Acting sustainably as a university library is about reducing consumption of resources where possible, and reducing wasted resources through reuse. We’ve already explored the importance of acting sustainably with regard to water yesterday in another blogpost. Energy is another resource we need to use carefully, especially while universities are…
Water is at the core of sustainable development and is critical for socio-economic development, healthy ecosystems and for human survival itself. Its judicious management is a prerequisite for sustainable development.
In the last 15 years, consumption of bottled water has doubled. Along with an increase in consumption of…
Every year Libraries Week celebrates the contribution that libraries have to offer their communities across the UK. Libraries Week is organised by the library and information association, CILIP and the theme this year is climate change and sustainability:
“In 2023, Libraries Week becomes Green Libraries Week, a celebration of the…
A very warm welcome to all those starting this week! It was great to meet so many of you at the Welcome Fair today 🙌
To help you get started using our resources and services, we hope you can attend one of our Induction sessions.
Next week (Week 1) we…
As we welcome new students to the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, it seems appropriate that we reflect on the students who attended 100 years ago, the class of 1923.
The 73rd session ran from September to December. 63 students attended the School, of these 57 were…
Coming soon: Monographs join articles in UKRI policy update. Cries of, “Make us open access too!” can be heard from long-form outputs across the land. A blogpost by Alice Fodor.
19th August 2023 is World Humanitarian Day, a yearly day of observance established by the UN to recognise the contributions of humanitarian workers. Their theme this year is “the importance, effectiveness and positive impact of humanitarian work.” In recognition of the day, why not take a look at some of…
Visit the Library’s Barnard Room to find out more about the first professional librarian at LSHTM – Cyril Cuthbert Barnard (1894-1959).
If you’ve ever taken a book out of the Library, chances are you will have noticed the shelf mark on the spine. All books in the Library…
The Austrian physician Johann Gottfried Bremser (1767-1827) was born in Wertheim am Main in present-day Germany. He studied medicine in Jena and Vienna where he obtained a licence to practice medicine in 1797. Bremser made a special study of parasitic worm infections in humans and travelled to Paris…
As we’ve already seen in this blog series, the Historical Collection furnishes a huge variety of pre-twentieth-century material that is of value to anyone interested in the history of science or social studies or LSHTM as an institution. The work done to improve catalogue records for this…
