Library News

Congratulations to one of our own!

Congratulations to Liz Strother, Associate Director for Dental Library Services, on her academic promotion to Professor/Librarian. Liz has worked long and hard to merit this most deserved promotion!

Liz has worked at LSUHSC for more than 30 years, she has more than 30 publications to her credit and has taught classes to dental students for many years. She has served the University in many ways and has been on more than 30 committees in service to professional organizations.

We, here in the library, are very proud of you, Liz!!

Library Help & Live Chat

If you have ever been off campus and stuck doing research- there’s no need to go through it alone!

The LSUHSC offers many great services, but one of the best is the Live Chat option you can find on our help page. http://www.lsuhsc.edu/no/library/services/help.html.

Monday – Thursday 8:30 a.m. – 8 p.m.
Friday 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. you can connect live with a reference librarian.

If you have questions outside of these times you can always send an email to our Reference Address.

Online guides and tutorials are also available to help you navigate through common research problems.

The Library is here to serve patrons so never hesitate to ask for help!

Catalog Changes

An upgrade to the Libraries’ catalog, INNOPAC, was pushed through this morning. Some pages will look different, but functionality should remain the same. Please let Library Staff know if you have any problems.

May’s Faculty Publications Display

The Isch?® Library features a display that highlights recent articles by LSUHSC-New Orleans faculty. This display, rotated out monthly, is being regularly updated with materials that have been gathered into the Faculty Publications Database. The Database is maintained by the Isch?® Library as a prominent resource.

The articles on display are located in the Isch?® Library’s Reference area (near the elevator) on the third floor of the Resource Center Building.

About the Isch?® Library’s Faculty Publications Database:

The Faculty Publications Database includes citations to papers, editorials, letters to the editor, meeting abstracts, books, and book chapters authored by at least one member of the LSUHSC-New Orleans faculty, 1998 ÔÇô present. Information in this database is retrieved from several sources, including: PubMed, ISI Web of Knowledge, SCOPUS, EMBASE.com, CINAHL, PsycInfo and contributions directly from faculty members.

Access to this database is available to the public. To add your faculty publications, or for questions about this database, contact Kathy Kerdolff.

Please come and peruse these publications, which exemplify the ongoing achievements of LSUHSC-New Orleans’ first-class work in the health sciences fields.

Articles Newly Placed on Display:

1. James M Barbeau: “Damage control resuscitation: From emergency department to the operating room.” The American Surgeon. Volume 77, February 2011, p201-206.

2. Matthew A Bowen, Marcie Tauzin, and Evelyn A Kluka: “Diagnostic and interventional sialendoscopy: A preliminary experience.” Laryngoscope. Vol 121, February 2011, p299-303.

3. Lisa M Harrison-Bernard: “Glomerular filtration rate determinations in conscious type II diabetic mice.” American Journal of Physiology – Renal Physiology. Volume 300, March 2011, pF618-25.

4. David H Martin, Rebecca A Clark, and Mary Murphy: “The influence of bacterial vaginosis on the response to trichomonas vaginalis treatment among HIV-infected women.” Sexually Transmitted Infections. Volume 87, 2011, p205-8.

5. Rose M Schaubhut and Judith A Gentry: “Nursing preceptor workshops: Partnership and collaboration between academia and practice.” Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing. Volume 41, No 4, 2010, p155-162.

6. Jean Valliere: “Innovations to Improve Services for Women with Perinatal Depression” Nursing for Women’s Health, Volume 15, no 2, 2011, p126-136.

7. Wayne V Vedeckis: “A new, lineage specific, autoup-regulation mechanism for human glucocorticoid receptor gene expression in 697 pre-b-acute lymphoblastic leukemia cells.” Molecular Endocrinology. Volume 25, no 1, January 2011, p44-57.

8. Diane S Wilensky: “Multi-site diagnosis and management of 260 patients with auditory neuropathy/dys-synchrony (auditory neuropathy spectrum disorder.” International Journal of Audiology. Volume 49, no 1, 2010, p30-43.

Easter Hours

The Isch?® Library will have special hours in observence of the Easter Holiday. They are as follows:

Thursday, April 21st 8 am to 8 pm
Friday, April 22nd CLOSED (University Holiday)
Saturday, April 23rd CLOSED
Sunday, April 24th CLOSED
Monday, April 25th 8 am to 10 pm Regular Hours

The LSUHSC Dental Library will also close Friday, April 22nd through Sunday, April 23rd. Click here to view their regular and holiday hours.

Happy Easter!

3rd Floor Printer

*Update*4p.m. The printer has been restored. Thanks for your patience.

We are experiencing technical difficulties with the printer on the main floor of the Isch?® Library. The problem has been reported and will hopefully be resolved in the near future.

Until then, please send all print jobs to the 4th Floor printer. You can designate color or black and white copies within the printer preferences before sending your print job.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

Finding Full-Text Articles

Front of Brochure

Ever found a citation you could really use for a research paper but couldnÔÇÖt quite figure out how to find the full-text version?

In order to help you through this somewhat tricky process we have created a short and simple brochure available in print and online.

Pick up a copy at the Isch?® Library or find it here on the Library Homepage.

Enjoy!

Space Medicine

From the Civil War to the first manned space flight, April 12th is a busy day.

LSUHSC Libraries owns a few books on the medical implications of space flight. All are cataloged under the subjects Space Flight or Aerospace Medicine. All the books in our collection are between 50 and 20 years old, as this isn’t a popular area for monographs.

My personal favorite:
America’s astronauts and their indestructible spirit by Fred Kelly with a foreward by Buzz Aldrin. Published 1986, the author was a former NASA physician and a 1951 alum of the LSU Medical School.

April’s Faculty Publications Display

Last month, the Isch?® Library initiated a new display that highlights recent articles by LSUHSC-New Orleans faculty. This display is being regularly updated with materials that have been gathered into the Faculty Publications Database, which is maintained by the Isch?® Library as a prominent resource.

The articles on display, rotated out monthly, are in the Isch?® LibraryÔÇÖs Reference area (near the elevator) on the third floor of the Resource Center Building.

About the Isch?® LibraryÔÇÖs Faculty Publications Database:

The Faculty Publications Database includes citations to papers, editorials, letters to the editor, meeting abstracts, books, and book chapters authored by at least one member of the LSUHSC-New Orleans faculty, 1998 ÔÇô present. Information in this database is retrieved from several sources, including: PubMed, ISI Web of Knowledge, SCOPUS, EMBASE.com, CINAHL, PsycInfo and contributions directly from faculty members.

Access to this database is available to the public. To add your faculty publications, or for questions about this database, contact Kathy Kerdolff: kkerdo@lsuhsc.edu

The database is linked from the Library web page here. This page includes a handy link to a PDF document of the monthly bibliography of display articles.

At our Dental Library:

In addition, the Dental Library has also started a faculty publications display. Their articles are located in front of the circulation desk and are also rotated monthly.

Please come and peruse these publications, which exemplify the ongoing achievements of LSUHSC-New OrleansÔÇÖ first-class work in the health sciences fields.

R. A. D. Systems

A free self-defense course is being offered to LSUHSC female students, faculty, staff and family by nationally certified Rape Aggression Defense instructors. ?áThe R.A.D. System hopes to increases awareness and prevention.

Several classes are available:

When: April 6^th ÔÇô 8^th (5pm ÔÇô 8pm each night)

Where: Medical Education Bldg ÔÇô 1901 Perdido St ÔÇô 3^rd Floor in Seminar Rm 8

To REGISTER call (504)858-5596

OR

E-mail: Cpl. Rhonda Binder rbinde@lsuhsc.edu or Sgt. Robert Hall rhall1@lsuhsc.edu.

Happy 4th Anniversary

The Libraries’ blog is 4 years old today, born 3/29/2007. Entries have been made by 20 different members of the Library staff (out of a total of 22 at both Isché and Dental). We are up to about 900 posts with 53 categories and 79 tags.

The traditional gifts in the US are linen or silk; the modern gift is electrical appliances; while the Libraries are not in need of linen, silk or appliances, we will always accept donations to our acquisitions fund. Contact our Head of Collection Development for more information.

Agramonte Yellow Fever Collection

Remember the grant that the Libraries received last summer? The Aristides Agramonte Yellow Fever Collection is now available via the Louisiana Digital Library. This collection provides access over 130 full text historic books and journal articles dating from the 1790s to about 1930; the titles revolve around the epidemiology and pathology of yellow fever.

Happy Mardi Gras!

King of Carrollton; taken by JKL on Feb. 27, 2011

We know that in most of the United States, it’s just another Tuesday…but here in New Orleans, it’s Mardi Gras. The LSUHSC Libraries (and our entire campus) is closed today in celebration.

Faculty Articles Now on Display

The Isché Library's new faculty articles display has been inaugurated.

The articles on display, rotated out monthly, are in the Isché LibraryÔÇÖs Reference area (near the elevator) on the third floor of the Resource Center Building.

About the Isché LibraryÔÇÖs Faculty Publications Database:

The Faculty Publications Database includes citations to papers, editorials, letters to the editor, meeting abstracts, books, and book chapters authored by at least one member of the LSUHSC-New Orleans faculty, 1998 – present. Information in this database is retrieved from several sources, including: PubMed, ISI Web of Knowledge, SCOPUS, EMBASE.com, CINAHL, PsycInfo and contributions directly from faculty members.

Access to this database is available to the public. To add your faculty publications, or for questions about this database, contact Kathy Kerdolff: kkerdo@lsuhsc.edu

The database is linked from the Library web page here. This page includes a handy link to a PDF document of the monthly bibliography of display articles.

Carnival Weekend Hours

Both the Dental and Isché Libraries will have altered schedules for carnival weekend and will be closed on Mardi Gras day; additionally, Dental will have reduced hours for days after Mardi Gras for Spring Break.
The hours are as follows:

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