St Bernard's Hospital Library
The hospital library is run jointly with the West London
Mental Health NHS Trust. It provides a service to the in-patients
of the hospital as well as day patients and staff. We always try to
obtain books that people ask us for, this also includes
informational requests and other non-book materials.
The Limes visits
A feature of the Hospital Library is the weekly visits to the
Limes- an old persons home run by the trust in Southall where
readings from novels, poetry and reminiscences are given to groups
of patients.
Stock for loan
We have a small collection of videos that we loan to the
wards, particularly the Regional Secure Unit who do not have access
to outside facilities.
We provide a wide selection of newspapers for our clients -
The Independent, The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Mirror, The
Mail, The Express and
The Sun as well as
The Ealing Gazette and
The Universe.
Our book stock is tailored towards our clients, providing
self-help books and books on mental health topics such as
schizophrenia, depression, mood swings, alcoholism, panic attacks,
phobias, dementia, stress and other books of a psychiatric nature.
We have many novels and other non-fiction books for
recreational and rehabilitative study as well as a reference
section for consultation. Some cassettes and audio books are
available as well as Asian books in Hindi, Panjabi, Bengali, Urdu
and Gujerati.
'A' block of the St Bernard's Wing facing the maternity wing.
Tel: (020) 8354 8518
Contact: Paul Lang
Open:Mon 9.30am-12.30pm trolley rounds in the afternoon to
wards.
Tues 9.30am-12.30pm and 1.30pm-4.30pm
Wed 9.30am-12.30pm and 1.30-5.00pm
Thur 9.30am-12.30pm trolley rounds in the afternoon to wards.
Fri 9.30am-12.30pm and 1.30pm-4.30pm