SWIMS

www.swims.nhs.uk

SWIMS (South West Information Management System) is a library catalogue containing the stock of all the NHS libraries in the south and west of England. This is the only web-based catalogue covering our own stock here at Healthcare Library, Basingstoke.

To search for items held in Basingstoke
To restrict your search to only find items held at Healthcare Library, Basingstoke, you will need to choose "Basingstoke/North Hampshire Hospital/H18" from the box labelled "Just in these libraries" underneath the search box.

If you do a general search without restricting by location, the results presented may be at any NHS library in the south and west. To see which locations do hold an item, click on the title of the item to go into its full record, then scroll down the page to see the locations listed. Basingstoke uses a location code of H18 which you can also use to quickly spot whether an item is held here.

Most items found on SWIMS can be obtained through our inter-library loan service for full library members.

The availability of items at Basingstoke is now shown on SWIMS.

Items cannot currently be renewed by Basingstoke library users on SWIMS. Contact the library to renew an item.