Maintenance will require that the power will be out in the Resource Center Building on Saturday, June 4th from 6 am to 9 am. The Library Commons will be closed during this time. The Isché Library plans to open for it’s normal hours from 9:30 am to 6 pm.
Hurricane Season begins today; the 2011 season is predicted to be above normal according to the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
Make sure to familiarize yourself the universityÔÇÖs Weather Related Emergency Procedures (ChancellorÔÇÖs Memo 51). And let’s hope we don’t have to use it.
Since the Centers for Disease Control is often featured in popular movies and books about deadly outbreaks, their emergency preparedness blog has created a post for the most deadly of emergencies, the Zombie Apocalypse.
We’d like to think the CDC was partially inspired by the 2006 Zombrarian visit to our campus.
An upgrade to the Libraries’ catalog, INNOPAC, was pushed through this morning. Some pages will look different, but functionality should remain the same. Please let Library Staff know if you have any problems.
Chancellor Hollier sent out the following email on Thursday, May 12th, announcing street closures on Claiborne Ave. adjacent to the downtown campus.
The movie, 21 Jump Street, is being filmed near our campus and will require street closure and restrictions on our campus beginning at 7:00 a.m. and lasting until 11:00 p.m. on Friday, May 13 as follows:
(1) S. Claiborne Street will be closed at the 500 Block, at the Perdido intersection – traffic will be diverted up or down Poydras Street;
(2) Parking will be restricted at the 500 Block of S. Claiborne Ave (North side), the 400 and 500 Blocks of S. Roman Street (both sides), the 500 Block of Bolivar Street (both sides), and the 1900 Block of Perdido Street (both sides);
(3) Pedestrian traffic in this area will be maintained;
(4) The New Orleans Police Department will be on site to provide intermittent traffic control.
The production company apologizes for the inconvenience caused by the filming.
I wanted you to be aware so you can plan alternate routes to avoid delays and congestion. Thank you for your patience and accommodation of this major economic development enterprise for our City and State.
Thirty years ago today, Bob Marley died from a melanoma that metastasized and spread from his toe to his brain, liver, and lungs. Despite projects like Melanoma Monday and the National Melanoma Awareness Project, mortality from Melanoma is on the increase. And judging by the number of BAD sunburns I saw out at Jazz Fest, people are still not being careful about sun exposure.
The American Medical Association‘s news section (amednews.com) has released a slide show of historic (and contemporary) photos which illustrate the changing attitude to cadaver study in anatomy labs.
I must admit, I would have been creeped out to receive the Christmas card (slide 4) from the cadaver lab.
| From the Civil War to the first manned space flight, April 12th is a busy day. |  |
LSUHSC Libraries owns a few books on the medical implications of space flight. All are cataloged under the subjects Space Flight or Aerospace Medicine. All the books in our collection are between 50 and 20 years old, as this isn’t a popular area for monographs.
My personal favorite:
America’s astronauts and their indestructible spirit by Fred Kelly with a foreward by Buzz Aldrin. Published 1986, the author was a former NASA physician and a 1951 alum of the LSU Medical School.
Today is the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the American Civil War. The war is significant to the history of medicine because of the advances made in medicine during the conflict.
Also of significance are the institutions which were founded in the Civil War’s aftermath: the National Institutes of Health, the National Library of Medicine, and the Index Catalogue of the Surgeon-General’s Office, the pre-cursor to the modern MEDLINE.
The National Library of Medicine offers a couple of Civil War exhibits:
Life and Limb: The Toll of the American Civil War (2011)
Binding Wounds, Pushing Boundaries: African Americans in Civil War Medicine (2010)
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Diagnosaurus is a popular differential diagnostic tool with a catchy name. LSUHSC users have multiple access points to search its content: |
The Libraries’ blog is 4 years old today, born 3/29/2007. Entries have been made by 20 different members of the Library staff (out of a total of 22 at both Isché and Dental). We are up to about 900 posts with 53 categories and 79 tags.
The traditional gifts in the US are linen or silk; the modern gift is electrical appliances; while the Libraries are not in need of linen, silk or appliances, we will always accept donations to our acquisitions fund. Contact our Head of Collection Development for more information.
The deadline for registering for the 2011 Tiger Run is fast approaching; registration ends on March 27th. The race is scheduled for Sunday, April 3rd starting at 8:30 a.m in Audubon Park. The race benefits the Student-Run Homeless Clinics and other student-organized community projects.
This year’s race is also a memorial for Nicole Murphy, a medical student who died in an accident at the World Cup in 2010.
A new article which is available online before print from Radiology analyzes the differences between an XRay machine from 1896 (found in a Dutch hospital’s storage area) and modern equipment. Wired has a great article on the research.
| The National Library of Medicine turns 175 this year. The Library began in 1836 as the library of the US Surgeon General. Today it is the largest biomedical library in the world.
NLM was created as part of the Public Health Service, but it was transferred to the National Institutes of Health in 1968. As part of the anniversary celebration, NLM is challenging the public to create a short video on NLM & You! The deadline is March 31st & the top prize is $1000. Check out the webpage created for this milestone. |
Remember the grant that the Libraries received last summer? The Aristides Agramonte Yellow Fever Collection is now available via the Louisiana Digital Library. This collection provides access over 130 full text historic books and journal articles dating from the 1790s to about 1930; the titles revolve around the epidemiology and pathology of yellow fever.
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