The wireless service on the 4th & 5th floors of the Isché Library has been upgraded. There are now 4 access points on each of these floors. The upgrade to the 3rd floor will be completed after the construction work on the Library Commons is completed.
Just in case anyone missed the Chancellor’s email, the University’s Weather Related Emergencies Plan is available on the Web. Hurricane season started on June 1.
A temporary wall has been constructed that blocks the old Isché Library entrance. The new way to get into the Library is to take elevators 1 or 2 and then follow the construction path around the stairwell and into the Library.
At the annual meeting of the Medical Library Association (last month in Chicago), three of our Librarians were recognized at the awards luncheon!
No other library had so many individuals recognized. Read all about their fabulousness in the May 30th edition of the Chancellor’s Notes (pdf).
After a long wait, the new Dental Bookstore has opened on LSUHSC-New Orleans’ Dental Campus! Located on the 3rd floor of the Dental Administration Building, the bookstore is adjacent to the library. All your book and supply needs are in one place!
The entrance to the store is at the end of the long breezeway connecting the administration and clinic buildings. The hours of operation will be Monday through Friday from 8:00 am to 4:30 pm. The store will sell many common supplies, such as books, dental supplies, burs, scrubs, LSUHSC & LSU insignia items, drinks, snacks, gift items, holiday cards, balloons, school supplies and much more.
For more info call the Dental Bookstore at 941-8130.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) today announced a new clinical research program that will aim to provide answers to patients with mysterious conditions that have long eluded diagnosis. Called the Undiagnosed Diseases Program, the trans-NIH initiative will focus on the most puzzling medical cases referred to the NIH Clinical Center in Bethesda, Md., by physicians across the nation.
“The new program, which got under way over the past month, is the culmination of efforts by William A. Gahl, M.D., Ph.D., clinical director at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the NIH; John I. Gallin, M.D., director of the NIH Clinical Center; and Stephen Groft, Pharm.D., director of the NIH Office of Rare Diseases (ORD). With the program infrastructure now in place, the program is ready to accept patients, the first of which is expected to be seen in July 2008.”
According to Scientific American, Blogging is good for you, as are most types of expressive writing. Now we know why the blogosphere is exploding.
is the only one that will now travel to the Library. The other elevators will return to service once the Library Commons project is further along.
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Drop by our RefWorks Refresher class on Thursday, June 19th from 9-10 am to see just how easy it is to use RefWorks, an online bibliographic management session.
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Construction is proceeding at the Isché Library. The temporary walls are being built as I type; these walls will encompass the elevator lobby on the 3rd floor. For the next few days, only elevator #4 can be used to access the Library. *EDIT* All elevators are still currently working. The limited access won’t happen until later this week.
Auxiliary Enterprises is currently rolling out new Pay-for-Print software and hardware. The Isché Library already has a new print station on the 3rd floor & the 4th floor station is to be installed today. The price for printing will be 8¢ per single page and 12¢ for double sided, starting Monday, June 2nd. Printing in the Library will continue to require a PayPaw card.
Who are these folks? They may very well be the people leading MLA into the future. For years we’ve been hearing how librarians will begin to retire en masse. Is this happening? (and indeed, as the McGovern lecture noted, are they even able to?) As this happens, how will MLA deal with changing leadership? What do our new members want, expect, need from our organization? When MLA asked whether members had joined or participated in the New Members SIG when they first started out, 32% responded “What’s that?” Clearly there is a need for more dialogue with newer members whether its their first job or third career.
So that’s where the above picture came from. A number of newer MLA members involved in leadership roles gathered at a special reception to discuss future MLA programs and services that would particularly interest them. Some of the discussion centered around how the MLA leadership structure works: what is this mysterious board? How does one get involved? What are the rules and processes that govern our association work, and how can we make them more transparent, more accessible? As Sara McCoord pointed out, “I didn’t even know there was a manual until after I wrote one.”
One idea I thought particularly interesting was introducing an MLA Board shadowing program for newer members and ’emerging leaders’. (Bart Ragon jokingly called it a “shadow government”.) These ‘interns’ wouldn’t be voting members (this is important because that requires a change in Bylaws), but this is one way to pass on that “50,000 years of collective knowledge” Mark Funk talked about in the opening session.
Around here at LSUHSC we joke about “being important”: serving on committees and sections in our region, writing grants, doing novel work at our institution and in the community that helps serve our patrons better: all this justifies us attending these meetings in the first place. As a national association, we need to think about how every single member can “be important”. There are more ways of reaching out to remote, new or disenfranchised members than ever before. (Live webcasts are a great start.) Getting new members, getting more members involved in MLA work, making the whole governance process more transparent: these are all excellent plans. The question is, now that it’s started, how are we going to continue it?
Last night the Reference Desk and the Pay-for-Print stations were moved over the left side of the Circulation Desk. The demolition phase of the Library Commons project is set to begin on Monday, May 26th.
The Public PCs on the 3rd floor of the Isché Library have been moved to the area beside the Circulation/Reference Areas near Tulane Ave. Looks like the Library Commons project is accelerating!
The first-and-hopefully annual Section Shuffle was a resounding success! This drop in session aimed to educate MLA members on the various sections of the MLA, and what they had to offer. Attendees could vote on their favorite booth, and boy was it difficult to decide with all the candy, costumes and creative exhibits. As a special bonus, everyone who dropped by got 3 free trial memberships to the sections of their choice for the rest of the year. A great way to strike up interest and recruit new members, don’t you think?
Veterinary Medicine Section
Happy Shufflers
History of Medicine plague doctor.
The History of Medicine Section took home the ‘best section’ award. But the veterinary medicine folks were so cute, they get runner up in this blog!
(Not included here was an awesome 3-D poster created by the Public Services Section, glasses included!)
If you are in one of these pictures and would like it removed, please email me at mknapp@lsuhsc.edu and I’ll gladly take it down.
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