Jennifer Lloyd

Winter Break Hours

streetcarsnowThe Libraries are now on Winter Break hours.

Dental Isché
Friday, December 18th 8am – 5pm 8am – 6pm
Saturday, December 19th closed 9:30am – 6pm
Sunday, December 20th 11:30am – 8pm 12noon – 8:30pm
Monday, December 21st-Wednesday, December 23rd 8am – 5pm 8am – 6pm
 Thursday, December 24th-Sunday, January 3rd  closed  closed

Update: Access Issue

UPDATE: Links to resources and databases are now working correctly, but until the main problem is solved we might still experience difficulties. If so, please use the solution outlined below in the interim.

We’re having issues with all full-text links from our Catalog and from the Link Resolver. Resources cannot be accessed. Patrons who are on-campus can access by stripping out the part of the URL which allows off-campus access. Remove the initial number and dash and .innopac.lsuhsc.edu, so:
http://0-jama.jamanetwork.com.innopac.lsuhsc.edu/issues.aspx becomes http://jama.jamanetwork.com/issues.aspx
Again, this only works on-campus.

We’re investigating if this is related to the campus wide internet crash this morning and hope to have it resolved quickly. Thanks for your patience.

ILLiad Upgrade

*Edit* the upgrade was complete before 10am!

ILLiad will be down for maintenance from approximately 8 am to 12 noon on Tuesday, December 8th. All functions will be offline during this time.

This post will be updated when the system comes back online.

Ische Library Exam Hours Start 11/29/15

Isché Library exam hours start today and will run through Thursday, December 17th.

The hours are as follows:

  • Sunday   12 noon to 12 midnight
  • Monday – Thursday   8 am to 12 midnight
  • Friday   8 am to 8 pm
  • Saturday   9:30 am to 6 pm

Thanksgiving Hours

vintage-thanksgiving-postcard-6The Libraries will both close early on Wednesday, November 25th; the Dental Library will close at 5 pm and the Isché Library will close at 6 pm. Both Libraries will remain closed from Thursday, November 26th through Saturday, November 28th.

The Dental Library will be open its regular hours on Sunday, November 29th from 11:30 am to 8 pm.

The Isché Library will be open for exam hours on Sunday, November 29th from 12 noon to 12 midnight. Exam hours will continue through Thursday, December 17th.

For the complete schedule for both Libraries, consult our webpage.

New phone lines in the Ische Library

The Isché Library rolled out new VoiP telephones this morning. The difference should be seamless for library patrons but some staff members do have new telephone numbers. Carolyn Bridgewater can be found at 504-568-6104; Rita Premo‘s new number is 504-568-7717; and Valerie Hernandez now has 504-568-6107 as her number. All other staff telephone numbers are available.

INNOPAC

The Library Catalog, INNOPAC, is currently acting a bit wonky. It seems to have lost the ability to distinguish between New Orleans and Shreveport. Customer Support is working on the problem.

 

*Edit* And all issues were resolved (#fingerscrossed) at 10:50am

Exam Hours @ Ische Library

The Isché Library will have extended hours for exams, from Sunday, November 29th through Thursday, December 17th. The hours are as follows:

  • Sunday   12 noon to 12 midnight
  • Monday – Thursday   8 am to 12 midnight
  • Friday   8 am to 8 pm
  • Saturday   9:30 am to 6 pm

 

Photogrammar – WPA photos

FSA (Farm Security Administration) dentist and migrant child in the FSA dental trailer at the FSA camp for farm families. Caldwell, Idaho (November 1941) - Russell Lee

FSA (Farm Security Administration) dentist and migrant child in the FSA dental trailer at the FSA camp for farm families. Caldwell, Idaho (November 1941) – Russell Lee

Yale University and the National Endowment for the Humanities have indexed the 170,000 photos created by the US Farm Security Administration and the Office of War Information. All photos were created from 1935 through 1945. Photogrammar organizes the photos so they are searchable via map location, photographer, classification tags (medicine and health for instance), and eventually by treemap, metadata dashboard and colorspace.

GeauxVote.com

Geaux Vote IconElection Day is fast approaching and if you’re a registered voter in Louisiana, then early voting for the October 24th primary started this past Saturday. Early voting concludes on Saturday, October 17th.

Consider downloading the GeauxVote app, for assistance with your ballot. Or go to GeauxVote.com on the web to discover your polling location and your sample ballot. In my precinct there are 8 elections and 4 constitutional amendments to decide on.

Tulane Ave Streetscape Project

The nearly 5 million redesign of Tulane Avenue began a couple of weeks ago. Mid-City Messenger has the story (with illustration). The project encompasses Claiborne to Carrollton and is expected to be complete in early 2016.

Being able to legally turn left on Tulane Ave? Inconceivable.!

Ische Library Closing @ 6 on 9/14/15

Due to an emergency water shutdown in the Resource Center Building, the Isché Library will close at 6 pm on Monday, September 14th. There will be no water available at water fountains or in restrooms for the entire building from 6 pm to 12 midnight. The Library Commons will also be affected.

The Library will reopen at 8 am on Tuesday morning.

Labor Day Hours

The Isché and Dental Libraries will be closed on Sunday and Monday in observance of the Labor Day Holiday. The Isché Library will be open from 9:30 am to 6 pm on Saturday, September 5th. Both Libraries will reopen on Tuesday morning at 8 am.

Drug Resistant Lice Not in Louisiana, yet…

Whew..Thanks for the information from Janice Nugent, MD, MSN, School of Medicine.

http://www.fox8live.com/clip/11789457/drug-resistance-lice

Timeline Leading to UMCNO

Here’s a quick timeline of the various hospitals grouped together as New Orleans Charity Hospital condensed from John Salvaggio’s History of Charity Hospital (available in print in the Isché Library) with additions since its 1992 publication.

The first Charity Hospital was the provisional Ursuline Convent at Bienville and Chartres in 1736 and was called L’Hospital des Pauvres de la Charité or Hospital of St. John.

The second (built 1743 and destroyed 1779 by hurricane) and third, San Carlos Hospital or Hospital of St. Charles, (built 1785 and destroyed 1809 by fire) hospitals were built near Basin St.

The fourth hospital opened in 1815 at State House Square (Canal, Common, Philippa and Baronne) or roughly the location of the Roosevelt Hotel.

The fifth hospital was completed in 1833 and was designed to house 400 – 550 patients. The Daughters of Charity took over the administration of the hospital in 1834.  A photo of this location from the 1921 resides in the Library Commons.

The sixth hospital (Big Charity) opened its doors in 1939 and closed in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

The seventh hospital, the Interim LSU Hospital, functioned from 2006 through 2015.

University Medical Center New Orleans, which opened on August 1st,  is the 8th hospital in a direct line from that first hospital over 275 years ago.