Mentoring and Practice Education in Health and Social Care: Getting Started

This Libguide provides access to subject resources for Mentoring and Practice Education in Health and Social Care. This includes our subscribed databases and web resources, where you can find information for your research and assignments. You will also find support and guidance to improve your skills in searching and referencing resources in your field. 

There are many information resources you might find helpful, depending on your needs and what stage you are at with your learning or research.

Search for: 

• Books 
• Journals and Journal Articles 
• Websites

Anatomy Resources

Knowledge of anatomy is essential across all courses in Health and Social Care. In the library, there are plenty of resources to learn about human anatomy: 

• Online interactive learning tools 
• Anatomical models and skeletons 
• Books 

Go to Anatomy Resources page to find out more. 

• Get tips and practice using LSBU Harvard Referencing. 
• Look up how to reference a particular source using the LSBU Harvard Referencing Guide.
• Sign up for Refworks to generate references automatically.

Go to Referencing page for more information.

There are plenty of training and support opportunities in the library.

We offer drop-in sessions and practical workshops covering: 

• Literature Searching 
• Referencing 
• Using Refworks 
• Beginning your research  

To sign up, go to our full event calendar on the Training and Support page. 

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Librarian Appointment

Online and Phone Appointments

Due to Coronavirus developments we are moving from in-person appointments to online and phone appointments until further notice.  

We are using MS Teams to meet online, this application enables us to make voice calls, video calls and screen sharing. Please book your session here as usual and make sure that you are registering with your LSBU Email address. To use MS Teams, all you will need is a computer, reliable internet connection and quiet space at the time of your appointment. After your registration, we will be sending you further instructions to help you get on to MS Teams.  

If you want a phone appointment, please provide your phone number on the registration form, and a librarian will call you at the time of your appointment. 

These sessions are 30 minutes and we can offer advice with:

• Database Searching e.g. Journal articles 
• Referencing
• Using Refworks

If you are unable to make any of the available slots, please email us at askalibrarian@lsbu.ac.uk and we can see if we can accommodate you.

To find your reading lists for your modules go to one of your module pages on VLE (Moodle) and look for the following box on the right-hand side. 

Alternatively, you can go straight to the Reading Lists Online 

From here you can search for a module name, a module code, a keyword, or an academic.