Library

COMMUNICATE REFERENCE LIBRARY

Most Communicate Reference Library materials (books, videos, journals and CDs) are now held in the Walkergate Park Knowledge Centre Library.

For further information please contact Walkergate Park Knowledge Centre.

You can search the Knowledge Centre catalogue online http://library.nuth.nhs.uk/webview/

To get a listing of Communicate materials in this catalogue:
Use Keyword Search for Communicate
and select Restrict to items held at Walkergate Park 
then select “Search”.

Alternatively, this link should get you straight there:

Search for Keyword Communicate in Hunters Moor Items

Some items are “reference only”.  To borrow other items you can either reserve a copy on the Combined Libraries Web Catalogue or contact Lesley McNaughton at Communicate.

To request an item from the Combined Libraries Web Catalogue:

• select the item you are interested in
• select the “Reserve a Copy” button at the bottom of the item information
• enter the barcode number on your NHS Library Reader Ticket. 

To register and get a reader ticket, contact your local NHS Library.

1. BOOKS AND VIDEOS

Where there are two or more copies of books, articles or videos, they can be loaned for one month initially.  Extensions of loans are usually for a further month provided there is no-one on the waiting list. 

Books and videos are held in twenty-three main sections.  There are numbered labels on the shelves and numbered divider cards to indicate each section.

1. Speech and Language Therapy and Related Disorders
2. Assessment:  A.A.C. and Non A.A.C.
3 AAC Categories as follows:
3a. A.A.C. General
3b. Symbol Systems and Signing
3c. Conference Proceedings and Study Days
3d. Communication Aid Equipment
3e. Practical Activities and Ideas
3f. Case Studies
3g. Users Views
3h. A.A.C. Course Guides and Materials
3i. Incidence, Policies and Provisions.
3x. AAC Topic Files

4. `Medical’ Conditions and Diagnostic Groups
5. CAC Centres, Services, Projects and A.A.C. Services
6. Support - Emotional, Self Help and Volunteers
7. Communication, Social Skills and Programmes
8. General Directories
9. Computers and Software (NB:“IT in Education” is in Cat 11)
10. Assistive Technology - General (See also 14)
11. Child Development, Education and Special Education (* includes IT in  Education)
12. Research
13. Management and Professional
13a Government Publications (Guidance, Directives etc)
13b Other Management and Professional
14. Sensory Impairment
15. Multiple Impairment
16. Play
17. Accessing
18. Literacy, Numeracy, Basic Skills and Dyslexia
19. Employment and Vocational Issues
20. Health and Safety
20a. Lifting and Handling
21. Conference Proceedings
22 Videos
23 Outcomes

Topic Files: These contain collections of articles, presentations, etc. There may be “Topic Files” in any section, in addition to the AAC Topic Files sub-section listed at 3x above.

CATALOGUES

There are two reference library catalogues. Both are MSWord documents with the contents listed in tables:

• one lists the items in alphabetical order by author
• the other groups items in the numbered "subject sections" used in the Library

There are numbers bracketed after each item in both catalogues  [e.g.  (11,3a,22)].  The first number is the number of the section that that particular item is stored on the library shelves.  The rest of the numbers are the cross-references to other sections that are relevant to that item.

In the "subject catalogue" the subjects are not listed alphabetically.  The items in each subject section are listed A-Z by author. 

After you have downloaded a catalogue you can re-sort and re-organise the contents as you wish.

Download "Author Catalogue"

Download "Subject Catalogue"

INDEX CARDS

For every item in the reference library there is an index card.  Every index card has numbers on the top right hand corner, these numbers correspond to the section catalogue entries and the stickers on the back of each item.

2. JOURNALS

Journals are kept alphabetically by title.  Journals can be loaned if there two or more copies.

Alternative and Augmentative Communication (1985 ongoing)
A.A.C. Journal volumes 1 – 13 are on a CD-ROM
Augmentative Communication News (1988 ongoing)
Adaptability (September 1999 only)
Alternatively Speaking (Vaol.1 No.3 December 1994 ongoing)
Ability (Issue 1 1989 ongoing)
Advance (February 2004)
AGOSCI  (2001 to June 2004)
Allied Health Professional Bulletin (March and July 2001)

Basic Skills (May 1999, 2000, October 2001, March 2002, August 2002)
Bliss (1984-1994)
British Journal of Disorders of Communication (Vol.18 No.1 1983 to Vol.30 No.4 1995)

Clan – Newsletter of the National Association of Laryngectomy Clubs (No.68 March 1999 to No.87 December 2003)
Communication Matters  (No.13 1991 ongoing)
Communicating Together  (Vol.2 No.1 February 1984 to Vol.17 No.4 Winter 2000)
Communication Outlook (Vol.4 No.1 August 1982 to Vol.18 No.2/3 Spring 1998)

Deliberations (1998 to January 2001)
Disability Now (March 2002 to May 2003)
Dynamic Voices (September 1996 to August 2003)

Educare (No.48 March 1994, No.50 November 1994 and No.51 March 1995)
Exceptional Parent (February 1997 to May 1997 and April 1998. Also 1997 Resource Guide)

Find a Voice (Issue 5 July 2003 and Issue 6 December 2003)

Grapevine (December 2002 and “Grants for organisations and individuals”)

Impulse (Winter 2002/03 and Autumn 2003)
International Assoc of Laryngectomees (IAL) (Vol.42 No.2 May 2002 to Vol.49 No.2 May 2004)
International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders (Vol.31 1996 ongoing)
InterCOM* (October 1994 to July 1995)
ISAAC Bulletin & Newsletter  (No.40 1995 ongoing)

JAG News

Keep in Touch (Issue 14 Autumn 2002)

Memo

Newcastle Carers (2000 to 2003)
N&P Trust Talk (Issue 1 July 2001)
NNN Information Exchange (Issues 96, 98, 99, 106 to 110, 115 and 116)
NHSU (June, October, November and December 2003)
NHS Magazine (June, October to December 2003, January 2004, February 2005 ongoing)

Occupational Therapy News (June to December 2003)
ORAC News (September 1993 to April 1996)
One Voice (Spring 2004)

PRI

RCSLT Newsletter & Bulleting  (1983 ongoing)
REMAP News (No.7 Spring 2001)
CoRe Research and Development News
Review

SLD Experience (Issue 26 Spring 2000 to Issue 37 Autumn 2003)
Special Children (Issue 89 January 1996 to Issue 93 May 1996)
Speech & Language press cuttings
Speech & Language Therapy in Practice (Spring 2003 to Summer 2004)
Stroke News (Vol.17.2 Summer 1999 to Vol.22.2 Summer 2004)
Sequal (March 1999)

T.A.L.K.
Techness Newsletter (January/February 1999 to Spring 2000)
Therapy Weekly (Vol.28 No.35 March 14, 2002 ongoing)

Viewpoint

Writeaway

Some newsletters/journals are out of print or Communicate no longer subscribes to them.  Back-copies of these journals are kept for reference purposes for up to 5 years.

* InterCOM*: Previous Communicate Newsletter, all back-copies held.