Jennifer Lloyd

Libraries are Closed for Winter Break

Both the Dental and Isché Libraries are closed for campus designated Winter Break. All Library online systems are available while the physical libraries are closed. The Library Commons will be open downtown as long at the building remains open. Both Libraries will reopen on Thursday, January 2, 2025, Isché at 7:30am and Dental at 8am. See you in 2025!

Isché Library Study Rooms Closed

The Isché Library study rooms will be closed Thursday, December 19th through Monday, December 23rd so they can be repainted. The rest of the Library will still be available for studying.

IT Office Hours: Discover the Magic of LibKey Nomad

Rebecca Bealer will be presenting at IT Office Hours today, November 21, 2024 at noon, via Zoom. She will be speaking about using LibKey Nomad to better discover accessible research materials. If you can’t attend today, the presentation will be archived on the IT website.

Student Breakfasts – September 19 & 20, 2024

The Libraries are pleased to host student breakfast at both the Isché and Dental Libraries this week!

The Isché Library breakfast will be on Thursday, September 19th from 7:30-10am. And the Dental Library breakfast will be on Friday, September 20th from 7:30-10am.

There will be refreshments and swag! Hope to see you there.

Campus Closure 9/11/2024 & 9/12/2024

*Update* 5:12pm the LSUHSC Campus will also be closed on Thursday, September 12th. Stay safe!

The LSUHSC Campus will be closed on Wednesday, September 11th in anticipation of Hurricane Francine. The Libraries will be closed this day. Monitor campus information sources to learn whether or not we will reopen on Thursday, September 12th or Friday, September 13th.

The CINAHL class scheduled for tomorrow will be rescheduled for a future date.

Isché Library WiFi Equipment Updated

On July 25th we received a suggestion that we upgrade the WiFi in the Isché Library. The equipment was on the list for our IT department to replace as it was nearing end of life. IT sent out a staff person to walk through and do a survey of signal strength on all three floors and took note of all issues.

Today, August 14, 2024, all equipment has been replaced and some equipment has been shifted for better coverage. This was an accelerated timeline for IT to complete but they made their best effort to get this up before the Fall semester is fully in session.

Return of Regular Hours

The Isché Library returns to its regular hours, Thursday, August 1st. The Library is open from 7:30am to 11pm Monday-Thursday, 7:30am to 6pm on Friday, 9:30am to 6pm on Saturday, and 9:30am to 11pm on Sunday.

The Dental Library returned to regular hours on July 1st.

EndNote Download site updated

University IT has updated the EndNote download site, on July 22, 2024. There are instructions for installing EndNote21 on your personal computer or on campus InTune computers. If you have an older campus computer, you may need to create a ticket with your local supporter. EndNote is now available for all faculty, staff and students thanks to an annual subscription courtesy of University IT.

The Libraries have created a Resource Guide to support EndNote, as well as RefWorks, an alternate citation manager.

Isché Library Stairs – Recarpeting

*Edit* Wednesday, July 10, 2024 11am – the stairs have reopened!

The Isché Library stairs are unavailable due to recarpeting. The elevator is the only way to access the upper floors of the Library at the moment. Hopefully this project will be complete soon.

Libraries Closed for 4th of July

Both Libraries will be closed on Thursday, July 4th in observance of Independence Day. Additionally the Dental Library will close at 5pm on Wednesday, July 3rd and the Isché Library will close at 6pm on that day.

Library Commons Closed 7/2/2024

*Edit 7/2/2024 2:30pm – the Commons area is now reopened for use.

The main study area of the downtown Library Commons will be closed on Tuesday, July 2, 2024 for carpet tile replacement and may still be closed on Wednesday, July 3rd.

Library Commons Area with TVs

*Edit* Monday, July 1 – only one side of the TV area was completed on Friday, the other side will be worked on today.

The Library Commons area with the television monitors will be closed tomorrow, June 28, 2024 for carpet replacement. The furniture will be moved out of those spaces into the tiled area, so there will be some noise while this is happening.

Carpet Replacement – Isché Library

All the carpet is being replaced on the 3rd floor of the Isché Library. The work started yesterday, June 25, 2024. The work will take a couple of weeks to complete. But during that time library services may be interrupted. Poster printing has been offline since Monday evening. And there will be no popcorn tomorrow, June 27th. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Sections of the Library Commons will be unavailable while the carpet is being replaced in those areas. Stay tuned to hear when.

*Edit* Popcorn is back on! We can get to the popcorn machine again!

WiFi offline after 7pm 4/11/2024

*Update* the network went down at 8:47pm and came back up at 9:46pm.

The WiFi network on the Downtown, City Park and Baton Rouge campuses will be down for approximately one hour this evening after 7pm on Thursday, April 11, 2024 for routine maintenance.

ILLiad Downtime Tuesday, March 26th

*ILLiad was back online by 12:30am on March 27th.

March 26, 2024: The Library’s interlibrary loan system, ILLiad, will be unavailable from 9pm to 12Midnight on Tuesday, March 26th for scheduled downtime.