CYRIL CUTHBERT BARNARD (1894-1959), LIBRARIAN, AND THE WEDGWOOD POTTERY CONNECTION
Cyril Barnard was the LSHTM’s first Librarian serving the School from 1921-1959, a time when having a job for life was usual : he was still in post when he was sadly killed in a road accident 6…
[gview file=”http://blogs.lshtm.ac.uk/library/files/2016/04/STC.docx”]A lifetime of books
Reaching one’s seventieth birthday, it is natural to look back over a lifetime of experiences. An interesting feature of which is the link to libraries, library services and books in general. Entering…
Starting next week (4th May) the library will be running a range of classes to help you prepare for your Summer project.
Finding Grey Literature – this class will help you track down Grey Literature such as official reports, guidelines, theses, conference proceedings, technical specifications and standards…
April marks the start of our Item of the Month, an initiative that aims to promote items from the LSHTM Archives that may have been overlooked in the past. We will choose items that reflect events, news, or themes of the month. This month we have chosen the School’s…
By Victoria Cranna
In February of last year, the School held ‘Archives Alive – Peter Mine’, an event that explores the contribution women made to the advancement of public health. Victoria Cranna, the School’s Archivist and Records Manager, wrote a blog about the event:
One of the many things that…
Today, the World Health Organisation celebrates its 9th International Ear Care Day. Beginning in Beijing in 2007, the day aims to raise awareness and to promote ear and hearing care across the world, with each year focussing on a different theme; this year the theme is, ‘Childhood hearing loss: act…
The Library & Archives Service invites all current students to give us their views on the Library & Archives and the services we provide. Your views are important – please share them with us, so that we can help improve your Library & Archives Service.
The survey is available online at…
In January 1988, aged 25, I started work here as a library assistant. Now 28 years later and aged 53 I’m still here! I’m not sure if that is cause for celebration or a worrying sign of my extreme procrastination! My colleagues decided it was a cause for…
LSHTM Research Online is the freely accessible online database of research conducted by staff from London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Where possible we provide access to the full text of research articles, where we are unable to provide the full text we will hold the bibliographical information and provide links to where the full text can be accessed. But currently only 29 percent of our content is full-text or has a file attached to it (that's 9055 items out of 30,000) so there is a lot of research publications that are just bibliographic records. However, researchers can now share their papers via the 'Request a copy' function in our repository which allows users who wish to access the paper to request it from a named researcher in the School. How does this work? Read more
The Library will be closed from 15:00 on Friday 5th February, and all day on Saturday 6th February for the memorial service of Dr Jeroen Ensink. Dr Jeroen was a Senior Lecturer in Public Health Engineering at LSHTM, who tragically died in December 2015.
For alternative study space and…
Nutrition, Diet and Fasting in March
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Alternative sources of US Federal Government Information
March 5, 2025
Book Display: Eating Disorders Awareness Week (24 February – 2 March 2025)
February 21, 2025
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February 14, 2025
Book Display: Decolonising Global Health
February 12, 2025
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