Wednesday 27 March 2013

Happy Easter from the Archives


This leaflet is from a series of seasonal recipes published by the Ministry of Food during the period of food rationing in Britain during and following the Second World War.


This and many other Ministry of Food leaflets are available to view in the LSHTM Archives as part of the  Nutrition Collection. Please see the archives website for further information: http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/library/archives/.

Monday 25 March 2013

Library Opening Hours 29th March - 2nd April


The Library & Archives Service will be closed from Friday 29th March to Tuesday 2nd April inclusive. The Library will therefore close at 8.25pm on Thursday 28th March, and re-open at 8.30am on Wednesday 3rd April.  Electronic resources may still be accessed via the Library & Archives Service web page at http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/library/.

Monday 18 March 2013

Library Opening Hours Friday 22nd March


The Library will be closing at 1.30 pm on Friday 22nd March in preparation for the DL Reception which is being held in the Reading Room that evening. The Library will reopen as usual at 9 am on Saturday 23rd March.

Studying at LSHTM? Tell us how we’re doing.

 
A reminder that the Library & Archives Service is inviting all current MSc, Diploma and Research Degree students studying at the School to give us their views on the services and facilities we provide to support their study, and for suggestions on how we might develop these services for the future.

The Library & Archives Service Student Survey 2013, which takes just 7 to 10 minutes to complete, is available at https://www.survey.lshtm.ac.uk/las2013, and will be open until Sunday 28th April.

We’ll also be holding some follow-up focus groups with students over the next few months where we’ll be exploring some of the themes raised in the survey. Students interested in participating can register their interest via the survey, or by emailing David Archer, Reader Services Librarian.

Your views about the Library & Archives Service are important. Please share them with us.

Tuesday 12 March 2013

Top 10 downloaded papers from LSHTM Research Online for February 2013



Below is a list of our 10 most downloaded papers for February 2013. The information has been gathered from LSHTM Research Online, the School’s publically accessible online database of research conducted by staff from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. 



Evans, H; Lewis, CM; Robinson, D; Bell, CMJ; Moller, H; Hodgson, SV; (2001) Incidence of multiple primary cancers in a cohort of women diagnosed with breast cancer in southeast England British journal of cancer, 84 (3). pp. 435-440. 



Timaeus, IM; Moultrie, TA; (2008) On postponement and birth intervals Population and development review, 34 (3). pp. 483-510.


Fallowfield, L; Ratcliffe, D; Jenkins, V; Saul, J; (2001) Psychiatric morbidity and its recognition by doctors in patients with cancer. British journal of cancer, 84 (8). pp. 1011-5.







 Choi, BS; Martinez-Falero, IC; Corset, C; Munder, M; Modolell, M; Moller, I; Kropf, P; (2009) Differential impact of L-arginine deprivation on the activation and effector functions of T cells and macrophages. Journal of leukocyte biology, 85 (2). pp. 268-77.

Maxwell-Armstrong, CA; Durrant, LG; Buckley, TJ; Scholefield, JH; Robins, RA; Fielding, K; Monson, JR; Guillou, P; Calvert, H; Carmichael, J; +1 more... (2001) Randomized double-blind phase 11 Survial study comparing immunization with the anti-idiotypic monoclonal antibody 105AD7 against placebo in advanced colorectal cancer British journal of cancer, 84 (11). pp. 1443-1446.




If you are an LSHTM author and would like find out how you can deposit the full-text of your research in LSHTM Research Online see our FAQs or contact us.



Friday 8 March 2013

Celebrating International Women's Day



'The Sphere' featuring the opening
 of the Ross Institute
 
For International Women's Day,  the new Library display celebrates the role of Women in Public Health and Tropical Medicine.  Personalities featured include Mary Henrietta Kingsley (1862-1900) writer and traveller in West Africa.
The Mary Kingsley medal was awarded by Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine to Sir Patrick Manson (founder of LSHTM)  in 1905




Mary Kingsley medal
 










Other women in the display include:
  • Mabel Clark, a well-known figure in British nutrition, who worked in the Department of Industrial Physiology at LSHTM during the 1920s-1930s
  • Cicely Williams, who studied at LSHTM 1928-1929 and returned as Senior Lecturer in Nutrition 1953-55.





Staff at the Ross Instiute laboratory 1926
 









Monday 4 March 2013

Studying at LSHTM? Tell us how we’re doing.


The Library & Archives Service is inviting all current MSc, Diploma and Research Degree students studying at the School to give us their views on the services and facilities we provide to support their study, and for suggestions on how we might develop these services for the future.

Firstly, we’re seeking feedback online via the Library & Archives Service Student Survey 2013, which takes just 7 to 10 minutes to complete. The survey can be accessed from Monday 4th March at https://www.survey.lshtm.ac.uk/las2013, and will be open until Sunday 28th April. There’s a link to the survey on the LAS homepage, and if you happen to be wandering around the School with your smartphone and come across one of our posters you can also use a QR reader app to scan the QR code and connect to the survey right there and then.

We’ll also be holding some follow-up focus groups with students over the next few months where we’ll be exploring some of the themes raised in the survey. Students interested in participating can register their interest via the survey, or by emailing David Archer, Reader Services Librarian. We’ll even throw in a free lunch.

Your views about the Library & Archives Service are important. Please share them with us.