Information for academics

This page focuses on subject information specific to academic staff, but also points to other useful pages.

Contacts and liaison

Medical librarian contacts for the MB ChB programme

Reading lists, Library collection management, Information literacy teaching

Coverage		Library contact
Academic liaison for Programme through Central Teaching Committee and Medical Libraries Liaison Committee		Hilary Ollerenshaw, Medical Faculty Librarian hilary.ollerenshaw@bristol.ac.uk (0117) 33 11503
Year 1		Richard Kielb, Subject Librarian for Anatomy, Biochemistry and Year 1 & 2 MB ChB richard.kielb@bristol.ac.uk (0117) 33 11504
Year 2		Richard Kielb
Year 3 (except Psychiatry and Ethics)		Hilary Ollerenshaw
Year 3: Psychiatry and Ethics only		Cath Borwick, Subject Librarian for Social and Community Medicine cath.borwick@bristol.ac.uk (0117) 33 11504 (Mondays)
Year 4		Reading lists: Naomi Nile, Assistant Subject Librarian naomi.nile@bristol.ac.uk (0117) 33 11504
		Information literacy teaching content: Hilary Ollerenshaw, Medical Faculty Librarian hilary.ollerenshaw@bristol.ac.uk (0117) 33 11503
Year 5		Hilary Ollerenshaw
Self-assessment and referencing		Naomi Nile
Vertical Studies	Consultation and Procedural Skills	Hilary Ollerenshaw
	Disability, Disadvantage and Diversity	Hilary Ollerenshaw
	Ethics and Law in Medicine	Cath Borwick
	Evidence Based Medicine and Public Health	Hilary Ollerenshaw
	Medical Humanities and Whole Person Care	Richard Kielb
	Personal and Inter-professional Development	Hilary Ollerenshaw

The Library Representative for the School of Clinical Sciences is Professor A. Lopez Bernal
New academic staff are welcome to contact the medical subject librarians to discuss how the Library can help you.

Medical Library Collection Management Policy (Word, 158 KB)
Medical Library Collection Management Policy (PDF, 230 KB)
Library Collection Management Policy
Book purchase recommendations can be made using the Book Suggestion Form (UOB access only).
To recommend that the Library subscribe to a new journal title, please fill in and submit the Journal Suggestion Form (UOB access only). The form explains the procedure that needs to be followed before the Library can go ahead and purchase any new titles.
The collections page details useful collections in the libraries, and advice on using other university libraries and the British Library.
Quick reference tools, databases, reviews and bibliographies, and Internet links pages are available.
See our Library collections and eResources pages for details of our more general resources & collections, including electronic journals, electronic books and databases.

If you need an item which is not available anywhere in the library system here in print or online, you can use the Inter-library loans Service to obtain it from another library. There is a charge for this service, though you should be able to obtain an Inter-library loan voucher from Julia Davies to pay for this.