World Book Night

Celebrate World Book Night on 23 April 2025 World Book Night

World Book Night celebrates the pleasure and benefits of reading. It is promoted each year by the Reading Agency, a national charity with a clear message, that it doesn’t matter what you read, as long as you read! 

Visit WMUH library to:

  • See our display of health and well-being books – The library has a growing collection of print and digital books to help you look after your own personal health & wellbeing, be happy, stay healthy. You can borrow these books. Ask library staff for more details.
  • Look at the books available to borrow from the Public library collection
  • Help yourself to a free copy of Leila Aboulela’s book “ A New Year

We have a collection of wellbeing digital audio books and electronic fiction books to help support the health & wellbeing of staff. Some titles include:

Coping with Anxiety
Relieve Stress the Mindfulness Way
Critical Thinking and Self-Awareness
End Anxiety: The Essential Guide on How to Overcome Anxiety and Live Stress Free, Discover The Proven Methods on How to Reduce the Stress in Your Life
Practical Stress Management: The Essential Guide on How to Finally Break
Habits of a Happy Brain
Resilience
Kindness – The Little Thing That Matters Most
Mindfulness Meditation

These are available to all Trust staff, You can borrow two books at a time, If the book you want is already on loan you can  reserve it and be notified via email when it becomes available.

You can borrow and listen these audiobooks on your device (desktop/laptop/mobile) You will need OpenAthens account to access the collection.  If you don’t have openAthens account you can register now. Once you have checked out an Audiobook, you can listen it on your desktop/laptop or on the boundless Audiobooks app on your device, convenient on-the-go. You can also use Google account to checkout audio books. contact us for more details. 

You can borrow and listen these audiobooks on your desktop/laptop

Libbey Recreation reading App

You can also access some more ebooks through Libby App. You can access Libby either via the Libby website, or by downloading the Libby app, and logging in with your NHS OpenAthens account. For more details contact librarycw@imperial.ac.uk

Library News & What’s new

Upcoming Library Training Sessions 

Publish your research in HERALD

Do you want to:

  • Make your research visible and share your work including unpublished research with others?
  • Increase the visibility and discoverability of your publications (including conference posters, presentations and case studies)?
  • Share knowledge with other NHS colleagues?
  • Create a permanent record of your achievements?
  • Showcase the work of our Trust?

 Submitting your work is simple. Complete the submission form

If you need more information about the repository contact: chelwest.library.infoservice@nhs.net

 

Board Games

We have a collection of educational board games which can be used in training sessions and to gain CPD credits. Below board games recently added to our existing collection.

Menopause Game

Team resilience game

Dysphagia game

Hydration game

Mental health at work  Map game

Mental health awareness

LGBT+ in the workplace game

Safeguarding game

If you’re interested in borrowing these board games for your CPD or training or if you have any questions please email chelwest.library.infoservice@nhs.net

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