Yesterday another milestone was reached in the completion of the Library Commons. “The Conquest of Yellow Fever” frieze by Enrique Alferez was mounted in a specially prepared wall. (Specially prepared because the frieze weighs about 2 tons.)
Conquest of Yellow Fever frieze by Enrique Alferez
The frieze originally hung on the 2nd floor of the original School of Medicine building and was completed sometime before 1933. The frieze was removed from the wall at 1542 Tulane Avenue in 1987 when a proposed drop ceiling would have covered it; the sculpture’s champion was former LSUHSC Libraries Director Judith Caruthers. Sometime before it’s removal it was accidentally painted institutional green (prior to 1961) covering the original aluminum coating (over plaster). It was stored in the Library (both at 1542 and at the then new Resource Center Library, now John P. Isché Library). It was sent to a conservator for restoration in 1999.
Alferez frieze pre-restoration
The conservator will complete the restoration now that the piece is in place. The frieze will be beautiful addition to the Library Commons.
The Isché Library’s Internal Elevator will be taken out of service on Monday, December 22nd. It will be completely overhauled and will be put back in service sometime in January. The internal stairwell will be available for accessing the 4th & 5th floors. For patrons who are unable to use the stairs, check with the Circulation Desk staff for other options.
At the same time elevators #1 & 2 for the Resource Center will be taken out of service. So access to the Library will switch back to elevators #3 & 4 (closest to Tulane Ave).
Wandering around Learningradiology.com today, I stumbled across “22 Must-See Diagnoses for Medical Students“. It’s a great review if you have 12 minutes to brush up on your radiology skills.
LearningRadiology.com has a ton of multimedia radiology resources, from interactive quizzes, and cases of the week. There’s also video podcasts available to download to your iPhone or mobile device too.
Have a favorite radiology site? Post here, and we’ll add it our radiology links page.
A North Carolina State University engineering professor has come up with theories on how Santa Claus can travel around the entire world in a single night (“exploit the space-time continuum”), how he carries all those presents in his sleigh (nanotechnology), and how he makes his list of naughty & nice children (antennas & radar).
The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene concluded their 57th annual meeting in New Orleans this week. Since Louisiana is the home for the Hansen’s Disease Center, it only makes sense that the subject of leprosy might come up. The fact that the disease is considered biblical rather than contemporary was discussed at the meeting this week; mis-diagnosis is a frequent problem which, of course, hampers treatment. The article emphasizes that we do not have an epidemic.
Consider buying your grandparent video games. Health Day recently released a report font size=”-1″>(link removed) about a December article in Psychology & Aging which stated that playing video games can boost the cognitive ability of older brains. The research wasn’t even funded by the gaming industry.
But maybe Grandpa isn’t really ready for GTA or Halo.
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!
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