Category: Libraries

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.

The gift of time

The impact of Library and knowledge services

According to this report, specialist library services are freeing up the time of clinicians, enabling them to devote more hours to patient care, and could be saving the NHS as much as £77 million a year. It finds that if the ratio of librarians to health professionals was increased to the level recommended by Health Education England, it’s thought that figure could rise to as much as £106 million. It also finds that health librarians and knowledge specialists make the gathering of information as easy as possible for health care professionals, relieving the burden of sourcing and making sense of evidence. This helps NHS organisations meet their statutory duty to use evidence from research within the service.

To find out more click here.

To find out about all our Library services on offer visit our Trustnet page, or feel free to email us; academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk with any questions or queries you may have. We are always here to support you and your colleagues.

EBSCO App

Including CINAHL Complete

Want a one-stop shop way of accessing the Library on your Smartphone? Download the NEW & FREE EBSCO Mobile App and access via your Open Athens account to your Library’s resources on the move, either onsite or off premises! Including CINAHL for Allied Health & Nursing, MEDLINE & Psychology & Behavioural Science Collection, you’ll have access to over 2,350 active, full-text journals!

For a Quick Start Guide on using the new EBSCO app please see – https://bit.ly/3eV43In