UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health Library blog

Below are a list of brief ‘How to’ guides to using various aspects of Trip.  They cover the following topics: 6 Questions with Jon Brassey, Founder of the Trip Database Refining your search & filters Signing up with Trip Logging In to Trip Saving your results with ‘Starring’ Browsing your history on Trip PICO Search Using Advanced Search Image & video search on Trip Using Trip in other languages Please see the following link: https://www.tripdatabase.com/how-to-use-trip

It’s exam and dissertation season for our hard-working students (the ICH has over 400). With this in mind, and in a show of solidarity, library staff have provided some bubble wrap stress relief. The stress relieving properties of this product are well documented. A survey, commissioned by a bubble wrap manufacturer, found that ‘just over one minute of popping bubble wrap provides stress relief equivalent to a 33 minute massage’ ( https://sealedair.com/sites/default/files/1201-bubblewrapday.pdf ). In 2014 students at University of Leicester resorted to the same measure. They also employed puppies to sooth stressed students ( http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-27469803 ). Although the library does not at present propose the employment of dogs, we note that GOSH does: http://blog.gosh.org/our-hospital/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-pets-as-therapy-dog/ .

In order to improve our users experience  all students and NHS staff may now borrow an additional 5 items . NHS staff can borrow 15 instead of 10 books, Research Postgraduate students may now borrow 25 items instead of 20 and NHS staff and all  other students 15 items instead of 10. 

Please find below a link  to a  Moodle course which  helps students understand plagiarism and allows them to check their work on Turnitin https://moodle.ucl.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=12731

We thought this might be of interest and a bit of light relief during exam time https://uclu.org/articles/10-ways-to-secure-library-seat-this-exam-period?utm_source=The+UCLU+Mailing+List&utm_campaign=422467a4c8-UCLU_Weekly_21_3_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_975b851f6d-422467a4c8-206786233&mc_cid=422467a4c8&mc_eid=16aca192db