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Library Background
From: "Library Facilities." Louisiana State University Health Sciences
Center. Catalog/Bulletin. 2007-2008.
The Division of Libraries of the LSU Health Sciences Center in New Orleans includes the John P. Isché Library (the major biomedical collection) and the Dental School Library at the William Pitcher Plaza Dental Campus. The Isché Library occupies floors 3-5 of the Resource Center Building. The Dental Library occupies the third floor of the Dental Administration Building.
The New Orleans collection includes over 237,377 bound volumes, 3,215 audiovisual titles, and approximately 12,000 serials in electronic format and 400 print journals. There are approximately 400 electronic monographs. A web-based integrated library system, networked databases, search systems, and full-text databases provide patrons access to a variety of resources. Remote access to online resources is available through WAM (Web Access Management) through the integrated online catalog, Innopac.
Reference librarians provide mediated searches with access to over 400 other databases. A fully equipped, state-of-the-art electronic classroom is available for bibliographic instruction, and computer labs with multimedia programs, internet access, and assorted software programs for faculty and student use are located at both Isché Library and the Dental Library. Reference librarians teach courses, seminars, and regularly scheduled training sessions in the access and use of the biomedical literature, and in the use of the Library.
The Libraries offer online reference service and online interlibrary loan service. Both libraries have wireless networks. The Isché Library is open 83 hours per week with extended hours during exam periods. The Dental Library is currently located on the South Campus in Baton Rouge and plans to return to the New Orleans campus in the fall of 2007. In addition, the Isché Library serves as a Resource Library in the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, is a member of the South Central Academic Medical Libraries (SCAMeL), and LALINC, the Louisiana Academic Library Information Network Consortiums.
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