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Yeovil District Hospital Library

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Location and staff

Yeovil Academy Library
Level 4
Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Yeovil
Somerset
BA21 4AT
UK

Tel: (01935) 384495 / 384697
Fax: (01935) 384495

Library (general) email: Library@ydh.nhs.uk
Librarian Linda Foote
e-mail: Linda.Foote@ydh.nhs.uk
Acting Assistant Librarian Angela Drayton
e-mail: Angela.Drayton@ydh.nhs.uk
Library Assistant Tom Welham
e-mail: Tom.Welham@ydh.nhs.uk

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Staffed hours

Monday - Friday 8.00 am - 6.00 pm

24 hour access is available to registered HSC students. Please ask staff for keypad numbers.

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Borrowing - Hospital Library

As a current Bournemouth University HSC student, you may borrow up to 8 books from the Hospital Library. The normal loan period is 4 weeks.  You may renew in person or by phone, provided nobody else is waiting for a book.  If your books become overdue you will be sent written reminders.  If the books are not returned you will be charged replacement costs plus an administrative charge of £10 per item.

Please do not pass on material you have borrowed to someone else. You are responsible for it until it is returned to the Library.

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Requesting books and journal articles - other NHS libraries

The Hospital Library can obtain books or journal articles for you if they are held in other NHS libraries within the South West region. Before making a request, please check that the item you want is not available in the Hospital Library or via Bournemouth University Library's A-Z list of e-journals. If it is not, complete an Inter Library Loan (ILL) form for each request. There is a £1 charge for each request.

The loan period is determined by the lending library, and items must be returned to the Hospital Library in time for them to be returned by the due date.

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Library IT facilities

There are 17 computers in two IT suites in the Library which provide MS Office, Intranet and Internet access.  You may access Bournemouth University's web pages, along with its Catalogues and Resources.

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Getting help

You will receive an induction from Hospital Library staff and may ask for assistance during staffed hours.

It is important to attend your timetabled University IT and Library sessions, as they are designed to give you the skills to carry out research for your assignments. To complement these sessions, you can arrange subject advice on a one-to-one basis at Bournemouth House Library through your Subject Support Library team.

Any enquiries concerning the resources on the Bournemouth University Library web pages should be addressed to the HSC subject support library team. Alternatively, you can ring Bournemouth University Library Enquiries on (01202) 965959.

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NHS Athens account

As a Bournemouth University student on an NHS-related course, each year you will automatically be sent an email enabling you to register for an NHS Athens account. This will allow you to access a collection of library e-resources purchased by the NHS, via the ‘Journals and Databases' section of NHS Evidence. If your activation code has expired or you have forgotten your username or password please contact mfoy@bournemouth.ac.uk .

If you have created an NHS Athens Account via your hospital library you should direct all Athens-related queries to that hospital library.

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Student feedback

At the Yeovil District Hospital Library we welcome constructive comments from our users. This is possible through using our Library comments/suggestions forms that are available in the Library

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Returning Bournemouth Library University books via Yeovil District Hospital Library

If you are on placement at Yeovil District Hospital and cannot get to Bournemouth University Library to return your books, you can return them via Yeovil District Hospital. Please note: the Library cannot obtain books from the University for you, only return them.

All you have to do is:

1.  Take your books to the Library at Yeovil District Hospital .  Complete a form indicating when the books were returned. Library staff will date stamp the form and return it with the books to the University. Please keep a record of the barcodes of the books you have returned.

2.  Telephone Bournemouth House Library on (01202) 967352, giving your ID number and the barcodes of the books to be returned.

Remember that:

  • Fines will not be charged if the date of your phone call and the date on the form from the Hospital Library are the same.
  • Fines will be charged on books already overdue when handed in at Yeovil District Hospital.
  • You need to check the date the books were issued to, and ensure that they are returned or renewed by that date.
  • Ordinary loan books can be renewed twice, provided that they are not reserved and are not more than one day overdue.
  • One week loan books can be renewed once, provided that they are not reserved and are not more than one day overdue.
  • You are responsible for your books until discharged by Bournemouth University.

Book returns to Bournemouth University Library are subject to NHS courier networks and are not available from all NHS locations.

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