The Isché Library will be open until midnight tonight (Friday, Dec. 12th) to allow extra study time for student still in exams. The Library will also be open tomorrow (Saturday, Dec. 13th) from 9:30 to 12 midnight and on Sunday (Dec. 14th) from 12 noon to 12 midnight. Jump on the midnight study train!
Due to the anticipated icy conditions after dark this evening, the Isch&ecute; Library will close at 5 p.m. The Library will re-open at 8 a.m. tomorrow morning (Friday, Dec. 12th) and will remain open until 12 midnight. The hours for Saturday are 9:30 – 12 midnight and on Sunday are 12 noon – 12 midnight.
In honor of our unusual weather today, I checked to see if snow is a search term in MEDLINE. And it is in MeSH. Most of the articles in PubMed (when limited to Humans) deal with snow disasters (avalanches and the like). I don’t think we’ll have to worry about that.
Chancellor Hollier announced that the Library Commons will be complete in Spring 2009 during the Town Hall meeting yesterday evening.
An amusing news item from the New Orleans States, 23 March 1950 speaks to the cautions of associating with nameless seamen:
Fractures arm, leg in accident
James Garner, 29 years old, 421 S. Galvez, suffered fractures of the right arm and leg when his automobile crashed into a lamp post at St. Peters and S. Diamond early today.
Garner, an LSU medical student, said a sailor whose name he did not know was driving the auto. The sailor fled the scene. Garner was treated at Charity hospital and transferred to Hotel Dieu.
You can view this and other snippets of LSUHSC history in the Louisiana Digital Library’s LSUHSC Newspaper Clippings Collection.
As you may remember the Library converted its links to a Delicious Account back in August. In October, we posted about the social bookmarking phenomenon. The Delicious Links continue their dyamic growth with over a dozen new sites added in the last month. My particular favorite? The Virtual Stethoscope Project. from McGill University.
Because of the ongoing tiling, access to the Isché Library will be via elevators #1 & 2 again. These are the elevators closest to the Eye Center Building.
Additionally, the door to the Library will be inaccessible for a few hours while that space is tiled so a temporary entrance has been created adjacent to the regular door location.
Remember the Isché Library will be open until midnight tonight (Friday) and tomorrow (Saturday). On Sunday, the Library will open at noon and close again at midnight. Come and get your study on.
A report from the Institute of Medicine released on Tuesday morning proposes revisions to medical residents’ duty hours and workloads “to decrease the chances of fatigue-related medical errors and to enhance the learning environment resident training.” The report does not recommend further reducing residents’ work hours from the maximum average of 80 per week set by ACGME in 2003, but rather recommends reducing the maximum number of hours that residents can work without time for sleep to 16, increasing the number of days residents must have off, and restricting moonlighting during residents’ off-hours, among other changes. The committee, which was chaired by Dr. Michael Johns of Emory, estimates that the cost for additional personnel to handle reduced resident work could be roughly $1.7 billion annually.
Read the full report here
Thanks Ram Paragi, for the publication alert!
The Global Library of Women’s Medicine is a new free resource featuring over 442 peer-reviewed, full text, searchable chapters on women’s medicine.
“The Global Library of Women?óÔé¼Ôäós Medicine is a unique web library incorporating a range of detailed clinical information across the whole field of women?óÔé¼Ôäós medicine. It consists of 442 main chapters and 53 supplementary chapters, supported by more than 40,000 references, which will be kept permanently up-to-date. The chapters have been written by more than 650 specialists and will reflect some of the very best worldwide opinion. The website has been developed from the six-volume, encyclopedic textbook Gynecology & Obstetrics, which was first published in 1934 and has been edited for the last 30 years by professor John J. Sciarra.”
Though the site is available to the public, medical and health professionals can register for extra features, such as the ability to comment on the text, submit new material, and access videos, medical atlases and laboratory tests.
GLOWM was created in honor of the publisher’s daughter, Abigal Bloomer, who died of breast cancer at age 31.
To access the Isché Library, please use Resource Center elevators #3 & 4 (the ones closest to Tulane Ave.). Elevators #1 & 2 are unusable for the next few days so that tiling can be completed.
The temporary plywood walls should start moving in the next few days. The new tile for the Library Commons is being placed, so prepare for some changes to the Isché Library entrance.
Join us for another RefWorks class next Monday afternoon. RefWorks is a bibliographic management tool that can format a list of references for you. This class will cover the basics of loading your references into RefWorks from different databases like PubMed, Ebsco & Ovid, organizing your references using folders, and formatting bibliographies.
What: RefWorks Class
When: Monday, December 8th 2-3 p.m.
Where: Ische Library Room 405
Register: email mknapp@lsuhsc.edu
December 1st is World AIDS Day. Designated in 1988, this annual observation exists to bring attention to the continuing AIDS epidemic. For additional information, resources, and statistics, check out the following websites:
Additionally, 2008 also marks the 25th anniversary of the NO/AIDS Task Force which dedicated an AIDS Memorial in Washington Square Park over the weekend.
Fall Exam Hours start this weekend. The Isché Library will be open until 12 midnight 7 days a week. Additionally, the Library will open at 12 noon on Sundays. These hours will continue until December 18th.
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