Jennifer Lloyd

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.

Dental Library is Open!

The Dental Library has re-opened! The Library has been closed to the public since mid-August for HVAC & ceiling work.
The Dental Library hours are:
Sunday 11:30 am – 8 pm
Monday – Thursday 8 am – 8 pm
Friday 8 am – 5 pm
Saturday Closed

INNOPAC

INNOPAC, the LibrariesÔÇÖ Online Catalog, will be down this afternoon for up to 2 hours for a scheduled systems upgrade. Thanks for you patience.

*Edit* @ 5:10 pm – the upgrade did not complete. Completion/downtime may occur on Thursday, Dec. 8th in the morning.

*Edit* @ 7:30 pm – the upgrade has been postponed due to hardware issues.

Dental Library to Re-Open

The Dental Library will re-open on Sunday, December 11th! The Dental Library hours will be:
Sunday 11:30 am – 8 pm
Monday – Thursday 8 am – 8 pm
Friday 8 am – 5 pm
Saturday Closed