Yesterday was the autumnal equinox. On the equinoxes the sun spends the same amount of time on either side of the equator. THANKS TO OUR NEW EXPANDED HOURS, you can now spend equal amounts of time in and out of the library.
NEW LIBRARY HOURS
Sunday 1:30 p.m. – 12 midnight
Monday – Thursday 8 a.m. – 12 midnight
Friday 8 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Saturday 9:30 a.m. – 6 p.m.
For nursing students looking for a peer-reviewed/refereed article, here’s a couple tips:
To find a nursing article, use CINAHLplus with Full text, a database available from the Ebscohost link on the library home page
Try using the following limits in CINAHLplus: PEER REVIEWED, RESEARCH ARTICLE & Journal subset: CORE NURSING
You can find these limits on the REFINE SEARCH tab in Ebsco.
Happy Searching!
Information Security is reporting issues with the LSUHSC Wireless network relating to authentication. They are investigating.
In the meantime you can check out a network cable or use any of the laptop ports in the library.
A recent article in the Australian Family Physician recently gave this librarian a myocardial infarction.
Meet Dr Q.
When a patient asked his advice regarding the discontinuation of warfarin after an episode of deep vein thrombosis (DVT), he used Yahoo.com to find an answer PDF.
You might be thinking, “what’s so wrong with that?”
Two words: Ellen Roche
In 2001, Ellen Roche, a healthy, 24-year-old volunteer in an asthma study at Johns Hopkins University, died because a chemical she inhaled led to the progressive failure of her lungs and kidneys. In the aftermath, it came out that the researcher who conducted the experiment and the ethics panel that approved it allegedly overlooked numerous clues about the dangers of the chemical, hexamethonium, given to Roche to inhale.
So what resources did this researcher allegedly search?
Look no further than Google, Yahoo!, LookSmart, and GoTo.com.
As a health care professional, you should AT LEAST conduct a cursory search in PubMed. It’s free. It’s authoritative. And on the LSUHSC Library homepage, you can use our customized PubMed link to get ALOT of added content and full text that you’ll never see using Yahoo! or Google.
Plus, if you kill anyone you can at least testify during the malpractice suit to having searched the biomedical literature. In fact, the reference librarians here can even do a mediated search for you. All you have to do is pick it up…and use it.
Microsystems is holding an Auxiliaries Service Fair today in the MEB 2nd floor lobby from 9 to 4. Check out vendors such as Gateway, Dell, Hewlett Packard, and CompUSA in attendance, as well as some other Auxiliaries such as Medical Center Stores and Duplicating and Graphics. Snacks and refreshments will be provided.
On September 17, 1787, the delegates to the Constitutional Convention met for the last time to sign the document they had created. 220 years later, we call this day CONSTITUTION DAY.
Not familiar with the holiday? That’s because before 2005, September 17th was known as “Citizenship Day”, a relatively obscure American holiday. Now, thanks to a recent federal law, all high schools, colleges and universities that receive federal funds are required hold an educational event about the Constitution on September 17. So what’s ours?
In observance of Constitution Day, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center at New Orleans will present a panel discussion entitled ?óÔé¼?ôThe Constitutional Rights of Health Care Providers in a Regulatory Context?óÔé¼?Ø. The panel discussion will take place on Monday, September 17, 2007 from noon to 1:00 p.m. in Lecture Room A of the Medical Education Building located at 1901 Perdido Street in New Orleans. All faculty, staff, and students are invited to attend this event.
Whew! That test is finally over and you’re ready to kick back, relax and watch the Saints beat the crud out of Tampa Bay. But it’s not like you’re doing anything on Saturday. Why not check out this cornucopia of medical student blogs? Whether you passed or failed that monster MIP exam, there’s bound to be another medical student out there in Internet-land blogging in commiseration.
(& to make sure our other fine schools of health sciences don’t feel left out, OT/PT & Dentistry have a pretty healthy representation on here too.)
This just in from the Times-Picayune:
Two years after storm damage forced it into exile in Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University’s dental school reopened its New Orleans clinic today.
“This is a milestone for us because is the return of the last of our school,” LSU System President John Lombardi said at a news conference in the clinic.
To all of our dental students: welcome back! The Dental Library should be opening soon. Meanwhile, the LSUHSC Main Campus Library is open to serve your needs.
Main Campus Library Hours | Directions to Main Campus | Dental Library Homepage
To bring you better Internet access, Computer Services will be tweaking our wireless network this afternoon, so coverage may be a bit spotty today. If you see a guy on a ladder, try moving to another area of the library to get better wireless access.
WIRELESS SETUP DIRECTIONS
Intel Proset: http://www.lsuhsc.edu/no/library/information/iwireless.html
Windows XP: http://www.lsuhsc.edu/no/library/information/wwireless.html
Windows Vista: http://www.lsuhsc.edu/no/library/information/vwireless.html
What do skeeters & education have to do with each other? Absolutely nothing. However, both are subjects of some free governmental online resources.
West Nile Virus Bibliography, 1965-2007 — National Agricultural Library Animal Welfare Education Center
Multiple sources were searched for citations on West Nile virus. Browse this online list to find peer-reviewed journals, conference proceedings, theses, annual reports, dissertations, books, monographs, letters, Web pages, reviews, and patents published between the years 2004 to 2007.
Mini-Digest of Education Statistics 2006 — National Center for Education Statistics
This 75 page PDF publication is a pocket-sized compilation of statistical information covering the broad field of American education from kindergarten through graduate school. The statistical highlights are excerpts from the Digest of Education of Statistics, 2006.
Check out this week’s JAMA for a commentary from Drs. Kevin Krane, Richard DiCarlo and Marc J. Kahn on medical education in post-Katrina New Orleans. This piece includes a table comparing the numbers of medical students, residents & faculty before and after the storm, which is available to download as a PowerPoint slide.
And for you old school researchers, here’s the citation:
Krane NK, DiCarlo RP, Kahn MJ. Medical Education in Post-Katrina New Orleans: A Story of Survival and Renewal. JAMA. 2007 September 5; 298(9):1052-1055.
TIP: JAMA is available full-text from the library catalog. Use WAM to login off campus.
Recently published?? Send an email to mknapp@lsuhsc.edu to be a featured on Pub Alert
Students and faculty be aware! There have been some official changes made to APA Style – the style which many of us use when writing a reference list for a paper.
Here are a couple of links:
One major change is that the issue number should always be used, not just when each issue starts with page one.
“For journal articles, always include the journal issue number (if available) along with the volume number, regardless of whether the journal is paginated separately by issue or continuously by volume. This change in reference style from the fifth edition of the Publication Manual is intended to make the format for journal article references more consistent.” (http://www.apastyle.org/elecmedia.html paragraph 5, accessed 31 August 2007)
This also makes finding electronically available journal articles much easier.
The Library is purchasing the APA Style Guide to Electronic Resources (2007) and will place it on Reserve with the main volume of the Publication Manual (2001).
Thanks to Mary Marix, reference librarian, for pointing out these important changes!
The Katrina Resources page from the Natural Hazards Center at the University of Colorado has a great collection of government reports, websites & peer-reviewed journal articles.
Following up on our previous post, here’s even more local mental health resources, phone numbers and services.
If you know someone having trouble coping with the anniversary of Katrina – or who is just having problems trying to get things moving again in their life, pass this along.
— Louisiana Spirit Hurricane Recovery provides individual and group crisis counseling services. Call (225) 219-5000. The agency also operates a crisis line at (800) 273-TALK.
— Family Service of Greater New Orleans offers counseling to victims of Hurricane Katrina at several locations:
2515 Canal St., New Orleans, (504) 822-0800
201 Evans Road, Harahan, (504) 733-4031
1799 Stumpf Blvd., Gretna, (504) 361-0926
317 N. Jefferson, Covington, (985) 641-1025
3002 Jean Lafitte Parkway, Chalmette, (504) 271-3781
1377 Lindberg St., Slidell, (985) 641-7185.
— The Center for Family and Youth Services offers counseling and educational services on a sliding fee schedule.
(985) 331-1999 | www.centerhope.org | 13101 River Road, Luling
— The Metropolitan Human Services District is providing services for addictive disorders, developmental disabilities and mental health treatment at these clinics:
Central City Behavioral Health Clinic, 2221 Philip St., New Orleans, (504) 568-6686
Chartres Pontchartrain Behavioral Health Clinic, 719 Elysian Fields Ave., New Orleans, (504) 942-8101
Plaquemines Behavioral Health Clinic, 3708 Main St., Belle Chasse, (504) 393-5624
Algiers Fischer Community Clinic, 4422 Gen. Meyer Ave., New Orleans, (504) 210-7611
Tulane Medical Clinic at Covenant House, 611 N. Rampart St., New Orleans, (504) 584-1100
MHSD Division for Citizens with Developmental Disabilities, 1010 Common St., New Orleans, (504) 599-0245. Call (504) 568-6686 or (866) 248-0662. After hours and weekends, call the Cope Line at (800) 749-2673.
— Odyssey House Louisiana offers several programs: Katrina Aid Today provides support services for hurricane victims, connecting victims to resources and assisting in developing personal recovery plans. Substance Abuse Treatment provides outpatient counseling, including services for those living with HIV/AIDS. The Community Prisoner Re-entry program assists nonviolent, non-sex offenders with transition to the community after release from prison. Call (504) 821-9211.
— Volunteers of America offers free adolescent suicide prevention counseling for ages 13 through 24. Contact Elaine Lane at (504) 485-0147.
— The National Suicide Hotline offers mental health support and counseling 24 hours a day. Call (800) 273-8255.
— First Baptist Church of New Orleans offers free crisis counseling for those affected by stress from Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. Call (504) 482-5775.
— The T.E.C. Counseling and Training Center at Our Lady of Holy Cross College, 4123 Woodland Drive, Algiers, offers counseling services Mondays through Thursdays, 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Call (504) 398-2168.
— The Orleans Parish coroner’s office has a psychiatrist available to process requests for orders of protective custody. These allow emergency psychiatric evaluations for people suffering from mental illness or substance abuse. Concerned family members or caretakers may call Dr. Jeffrey Rouse at (504) 658-9660.
— The Greater New Orleans Mental Health and Resilience task force is a group of public and private behavioral health partners working on post-Katrina mental health. For information on community resources and meetings, e-mail NOMHR-subscribe@yahoogroups.com.
— U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has a confidential help line for hurricane survivors. Call (800) 789-2647.
— National Suicide Prevention crisis counseling hotline: (800) 273-8255.
— American Red Cross’ Access to Care provides long-term recovery support to victims of Hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma. Visit www.a2care.org or call (866) 794-HOPE.
Adapted from a post on the LiveJournal NewOrleans community.
Planning to log some serious study time at the library this weekend?
No you’re not!
Please note the library will be closed this coming Sunday & Monday.
LIBRARY LABOR DAY HOURS
Saturday, September 1st — 9:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Sunday, September 2nd CLOSED
Monday, September 3rd CLOSED
Tuesday, September 4th — 8 a.m. to 10 p.m.
PSSST: Our Electronic Resources & Databases are ALWAYS open!
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