Category: Libraries

Fiction Collection

Now that we are into a new year why not try reading something new, a new author or genre maybe?

We have a large collection of fiction in the Gosall library, you can search our catalogue here. If you normally read crime or mystery novels why not try reading a biography? Or if fantasy is normally your bag why not give romance a go?!

We have a few ideas on display in the main library and the rest of our fiction collection can be found in the snug. Please feel free to browse and check out any books of interest using the self-issue machine. Alternatively, email the library team at academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk and we can post books out to you.

The library team is also happy to recommend books for you.

Healthy Eating in January

Now more than ever it is important to keep our bodies and minds healthy, so in the library this month we are promoting healthy eating

If you are visiting the library please have a look at our display of healthy eating books and help yourself to one of our healthy eating recipe cards. If you are interested in borrowing any of the books on display these can be checked out in the library using the self issue machine. Alternatively if you would like us to post a book out to you please email the library team: academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk

We will be featuring the recipes throughout the month on Twitter, please follow us @LscftL and share your own healthy food creations!

Merry Christmas

Gosall Library Updates

We just wanted to wish all our friends and colleagues a very Merry Christmas. We know this year is not what we intended, however the dedication and commitment of all the NHS staff within the Trust have inevitably saved hundreds of lives this year! Thankyou for all your hard work, motivation and courage to get through one heck of a year.

This is a small reminder that the Lantern Centre will be closed from 5pm on Wednesday 23rd December and will re-open at 8:30am on the 4th January 2021. The Library team will still be available to contact throughout the week, however this will be with minimal staffing. Please continue to send us any requests to our inbox: academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk and we will try our best to get back to you as soon as possible.

For now, have a very Merry Christmas and a wonderful New Year. We hope you all manage to celebrate in your own way.

New E-books

More titles added to our online catalogue

Our online catalogue has been updated with the following texts:

  • New Oxford Textbook of Psychiatry, 3rd ed.               (2020)
  • Oxford Handbook of Clinical Dentistry, 7th ed.           (2020)
  • Oxford Textbook of Medicine, 6th ed.                        (2020)
  • Oxford Handbook of Musculoskeletal Nursing          (2020)
  • Oxford Handbook of Clinical Specialties, 11th ed.      (2020)
  • Oxford Handbook of Adult Nursing, 2nd ed.               (2018)
  • Oxford Handbook of Learning and Intellectual Disability Nursing, 2nd ed. (2018)
  • Oxford Handbook of Palliative Care, 3rd ed.               (2019)

To access these texts, simply login with your Library card. If you are not a Library member, please complete the following registration form and send it back to academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk.

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Please let the team know if you have any specific book or e-book requests.

Digital mental health

Current Awareness Bulletin

The December edition of digital mental health, produced by Greater Manchester Mental Health Trust, is now available to view or download.

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Library Survey

Be in with the chance of winning a Christmas Hamper

In order for us to provide the best service, we would greatly appreciate it, if you could spend 5 minutes completing our Library Users survey. This will help inform us of what we are doing well and provide ideas for how we can continue to develop and improve. Your feedback is of great importance to us and we would consider any recommendations for future planning.

The survey can be found here; https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/TSZNXFP and will take no more than 5 minutes to complete.

All completed entries, have the option for you to be entered into a draw to win a Christmas Hamper, just in time for the festive season.

We hope you continue to use our service to incorporate evidence based research within your practice. For access to our Library resources please visit out Trustnet page: http://trustnet2013/Networks/SupportServices/lis/Pages/default.aspx or contact the Library team with any questions or queries you may have: academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk.

Gosall Library

Meditation Canvas

We would love to complete our meditation canvas, which is displayed with the Gosall Library at the Lantern Centre before January 1st, in memory of our colleague Sue Brett-Micheals, who sadly passed away last year.

We are encouraging anyone who has a free few minutes to visit us for some mindfulness meditation and a much needed wellbeing break to add some colour to our canvas.

Booker Prize

2020 Winner

Douglas Stuart was crowned the winner of the 2020 Booker Prize for his debut novel, Shuggie Bain. 

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Courtesy of The Booker Prize

1981. Glasgow. The city is dying. Poverty is on the rise. People watch the lives they had hoped for disappear from view. Agnes Bain had always expected more. She dreamed of greater things: a house with its own front door, a life bought and paid for outright (like her perfect – but false – teeth). When her philandering husband leaves, she and her three children find themselves trapped in a mining town decimated by Thatcherism. As Agnes increasingly turns to alcohol for comfort, her children try their best to save her. Yet one by one they have to abandon her in order to save themselves.

Laying bare the ruthlessness of poverty, the limits of love, and the hollowness of pride, Shuggie Bain is a blistering and heartbreaking debut, and an exploration of the unsinkable love that only children can have for their damaged parents. (The Booker Prize)

To find out more about the book or the author click here.