On 6 November, NHS library assistants from across England took part in ‘Sip, Share, Spark’, a virtual meeting to mark KNOWvember with lightning talks and Randomised Coffee Trials. KNOWvember is an annual campaign by NHS Knowledge and Library Services nationally Read More …
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SWFT Wellbeing Reading Group review of Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
The year is 1665. In a remote Pennines village a tailor receives a bundle of infected cloth. Anna Frith, an 18 year old widow, watches the disease devastating her community as desperate, the villagers turn to sorcery, herb lore, and Read More …
SWFT Wellbeing Reading Group review of And Away… by Bob Mortimer
‘The most life-affirming, joyful read of the year’ – Sunday Times Bob Mortimer’s funny, heartfelt and offbeat autobiography, shares stories from his life and career in his own particular style – but what did SWFT’s Wellbeing Reading Group make of it? Read More …
SWFT Wellbeing Reading Group review of Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
This month’s choice was the classic Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte. The famous tale follows the life of Jane, an orphan. It tells of how she overcomes her harsh childhood to become a governess, before falling in love with her Read More …
ICLC – International Clinical Librarians Conference
June saw two Clinical Librarians, and one Librarian visiting Leicester to present at the International Clinical Librarians Conference. Take two hot summer days, a large roomful of medical librarians, a wealth of information, e-posters, long talks and lightning talks, and Read More …
SWFT Wellbeing Reading Group Reviews of May All Your Skies Be Blue by Fiona Scarlett and Under a Pink Sky by Esther Ghey
This month we went with a ‘skies’ theme, and had a choice of two books, the fictional May All Your Skies be Blue by best selling author Fiona Scarlett and the non fiction Under a Pink Sky by Esther Ghey. Read More …
Joint SWFT and GEH Wellbeing read: Lula Dean’s Little Library of Banned Books by Kirsten Miller
Described as ‘a gripping and deeply moving novel of bravery, friendship, and standing up against book banning’, reading Lula Dean’s Little Library of Banned Books during Libraries Change Lives Week was always going to be interesting. Our copies were a Read More …
SWFT Wellbeing Reading Group Review of The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot by Marianne Cronin
Lenni is 17. Margot is 83. Together they are 100. They have something to say, and one day, in an art class, they sit down to tell their life stories in 100 drawings. We do need to address the elephant Read More …
SWFT Wellbeing Reading Group Review of Murder at Gulls Nest by Jess Kidd
Nora Breen has spent 30 years in a convent, but when her penpal (and ex novice) friend Frieda vanishes, she leaves the convent in search of her and moves to the hotel where Frieda was last seen. This cosy crime Read More …
SWFT Review of Bernadine Evaristo’s Mr Loverman
Barrington (Barry) is a man leading two lives. Husband to Carmel, father of Donna and Maxine, and grandfather of Daniel, he is also in a secret relationship with Morris, his childhood friend. “Hilarious, poignant, clever, controversial and courageous in equal Read More …