Julie Schiavo, reference librarian at the LSU Dental School, has just been awarded an Express Outreach Grant for over $3,000 from the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, South Central Region. Julie’s grant, entitled “Outreach to the LSUHSC-NO School of Dentistry Clinic: Providing Quality Consumer Health Information to Dental Patients,” will provide consumer health computer stations to patients at the Dental clinic.
Congratulations Julie! We are very proud of you!
The latest issue of the Library?óÔé¼Ôäós Newsletter has been released. Archives of the newsletter are also available from 1998 to the present.
With all this talk about immunization in the second year medicine groups and flu season just around the corner, here’s a timely iPhone app.
ShotRecs is a rapid reference guide to the 2009 Childhood, Adolescent and Adult Immunization Schedules as provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). It’s available from the App Store on iTunes.
It features:
– 2009 Childhood, Adolescent and Adult Immunization Schedules
– 2009 Childhood and Adolescent Catch-up Immunization Schedules
– 2009 Vaccine schedule for adults based on medical and other indications
more info & screenshots
Interestingly enough, ShotRecs was designed by a medical student (now an intern in Family Medicine) at Georgetown University. Any Tigers out there designing iPhone apps?
The Isché Library bookdrop was moved back to its original location on the crosswalk earlier this week.
Academic Life in Emergency Medicine (a new favorite blog of mine) has a nice review on a recent article from the Western Journal of Emergency Medicine by Langdorf & Hayden called “Turning your abstract into a paper: academic writing made simpler.” Lots of good tips (& a link to the free full text of the article) if you are considering turning a research abstract into a paper.
If your LSUHSC password is ready to expire, it might be a safer bet to change it at a wired computer, rather than attempting to change it while connected (or attempting to connect) to the wireless. Because of individal computer caching issues, the new password does not always work perfectly. Passwords may be changed at any of the Library’s public PCs by accessing your LSUHSC webmail.
APA style was developed by social and behavioral scientists to standardize scientific writing. Here at LSU, the School of Nursing and some departments in the School of Allied Health use APA style to cite references in their papers.
Why is standardized scientific writing necessary, anyway? A big reason is to enable others who read your paper to find the references that you used. Scientific research is built upon the ideas and experimentation of others, and it is critical to credit the shoulders of giants on which you stand.
APA style can be confusing if you’ve never written a paper before. Luckily, there is a great tutorial on http://www.apastyle.org/ that is the perfect introduction to citing books and journals, both in a paper and on your reference page.
If you don’t have time to view the 20 minute tutorial, check out these slide numbers for quick reference:
Link to APA style tutorial: http://flash1r.apa.org/apastyle/basics/index.htm
Slides 14, 15, 16: Citing references in text
Slide 15 includes a handy table of in-text citation styles depending on the number of authors
Slide 18: Components of a citation
Slide 21: Formatting references to journal articles
Slide 22: Formatting a reference to an entire journal issue
Slide 23: Formatting a reference to a book chapter in an edited book
Slide 24: Formatting a reference to an entire book
There’s also a tutorial on What’s new in APA style, 6th edition, if you’re used to using the 5th.
Happy citing!
With reports the past weeks of daycare center closings, sidelined football players, and sniffling sorority girls, clearly Louisiana is not immune from H1N1 outbreaks. As of August 17, 2009, Louisiana reports 449 confirmed cases and 1 related death (also in New Orleans) from the novel influenza A (H1N1) virus, aka the Swine Flu.
For local & state information on influenza, visit www.FluLa.com, from the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals. There you will find weekly statistics and public health updates, as well as flu information for patients in English, Spanish and Vietnamese. Clinicians can also access an Online Training Course on local flu preparedness, testing protocols, regional OPH offices, and info from the Louisiana Office of Public Health Lab like the Lab 96 form and instructions for swine flu testing.
For national swine flu information, the CDC is always your best bet: http://cdc.gov/h1n1flu/
Nursing journals we subscribe to through Ovid will be undergoing an upgrade today at 9AM. If you are in an OvidSP or Nursing@Ovid session at that time, your session will continue uninterrupted until you log out or your session times out.
Please let us know if you encounter any problems with access.
More info.
ScienceDirect seems to be having a nation wide problem. Attempting to access a PDF article will result in an error message. We have no timeline for this to be corrected. ~EDIT @ 1:30 p.m. Progress of sorts? The error message is gone, but now SD is asking for a login…which we don’t have. Hoping it will be fixed by later this afternoon. ~Edit~ @ 1:55 p.m. Elsevier has corrected the problem; all SD subscribed PDFs should once again be available.
The following Resource Guides have been updated:
Biographical Data on Physicians & Nurses
History of Surgery
Statistics
Resource Guides are instructional tools to introduce users to basic information. If you think the Library should add a Resource Guide, please let us know.
Did you know that LSUHSC-NO is a PC institution?
For Mac users, this can present a problem. At the moment, instructions are not available for configuring a Mac or an iPhone to get onto the LSUHSC secure wireless network.
However, you can always plug into our network from any of the laptop ports around the Library and Library Commons. Each of our study rooms on the fourth floor, the study carrels near the Registrar’s office and areas on the 3rd and 5th floors provide blue network ports so you can plug in. Here’s a handy map! In the Library Commons, check underneath the glass display cases for blue network ports.
Don’t have a network cable handy? We got you covered. You can check out a network cable at the Circulation Desk.
I must admit 3 named storms popping up over this past weekend made me a bit jumpy. Here are local resources on disaster preparedness to help make sure we’re all ready in the event of a storm:
LSUHSC Information
Chancellor’s Memorandum 51: Policy on Weather Related Emergency Procedures for LSUHSC-New Orleans
LSUHSC-NO Emergency Alert System
Parish Information
Jefferson Parish & its Emergency Alert Service
New Orleans & its Emergency Alert Service
St. Bernard Parish
St. Tammany Parish
State Information
Louisiana Office of Homeland Security & Emergency Preparedness & its Evacuation Guides
A collection of brand new Library acquisitions are displayed on the New Books Shelf on the third floor (near the Reference Stacks). These titles can be checked out!
Bailey and Love’s short practice of surgery (2008).
Fauci, Anthony S. Harrison’s manual of medicine (2009).
Feldman, Harriet R. Nursing leadership: a concise encyclopedia (2008).
Fogel, Catherine Ingram. Women’s health care in advanced practice nursing (2008).
Fowler, Floyd. Survey research methods (2009).
Goodrich, James Tait. Neurosurgical operative atlas: Pediatric neurosurgery (2008).
Hansen, Barbara Caleen. The metabolic syndrome: epidemiology, clinical treatment (2008).
Hochberg, Marc C. Rheumatology (2 vols) (2008).
Myers, Eugene N. Operative otolaryngology: head and neck surgery (2 vols) (2008).
Nezhat’s operative gynecologic laparoscopy and hysteroscopy (2008).
Norton, Jeffrey A. Surgery: basic science and clinical evidence (2008).
Saldana, Johnny. The coding manual for qualitative researchers 2009).
Scholssberg, David. Clinical infectious disease (2008).
Skandalakis, Lee John, et al. Surgical anatomy and technique: a pocket manual (2009).
WHO. Mental health aspects of women’s reproductive health (2009).
Zilm, Glennis. The smart way: an introduction to writing for nurses (2009).
Also of note is a small range of new items in the field of archiving and preservation of library and museum collections, which are also part of this month’s New Books Display. These volumes are from a “Connecting to Collections” grant won by the Isch?â?® Library from the National Institute of Museum and Library Services (in partnership with The American Association for State and Local History, The Getty Foundation, The Henry Luce Foundation, and Heritage Preservation). The grant was successfully written by Reference Librarian Maureen Knapp.
Capitalize on collections care (2007).
Drewes, Jeanne M. Promoting preservation awareness in libraries: a sourcebook (1997).
Ellis, Margaret Holben. The care of prints and drawings (1995).
Field guide to emergency response (2006).
Frey, Fanziska. The AIC guide to digital photography and conservation documentation (2008).
Gorman, G.E. Preservation management for libraries, museums and archives (2006).
Long, Jane S. Caring for your family treasures: heritage preservation text (2000).
Malaro, Marie, C. A legal primer on managing museum collections (1998).
National Park Service Museum Handbook, Part 1 (2 vols) (2007).
The National Trust manual of housekeeping (2006).
The nature of conservation: a race against time (1989).
Ogden, Sherelyn. Caring for American Indian objects (2004).
Press release regarding grant: http://www.imls.gov/news/2009/061709.shtm
Books, Library News | Permalink | Comments Off on New Books on Display to Kick off Fall Semester | Posted Friday, August 14, 2009 by Woodruff, Amy
Just in time for fall semester, we’ve created a brand spankin’ new guide for you allied health folks. Whether you’re a cardiopulmonary-specialist-to-be or a long time OT faculty member, we’ve got you covered.
Find all the databases for your specialty, plus lists of selected journals, online books, and websites, all in one place:
ALLIED HEALTH RESOURCE GUIDE
http://www.lsuhsc.edu/no/library/resources/guides/AlliedHealth.html
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