Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust Library

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Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust
Library Information Service

• A Warm Welcome To the Trust from all the Library
  Staff

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Library Information

• Library is based in the Lantern Centre
• It is a multidisciplinary library
• The service is Lancashire wide via email, phone,
  postage, fax, intranet
• Agreements are in place for staff to use their
  local NHS library if they wish although they will
  have a limited Mental Health collection

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The Team

• Carmel Smith
• Library Information Services Manager
• Jackie Turnbull
• Library Assistant
• Mon, Tues Thurs 8.30 4.00
• Viv Walker
• Library Assistant
• Wed Friday 9.00 3.30
• Sue Jennings
• Outreach Librarian

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Opening Hours
Monday to Thursday 9am 5pm Friday 9am
4.30pm
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What do we have?

• Staff- Our expert team of friendly, helpful staff
• Books
• The Library catalogue is available over the
  intranet http//heri4
• Journals 26 Titles
• Videos
• Computers for you to use
• We always welcome suggestions for new additions
  to stock

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The Library BLOGhttp//lancashirecare.wordpress.c
om/

• What is the Blog?
• The blog is accessible 24 hours a day.
• It saves you time, good current awareness,
  updated every day.
• Your first stop for Research and Information
  needs.
• You can access the library catalogue, National
  Library for Health, E-Books, Journals, Reports
  etc.

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What is an Athens?

• It is a Password that gives you access to the
  National Library for Health (NLH)
• It is easy to get you can either
• Complete the form in your pack Today
• Or self register from any NHS pc.
• Once you have an Athens ID you can use it both at
  work and home to access the following databases
• Medline, Psychinfo, Embase, Cochrane, Proquest
  full text journals MyI Library E-books. These
  are the names of the databases you should be
  using for literature searching.
• If you are unsure about using any of the above
  please either drop-in to the library or contact
  one of the library staff.

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Library Services

• Books you can borrow up to 6 books for a
  month, remember you can either ring up, email or
  bring the books in to renew.
• Article requests - If you cannot obtain full-text
  journal articles you can either email or phone to
  make a request. The library has access to
  full-text journal articles across the NorthWest
  and British Library. If in doubt contact the
  library.
• We produce a Current Awareness Bulletin
  circulated via email every 4 5 weeks
• Induction Pack to make you aware of the range of
  services we provide.

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Outreach Librarian Services

• Short of time, doing a Masters, have an idea for
  a research project or just need help with a
  Literature Search you can email myself Sue
  Jennings and ask for a literature search.
• TheLibraryBlog updated daily www.lancashirecare.wo
  rdpress.com
• Current awareness in Mental Health
• Delivering training across the Trust
• If you require more in-depth training on
  developing search strategies, or how to use a
  particular database i.e. Cochrane, Pubmed, NLH. I
  can come out to you at your workplace at your
  convenience.

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Contact Details

• Carmel 01772 773509
• Sue 01772 773510
• Jackie/Viv 01772 773510
• academic.library_at_lancashirecare.nhs.uk
• carmel.smith_at_lancashirecare.nhs.uk
• jacqueline.turnbull_at_lancashirecare.nhs.uk
• vivienne.Walker_at_lancashirecare.nhs.uk
• susan.jennings_at_lancashirecare.nhs.uk