Library News

Mary Marix Retires

Long time Reference Librarian, Mary L. Marix retired at the end of January. She worked for the LSUHSC Libraries since January 1982. A native of Baton Rouge, Mary received her undergraduate degree in Journalism from LSU and her Masters in Library Science from Rutgers University. Before being hired by LSUHealth, she worked for New Orleans Public Libraries and Touro Hospital.

Mary was awarded an LSUHSC Pfizer Award for Excellence in Education,Research, and Patient Care in 2001 and the Louisiana Library Association’s Lucy B. Foote (Subject Specialist) Award in 2005. She was active in the Medical Library Association, South Central Chapter, Health Sciences Library Association of Louisiana, Louisiana Library Association, and the LOUIS Consortium. Her expertise in searching and knowledge of the nursing literature will be missed.

MLK, Jr Day Closure

Both the Dental and Isché Libraries will be closed on Monday, January 18th in honor of the Martin Luther King, Jr Day Holiday. Both Libraries will be open their regular hours on Sunday the 17th (11:30 am to 8 pm for Dental and 12 noon to 12 midnight for Isché) and on Tuesday the 19th (8 am to 8 pm for Dental  and 8 am to 12 midnight for Isché).

Ische Library New Hours

The Isché Library has extended its hours as of Monday, January 11, 2016. The new hours are as follows:

• Sunday 12 noon – 12 midnight
• Monday – Thursday 8 am – 12 midnight
• Friday 8 am – 8 pm
• Saturday 9:30 am – 6 pm

LWW Health Library – Anatomy and Basic Sciences Collection

The Library is pleased to announce that we now have access to over 40 anatomy and basic sciences books from Lippincott, Williams, & Wilkins online through the LWW Health Library platform.

The Premium Basic Sciences Collection includes classic course textbooks, review guides, case studies, and videos.  All of the books have been cataloged and can be accessed from the Library’s INNOPAC catalog.  The LWW Health Library can also be found on the Library’s list of databases.

Below is a quick look at some of these essential resources:

• Bates’ Guide to Physical Examination and History Taking
• Clinically Oriented Anatomy (Moore)
• Color Atlas and Text of Histology (Gartner)
• Grant’s Atlas of Anatomy
• Grant’s Dissector
• Histology: a Text and Atlas (Ross)
• Lippincott’s Illustrated Reviews: Biochemistry
• Lippincott’s Illustrated Reviews: Pharmacology
• Neuroanatomy: an Atlas of Structures… (Haines)
• Neuroanatomy in Clinical Context (Haines)
• Physiology: Cases and Problems (Costanzo)
• Principles of Pharmacology (Golan)

Be sure to check out the full product!  We hope these will be useful in your studies!

Faculty Publications Spotlight for January

A new selection of articles has 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. They can be viewed in the Reference area, on the wall between the main entrance and the Library elevator, on the third floor of the Resource Center Building.
Here is a list of the newest articles to be featured, with the LSUHSC-NO researchers in bold print:

1. Badeaux J, Bonanno L, Au H. Effectiveness of ondansetron as an adjunct to lidocaine intravenous regional anesthesia on tourniquet pain and postoperative pain in patients undergoing elective hand surgery: A systematic review protocol. JBI Database System Rev Implement Rep. 2015;13(1):27-38.
2. Cardinale JP, Patel MM, Nettles KM, Caballero A, Lopez FA. CLINICAL CASE OF THE MONTH: A 31-year-old man who presents with speech abnormalities. J La State Med Soc. 2015;167(1):35-41.
3. Chauvin SW. Applying educational theory to simulation-based training and assessment in surgery. Surg Clin North Am. 2015;95(4):695-715.
4. Gould HJ,3rd, Paul D. Critical appraisal of extended-release hydrocodone for chronic pain: Patient considerations. Ther Clin Risk Manag. 2015;111635-1640.
5. Luna-Tapia A, Peters BM, Eberle KE, Kerns ME, Foster TP, Marrero L, Noverr MC, Fidel PL,Jr, Palmer GE. ERG2 and ERG24 are required for normal vacuolar physiology as well as candida albicans pathogenicity in a murine model of disseminated but not vaginal candidiasis. Eukaryot Cell. 2015;14(10):1006-16.
6. Manjiani D, Said S, Kaye AD. Transient glaucoma after an epidural steroid injection: A case report. Ochsner J. 2015;15(1):79-82.
7. Powers MK, Brown ET, Hogan RM, Martin AD, Ortenberg J, Roth CC. Trends in toilet training and voiding habits among children with down syndrome. J Urol. 2015;194(3):783-787.
8. Thompson BM, Haidet P, Borges NJ, Carchedi LR, Roman BJ, Townsend MH, Butler AP, Swanson DB, Anderson MP, Levine RE. Team cohesiveness, team size and team performance in team-based learning teams. Med Educ. 2015;49(4):379-385.

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.
Please come to the Library and view these recent publications by our research community.

Welcome 2016

Both the Isché and Dental Libraries have reopened from Winter Break!

Happy 2016 everyone

Libraries are Closed for Winter Break

Both the Dental and Isché Libraries are both closed for winter break. The Libraries will reopen at 8am on Monday, January 4th and resume normal hours.

Online resources will, of course, be available 24/7 during this time.

Winter Break Hours

The Libraries are now on Winter Break hours.

Faculty Publications for December

A new selection of articles has 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. They can be viewed in the Reference area, on the wall between the main entrance and the Library elevator, on the third floor of the Resource Center Building.
Here is a list of the newest articles to be featured, with the LSUHSC-NO researchers in bold print:

1. Aguilar EA, Barry SD, Cefalu CA, Abdo A, Hudson WP, Campbell JS, Reske TM, Bonafede M, Wilson K, Stolshek BS, Paoli CJ, Tran N, Cheng LI. Osteoporosis diagnosis and management in long-term care facility. Am J Med Sci. 2015;350(5):357-363.
2. Ammon BS, Bellanger DE, Geiselman PJ, Primeaux SD, Yu Y, Greenway FL. Short-term pilot study of the effect of sleeve gastrectomy on food preference. Obes Surg. 2015;25(6):1094-1097.
3. Barcelona de Mendoza V, Harville E, Savage J, Giarratano G. Association of complementary and alternative therapies with mental health outcomes in pregnant women living in a postdisaster recovery environment. J Holist Nurs. 2015;[epub ahead of print].
4. Ellenberg SS, Culbertson R, Gillen DL, Goodman S, Schrandt S, Zirkle M. Data monitoring committees for pragmatic clinical trials. Clin Trials. 2015;12(5):530-536.
5. Hanna EB, Lathia VN, Ali M, Deschamps EH. New or presumably new left bundle branch block in patients with suspected acute coronary syndrome: Clinical, echocardiographic, and electrocardiographic features from a single-center registry. J Electrocardiol. 2015;48(4):505-11.
6. Larzelere MM, James E, Arcuri M. Treating depression: What works besides meds? J Fam Pract. 2015;64(8):454-459.
7. Longfield E, Stark MW, Jeyakumar A. Soft palate mass. Ear Nose Throat J. 2015;94(10-11):438-440.
8. Samuelson DR, Welsh DA, Shellito JE. Regulation of lung immunity and host defense by the intestinal microbiota. Front Microbiol. 2015;61085.

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.
Please come to the Library and view these recent publications by our research community.

Ische Library Exam Hours Start 11/29/15

Isché Library exam hours start today and will run through Thursday, December 17th.

The hours are as follows:

• Sunday   12 noon to 12 midnight
• Monday – Thursday   8 am to 12 midnight
• Friday   8 am to 8 pm
• Saturday   9:30 am to 6 pm

Thanksgiving Hours

The Libraries will both close early on Wednesday, November 25th; the Dental Library will close at 5 pm and the Isché Library will close at 6 pm. Both Libraries will remain closed from Thursday, November 26th through Saturday, November 28th.

The Dental Library will be open its regular hours on Sunday, November 29th from 11:30 am to 8 pm.

The Isché Library will be open for exam hours on Sunday, November 29th from 12 noon to 12 midnight. Exam hours will continue through Thursday, December 17th.

For the complete schedule for both Libraries, consult our webpage.

New phone lines in the Ische Library

The Isché Library rolled out new VoiP telephones this morning. The difference should be seamless for library patrons but some staff members do have new telephone numbers. Carolyn Bridgewater can be found at 504-568-6104; Rita Premo‘s new number is 504-568-7717; and Valerie Hernandez now has 504-568-6107 as her number. All other staff telephone numbers are available.

TEDMED Live: November 19-20

On November 19 and 20, the LSUHSC-New Orleans Libraries will again be hosting the TEDMED Live conference’s streaming lecture series. Downtown, the video will be shown in the Library Conference Room on the 3rd floor of the Resource Center Building. (The entrance is near the former coffee kiosk.) Those at the Dental Campus will be able to watch both days in the Wirth Room.

TEDMED is the independently owned and operated health and medicine edition of the world-famous TED conference, dedicated to “ideas worth spreading,” and brings together people and ideas from disciplines inside and outside medicine. The 2015 Stage Program will include the following sessions, with approximately 5 speakers in each session: Human Explorations, Mind Matters, Catalyzing Great Science, Back to Basics, Food Fix, Techno-Utopia, Who Cares for Health Care?, and Out There.

For more details about TEDMED, the event schedule, and the scheduled speakers, visit the TEDMED website.

Exam Hours @ Ische Library

The Isché Library will have extended hours for exams, from Sunday, November 29th through Thursday, December 17th. The hours are as follows:

• Sunday   12 noon to 12 midnight
• Monday – Thursday   8 am to 12 midnight
• Friday   8 am to 8 pm
• Saturday   9:30 am to 6 pm

Faculty Publications Harvest for November

A new selection of articles has 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. They can be viewed in the Reference area, on the wall between the main entrance and the Library elevator, on the third floor of the Resource Center Building.
Here is a list of the newest articles to be featured, with the LSUHSC-NO researchers in bold print:

1. Allerton TD, Primeaux SD. QRFP-26 enhances insulin’s effects on glucose uptake in rat skeletal muscle cells. Peptides. 2015;6977-79.
2. Chauhan A, Ramirez RA, Stevens MA, Burns LA, Woltering EA. Transition of a pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor from ghrelinoma to insulinoma: A case report. J Gastrointest Oncl. 2015;6(2):E34-6.
3. Gedalia A, Khan TA, Shetty AK, Dimitriades VR, Espinoza LR. Childhood sarcoidosis: Louisiana experience. Clin Rheumatol. 2015;.
4. Maziveyi M, Alahari SK. Breast cancer tumor suppressors: A special emphasis on novel protein nischarin. Cancer Res. 2015;75(20):4252-4259.
5. Paredes AM, Caspi J, Lilje C. Tetralogy of fallot and anomalous origin of the left pulmonary artery from the ascending aorta associated with absent right internal carotid artery. World J Pediatr Congenit Heart Surg. 2015;6(2):324-327.
6. Sammarco MC, Simkin J, Cammack AJ, Fassler D, Gossmann A, Marrero L, Lacey M, Van Meter K, Muneoka K. Hyperbaric oxygen promotes proximal bone regeneration and organized collagen composition during digit regeneration. PLoS One. 2015;10(10):e0140156.
7. Trommelen RD, Buttone LF, Dicharry DZ, Jacobs RM, Karpinski A. The use of five repetition sit to stand test (FRSTST) to assess fall risk in the assisted living population. Phys Occup Ther Geriatr. 2015;33(2):152-162.
8. Wang G, Nauseef WM. Salt, chloride, bleach, and innate host defense. J Leukoc Biol. 2015;98(2):163-172.

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.
Please come to the Library and view these recent publications by our research community.