Zombies in the library

Come by the library today for BRAINS, candy, free giveaways and more!

30 Illnesses, Sorted According to Whether or Not You Can Eat the Victims

In honor of our upcoming visit from everyone’s favorite zombie librarian**, here’s a list of illnesses, in order of victims’ comestibility

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WHO: Zombrarian & Miss Information
WHAT: Brain consultation services, forensic photography, misinformational cartography, candy
WHEN: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31ST, 11:30 – ?
WHERE: Library 3rd floor
WHY: Because October is National Medical Libraries Month, that’s why!

Friday’s Fall Fest and other fun stuff to do this weekend

Tomorrow is LSUHSC’s Fall Fest from 3:30-6:30 PM in the 500 block of Bolivar Street. Come join in the festivities-there’ll be plenty of delicious food and refreshments, a live band and entertainment for the kids including clowns with balloons and an airbrush tattoo artist. (And when you see your favorite medical librarian, come say hello! We promise not to shush you.)

Looking for more community events?
Check out nolafunguide.com – it’s New Orleans’ comprehensive, up-to-date website featuring cultural events and attractions, coordinated by the Arts Council of New Orleans.

iHear smart people

Have an iPod, Zune or other personal media player? Well you should know that you can download & listen to podcasts from a variety of health sciences journals (many of them for free!).

Nature, Lancet, Science and NEJM are but a few of the journals making podcasts. There’s even Scrubcasts for you medical students.

In fact, our cousins at the LSUHSC-Shreveport Library have put together a podcast webpage listing many of these resources. Check it out: http://lib.sh.lsuhsc.edu/podcasts.html

Please note: LSUHSC-NO members do NOT qualify for the LSUHSC-Shreveport iPod drawing. If someone was kind enought to donate an iPod to our library, we would happily do this.

PeerClip – for Physicians, Physician Assistants & Nurse Practitioners

Here’s an interesting & free online resource for all you physicians, physician assistants and nurse practitioners out there:

PeerClip is a new tool that combines two ways gain knowledge?óÔé¼ÔÇØreading medical literature and interacting with peers?óÔé¼ÔÇØinto a powerful online tool. Currently PeerClip is available exclusively to physicians, physician assistants and nurse practitioners & free to qualified users. As a librarian, I can’t check it out, but it sounds mighty interesting.

Habla Medical Espa?â??ol with your PDA

Here’s a neat application for your Palm, Pocket PC or Smartphone:

FOCUSED MEDICAL SPANISH
FREE assessment tools to health care professionals who are charged with treating non-English speaking persons in the acute medical setting. These assessments are intended for all levels of Spanish proficiency, but especially for those with little or no Spanish language skills.

This could be really useful to you clinicians out there. These handouts give you phonetical pronunciations and translations of simple Spanish terms & phrases encountered during the medical interview. Whether you need to know
?Le duele el pecho? (Do you have chest pain?) to El sufre a menudo de nerios? (Does he have a history of anxiety?), these handouts show how to ask the right yes/no questions.

All you need to use it is Adobe Reader for Mobile Devices (also free – download here). Once you have Adobe reader, just download the files you want and sync your PDA. To access them from your PDA just use the Adobe link on your PDA.

DONT HAVE A PDA?
You can print out regular PDFs of medical Spanish AND listen to MP3 pronunciations on this site as well.
As they say in Spanish, ?é?íp?â?ísatelo bien! (Enjoy!)

Scholarship Opportunity for PDA users

The second-annual Ali Abdulla Al-Ubaydli scholarships for mobile medical computing offer five $1000 Scholarships for Mobile Medical Computing. In addition to academic record, the application requires reading and critically evaluating a piece of the medical literature. Scholars are also be published in the Mobile Medical Computing Reviews journal.

More information

History Lesson

An article on the History of Charity Hospital appears in this quarters Louisiana Cultural Vistas, a publication of the Louisana Endowment for the Humanities; check it out online.

Don’t be afraid…

…of the library. We are here to help. Whether you are new to the library or just want a refresher course sign up for one of our upcoming library instruction classes:

Introduction to RefWorks
Monday 11-05-07 12pm-1pm
Writing a paper? Let reference librarian, Molly Knapp show you how to create a bibliography in seconds by importing references from PubMed and other resources into this web-based bibliography and database manager.

General Library Systems
Tuesday 11-06-07 1:30pm-3:00pm
Start at the beginning. Learn how to navigate INNOPAC, the library’s online catalog, search PubMed , and become familiar with ILLiad, the library’s interlibrary loan system in this class taught by reference librarian, Carolyn Bridgewater.

Show Us Your Resources
Wednesday 11-07-07 12pm-1pm
Plug in to our resources from the comfort of your home, office or favorite coffeehouse. Reference librarian, Kathy Kerdolff will lead you on a tour of the library’s electronic resources including online textbooks, PDA downloads, and USMLE and board review resources.

All classes will be held in the Library Computer Lab, room 401-K. Call the library at 568-6100 or stop by the Circulation Desk to register. Spaces are limited so don’t delay, call today.

The sound & the fury

Upgrades to the computer wiring systems continue. Today’s noise will be centered on the 4th Floor of the library.

Doing your civic duty

Notice there’s more mud-slinging than usual on the tv lately? That’s because Louisiana’s Election Day is Saturday, October 20th.

Whether you’re a resident of New Orleans, Jefferson parish or somewhere beyond the Lake, use this website (http://69.2.40.209/) from the Louisiana Secretary of State to find your polling place. Once you’ve found your polling place you can call up a sample ballot. Absentee in person voting is 14-7 days before the actual election.

Strange Titles Haunt the Ische Library this October

The New Books Display on the third floor of the John P. Isch?â?® Library has been transformed into “Ye Olde Creepy Books: Really Gross Anatomy” for the month of October. This festive display includes books from the Library’s own holdings on the subjects of embalming and mortuary procedure, death and spiritualism, skeletal imaging, blood transfusions, madness, and even witchcraft and the occult as part of the origins of healing and medicine.

Come by and investigate these intriguing and unusual titles, and enjoy the whimsical Halloween decor that accompanies them! All books on display are available for regular checkout.

scary shelf

Pardon our noise…

Workers are upgrading the computer wiring systems in the library. Expect it to be noisy on the Gravier St side of the library today.

Public PCs get a makeover

If you notice a difference on the Public PCs, that’s because we’ve recently updated the homepage to match our regular library homepage. Links to PayPaw and LSUHSC Webmail can be found at the bottom of the library homepage.

Fall is here and so are our new hours!

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.