Disaster Recovery Resources

While the ‘Nagin special‘ may have been a not-so-funny joke to Ike evacuees, these links to disaster recovery resources provide a variety of information for those affected by Hurricane Ike. To our friends in the Houston area (not to mention those locally affected) we wish you a speedy recovery!

American Red Cross – Open shelters & resources
Houston area: http://www.houstonredcross.org/
Baton Rouge Area: http://batonrouge.redcross.org/

City of Houston eGovernment Center
www.houstontx.gov
Links and phone numbers for local emergency information from the City of Houston.

FEMA.gov – Hurricane Ike Information and Resources
http://www.fema.gov/hazard/hurricane/2008/ike/index.shtm
News releases and FEMA progress.
See if your area is a designated county and apply for FEMA assistance:
For Louisiana Residents
For Texas Residents

EMERGENCY.louisiana.gov
http://emergency.louisiana.gov/
Press releases from Louisiana State Government, parish updates, Operation Blue Roof, disaster food stamps, supply distribution centers, road openings & closings, business recovery and more.

Houston Chronicle Home Page
http://www.chron.com/
Neighborhood reports, school & business openings, news, information, photos and multi-media from the Houston area newspaper.

Where’s the Power on? Houston Area (Houston Chronicle)
http://www.chron.com/databases/ikepower.html
Interactive map of Houston area shows where power is on.

Hurricane Ike Information from the New Orleans Times-Picayune
http://www.nola.com/hurricane-ike/
News on Ike from New Orleans’ regional newspaper

Hurricane Ike Consumer Resource Page – Texas Department of Insurance
http://www.tdi.state.tx.us/consumer/storms/cpmhurrike.html
Variety of links and information on insurance providers and disaster assistance for consumers.

Hurricane Ike Resources Blog
http://hurricaneikeresources.org/
Up to date response and relief info. Browse news by parish, state or county. Excellent scope of information for all states effected by the storm.

Louisiana Library Status Blog
http://prepare.lib.la.us/blog/
Tracking the status of libraries in Louisiana in the event of an emergency.

NN/LM Disaster Preparedness
http://nnlm.gov/ep/
Disaster Resources from the South Central region.
Library Updates: http://nnlm.gov/scr/blog/?p=684

Official Site of the City of Galveston
http://www.cityofgalveston.org/
Galveston Conditions Post-Hurricane Ike, what to do if your structure is damaged, reporting damage, etc.

Texas Department of Transportation
http://www.txdot.gov/travel/hurricane.htm
Road conditions and updates.

Texas Responds
http://www.texasresponds.org/Joom/
State of Texas portal for cash or resource donations and registry for volunteer efforts.

Closing at 2pm today

The library will close at 2pm today.

We expect to be open regular hours tomorrow, weather permitting:
Saturday hours: 9:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.

LSUHSC Emergency Notices

Library Newsletter Fall Issue Available

The latest issue of the Library?óÔé¼Ôäós Newsletter has been released. Archives of the newsletter are also available from 1998 to the present. Articles include:

Off-Campus Access Available

Off Campus Access to the catalog is available once again. Thanks for your patience.

Students! Get published in Public Health Reports

Interested in publishing? The Association of Schools of Public Health recently announced that it will begin a peer-reviewed Student Column in the Public Health Reports journal.

Potential submitters may be current students, current fellows, or recent graduates (within two years) of CEPH-accredited schools of public health. ASPH also seeks student reviewers for the column. For more information, visit www.publichealthreports.org.

E-Links are Working On-Campus

The Electronic Links in the catalog, INNOPAC, are working on-campus only. We are still working on off-campus access

E-Links in Catalog Not Working

Most of the E-Journal & E-Book Links in the catalog are still not working today. We are working with our support team to get the links working again. We hope to have them back up by mid-day today.

Off Campus Access Is Down

Off-campus access library resources using your library barcode & password is currently down. Some journals and databases may be unavailable off campus while we address this problem.

In the meantime, you can access the following Intranet resources using your LSUHSC username & password. (Don’t forget to add lsumc-master\ before your username.)

Micromedex: https://intranet.lsuhsc.edu/micromedex/
Ovid: http://ovid.lsuhsc.edu/
PubMed (free version – limited full text): http://www.pubmed.gov

For urgent article or research requests, please email reference@lsuhsc.edu. Your request will be handled by tomorrow morning.

Thanks for your patience while we sort this out!

INNOPAC is Back

Maintenance is complete.

INNOPAC down

The libraries’ online catalog will be down for the next 2 hours for scheduled maintenance. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Catalog Scheduled Downtime TODAY!

Innopac, the Libraries’ Online Catalog, will be down for sheduled maintenance from about 3 until 5 p.m. today. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Have the Walls Moved?

It’s not your imagination. The temporary plywood wall at the Isché Library has moved back about 3 feet. Progress is being made on the Library Commons.

Debunking Autism theory

An editorial in the New York Times today points to a new case-control study that attempts to replicate the controversial Wakefield study on autism, which in 1998 drew an inferential link between the MMR vaccine, gastrointestinal problems found in many autistic children and autism.

The new study, conducted by researchers from Columbia University, Massachusetts General Hospital and the CDC, tried and failed to replicate the earlier findings. The new study, published in PLoS One, is freely available on the web: http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0003140

We’re open! Welcome back.

The library, along with the rest of campus, resumes normal operations today, Monday September 8th.

Regular Library Hours
Monday – Thursday
8 a.m. to 12 midnight
Friday
8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Saturday
9:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Sunday
1:30 p.m. to 12 midnight

Closed ’til Monday

The library along with the rest of LSUHSC New Orleans Campus will be closed until Monday September 8th at the earliest. Be careful out there!

Off campus library instructions and video.

More campus updates here: http://www.lsuhsc.edu/emergency/