Category: Libraries

Library Books

How we manage our withdrawn library stock

We have been busy managing our book stock in the library over the last few months to keep our collections up to date and make way for new books coming in.

Our Library Assistant, Sue Clarke, has withdrawn over 400 books and these have been donated to Better World Books where they will hopefully find a new audience! Better World Books is a socially responsible book store and back in April they celebrated having sold a million books, keeping books out of landfill and readers supplied with new material.

Some of the books we have withdrawn are available to buy or swap from the trolley in the library. Please feel free to swap a good quality pre-loved book with one from the trolley or re-home one for a small donation. All donations will go to MacMillan Cancer Support.

We are constantly adding to our catalogue with new and donated books. There is a selection of new titles for this summer currently on display in the library, details are in the library catalogue here.

If you would like us to post one of these books out to you please email academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk or use the self-issue machine in the library when taking books from the display or the library shelves.

Lunch and Learn

A session around a greener NHS – Net Zero

Thank-you to everyone who attended our lunch and learn session yesterday. Our guest speaker, Chris Carlsen , Environmental Manager for Healthcare Support & Information Services, gave a very enlightening presentation on this important topic.

If you missed the session, you can watch the session recording here (please use your LSCFT email to access) or view the presentation slides here.

For more information about Greener NHS and Net Zero please read here or complete the training session For a Greener NHS- Delivering Net Zero on Training Tracker.

We would really appreciate any feedback on these sessions. If you have a few spare minutes we kindly ask you to complete our survey- which should take no longer than 5 minutes to complete: https://www.surveymonkey.com

Our next session will be held in August with Chris Davies from Sound Skills talking about their work with the community. We hope to see you there. Please contact carmel.smith@lscft.nhs.uk if you would like an invite to this session.

Royal Marsden Manual

A Professional’s Take on the Royal Marsden Manual

What type of effort and expertise does it take to create and maintain a textbook so definitive that it’s become known as “the Bible for nursing?” Hear directly from Sara Lister, head of pastoral care and psychological support for The Royal Marsden and an editor for The Royal Marsden Manual for 17 years.

Hear from Sarah Lister in this short video.

The 9th edition of this textbook is available in the Gosall Library, reference only, please see details in the library catalogue: Heritage Online and we also have a subscription to the 10th online edition which may be accessed using your OpenAthens login details.

Please email the library academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk for help or more information.

Lunch and Learn – July Reminder

A session around a greener NHS – Net Zero

This is just a reminder that the next Lunch and Learn session will be held via Teams on Wednesday 21st July between 12pm and 1pm.

This session will discuss:

  • Sustainable development
  • The Trust’s Greener Plan
  • Climate change

Library Newsletter

July 2021

The July edition of the Library Newsletter is now available to view here.

Please feel free to download and share with your colleagues and/or department.

If you would like to see any additional features on our newsletter or have any queries regarding information featured in this month’s newsletter, please get in touch by emailing: academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk

Windrush Day

Windrush Day is on 22nd June

Windrush Day honours the British Caribbean community, and the half a million people who travelled to the UK after the Second World War. The first Windrush Day was held on June 22 2018. More people than ever before are taking part this year to support the Windrush Generation, and show sympathy with the hardships they have endured.

For more information please read here.

We are currently promoting a collection of books inspired by the Windrush Generation in the library. If you would like one of these books to be posted out to you please email us academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk