Library News

New Print Books Available

The following print books have been added to the Library’s collection:

Financial management for public, health, and not-for-profit organizations, by Finkler, et al., 6^th ed 2020

Managing contraceptive pill patients and managing hormone replacement, by Dickey, 16^th ed. 2020

WHO classification of tumours.  Soft tissue and bone tumours, by Antonescu, 5^th ed. 2020

Planning health promotion programs: an intervention mapping approach, by Bartholomew Eldredge, et al., 4^th ed. 2016

Trail guide to the body: a hands-on guide to locating muscles, bones and more, Biel, 6^th ed. 2019

ACSM’s guidelines for exercise testing and prescription, 10^th ed. 2018

Dutton’s orthopaedic examination, evaluation, and intervention, 5^th ed. 2020

A sonographer’s guide to the assessment of heart disease, 2014

Sonography: principles and instruments, by Kremkau, 10^th ed. 2021

All of these are either on reserve or shelved in our secure shelving area. If you are interested in any of these books, please inquire at the Circulation Desk.

Campus Closure 9/15/2020 – Hurricane Sally

LSUHSC New Orleans campuses (both downtown and Dental) will be closed tomorrow, Tuesday September 15th, in advance of Hurricane Sally.

Additionally the Isché Library will close at 6pm this evening.

We hope to reopen on Wednesday, September 16th at 8am at both Libraries.

Access to Isché Library 9/5/2020

Due to construction work on campus, the Isché Library will be accessible from the 1st floor entrance to the Resource Center Building only. An LSUHSC ID badge is necessary to enter.

Labor Day Hours

Both the Isché and Dental Libraries will be closed on Monday, September 7th in observance of the Labor Day holiday. In addition, the Isché Library will be closed on Sunday, September 6th.

Libraries open regular hours Thursday, Aug 27

Both Libraries are open their regular hours today, Thursday, August 27, 2020.

The Isché Library will close at 8pm and the Dental Library will close at 5pm.

Library Closure – Hurricane Laura

*Edit* Both Libraries reopened at 8am on 8/27/2020

The Libraries will close at 3pm today (8/26/2020) in advance of Hurricane Laura. We hope to reopen at 8am tomorrow morning.

Campus Closure 8/24/2020 – Hurricane Marco

*edit* Libraries and both campuses reopened at 8am on Tuesday, August 25th for badgeholders only.

The LSUHSC Libraries and the LSUHSC campuses will be closed on Monday, August 24th in advance of Hurricane Marco. We hope to reopen both locations at 8am on Tuesday, weather permitting.

New AAP Ebooks

The Library has renewed the American Academy of Pediatrics ebooks database and added 18 new ebooks to our collection.

Pediatric mental health: a compendium of AAP clinical practice guidelines and policies.

AAP Healthy development and well-child support chart

Nelson’s pediatric antimicrobial therapy 2020

Questions from NeoReviews: a study guide for neonatal-perinatal medicine

The new baby blueprint: caring for you and your little one

Berkowitz’s pediatrics: a primary care approach

Adolescent health: a compendium of AAP clinical practice guidelines and policies

Injury and violence prevention: a compendium of AAP clinical practice guidelines and policies

Pediatric clinical practice guidelines & policies: a compendium of evidence-based research for pediatric practice

Pediatric otolaryngology for primary care

Building resilience in children and teens: giving kids roots and wings

Managing behavioral issues in child care and schools: a quick reference guide

Challenging cases in pediatric cardiology

Pediatric coding basics: an introduction to medical coding

Co-parenting through separation and divorce: putting your children first

Pediatric plastic and reconstructive surgery for primary care

Newborn and infant nutrition: a clinical decision support chart

Medications in pediatrics: a compendium of AAP clinical practice guidelines and policies

The database from American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) contains over 200 ebooks and includes a wide range of pediatric topics, from dermatology to parenting.  There are coding manuals and ebooks on practice management, as well as patient guidelines for new parents.  There are even a few titles in Spanish.

You can browse the database or search by topic or title.  The titles can also be accessed through the Library catalog.  And we also have access to the AAP database of neonatal resuscitation ebooks.

New EBooks Added

The Library has added a collection of new ebooks. These culturally and socially relevant titles are provided through the LOUIS Library Network and the ProjectMuse Evidence Based Selection program.
The titles are:

The hidden curriculum in health professional education

Disease diplomacy: international norms and global health security

Diseases of poverty: epidemiology, infectious diseases, and modern plagues

Improving access to HIV care: lessons from five U.S. sites

Curriculum development for medical education: a six-step approach

America’s healthcare transformation: strategies and innovations

Psychological and psychoeducational assessment of children and adolescents who are deaf and hard of hearing

Weathering Katrina: culture and recovery among Vietnamese Americans

Delivered by midwives: African American midwifery in the twentieth-century South

Promoting positive transition outcomes: effective planning for deaf and hard of hearing young adults

If you click on a title it will take you to our catalog listing and give you more information as well as a link to the ebook.

We hope you will find something that interests you.

ClinicalKey Renewed!

The Library is happy to announce the renewal of ClinicalKey with generous funding from the School of Medicine! We are pleased to be able to continue to offer this extensive package of current and vital health sciences resources for another year. This database provides electronic access to over 1,000 books, nearly 700 journals, and a clinical search engine covering more than 30 specialties.

Every month, ClinicalKey adds new ebooks or editions to the collection.  The most recent additions include:

Clinical Chemistry (Marshall) 9th ed.

Clinical Naturopathy (Sarris) 3rd ed.

Cummings Otolaryngology: Head and Neck Surgery (Flint) 7th ed.

Drug-Induced Ocular Side Effects (Fraunfelder) 8th ed.

Endodontics: Principles and Practice (Torabinejad) 6th ed.

Ferri’s Clinical Advisor 2021 (Ferri) 1st ed.

Handbook of Local Anesthesia (Malamed.) 7th ed.

Kumar and Clark’s Clinical Medicine (Feather 10th ed.

Moore’s Vascular and Endovascular Surgery (Moore) 9th ed.

Muscle Biopsy (Dubowitz) 5th ed.

Nunn and Lumb’s Applied Respiratory Physiology (Lumb) 9th ed.

Pain Care Essentials and Innovations (Pangarkar) 1st ed.

Robbins & Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease (Kumar) 10th ed.

Spine Secrets (Devlin) 3rd ed.

Textbook of Natural Medicine (Pizzorno) 5th ed.

Valvular Heart Disease: A Companion to Braunwald’s Heart Disease (Otto) 5th ed.

Weir & Abrahams’ Imaging Atlas of Human Anatomy (Spratt) 6th ed.

You can access ClinicalKey through the Library’s website, list of databases, and library catalog, INNOPAC.

August Faculty Publications

A new selection of articles have been added to the Faculty Publications display in the Ische Library. These eight articles, as well as all of the articles in our Faculty Publications database, are authored by at least one member of our research community here at LSUHSC-New Orleans. Each month the Library is proud to present copies of eight of these publications in a rotating display of 16. With the currently changes, we’ve decided to post the publications digitally. Check out the display below:

Publications cited in the Faculty Publications database are harvested weekly from a variety of sources, such as PubMed, SCOPUS, and CINAHL, to name a few. In addition to articles they include books, book chapters, papers, editorials, letters to the editor, and meeting abstracts, all authored by at least one member of the LSUHSC-NO community. The database is maintained by Reference Librarian Kathy Kerdolff and is available to the general public here or via the Library’s webpage. For a PDF of a bibliography of this month’s additions,click here. If you have an article you would like us to highlight or if you have any questions regarding the display or the database, you can contact Kathy Kerdolff.

July Faculty Publications

A new selection of articles have been added to the Faculty Publications display in the Ische Library. These eight articles, as well as all of the articles in our Faculty Publications database, are authored by at least one member of our research community here at LSUHSC-New Orleans. Each month the Library is proud to present copies of eight of these publications in a rotating display of 16. With the currently changes, we’ve decided to post the publications digitally. Check out the display below:

Publications cited in the Faculty Publications database are harvested weekly from a variety of sources, such as PubMed, SCOPUS, and CINAHL, to name a few. In addition to articles they include books, book chapters, papers, editorials, letters to the editor, and meeting abstracts, all authored by at least one member of the LSUHSC-NO community. The database is maintained by Reference Librarian Kathy Kerdolff and is available to the general public here or via the Library’s webpage. For a PDF of a bibliography of this month’s additions,click here. If you have an article you would like us to highlight or if you have any questions regarding the display or the database, you can contact Kathy Kerdolff.

July 4th Weekend Hours

The Isché Library will close at 6pm on Thursday, July 2nd and will be closed Friday, July 3rd through Sunday, July 5th.

The Dental Library continues to be open Monday-Thursday from 8am to 2pm.

Both Libraries will reopen at 8am on Monday, July 6th.

Ische Library Expanding Hours

Beginning Monday, June 15th, the Isché Library will be open from 8am to 8pm Monday-Thursday, 8am to 6pm on Friday, 9:30am to 6pm on Saturday, and 11:30am to 8pm on Sunday. These hours will be maintained throughout phase 2 of the campus reopening.

Please note that all both the downtown and Dental campuses are still limited to badge holders, except for clinics.

June Faculty Publications

A new selection of articles have been added to the Faculty Publications display in the Ische Library. These eight articles, as well as all of the articles in our Faculty Publications database, are authored by at least one member of our research community here at LSUHSC-New Orleans. Each month the Library is proud to present copies of eight of these publications in a rotating display of 16. With the currently changes, we’ve decided to post the publications digitally. Check out the display below:

Publications cited in the Faculty Publications database are harvested weekly from a variety of sources, such as PubMed, SCOPUS, and CINAHL, to name a few. In addition to articles they include books, book chapters, papers, editorials, letters to the editor, and meeting abstracts, all authored by at least one member of the LSUHSC-NO community. The database is maintained by Reference Librarian Kathy Kerdolff and is available to the general public here or via the Library’s webpage. For a PDF of a bibliography of this month’s additions,click here. If you have an article you would like us to highlight or if you have any questions regarding the display or the database, you can contact Kathy Kerdolff.