central London, hoping that momen- tum for change was building following Greta Thunberg’s Fridays for Future (
https://fridaysforfuture.org) movement. In the spirit of thinking globally and acting locally, I saw our Trust’s sustainability and environmental special interest group, Green at Barts Health (G@BH) (
https://twitter.com/greenatbarts), advertised on the Trust’s intranet, and attended a virtual meeting. The group com- prised of staff from all over the Trust, with colleagues from many diverse specialties represented, and all of the Trust’s sites too; the Chair is currently working in geriatrics at the Royal London Hospital (RLH), while one of the Joint Vice-Chairs is a paediatrician based at Whipps Cross – so there is broad support from across departments. It formed in 2018 and there are some 130+ members active on the group’s Whatsapp thread.
After getting involved in the group, with the approval of my sympathetic Associate Director (AD) of Knowledge and Library Services Helen Alper and our colleagues, I offered our help to amplify their social media posts, adver- tise activities with flyers/posters in our libraries, and add sustainability books to our collection. G@BH was trying to get a presence on the Trust’s staff in- tranet, but not making much progress: several members received the insuffi- cient half-hour long “training” on how to add content to an intranet page, but the system was unfamiliar and clunky and all edits require signing-off by an administrator before going live – with a very long turnaround time. So at the monthly G@BH meeting at the end of April, an external website was mooted as a platform for the group’s news and meeting reports etc., while they got the intranet page arranged concurrently. As I’d helped populate the library’s exter- nal website and created subject guides (
https://bartshealth-nhs.libguides.com/speciality) using SpringShare’s content manage- ment system (CMS) LibGuides, I (was) volunteered to help find a platform by the end of May, and get it populated with content by the end of June.
KLS branding
The group’s Joint Vice-Chair had already purchased a domain and had a rough page plan for a site and some content ready, but no platform to put it on. Always slow on the uptake, I asked KLS’s Systems Librarian and Webmaster Sarah O’Reilly for any recommendations and she hit on the obvious idea that we use the library’s CMS and host the G@BH website. Sarah created our website for Nightingale Hospital staff based at the Excel in the previous year, and this new G@BH site would be a similar
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thing to that and the aforementioned already externally accessible guides for specialties, (
https://bartshealth-nhs.libguides. com/speciality) on the “specialty” of sustain- ability. Our AD was supportive of the idea providing a member of our team would be maintaining the site, and that it was clearly branded as a KLS initiative. G@BH were keen on this arrangement so I started to create the site at https://bart-
shealth-nhs.libguides.com/GreenatBartsHealth. I adapted the existing rough page plan to fit the simple home page and subpage struc- ture I’d previously used to some success for the KLS’s Wellbeing web pages (https://
bartshealth-nhs.libguides.com/wellbeing) during the first wave. From the Home Page that introduces the group, there are links to pages on: News; Meetings, including GABH forums and external meetings/ training; Active Transport, compliment- ing the Trust’s drive for cycling; What you can do to make a difference, which gathers “quick-win” ideas for staff seeking to reduce their environmental impact; Sustainable Quality Improvement (SusQI), which introduces this QI-derivative and lists group members’ projects; a page dedicated to the group’s Sustainable- Journal Club that we at KLS support; Other Green Healthcare Websites and Resources, linking to similar groups’ pages and useful tools/e-learning. I also borrowed elements from our specialty guides including a twitter widget on the News page that updates with tweets from twitter feeds that I added to a dedicated G@BH twitter list. I really like this element as it gives the site some immediacy and makes the News page
appear bang up-to-date. The Other Green Healthcare Websites… page also includes a carousel of relevant library books and ebooks that we’ve purchased on G@BH members’ recommendation, an element present in our subject guides.
Advice and support
Mostly though, I’ve been a conduit, standing on the shoulders of giants; the G@BH site being within the larger KLS site supervised by our Webmaster who’s provided invaluable advice and sup- port. Content for the pages too is mainly supplied by G@BH members – I add the articles and links that the group shares on the Whatsapp thread and include content from the Chair’s great newsletters on a regular basis. My KLS colleagues have also been involved, requiring absolutely
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