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UCL Health Libraries @uclhealthlibraries.bsky.social · Jun 10

Hello to everyone on @bsky.app! We support @ucl.ac.uk students, staff, and colleagues at our partner NHS Trusts. www.ucl.ac.uk/library/nhs

The Cruciform Building in front of University College London Hospital

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UCL Health Libraries @uclhealthlibraries.bsky.social · 2d

Friday 10th October is World Mental Health Day!
Advice on how to cope with feeling overwhelmed and ways to get involved in raising awareness here: www.mentalhealth.org.uk/our-work/pub...

Poster created by UCL RUMS students which is being displayed in Cruciform Hub

UCL Health Libraries @uclhealthlibraries.bsky.social · 5d

Get some expert help with this in-person session on 'Getting started with your systematic review in health and biomedical sciences'📣
Date/time: Monday 13 October, 11:00 - 12:50
Venue: Royal Free Hospital Medical Library
library-calendars.ucl.ac.uk/event/4392517

Illustration created by Karolinska Institutet University Library

UCL Health Libraries @uclhealthlibraries.bsky.social · 9d

Sign up for this in-person workshop at the Royal Free Hospital on search strategies for literature searching📣
Date/time: Tuesday 7 October, 14:00 - 15:20
Further information can be found here: library-calendars.ucl.ac.uk/event/4391750

Fingers about to click on a keyboard, while question marks appear above the keyboard

UCL Health Libraries @uclhealthlibraries.bsky.social · 10d

It's Stoptober📣
If you're ready to quit smoking then take a look at all these NHS resources to help you www.nhs.uk/better-healt...

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UCL Faculty of Brain Sciences @uclbrainscience.bsky.social · 12d

Today is the last day of #WorldAlzheimersMonth. Read our research stories and find out how UCL is committed to dementia prevention, care & cure.

🔗 Find out more: www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-scienc...
#UCLDementia

World Alzheimer's Month

This World Alzheimer's Month and Day (21 September), explore the incredible dementia research going on at UCL, and learn how our neuroscience experts are working to improve lives globally

www.ucl.ac.uk

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UCL Health Libraries @uclhealthlibraries.bsky.social · 12d

Mood States is a collection of sculptures exhibited at, among other places, the Royal College of Psychiatrists and The Museum of the Mind. We now welcome this fascinating collection by the artist Annabel Merrett to Queen Square Library until 25th November 2025. www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-scienc...

UCL Health Libraries @uclhealthlibraries.bsky.social · 13d

If you work for any UCL-affiliated NHS trust then sign up for this online demo of the NHS Knowledge and Library Hub, including tips & techniques to help make your searching more effective🏆
Date/time: Tuesday 7 October, 12:00 - 12:50
For more information: library-calendars.ucl.ac.uk/event/4393193

UCL Health Libraries @uclhealthlibraries.bsky.social · 13d

Take a virtual look around some of UCL's health libraries!
Currently, there are tours for Cruciform Hub, Institute of Child Health, Language & Speech Services (Lass) and Queen Square🤩

UCL Libraries @ucllibraries.bsky.social · 13d

Get to know our libraries and find your way around them with a self-guided tour. Find out more here: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/using-library/getting-started/self-guided-library-tours

Students sat around the Flaxman Gallery.

UCL Health Libraries @uclhealthlibraries.bsky.social · 16d

Make a date in your diary to attend this fascinating short course on historical ophthalmic instruments and rare books on ophthalmology🤩
Date/time: Friday 3 October 2025, 10:00 - 11:50
library-calendars.ucl.ac.uk/event/4393328

Items in the Institute of Ophthalmology museum's collection.

UCL Health Libraries @uclhealthlibraries.bsky.social · 16d

Proud to announce that UCLH achieved a top position in the NHS trust league table! This recognition is a testament to the hard work and dedication of their staff, delivering outstanding care and achieving excellence. Well done @uclh! #uclh #UCLLibrary
www.uclh.nhs.uk/news/uclh-to...

Picture of a golden trophy with a black base, with golden glitter falling on the trophy.

UCL Health Libraries @uclhealthlibraries.bsky.social · 18d

Check out the library skills calendar for essential training courses to help you get the best from research and resources🏆
You can click on any heading to find out dates, times, locations and the target audience for any skills session: library-calendars.ucl.ac.uk/calendar/lib...

Buttons on a keypad with one button showing the word 'training'.

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UCL Libraries @ucllibraries.bsky.social · 20d

#WelcomeToUCL! Check out our Getting Started page for everything you need to know as a new student to access our libraries and resources. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/using-library/getting-started

A student with a laptop and pen in a library.

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UCL Health Libraries @uclhealthlibraries.bsky.social · 20d

We're celebrating #FairtradeFortnight in Queen Square Library. This year we are focusing on #BrewItFair ! Visit our display and enter our quiz for a chance to win a Fairtrade prize.
fairtrade.org.uk/get-involved...

UCL Health Libraries @uclhealthlibraries.bsky.social · 20d

This month's #ExploreYourArchive theme is #EYAEducation.

Today’s images focus on resources for our UCL students and NHS staff i.e. Queen Square Library (tinyurl.com/nhzz2dvn), technology and equipment.

More images can be found at “Browsed images” in our Queen Square Archives tinyurl.com/2w5unmdw

Radiology equipment demonstration (ref. QSA/15310)

Swedish Remedial Exercises (ref. QSA/12369)

Electron microscope, early 1960s (ref. NHNN/P/39)

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UCL Health Libraries @uclhealthlibraries.bsky.social · 23d

We're getting ready for the new students in Cruciform Hub! If you drop in please take a pen, postcard or foldable map - and say 'Hello!' to the issue desk team🤗

Postcards, pens, foldable maps and a hand sanitiser dispenser on a table by the issue desk in Cruciform Hub

UCL Health Libraries @uclhealthlibraries.bsky.social · 23d

Message for Royal Free Trust OpenAthens users:

Library Skills Training Sessions, either face-to-face, at the Royal Free Hospital Medical Library, or online, can now be booked here 👉 tinyurl.com/4dvadx6p

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UCL Faculty of Brain Sciences @uclbrainscience.bsky.social · 25d

TOMORROW: Prof Selina Wray (@uclqsion.bsky.social‬) explores what’s next in dementia research at our free Lunch Hour Lecture.
Don't miss out! 👇
#DementiaResearch #WorldAlzheimersMonth

UCL Faculty of Brain Sciences @uclbrainscience.bsky.social · Sep 9

🧠 What if we could watch dementia unfold in a dish—and stop it before it starts?

Join Prof @selinawray.bsky.social (@uclqsion.bsky.social) on 18 Sept for a free UCL Lunch Hour Lecture exploring the future of dementia research.

📅 1–2pm | 💻 Online
👉 buff.ly/4pVcVhG

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UCL Institute for Global Health @uclglobalhealth.bsky.social · 26d

🎙️We’re excited to welcome Dr Marina Romanello, Executive Director of the Lancet Countdown at UCL, to speak at our upcoming Global Health Seminar Series.

📅 14th Oct, 12:00-13:00
💻 Online
🔗 Register: buff.ly/cbj0FwY

#GlobalHealth #UCLSeminars

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UCL Health Libraries @uclhealthlibraries.bsky.social · 27d

This month's #ExploreYourArchive theme is #EYAEducation.

This week we focus on #teaching, whether it’s in lecture theatres to students or the public, in classrooms or on the wards.

More images can be viewed by searching “teaching” in our Queen Square Archives tinyurl.com/4wr4963n

Centenary meeting audience listening to eminent neurologist, Sir Ernest Gowers in the Wolfson Lecture Theatre at The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London. 1960 (ref: QSA/12363)

Teaching a group of medical students in a classroom. c.1930 (ref. QSA/12364)

Arthur Dickson ['Dicky'] Wright (eminent neurosurgeon) on a ward round with doctors. 1962 (ref: QSA/1879)

Dr. Macdonald Critchley teaching on the ward. No date. (ref: QSA/1871). Critchley was a British neurologist and former president of the World Federation of Neurology. In 2013, the weekly undergraduate teaching round at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery at Queen Square, London, was named after him - the Critchley Round.

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UCL Libraries @ucllibraries.bsky.social · 27d

Our guides, training and support enable you to develop your information literacy skills. Find out more and make the best use of our libraries. https://library-guides.ucl.ac.uk/skills #WelcomeToUCL

Students facing each other across the table in the library.

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UCL Health Libraries @uclhealthlibraries.bsky.social · Sep 8

This month's #ExploreYourArchive theme is #EYAEducation.

This week’s images are of #nurses and #nursing education at UCL Institute of Neurology & the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery.

More images can be viewed by searching “nurse” in our Queen Square Archives tinyurl.com/yc5enb7k

Nurses Training School, 1935 (ref. QSA/2097)

Nurses education - class (ref. QSA/2101)

Nurses and Dr. Hugh Davis, 1964 (ref. QSA/12375)

Anatomical lesson of a brain - nurses (ref. QSA/12372)

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UCL @ucl.ac.uk · Sep 1

🧠 September is #WorldAlzheimersMonth; a time to spotlight dementia awareness and research.

At UCL, we are driving innovation in prevention, care & cure. Follow @uclbrainscience.bsky.social to see how we’re tackling the global dementia challenge.

🔗 https://bit.ly/3UMiYvZ
#UCLDementia

Promotional image by UCL for World Alzheimer's Month 2025, featuring a colorful brain scan illustration with text stating 'Tackling the global challenge of dementia'.

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UCL Health Libraries @uclhealthlibraries.bsky.social · Sep 2

This month's #ExploreYourArchive theme is #EYAEducation.

First up, our students! Today’s images are photos of former postgraduate #students from 1900, 1937, 1967 and 1978-79.

More images can be viewed by searching “student” in our Queen Square Archives tinyurl.com/yc5enb7k

Student group and Victor Horsley photo, 1900 (ref. QSA/19433)

Remedial exercise students at work, 1937 (ref. QSA/11937)

Pat Harris (front row, third from left) and students, 1967 (ref. NHNN/P/169/008 )

Students in front of the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London, 1978-1979 (ref. QSA/2073)

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UCL Health Libraries @uclhealthlibraries.bsky.social · Sep 2

If you've got some spare time before the official start of term, why not visit the 'jigsaw relaxation station' in Cruciform Hub?
Our opening hours can be found here: www.ucl.ac.uk/library/usin...

Open jigsaw box, showing all the pieces in the box and the picture that will be created.

UCL Health Libraries @uclhealthlibraries.bsky.social · Sep 1

It's a new month so time to look at Action for Happiness's themed calendar: we're in Self-Care September🤗
actionforhappiness.org/calendar

The self-care message for 1st September which reads "Find time for self-care. It's not selfish, it's essential".