Now that exams are over, work can begin in earnest on your summer project. To help you with the literature searching and retrieval process, the Library will be running a series of drop-in sessions.
These sessions will run from 14:00-17:00 every Wednesday afternoon from 23 June to 28 July in the e-library (the glass computer room next to the Manson Lecture Theatre). Each session will be staffed by a member of the Library training team.
Just come down to the eLibrary at any time during the afternoon to ask your queries.
If you have a number of queries or if your queries are complex, we may recommend you arrange a one-to-one appointment with a member of Library staff instead. These can be arranged during the drop-in sessions.
Thursday, 17 June 2010
NEW - Document Delivery service - Let the Library come to you
Are you a student or member of overseas staff?
Could you benefit from increased access to Library services whilst working remotely?
Would you find it useful to have journal articles and book chapters delivered to you directly?
If yes, then the Library’s new Document Delivery Service is the answer.
From Monday 21st of June the service will be available to all students and overseas staff. We can make life easier by sending you journal articles and book chapters directly, wherever you are in the world. If you need a book chapter or journal article that is not part of Library collections, we can send this to you direct. Students and staff working overseas can also order photocopies of material from the Library’s print collections. If you are a UK-based student we cannot send you photocopies of Library resources. However, you will be able to use academic libraries local to you by joining the SCONUL Access Scheme.
There are a number of direct delivery options for you to choose from including email, post or fax.
We will invoice students for the items they have been sent in September 2010. Each item will cost £2.00 for students.
Staff requests will be charged at full cost to a departmental or grant code, with authorised signature.
The service will be available from 21st June and you will need to register to make requests.
All the relevant forms and information is on the inter-loans web pages
Please contact us with any questions interloans@lshtm.ac.uk
Could you benefit from increased access to Library services whilst working remotely?
Would you find it useful to have journal articles and book chapters delivered to you directly?
If yes, then the Library’s new Document Delivery Service is the answer.
From Monday 21st of June the service will be available to all students and overseas staff. We can make life easier by sending you journal articles and book chapters directly, wherever you are in the world. If you need a book chapter or journal article that is not part of Library collections, we can send this to you direct. Students and staff working overseas can also order photocopies of material from the Library’s print collections. If you are a UK-based student we cannot send you photocopies of Library resources. However, you will be able to use academic libraries local to you by joining the SCONUL Access Scheme.
There are a number of direct delivery options for you to choose from including email, post or fax.
We will invoice students for the items they have been sent in September 2010. Each item will cost £2.00 for students.
Staff requests will be charged at full cost to a departmental or grant code, with authorised signature.
The service will be available from 21st June and you will need to register to make requests.
All the relevant forms and information is on the inter-loans web pages
Please contact us with any questions interloans@lshtm.ac.uk
Wednesday, 2 June 2010
OECD Factbook available on iPhone and other smart phones
The OECD Factbook provides a global overview of today’s major economic, social and environmental indicators and is updated annually.
Now, as well as being available in print and via the web, there's an app for it too. See www.oecd.org/site/0,3407,en_21571361_34374092_1_1_1_1_1,00.html for details.
The app can be downloaded from the iTunes App Store.
Now, as well as being available in print and via the web, there's an app for it too. See www.oecd.org/site/0,3407,en_21571361_34374092_1_1_1_1_1,00.html for details.
The app can be downloaded from the iTunes App Store.
Monday, 24 May 2010
The Library will be open on Monday 31st May 2010
The Library will be open to members of the School from 11am until 8pm on Monday 31st May (the bank holiday) to assist students preparing for exams. We will be operating a weekend service, with a limited number of staff on duty to answer routine enquiries - please refer complex queries to relevant Library & Archives Service staff during our normal weekday opening hours.
Friday, 23 April 2010
Minor Estates work in the Library 24th/25th April.
Minor Estates work will take place in the Library this coming weekend (24th/25th April). There will be some noise disruption, but this will be kept to an absolute minimum, and the Library will remain open as usual.
Monday, 19 April 2010
National Library for Public Health launches Annual Evidence Update on childhood obesity from 19 April 2010
The National Library for Public Health has launched the 2010 Annual Evidence Update on childhood obesity today, focusing on childhood obesity surveillance and preventative public health interventions. The Evidence Update includes a number of key policy documents and guest editorials written by experts, which provide a snapshot summary of preventative interventions for childhood obesity and international surveillance activities. Find out more at http://www.library.nhs.uk/publichealth/ or http://bit.ly/d85AwF.
Annual Evidence Updates aim to compile the best evidence on a specific topic published in the last 12 months.
Wednesday, 7 April 2010
Collection of the month: Ross notebook
To mark World Malaria Day 2010 and the LSHTM Malaria Centre event held at the School on 23rd April, we have chosen an item which documents one of greatest discoveries in tropical medicine and advanced our knowledge of malaria.
This notebook, which belonged to Ronald Ross, was kept during the years 1895-1897 whilst he was working in India. The page we have displayed here shows the working notes made by Ross on 20th August 1897 in his office in Secunderabad. During the dissection of the stomach tissue of an anopheline mosquito fed four days previously on a malarious patient, Ross found the malaria parasite, from which he proved the role of Anopheles mosquitoes in the transmission of malaria parasites in humans.
Ross took ten days' leave to write a paper, 'On some peculiar pigmented cells found in two mosquitoes fed on malarial blood', and was cautious enough to have his work verified by a colleague, Surgeon-Major John Smyth. He sent this off immediately to the British Medical Journal, which took three months to publish it.
In recognition of his work, Ronald Ross was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1902. The notebook is part of the Ross collection and is available to researchers. Please contact the Archives for further enquiries at archives@lshtm.ac.uk.
This notebook, which belonged to Ronald Ross, was kept during the years 1895-1897 whilst he was working in India. The page we have displayed here shows the working notes made by Ross on 20th August 1897 in his office in Secunderabad. During the dissection of the stomach tissue of an anopheline mosquito fed four days previously on a malarious patient, Ross found the malaria parasite, from which he proved the role of Anopheles mosquitoes in the transmission of malaria parasites in humans.
Ross took ten days' leave to write a paper, 'On some peculiar pigmented cells found in two mosquitoes fed on malarial blood', and was cautious enough to have his work verified by a colleague, Surgeon-Major John Smyth. He sent this off immediately to the British Medical Journal, which took three months to publish it.
In recognition of his work, Ronald Ross was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1902. The notebook is part of the Ross collection and is available to researchers. Please contact the Archives for further enquiries at archives@lshtm.ac.uk.
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