Victoria’s second wave

• An@tomedia This program, accessed at anatomediaonline.com.ezproxy. surgeons.org/, covers anatomy from multiple perspectives and is useful for anatomy studies at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. • Acland’s Video Atlas of Human

Anatomy This learning aid presents images of the real human body in three dimensions at aclandanatomy-com.ezproxy.surgeons. org/. Searching and accessing content While there are many quality e-resources available, the library has licensed access to a number of reputable databases, search tools and apps that make it easier to find relevant material. Talk to library staff about which ones could work for you. A Recommend a Resource form is available online at surveymonkey.com/r/ FQTDXDD to request that the library investigates obtaining a new e-resource for the collection.

Other online forms make it easy to order a journal article, which we may scan from the print journal archive, request from another library or use a commercial service to obtain. This is a very popular and well-used service that is available at no cost to RACS member. Loans of books from other libraries are available as well. Library staff can also undertake expert searches and deliver results by email. Both these options are requested via forms on the library webpage. All these services are normally provided with a quick turnaround time, but please get in touch for a discussion with the team if you have more urgent or unusual needs. 

Graham Spooner Manager, Library and Information Your views are important to us. You would have recently received your survey in your letterbox. The survey takes most people several minutes to complete, but it can make a lifetime of difference. So please complete it and return it using the reply paid envelope provided and Meet the library team

The RACS library team are all highly experienced in the health libraries field, with extensive knowledge and expertise in information organisation and retrieval.

Manager Graham Spooner has worked for a long time in the College library environment, with 19 years at the

College of Nursing before joining RACS.

His interests include trialling and evaluating new tools and systems that can make information-seeking simpler and more efficient. Graham Spooner is retiring after seven years of dedicated service at RACS. We wish him all the best.

Kirsten Burkitt (Electronic Services

Librarian) has been at RACS for almost 19 years and looks after the online library. She maintains resources show your support for accessible safe and quality surgical care today. Your feedback will help us improve and work harder than ever toward critical Indigenous health, global health and research projects, now and into the future. so they are accessible through the A–Z Title Listing, Summon, and the Specialty resources pages. She also troubleshoots any problems that arise. Librarian Kelly Phillips has worked for RACS for 12 years. The main focus of her shared role (three days per week) is to source all journal article requests and perform literature searches for RACS members. Judy Czuchnowski has worked in hospital and other health-related libraries for decades. She currently shares the job with Kelly, working two days per week. All in all, combining a very experienced and expert team with a well-resourced collection of e-resources, tools and apps is the perfect recipe for a highquality service for the members and staff of RACS. If you’re not already

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taking advantage, why not start now? For more information on the Foundation for Surgery, please visit www.surgeons. org/foundation-for-surgery or email foundation@surgeons.org.