Jennifer Lloyd

Library Blog updated

updated page

The software for the library blog was updated last night.?á You’ll notice some differences?áin the layout. The long list of dates is now a dropdown menu with the most recent information first (essential as we come up on our 5th anniversary) and also the broad categories which we use to organize the blog are also in a dropdown menu.

Enjoy & let us know what you think.

Blog downtime

The Library blog will be down beginning around 5 pm today (Thursday, January 26th) for a scheduled upgrade. It should be back up by 7 pm.
*Edit* The blog update was complete by 6 pm. Thanks for your patience.

CDC’s Carnival Advisory

Library Shoebox Float - 2010

Library Shoebox Float - 2010

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have a Carnival Advisory linked from their main webpage at the moment.

A couple of quick points about the page:

  • New Orleans is the 5th listed city for “most popular Carnival celebrations” after Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Nice, France; Venice, Italy; and Quebec, Canada. I’ll give them Rio & Venice, but really Nice & Quebec have more popular celebrations than we do?
  • “Most people participate in Carnival and Mardi Gras to have fun, but these festivities are also associated with certain health risks, primarily from crime, unsafe food, excessive drinking, risky sex, and heat-related illness.” I don’t think this year we’ll have any heat related illness but you never know with our crazy weather.
  • And, of course, the advisory is written for travelers, not carnival natives/locals who know how to prepare and what to expect.
  • Foundation Building to Begin

    City Business reported yesterday that the LSU Health Foundation building (just north of the Resource Center Building) is set to begin construction soon. It will be construction site number 3 visible from the downtown Library’s windows.

    McDonough 11 Move

    The first move of McDonough 11 was completed to make way for the new University Medical Center.

    Orleans Shoring (who is contracted to move the structure) just released a video of the move.

    Pretty cool.

    MLK, Jr Day Hours

    Both the Isché & Dental Libraries will be closed on Monday, January 16th in observance of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday. Both libraries will be open their regular hours on Sunday (1:30 – 10 pm for Isché and 11:30 am – 8 pm for Dental). And will reopen at 8 am on Tuesday, January 17th.

    Health Resource Guides from City Health Dept

    The New Orleans Health Department has issued a new Health Resource Guide entitled a Guide to Behavioral Health Resources in the Greater New Orleans Area which “provides information on accessing mental health and substance abuse resources in the Greater New Orleans area.” This new guide is in addition to A Guide to No or Low Pay Community Healthcare in Orleans Parish which was released in August 2011. Both brochures are available from the Health Department webpage as PDF downloads.

    Geaux Tigers!

    LSUHSC New Orleans (which includes the Libraries) will be closing down at noon on Monday, January 9th, in honor of the LSU Tigers playing in the BCS Championship in the Superdome.
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    Possible INNOPAC downtime

    INNOPAC may be down for a short time today due to routine system maintenance between 10 am and 2 pm.

    Tumor Registry 1st Place in Data Quality

    The Louisiana Tumor Registry has been awarded 1st Place Data Quality Profile Award from the National Cancer Institute’s SEER program. The Louisiana Tumor Registry has been under the auspice of LSUHSC-NO since 1995; it has been a SEER program since 2001.

    Libraries are Closed until 2012

    The Dental and Isché Libraries are now closed until January 3rd at 8 am.

    Have a happy holiday!

    Dental Campus data/phone lines

    The Dental Campus has been experiencing an outage of telephone & data lines since this morning. AT&T estimates the repair time as between 3-4 this afternoon.
    *Edit* Service was restored at 2:30 pm.

    Ische Library Closing @ 6

    Reminder: Monday through Friday, December 19th -23rd, the Isché Library will close at 6 pm.

    Dental Library – Winter Break Hours

    The Dental Library will be open from 8 am to 5 pm on Wednesday and Thursday, December 21st and 22nd, and from 8 am to 4:30 pm on Friday, December 23rd. Regular hours (8 am to 8 pm) will be observed on Monday and Tuesday, December 19th and 20th.

    Winter Break Hours – Isch?® Library

    During the semester break (and before the University closes for Christmas/New Year’s) the Isché Library will have shortened hours.
    Sunday, December 18th 11:30 am – 8 pm
    Monday, December 19th through Friday, December 23rd 8 am – 6 pm.

    Closed Saturday, December 24th – Monday, January 2nd.