Users of the central lift at Keppel Street may have met the librarian struggling with a trolley or box full of dusty old books using a key to the M (for mysterious) floor over the last 7 months. Well, that was me, and the books were the library’s Historical…
The library will be closing at 4pm on Tuesday 23rd June 2015 for an Alumni event.
The Library will reopen as usual from 8.30am on Wednesday 24th June 2015…
The Library will be closed on Tuesday 16th June to enable Library & Archives Service staff to attend the annual LAS Planning Day. Access to e-resources and online guidance will be available as usual via the LAS web pages at http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/library/index.html.
The…
In June 1915, the minutes of the London School of Tropical Medicine show that Dr H McCormick Hanschell was called up for service in the Navy and then embarked on a very interesting mission in East Africa.
Hanschell was born in Barbados and received his primary education in Bridgetown. He…
Want to let the Library know which journals are relevant to your needs? Now is your chance! From Monday 1st June to Friday 31st July you can participate by filling in a short questionnaire specific to your Faculty:
EPH: https://lshtm.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/las-eph-2015
ITD: https://lshtm…
On Tuesday 12th May the Library will be closed between 3pm and 4.30pm for an LAS staff meeting. This will be the last planned temporary closure until after exams. Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience caused.
We are conscious that the Library has closed for short periods to…
The Library will be closed between 3.30pm and 4.30pm on Thursday 7th May to allow all LAS staff to attend a meeting. Apologies for any inconvenience…
The Wellcome Trust recently announced a new scheme for small and medium-scale research projects based on archive collections that have received previous Research Resources funding. This is great news for the LSHTM archives as we have previously received four of these grants which have helped us to increase access…
Researched and written by Ian Walden, Archive volunteer.
As we commemorate the centenary of the Gallipoli campaign, the School’s archives remind us that in warfare, the doctor’s struggle to understand and combat disease is as significant as the general’s strategy and the soldier’s courage.
The campaign…
Researchers at the School who are in receipt of funding from the Wellcome Trust and have had an open access fee paid have a number of requirements when publishing.
They should license the research papers using the Creative Commons Attribution licence (CC-BY) so they may be freely copied and…
