TODAY: Gems from the Collections - Gilded Vectors

Staff and students are invited to have a closer look at the wonderful historical collections relating to the bronze gilded disease vectors displayed on the outside of the building. Today (27th June) between 12pm and 2pm on the ground floor of the South Courtyard, the Library & Archives Service is holding a 'Gems from the Collections ' session where staff will be available to show you some of the rare and unique documents, artefacts and books that we hold relating to diseases carried and transmitted by the louse, rat, mosquito, bedbug, flea, snake, tick and tsetse fly.

There is no need to make an appointment, just drop by and see us outside the Manson Lecture Theatre and find out more about the School's historical collections.

All eight episodes of the Mustard Club radio series based on the School's gilded vectors are now available as podcasts at: http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/multimedia/podcasts/2012/the_gilded_vectors_of_disease.html. 

Alumni Tea Party in the Library on Thursday 28th June

The Library will be closing at 12 pm on Thursday 28th June as it will be hosting the LSHTM Alumni Tea Party. Normal service will resume on Friday 29th June at 8.30am.

Free Lunch

Free Lunch

The Library & Archives Service is offering a free lunch at two events next week in return for your thoughts on our services. Lunch for MSc students will be available on Monday 25th June and lunch for research degree students and staff on Tuesday 26th June - both are in LG9 at Keppel Street, 1pm - 2pm.


To reserve sandwiches (or let us know about specific dietary requirements) MSc students should email david.archer@lshtm.ac.uk and research degree students and staff should email jane.falconer@lshtm.ac.uk. Come along. Talk. Eat.

Ovid Medline® interface change revision

Notice from OvidSP

On June 6, 2012 Ovid made a modification to the Reprint/Medlars export, save, and print output for the Abstract field that impacted imports to bibliographic management tools. As of June 12th, Ovid has reversed this modification to the output, and the output format will revert to the previous format until this issue is resolved.
Any alerts received from June 6th through June 11th will have been affected by the output modification change. Customers with affected alerts can re-run their alerts to get the old format starting Tuesday, June 12th.
If you should have any questions concerning this change, please contact us at support@ovid.com.
Wolters Kluwer Health – Ovid

Gems from the Collections: Gilded Vectors

Staff and students are invited to have a closer look at the wonderful historical collections relating to the bronze gilded disease vectors displayed on the outside of the building. On Wednesday 27th June, between 12pm and 2pm on the ground floor of the South Courtyard, the Library & Archives Service is holding a 'Gems from the Collections ' session where staff will be available to show you some of the rare and unique documents, artefacts and books that we hold relating to diseases carried and transmitted by the louse, rat, mosquito, bedbug, flea, snake, tick and tsetse fly.

There is no need to make an appointment, just drop by and see us outside the Manson Lecture Theatre and find out more about the School's historical collections.

For further information, please contact a member of the Archives team at archives@lshtm.ac.uk

All eight episodes of the Mustard Club radio series based on the School's gilded vectors are now available as podcasts at: http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/multimedia/podcasts/2012/the_gilded_vectors_of_disease.html. 

Launch of the 2012 staff and student PhotoLibrary competition

 'Pinned specimens awaiting a name' by Seth Irish, winner of the 2011 staff and student PhotoLibrary competition

It is the time of year again when budding photographers have the opportunity to show off their photographic skills to the rest of the School. Staff and students are encouraged to submit photos which represent the theme of the competition: Life and Work at the School. This can be interpreted fairly widely to reflect work activities - both in London and overseas, studying at the School, social activities and living in London.

The winning entry, chosen by a judging panel, will appear in a forthcoming issue of the Chariot News blog and on the School’s website, and the photographer will receive a £25 gift voucher. All entries will be available for staff and students to view in PhotoLibrary, the School's image database.

Submission guidelines are available on the 2012 PhotoLibrary competition webpage.

The closing date for entries is Friday 17^th August 2012

To see previous year’s entries (such as the 2011 winning entry as shown above), go to PhotoLibrary (please note that you will need the login and password which are available on the intranet at: http://intra.lshtm.ac.uk/library/passwords.html, these are different from your School login and password) and search under the competition entries category.