1. Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust Library & Information Service
A Warm Welcome To the Trust from all the Library Staff

2. Library Information Library is based in the Lantern Centre
It is a multidisciplinary library
The service is Lancashire wide via , phone, postage, fax, intranet
Agreements are in place for staff to use their local NHS library if they wish although they will have a limited Mental Health collection

3. The Team Carmel Smith Library & Information Services Manager
Jackie Turnbull
Library Assistant
Mon, Tues & Thurs – 4.00
Viv Walker
Wed & Friday – 3.30
Sue Jennings
Outreach Librarian

4. Opening Hours
Monday to Thursday
9am – 5pm
Friday
9am – 4.30pm

5. What do we have? Staff- Our expert team of friendly, helpful staff
Books
The Library catalogue is available over the intranet
Journals – 26 Titles
Videos
Computers for you to use
We always welcome suggestions for new additions to stock

6. The Library BLOG http://lancashirecare.wordpress.com/
What is the Blog?
The blog is accessible 24 hours a day.
It saves you time, good current awareness, updated every day.
Your first stop for Research and Information needs.
You can access the library catalogue, National Library for Health, E-Books, Journals, Reports etc.

7. What is an Athens?
It is a Password that gives you access to the National Library for Health (NLH)
It is easy to get you can either:
Complete the form in your pack Today
Or self register from any NHS pc.
Once you have an Athens ID you can use it both at work and home to access the following databases;
Medline, Psychinfo, Embase, Cochrane, Proquest full text journals MyI Library E-books. These are the names of the databases you should be using for literature searching.
If you are unsure about using any of the above please either ‘drop-in to the library or contact one of the library staff.

8. Library Services
Books – you can borrow up to 6 books for a month, remember you can either ring up, or bring the books in to renew.
Article requests - If you cannot obtain full-text journal articles you can either or phone to make a request. The library has access to full-text journal articles across the NorthWest and British Library. If in doubt contact the library.
We produce a Current Awareness Bulletin – circulated via every 4 –5 weeks
Induction Pack to make you aware of the range of services we provide.

9. Outreach Librarian Services
Short of time, doing a Masters, have an idea for a research project or just need help with a Literature Search you can myself Sue Jennings and ask for a literature search.
TheLibraryBlog updated daily
Current awareness in Mental Health
Delivering training across the Trust
If you require more in-depth training on developing search strategies, or how to use a particular database i.e. Cochrane, Pubmed, NLH. I can come out to you at your workplace at your convenience.

10. Contact Details Carmel 01772 773509 Sue 01772 773510
Jackie/Viv