Category: Libraries

Lunch and Learn

A session around the Soundskills project

Thank-you to everyone who attended our lunch and learn session yesterday. Our guest speaker, Chris Davies, an artist specialising in painting, film, graphics and photography, gave a very interesting presentation on this worthwhile project.

If you missed the session, you can watch the session recording here (please use your LSCFT email to access).

For more information about the project please read here.

We would really appreciate any feedback on these sessions. If you have a few spare minutes we kindly ask you to complete our survey- which should take no longer than 5 minutes to complete: https://www.surveymonkey.com

Lunch and Learn – August Reminder

A session around the Soundskills Project

This is just a reminder that the next Lunch and Learn session will be held via Teams on Wednesday 25th August between 12pm and 1pm.

This session will discuss:

  • The Soundskills project and visual arts based community development work
  • The principles of socially engaged practice
  • The health benefits of creative expression

Webinar

Keeping The Clinician By The Bedside

Source: National Health Executive

Watch the recording of this webinar from NHE’s Finger on the Pulse podcast. It features Will Warburton from the Health Foundation and Dr Shanti Vijayaraghavan and the focus is on the ability to provide results and support virtually to patients, without an in-person visit, allowing much greater convenience for patients.

Public Libraries

August Reading for Health Book of the Month: Adventures of the Yorkshire Shepherdess by Amanda Owen

 

As seen on Channel 5’s Our Yorkshire Farm. Amanda Owen loves her traditional life on her hill farm alongside her nine children and husband Clive. And, as readers of her previous bestsellers will know, every day at Ravenseat brings surprises. In Adventures of the Yorkshire Shepherdess Amanda takes us from her family’s desperate race to save a missing calf to finding her bra has been repurposed as a house martin’s nest, and from wild swimming to the brutal winter of 2018 that almost brought her to her knees. As busy as she is with her family and flock though, an exciting new project soon catches her eye . . . Ravenseat is a tenant farm and may not stay in the family, so when Amanda discovers a nearby farmhouse up for sale, she knows it is her chance to create roots for her children. The old house needs a lot of renovation and money is tight, so Amanda sets about the work herself, with some help from a travelling monk, a visiting plumber and Clive. It’s fair to say things do not go according to plan!

Funny, evocative and set in a remote and beautiful landscape, this book will delight anyone who has hankered after a new life in the country.

The book is currently available for free on the Borrow Box app as an eBook and eAudiobook. It is one of the public library’s always available titles, so it means that you won’t have to queue to borrow the book – just download it instantly. To access this, you will just need a Lancashire Library card (you can apply here if you don’t already have one) and download the Borrow Box app for free from the Google Play or App Store. Alternatively, you could also reserve a physical copy from one of the reopened libraries.

Library Newsletter

August 2021

The August edition of the Library Newsletter is now available to view here.

Please feel free to download and share with your colleagues and/or department.

If you would like to see any additional features on our newsletter or have any queries regarding information featured in this month’s newsletter, please get in touch by emailing: academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk

Library Books

How we manage our withdrawn library stock

We have been busy managing our book stock in the library over the last few months to keep our collections up to date and make way for new books coming in.

Our Library Assistant, Sue Clarke, has withdrawn over 400 books and these have been donated to Better World Books where they will hopefully find a new audience! Better World Books is a socially responsible book store and back in April they celebrated having sold a million books, keeping books out of landfill and readers supplied with new material.

Some of the books we have withdrawn are available to buy or swap from the trolley in the library. Please feel free to swap a good quality pre-loved book with one from the trolley or re-home one for a small donation. All donations will go to MacMillan Cancer Support.

We are constantly adding to our catalogue with new and donated books. There is a selection of new titles for this summer currently on display in the library, details are in the library catalogue here.

If you would like us to post one of these books out to you please email academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk or use the self-issue machine in the library when taking books from the display or the library shelves.