospital in Nuneaton. I really enjoyed my day as it gave me the opportunity to experience a different type of library. Prior to my visit I hadn't really ever considered working in a hospital library as I thought it may have been too specialised. However I was delighted to be proved wrong, whilst they do use a different classifying system (The Wessex Classification Scheme) it was still fairly easy to find my way around to re-shelve books and locate journals. I also had the chance to see how Inter Library Loans for articles worked (something we no longer do at the college as there isn't a demand for it) as whilst I was there we recieved some articles from the British Library and also copied some articles for another NHS library. It was also great to see how the SLRA had implemented some of the procedures she had seen art our library on her visit, such as texting library users when library books are due back.
In additon to getting the opportunity to seeing 'behind the scenes' of a hospital Library it was a great opportunity to network with other library staff and discovered that the SLRA had also done CPD23 and we compared our experiences and whoed each other the prezi's we had worked on from thing 17 she also very helpfully pointed out that she had to chase her certificate for CPD 23 and found out you have to have done all the 'things' to get it which has inspired me to check which ones I may not have done and speak to the CPD23 people about getting my certifica
I enjoyed the expereince of a day at a hospital library and has caused me to think about the different types of library work there are and not to be so closed minded about what library work I see myslef doing in the future.
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