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Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust
Library & Information Service
A Warm Welcome To the Trust from all the Library Staff
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
The Team
Carmel Smith Library & Information Services Manager
Jackie TurnbullLibrary Assistant Mon, Tues & Thurs 8.30 – 4.00
Viv Walker Library Assistant Wed & Friday 9.00 – 3.30
Sue JenningsOutreach Librarian
Opening Hours
Monday to Thursday9am – 5pm
Friday 9am – 4.30pm
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
What do we have?
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.
The Library BLOGhttp://lancashirecare.wordpress.com/
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.
What is an Athens?
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.
Library Services
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.wordpress.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.
Carmel 01772 773509 Sue 01772 773510 Jackie/Viv 01772 773510
[email protected]@lancashirecare.nhs.ukjacqueline.turnbull@lancashirecare.nhs.ukvivienne.Walker@[email protected]
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