Category Archives: Library

Celebrating National Pet Month – a selection of open access resources on small animal medicine

Posted on 19/04/2013 by

This year National Pet Month runs from 1 April- 6 May.  As their web site says they are on a mission to: help promote responsible pet ownership across the UK highlight the important work of pet care professionals and working … Continue reading →

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The importance of evidence

Posted on 14/11/2012 by

 Recently I have attended two events:  the Trust organised symposium on Evidence-based Veterinary Medicine (EBVM)* The sceptical vet: eminence or evidence? and the 50th anniversary meeting of the Veterinary History Society (VHS) The EBVM event was the first time in the … Continue reading →

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Spoken Histories

Posted on 13/07/2012 by

If you listen to Radio 4 regularly you can’t have failed to have heard the trailers for The Listening Project.  The Listening Project is a partnership between BBC Radio 4, BBC local and national radio stations, and the British Library … Continue reading →

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Share and share alike

Posted on 27/04/2012 by

It has often been said that research is about “standing on the shoulders of giants”, what has been done before is of fundamental importance to new discoveries. Crucial to this is access to research – a subject that has been … Continue reading →

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Celebrating women’s achievements

Posted on 07/03/2012 by

Thousands of events will take place around the world tomorrow to celebrate International Women’s Day (IWD).  This day has been observed, in one incarnation or another, for over 100 years.   Today, IWD celebrates women’s achievements and looks forward to a bright, … Continue reading →

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Reading for Pleasure

Posted on 01/03/2012 by

Today is World book day.  Some of us will remember the £1 book tokens given out at school, picking out our favourite book at the book shop and rushing home to read it– today is definitely a day for the … Continue reading →

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Some things in life are free!

Posted on 21/02/2012 by

If you got excited by our previous post about free library membership for three months (in return for helping us improve our website) then here are some more freebies that you might want to know about – this time with … Continue reading →

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Free Three-month Library Membership

Posted on 15/02/2012 by

Free is not a word you hear very often, not without some strings attached, so here are ours!  If you are going to the BSAVA Congress in Birmingham this April we’d love to hear what you think about our website.  … Continue reading →

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Vets on Top

Posted on 09/02/2012 by

Round 2 of the Trust’s careers day tour took us to the Hawkshead campus of the Royal Veterinary College on Saturday for the Association of Veterinary Student’s (AVS) Congress.  Over 200 students from vet schools far and wide braved the weather … Continue reading →

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Slaughterhouses in the Tropics

Posted on 24/01/2012 by

One of our ongoing library projects is to catalogue the RCVS Fellowship Theses.  The collection spans approximately 120 years and fills more than 20 metres! An interesting thesis, by A. Blake, Chief Veterinary Officer in the Rangoon Municipality, Burma, is entitled ‘The … Continue reading →

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