The facilities contract for the new IT Data Center which is taking over part of the 5th floor of the Isché Library has been signed and construction will be starting soon. Unfortunately this means the quiet floor will not be so quiet through Fall 2026. It is our understanding that construction should end every day by 3:30pm.
The Libraries will be closed Saturday, August 30 – Monday, September 1 for the Labor Day Holiday. Both Libraries will reopen at their regular times on Tuesday, September 2.
PubMed will be offline from 6am until 6pm on Saturday, July 26th. The Libraries do have access to MEDLINE through two other Search Systems while PubMed is down.
The old Medical School Library at 1542 Tulane had a high-end paging system installed in the mid 1960s which was donated by the School of Medicine Class of 1963. That system was mover to the Resource Center Building in the summer of 1989 and reinstalled.
For the last year or so, that system has been failing. As of yesterday, a brand new intercom system was installed which will make the Library safer in emergencies and make it clearer to our users when we’re closing. Thank you to Campus Facilities Department for replacing our antique equipment with some actually from this century!
Both the Dental and the Isché Libraries will have Summer Hours for the month of June.
The Dental Library will be open from 8am to 6pm Monday-Thursday, 8am to 5pm on Friday and closed on Saturday and Sunday from June 1 through June 30.
The Isché Library will be open from 7:30am to 9pm Monday-Thursday, 7:30am to 6pm on Friday, 9:30am to 6pm on Saturday and 9:30am to 9pm on Sunday from June 1 though July 31.
Both Libraries will be closed Friday, April 18th – Sunday, April 20th for Easter. The Dental Library will close at 5pm on Thursday, April 17th and the Isché Library will close at 6pm that day. The Libraries will return to regular hours on Monday, April 21st.
The Library is pleased to announce that room 401C on the Gravier side of the building is back in service as a study room which brings the Library up to 9 study rooms. We are hoping to have 3 more rooms that had been repurposed into offices post-Katrina, restored to study room use by the end of the year.
The monitor is not yet installed in this room but should be in the next 2 weeks.
The Libraries will both close at 5pm on Friday, February 28th and remain closed on Saturday, March 1st and Sunday, March 2nd. Both Libraries will be open on Lundi Gras, March 3rd. The Isché Library will be open from 7:30am to 5pm and the Dental Library will be open from 8am to 5pm. Both Libraries will be closed on Mardi Gras Day, March 4th.
The Isché Library will return to regular hours on Wednesday, March 5th and the Dental Library will be open from 8am to 6pm on Wednesday and Thursday, March 5th and 6th before returning to regular hours on Friday, March 7th.
Since getting to the downtown campus will be a challenge this coming weekend, the Isché Library will be closed on Saturday and Sunday, February 8th and 9th. The Library Commons will be available 24/7 as usual to badge holders. Parking in the Roman Street Garage will require a special permit to be acquired in advance.
BUT! We will open the Dental Library on Saturday (Feb. 8, 2025) to accommodate students from 9:30am to 6pm and the Dental Library will remain open from 11:30am to 8pm on Sunday (Feb. 9, 2025) as usual.
The Libraries will return to regular hours on Monday, February 10th.
All LSUHSC campuses are closed on Tuesday, January 21, 2025 because of severe winter weather. Hopefully campus will be open again on Wednesday morning. Stay tuned
And campus is closed until Monday, January 27th. Stay warm, y’all!
We were informed late on Friday, January 24th that the Libraries will be open this weekend their regular hours. What a whirlwind!