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Library Survey

Be in with the chance of winning a Christmas Hamper

In order for us to provide the best service, we would greatly appreciate it, if you could spend 5 minutes completing our Library Users survey. This will help inform us of what we are doing well and provide ideas for how we can continue to develop and improve. Your feedback is of great importance to us and we would consider any recommendations for future planning.

The survey can be found here; https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/TSZNXFP and will take no more than 5 minutes to complete.

All completed entries, have the option for you to be entered into a draw to win a Christmas Hamper, just in time for the festive season.

We hope you continue to use our service to incorporate evidence based research within your practice. For access to our Library resources please visit out Trustnet page: http://trustnet2013/Networks/SupportServices/lis/Pages/default.aspx or contact the Library team with any questions or queries you may have: academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk.

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Meditation Canvas

We would love to complete our meditation canvas, which is displayed with the Gosall Library at the Lantern Centre before January 1st, in memory of our colleague Sue Brett-Micheals, who sadly passed away last year.

We are encouraging anyone who has a free few minutes to visit us for some mindfulness meditation and a much needed wellbeing break to add some colour to our canvas.

The gift of time

The impact of Library and knowledge services

According to this report, specialist library services are freeing up the time of clinicians, enabling them to devote more hours to patient care, and could be saving the NHS as much as £77 million a year. It finds that if the ratio of librarians to health professionals was increased to the level recommended by Health Education England, it’s thought that figure could rise to as much as £106 million. It also finds that health librarians and knowledge specialists make the gathering of information as easy as possible for health care professionals, relieving the burden of sourcing and making sense of evidence. This helps NHS organisations meet their statutory duty to use evidence from research within the service.

To find out more click here.

To find out about all our Library services on offer visit our Trustnet page, or feel free to email us; academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk with any questions or queries you may have. We are always here to support you and your colleagues.

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Covid safety precautions

The Gosall Library, based in Preston, is still open and available for all Trust staff to use between the hours of 9am to 4:30pm Monday to Friday.

In light of the pandemic, we have made some small changes to ensure everyone’s safety:

Please wear your face mask when entering the Library and use the hand sanitiser provided on entry, before and after looking at books and on exit.

The Gosall Libary, Lantern Centre , Vicarage Lane,Preston , PR2 8DW

Protective barriers have been put in place, not only on our Library reception desk, but also within the hot-desking and computer area, allowing you to work in a safe environment.

Our self-issuing machine is available for staff wishing to issue a book. Simply follow the step by step guide as instructed on the machine.

We also have calming and reflective areas for you to take some time out to read an article, take some time to yourself or improve your mindfulness with our colouring board.

Along with medical journals and books, we also have a collection of fiction books which all staff can access.

Coronavirus: Gosall Library Services

Due to the current COVID19 situation and following the Government’s guidance, the Gosall Library issue desk will be closed until further notice from Wednesday 18th March 2020

The Lantern Centre building is currently open and staff are welcome to visit the library to work in the hot desk areas as usual or to take out/return books using the self issue machine in the main library. Library staff are still available by email to renew books, carry out literature searches and search for journals and to deal with other enquiries where possible. 

Email us at: academic.library@lancashirecare.nhs.uk