Week 12: Follow that... Journal!

We're following a journal this week - from selection, the Journal Co-ordination Scheme, ordering, distribution patterns and eventually getting them on the shelf - and everything in between.

You guessed it - your TASK for this week is to BLOG about the journey of a journal!

Follow that.... READER! (optional extra answers)

So, how did you get on with the optional extra Follow That... READER! task?

The answers are below, and a bonus prize "goody" bag will be given to all those who took part.

(in no particular order) Well done to.....NPage; Hoarder1; Tiger007; Here We Go!; Top Blog; Ewe 2; 23 (46) Things;


1-IMAGING PICTURE TEST FOR MRCPCH(STUDY GUID) BY ANDREW P WINROW
Imaging picture tests for the MRCPCH / A.P. Winrow
WN 18.51.1 etc


2-TOWARDS MRCPCH (THEORY) EXAMINATION PART2 ,HOLDER ARNOLD PUBLICATION BY SURAJ GUPTE,TAPABRATA CHALLERJEE,DR JO KOSTER
not held in the medical library


3-questions for MRCPCH part 2 written examination by dr nick barnes and dr julian forton isbn no 9781904627166
not held in the medical library

4-250 questions for mrcpch part 2 (MRCPCH STUDY GUIDE ) by james L R obertson,adrian P Hughes
250 questions for the MRCPCH part 2 / J.L. Robertson, A.P. Hughes.
WS 18.115.1 etc

5-MRCPCH DATA INTERPRETATION QUESTIONS (GET THROUGH) BY NAGI GIUMMA BARAKAT
100 data interpretation questions in paediatrics : for MRCPCH/MRCP Part 2 / editor Nagi Giumma Barakat.
WS 18.65.1 etc



6- DATA QUESTIONS FOR MRCPCH PART 2 (CHURCHILL'S PASS PAEDIATRICS) BY JAMES ROBERTSON AND AP HUGHES
Data questions for the MRCPCH Part 2 / J.L. Robertson, A.P. Hughes.
WS 18.76



7- MRCPCH PART 2 PAEDIATRICS PRACTICE EXAM BY D. PAL ,P GRINGRAS, M GREENBUR
MRCPCH part 2 paediatric : practice exams / P. Gringras, D.K. Pal, M. Greenberg.
WS 18.92



8- PAEDIATRICS GREY CASES FOR MRCPCH (STUDY GUID) BY ALAN FENTON
Paediatric grey cases for the MRCPCH / Alan C. Fenton ... [et al.].
WS 18.86


9-MRCPCH PART 2 PRACTICE EXAM BY GILES KENDALL ABD IAN POLLOCK
not held in the medical library



10 MRCPCH PART 2 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS FOR THE NEW FORMAT EXAM ;THE COMPLETE REVISION GUIDE BY KATE H GREES, COLIN VE POWELL,PATRICK H. T CARTILAGE
MRCPCH part 2 : questions and answers for the new format exam / Kate H. Creese, Colin V.E. Powell and Patrick H.T. Cartlidge.
WS 18.125.1 etc

Follow that.... READER! (optional extra)

The list of books below was email to me to check to see if we had them.
(I’ve not changed/tampered/improved/worsened the list – I quote verbatim)

Test your Newton searching skills to see which books we have.

Answers will be posted on Monday 19th July, but BLOG your answers before then, and you may be in with a chance of a bonus prize!
(assuming you've got all the answers right!)

(ps – clue: you may find that some of the titles and authors are not entirely accurate…..)

(thanks to Dawn Endico)

  1-IMAGING PICTURE TEST FOR MRCPCH(STUDY GUID) BY ANDREW P WINROW

2-TOWARDS MRCPCH (THEORY) EXAMINATION PART2 ,HOLDER ARNOLD PUBLICATION BY SURAJ GUPTE,TAPABRATA CHALLERJEE,DR JO KOSTER

3-questions for MRCPCH part 2 written examination by dr nick barnes and dr julian forton isbn no 9781904627166

4-250 questions for mrcpch part 2 (MRCPCH STUDY GUIDE ) by james L R obertson,adrian P Hughes

5-MRCPCH DATA INTERPRETATION QUESTIONS (GET THROUGH) BY NAGI GIUMMA BARAKAT

6- DATA QUESTIONS FOR MRCPCH PART 2 (CHURCHILL'S PASS PAEDIATRICS) BY JAMES ROBERTSON AND AP HUGHES

7- MRCPCH PART 2 PAEDIATRICS PRACTICE EXAM BY D. PAL ,P GRINGRAS, M GREENBUR

8- PAEDIATRICS GREY CASES FOR MRCPCH (STUDY GUID) BY ALAN FENTON

9-MRCPCH PART 2 PRACTICE EXAM BY GILES KENDALL ABD IAN POLLOCK

10 MRCPCH PART 2 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS FOR THE NEW FORMAT EXAM ;THE COMPLETE REVISION GUIDE BY KATE H GREES, COLIN VE POWELL,PATRICK H. T CARTILAGE

Week 8: Follow that.... READER!

We tell readers all the time that we offer this, that and the other facility or service, but when was the last time we actually performed any of the tasks ourselves, or used any of the tools we make available? If we don't know how our own equipment works, we can't possibly hope to help readers when they come unstuck. Are the instructions we provide adequate? 

This week we're following a reader, from registration, through a library introduction, and then through some of the things they do in the library on  a regular basis: photocopying, printing, scanning, using the wireless network.

Task

Photocopying

- take staff photocopy card, and made a double sided photocopy (perhaps of this sheet??)
- (optional) enlarge or shrink a document (eg reduce to 50% of the original size)

Computers
- login (after re-setting your library card if necessary) and add £1 of printing credit

Scanning
- login to computers with scanners attached, and scan this page
- save the image to a memory stick
- add this image to an entry on your blog with a short commentary on how easy/difficult you found it to use the scanner

Access the wireless network using the library laptop
(overlap with Thing 13 - don't say I'm not good to you!!)

Binding (optional)
- get a few pages of scrap and bind them

BLOG

write a blog post (containing the image you scanned in the task) about how easy it is to perform all these tasks. What additional information could we provide to make life easier for our readers?

Week 4: Take a week off, and FollowThat...

This is a "rest week" where there are no new Things. You can use this week to catch up with any of the first 7 things, or enjoy the break!

Just think: 7 down only 16 to go or alternatively, 1 cake down, only 9 chances left to win! (I wonder which viewpoint makes you a pessimist and which an optimist...?)

AC will be gathering you up into groups on Tuesday and Thursday to Follow That... Book!

BLOG

Please write a short blog post about an aspect of the journey of a book, from publisher to shelf, that you weren't aware of before.

ps - cake winner will be announced on Tuesday (I'm taking Monday off to bake the cake!)

About FollowThat....

As well as using the 23 Things format to give an introduction to some new tools, we're eager to improve the team work of the library staff.

To do this, we think it would help to learn more about what we each do. But who's got time for work shadowing?

Instead, we thought that tracking processes would be more useful - how does a book get from the supplier to our shelves? What's involved in getting an inter-library loan from another library?
We've integrated "rest" weeks into the format, so there's an opportunity to catch up on the tasks set in 23Things, but also to learn from colleagues what their part in:

• the processing of books,
• the processing of journals, 
• inter-library loan requests from our readers, and from other libraries
• reader registration and
• responding to complex reader enquiries

Each of these tasks is carried out by a particular combination of staff, allowing great expertise to develop. But there is also the danger of silos being created, whereby we lose sight of the impact our contribution has on the next step in the process.

Each member of staff who carries out one step in any of the processes outlined above will give a brief overview to their colleagues, and then we'll move on to the next step as we follow that book to the shelf, follow that journal to the shelf, that article request to the reader and so on.

FollowThat... was born!