Index-Catalogue of the Nottingham Free Library [Lending Dept. with 1St]-3Rd Suppl. Index-Catal

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Only available to groups within Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, Leicester, Leicestershire, Rutland and Derby City.) Castle Gate Hospital, Samaritan Hospital and Nottingham Hospital for Women (Uhw) ( more information | catalogue record ) Home Delivery via courier (Courier charges will apply and are payable in advance, please see fees and charges for details) The award winning Nottingham Performing Arts Library Service (NPALS) lends multiple copies of plays, vocal scores and orchestral sets to organisations across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire and Derby City as well as directly to groups around the UK. The collection comprises over 24,000 drama copies, 85,000 Vocal scores and 1,300 orchestral sets.

By selecting the drop-down arrow next to 'Advanced and index searches', you will be able to use the 'People Search' search form and access individual name authority terms - for example, the name authority for Florence Nightingale (enter 'Nightingale' in the surname field and 'Florence' in the forename field). From this, you will be able to link directly to a description of every document from, to or about Miss Nightingale. This also works for corporate names (names of businesses or organisations) such as 'Nottingham General Hospital'. Please note that some collections have had extensive additional cataloguing undertaken through externally funded projects, and that in these cases the original typescript lists have now been very considerably enhanced. In all cases it is advisable to consult the upgraded versions in the Manuscripts Online Catalogue . NPALS is primarily available to groups based in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, Leicester, Leicestershire, Rutland and Derby City.

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The main hospital collections have not been indexed at item level to a very detailed extent, but all collection level descriptions, plus item level records from the Newcastle, Portland, Denison and Buchanan collections can be searched via name, place or subject indexes. If ILL requests are cancelled after the set has been secured from other Library Authorities, NPALS reserves the right to charge the group the full cost for the set for a 1-month loan. Fines will apply for unreturned items (whole sets or parts of sets) at 50p per title per day (not per copy), the charges start 14 days after the end of loan date.

Books will usually be issued for one weekand will auto renew everyday unless someone else requests them. Searches can also be narrowed down by date. Type your required search term into 'AnyText', and also type the exact year, or a range of years, into the 'Date' field. You can even combine this with a 'Document Reference' search to target the search still further. Nottinghamshire Area Health Authority (Teaching), South Nottingham District and predecessors (Uh) ( catalogue record )

You will also be able to conduct a subject search of descriptions contained within the catalogue, by putting a search term in the 'Term' box of the standard Advanced Search. For example you could retrieve every document with the subject index term 'inoculation', whether inoculation was mentioned explicitly in the document/description or not. Online versions of our catalogues of health-related collections are growing all the time. Users wishing to search online for hospitals and health-related archives may find the following information and advice useful. University of Nottingham Library Catalogue (NUsearch) Highbury Hospital (Infirmary of the Basford Union Workhouse) (Uhh) ( more information | catalogue record )

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Over 600 manuscript, archive and special (printed) collections are described at collection level.Collection level records include advice on other available finding aids, including typescript catalogues. ILL requests cancelled by the group after the loan has been agreed will be charged a 1-month loan fee, ILL requests cancelled by the group after the set has been received at NPALS, from the lending library, will be charged the full hire fee. By selecting the 'Place Search' form you can search all of the place name authorities included within the system. Therefore, if you wish to know more about events in a particular place, you could access information by entering the place name in the 'CityTownVillage' field. This will retrieve the name authority term for that place, and will enable you to link to every catalogue record containing information about the place.