Jennifer Lloyd

Weekend Hours

Don’t forget! The Library will be open until 12 midnight all weekend during exams!

Explore EMBASE.com today!

Please join Kathy Kerdolff today at 12 noon for Exploring EMBASE.com and learn to search beyond PubMed.

MID 2007

Today is Medical Information Day! Come Trawl for Information, learn about the latest Library Resources, and Sign Up for Classes in the Atrium between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.

New Library Staff

The Library is pleased to welcome back both Debbie Sibley, Associate Director and Valerie Hernandez, Cataloging/Serials Associate. Debbie worked for LSUMC New Orleans from 1978-1981. Valerie worked as a Circulation Associate at the Dental School prior to Hurricane Katrina. We are happy to welcome them both home to New Orleans.

5 classes to be offered in April

In conjunction with Medical Information Day 2007, the Isch?â?® Library will be offering 5 unique classes in April.

We will be offering the following classes from 12 noon to 1 p.m. on the following days:

New in the Library – 2006

The Library has extended its Exam Hours to being open until Midnight each night through December 21st.

The Library has reinstated Exam Hours for the month of December.

Three new exhibits are available in the Isché Library. One solves the mystery of Evidence-Based Medicine; the second discovers what is “Beyond MEDLINE” ; and the third features highlights from the career of John P. Isché, former Director of Libraries, for whom the Resource Center Library was named in 1991.

Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database offers clinically relevant drug information about prescription and non-prescription drugs.

Protein Lounge provides access to system biology databases and research tools.

Springer eBook Collection provides access to more than 10,000 of SpringerÔÇÖs scientific, technical, and medical books in both fully searchable PDF and HTML. These titles have been donated to New Orleans area universities by the publishing company in support of post-Katrina rebuilding.

ExamMaster is an online resource which provides access to medical exam and preparation review resources.

A new exhibit features photos of the Health Sciences Center during the flood and the post-storm recovery process in the Library.

Science is now available full-text online from 1997 to the present.

Protein Lounge is a system biology database. LSUHSC Libraries have arranged a two week trial from August 5th until August 19th. Let us know what you think.

Book Index with Reviews (link removed) is a database that provides information on over 3.8 million book titles.

Access to the Thieme ElectronicBook Library is now available. This resource provides access to the publishers Flexibook Atlases and Textbooks Series.

EMBASE provides access to current biomedical and pharmacological literature.

IHM: Images from the History of Medicine is a database of over 60,000 images in the National Library of Medicine’s (NLM) historical prints and photographs collection.

A new page highlighting PDA Resources (link removed) available via LSUHSC Library subscriptions has been created.

The General Library Class and ILLiad Class are now scheduled for July through September.

ILLiad is a new interlibrary loan management system that is now available. Its features include one-time online registration, web-based tracking of ILLs, and automatic email notifications.

DynaMed is an evidence-based primary care research tool. PDA access is available.

The Isché Library is please to announce that it will be re-opening on Monday, June 12th at 8 a.m.

Mosby’s Nursing Consult provides access to both full-text books and journals, as well as other resources of use to nurses and nursing students.

In the aftermath of hurricane Katrina, the Library has attempted move to electronic versions of most of its journals; please check INNOPAC for specific titles.

New in the Library – 2005

PsycArticles provides access to searchable full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology.

PsychiatryOnline from APPI provides access to several American Psychiatric Press monographs, including the DSM-IV-TR, as well as 5 journals.