Halloween Shin-Dig Today!

Don’t forget to come to the Isché Library today between 11:30 am and 1:30 pm for the Shin-Dig!

Three Library Witches

Candy, Information, Giveaways!

Gruesome Images

Looking for some harrowing images to decorate your Halloween party? Check out the Library’s list of Image databases. Find videos of surgeries (AccessSurgery) or just creepy pictures of old houses (Louisiana Digital Library). Or even use the images for instructional purposes.

Dig the Library: Week 4: Shindig! (and e-journals)

Well, we?óÔé¼Ôäóve reached the end of National Medical Librarians Month, and as things draw to a close we?óÔé¼Ôäód like to focus on one more new resource with which you are already familiar: the new and improved E-journals list.

Let?óÔé¼Ôäós review the advice and words of caution Becky provided us when it came out:

Task for Week 4:

Display week 4 NMLM

Remember: Dental Open House Today

The Dental Library Open House will be today from 11:30 am to 1:30 pm. Go and “Sink Your Teeth In!”

Sink Your Teeth In at the Dental Library Open House

Staking our Technorati claim

Technorati Profile

Move along, just trying to get some web statistics stuff set up here.

Come Enjoy the Halloween Shin-Dig

Dig In & Dig Dental – 2 Classes & 1 Open House

Two more chances to learn and one chance to celebrate:

Check out the Dental Library Open House on Tuesday, October 28th from 11:30 to 1:30; Go and “Sink Your Teeth In!”

Sink Your Teeth In at the Dental Open House

Dig the Library, Week three: Can ya dig it? Social networking and libraries

Hello again from the NMLM Committee. We?óÔé¼Ôäóre halfway through this whirlwind staff development course ?óÔé¼ÔÇ£ thanks for hanging in there! This week we?óÔé¼Ôäóre exploring social networking and the library?óÔé¼Ôäós Facebook page.

Introduction
Social Networking sites are online communities where people can connect with their friends and discover other people who have similar interests. Often social networking sites have features that allow users to interact with each other through features like photo sharing, chat, messaging, group invitations to events and more. Popular social networking sites include MySpace, Facebook, and Linkedin.

For an introduction to social networking, watch this 3 minute video: ?óÔé¼?ôSocial networking in plain English?óÔé¼?Ø by Common Craft: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKcqge8SvzQ

Library applications
The Dental library and Isch?â?® library both have a page on Facebook. Facebook members can become ?óÔé¼?£fans?óÔé¼Ôäó of the libraries, which allows you to leave comments, see events, view pictures, and more.

Task for week 3:

NMLM Facebook display

2 More Chances to Learn – Dig In

Two classes are happening this week:
General Library Systems @ Isché on Tuesday, October 21st from 1:30-3 pm
Health Literacy @ Dental on Wednesday, October 22nd from 12 noon to 1 pm

Register by calling either the Isch?â?® or Dental Libraries’ Circulation Desks (504-568-5550 or 504-941-8158) or by emailing either reference@lsuhsc.edu or dentlib@lsuhsc.edu.

Innoculation Stations

Tis the season for flu shots

Flu shots will be available on October 15, 16, and 17th at the LSU HCN clinic at 2820 Napoleon Avenue ?óÔé¼ÔÇ£ Suite 890. The cost for the shot is $20 with an LSUHSC ID and $25 without an ID. Payment may be made by credit card or cash.

And coming Oct 30th to the MEB…
FLUSHOTS
Thursday, October 30
10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
MEB – Seminar Room 5
$20 – cash only
with LSUHSC ID

Dig the Library, Week 2: Dig Smarter with delicious and social bookmarking

Introduction
Think about how you save web pages you visit frequently. Most people are aware of the ?óÔé¼?£Favorites?óÔé¼Ôäó feature on Internet Explorer (or ?óÔé¼?£bookmarks?óÔé¼Ôäó in FireFox). You find a page you want to remember, store it in your ?óÔé¼?£Favorites?óÔé¼Ôäó, and use that whenever you want to visit or remember a favorite website. When you add a page to your ?óÔé¼?£Favorites?óÔé¼Ôäó on a web browser like Internet Explorer, it is stored in your computer. If you use multiple computers you may have different bookmarks saved on different computers.
Read more >

Dig In – 3 Classes this Week

Check out three more opportunities to learn!

Register today by calling either the Isch?â?® or Dental Libraries’ Circulation Desks (504-568-5550 or 504-941-8158) or by emailing either reference@lsuhsc.edu or dentlib@lsuhsc.edu.

Dark Chocolate=Good

And good for you? According to a story released yesterday by Reuters Health, dark chocolate font size=”-1″>(link removed) may keep your healthy. The original research appeared in Journal of Nutrition, v.138 (9) 1671-76 September 2008. Just what I need an excuse to indulge my love of chocolate.

Library Classes – Tomorrow – Dig In!

Two classes are being offered tomorrow (Wednesday, October 8th). The General Library Systems Class will be held from 9:30 – 11 a.m. at the Isché Library. And Navigating E-Journals Class will be held at the Dental Library from 12 noon to 1 p.m.

Sign up now for either class by calling the Circulation Desk at either the Isché or Dental Libraries (504-568-5550 or 504-941-8158).

Dig Deeper with blogs

October is National Medical Librarians Month. In recognition the library is doing a staff development activity to learn about some of our newer online tools. Here is week 1’s assignment: Dig Deeper with Blogs.

Not library staff & want more info? Send an email to mknapp@lsuhsc.edu

This week we?óÔé¼Ôäóre talking about blogs. Did you know the library has a blog? Clearly you do now as you are reading it! Read on for a background on blogs and other info?óÔé¼?ª
Introduction to blogs
?óÔé¼?ó Definition: BLOG is short for Web log, or an online journal that is frequently updated with news, views or other information.
?óÔé¼?ó For an introduction to blogs, watch this 3 minute video: ?óÔé¼?ôblogs in plain English?óÔé¼?Ø by Common Craft: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKcqge8SvzQ
?óÔé¼?ó You can view our library blog, LSUSHSC LIBRARY NEWS, on the Isch?â?® Library homepage. All library staff can create posts on the blog or leave a comment.

Log in information
Librarians
Username: your lsuhsc email alias (ie: mknapp)
Generic password: [redacted:see staff email]
Library Staff and the General Public
Haven?óÔé¼Ôäót used our blog before? Anyone can create a username & password to comment.

Task for week 1:
?óÔé¼?óAdd a comment answering the question ?óÔé¼?ôWhich tool are you most interested in learning about this month?”

NMLM: Dig Deeper Display