Category: Libraries

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

Gosall Library

Wellbeing books

Now more than ever, we need to look after our wellbeing and take time to ourselves. We know that the new lockdown may have caused additional stress, worries or anxieties. We have a great range of welbeing and stress relief books to help you throughout the next month and beyond.

To take a look at our library catalogue click here. If you have any book requests please email academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk and keep an eye on our Twitter account for active book polls.

The self service machine will remain in operation throughout lockdown or we can send books out to you at your place at work.

Library Competition

Celebrating International Stress Awareness Week

Next week (2nd to 6th November) is International Stress Awareness Week. The Library Team wanted to focus on the positives, especially during these difficult times .

We are running a photograph competition throughout the week, asking people to send photographs of how you ‘de-stress’ after a hectic day. All you have to do to enter is tag us on Twitter @LscftL to be in with the chance of winning a goody bag of prizes.

The competition is open to all Trust staff and patients, along with friends and families. We’d love for as many people to get involved as possible and hope that it may bring some hope and joy throughout the week.

The winner will be announced on Monday 9th November. Happy snapping!

Black History Month

New book additions

To celebrate Black History Month, taking place through October, we have added new books to our collection. A variety of fiction, autobiographies, poetry and historical stories for all tastes of genres. Take a look at our online catalogue (what’s new section) or view our collection at the Gosall Library- The Lantern Centre to issue your books today. Remember, we can send books out to you, so please don’t hesitate to get in touch with the library team by emailing academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk.

Our new Black History Month collection