The Dental Campus including the Dental Library is closed for the day. A water main that is receiving emergency repair by SWB New Orleans has shutdown water to the campus. The Dental Campus plans to reopen tomorrow at regular time.
The Dental Librarians and Dental Library Staff are available via their emails and chat, if assistance is needed.
Facilities will be doing an emergency repair on the 4th floor of the Isché Library today, near the study rooms on the Tulane Ave side of the building. Thanks for your patience.
The Isché Library internal elevator is out of service. If you need assistance accessing the upper floors of the downtown library, please ask the circulation desk staff for assistance in using the freight elevator. We apologize for the inconvenience.
Carolyn K. Bridgewater, MLIS, MSW, AHIP is on leave until her retirement on March 1, 2022. Carolyn has been part of the Research & Education (formerly Reference) Department since 1993. Prior to her appointment as a Librarian, she worked in the Circulation Department as an Associate from 1989-1992 while completing her Masters in Library Science.
Carolyn was the liaison to the School of Allied Health Professions and had also served as liaison to the School of Public Health. She coordinated library instruction for many years and served on numerous professional organization committees and boards. She was the PI for the Library’s Outreach Grant through NNLM from 2006-2016.
The elevated walkway over Bolivar Street will be closed from 6pm Friday, January 14th to 6pm Monday, January 17th
During this time, the Resource Center Building and the Library will be accessible from the 1st floor entrance only, via your LSUHSC ID. Most of the walkways will be closed over the long weekend, so please plan your visit accordingly.
The Libraries will be closed on Monday, January 17th in honor of the Martin Luther King, Jr Holiday. Both the Dental and the Isché Libraries will reopen at 8am on Tuesday, January 18th. In addition, the Isché Library will be open from 9:30am-6pm on Saturday and 11:30am-8pm on Sunday as usual.
Paypaw (which controls printing and photocopying) in the Libraries and across campus will be unavailable on Monday, January 10th and Tuesday, January 11th for maintenance and upgrades.
This affects both the Downtown and Dental campuses.
Michael Fallon has retired as of January 1, 2022. He has been the Business Manager for the Libraries since 2008. Prior to working for the Libraries, Mike had been a business manager at the Dental School for 7 years and at UNO for a 2. Mike handled many of the business components of the Libraries allowing it to function smoothly for all of our users.
A temporary wall was put up on the 5th floor of the Isché Library over the winter break holiday. Library staff are unclear as to the length and scope of work occurring on the 5th floor. It appears part of the floor will be converted to non-library offices. We apologize for any noise or inconvenience this causes.
The water fountain on the 5th floor is now behind the wall so please use the fountains on the 4th or 3rd floors.
Both the Dental and Isché Libraries are Closed until 8am on January 4, 2022 for the Winter Break Holiday.
While we are closed access to the Library Commons continues for all badge holders, as does access to the electronic resources that the Libraries subscribe to.
The Isché Library will be closing at 6pm from Monday, December 20th through Thursday, December 23rd.
Both the Dental and Isché Libraries will be closed from Friday, December 24th through Monday, January 3rd for the official university holidays. The Libraries will re-open on Tuesday, January 4th at 8am and will resume normal hours.
Electronic access to books and journals will be available during the break but chat, circulation and research services will not. Additionally the Library Commons downtown should be available while the Libraries are closed.
The LSUHSC Libraries will be closed Thursday-Friday, November 25-26th for the Thanksgiving holiday.
The Isché Library will close at 6pm on Wednesday, November 24th and will be closed on Saturday, November 27th but will be open on Sunday, November 28th from 11:30am to 8pm.
Both Libraries will be open Monday, November 29th at 8am. And resume their current reduced hours.
Despite LSU main campus dropping their mask mandate today, as a healthcare facility, the mask mandate remains in effect on the LSUHSC campuses. This was confirmed by an email to all faculty, staff and students from VC of Clinical Affairs, Christian Winters today.
The Libraries ask that all library patrons comply with this university policy.
The Dental Library reopens today (Monday, October 4th) at 8am and is returning to it’s limited COVID hours of 8am-6pm Monday-Thursday and 8am-5pm on Friday.
The Library still has some damage from Hurricane Ida that will be repaired in the coming months, but all library services and study spaces are available.