Library News

Labor Day Hours

Both the Isché and Dental Libraries will be closed on Monday, September 7th in observance of the Labor Day holiday. In addition, the Isché Library will be closed on Sunday, September 6th.

Libraries open regular hours Thursday, Aug 27

Both Libraries are open their regular hours today, Thursday, August 27, 2020.

The Isché Library will close at 8pm and the Dental Library will close at 5pm.

Library Closure – Hurricane Laura

*Edit* Both Libraries reopened at 8am on 8/27/2020

The Libraries will close at 3pm today (8/26/2020) in advance of Hurricane Laura. We hope to reopen at 8am tomorrow morning.

Campus Closure 8/24/2020 – Hurricane Marco

*edit* Libraries and both campuses reopened at 8am on Tuesday, August 25th for badgeholders only.

The LSUHSC Libraries and the LSUHSC campuses will be closed on Monday, August 24th in advance of Hurricane Marco. We hope to reopen both locations at 8am on Tuesday, weather permitting.

2020-2021 List for Diversity & Inclusivity Book Club

In support of the Diversity & Inclusivity Book Club, the Library has electronic copies of all 2020-2021 reading list materials:

August 2020 – Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates

September 2020 – Disability Visibility: first-person stories from the Twenty-first century, edited by Alice Wong

October 2020 – Pushout: the criminalization of Black girls in schools, by Monique W. Morris

November 2020 – The New Trail of Tears: how Washington is destroying American Indians, by Naomi Schaefer Riley

December 2020 – Our Women on the Ground: essays by Arab women reporting from the Arab world, edited by Zahra Hankir

January 2021 – Food in Cuba: the pursuit of a decent meal, by Hanna Garth

February 2021 – Data Feminism, by Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein

March 2021 – Solito, Solita: crossing borders with youth refugees from Central America, edited by Steven Mayers and Jonathan Freedman

April 2021 – Medical Apartheid: the dark history of medical experimentation on Black Americans from colonial times to the present, by Harriet A. Washington

May 2021 – The Stonewall Reader, from the New York Public Library

The first meeting is August 19th, 2020 at 12PM via Zoom: https://lsuhsc.zoom.us/j/95020137085
Meeting ID: 950 2013 7085

For more information, please email Hasheemah Afaneh at hafane@lsuhsc.edu.

New AAP Ebooks

The Library has renewed the American Academy of Pediatrics ebooks database and added 18 new ebooks to our collection.

Pediatric mental health: a compendium of AAP clinical practice guidelines and policies.

AAP Healthy development and well-child support chart

Nelson’s pediatric antimicrobial therapy 2020

Questions from NeoReviews: a study guide for neonatal-perinatal medicine

The new baby blueprint: caring for you and your little one

Berkowitz’s pediatrics: a primary care approach

Adolescent health: a compendium of AAP clinical practice guidelines and policies

Injury and violence prevention: a compendium of AAP clinical practice guidelines and policies

Pediatric clinical practice guidelines & policies: a compendium of evidence-based research for pediatric practice

Pediatric otolaryngology for primary care

Building resilience in children and teens: giving kids roots and wings

Managing behavioral issues in child care and schools: a quick reference guide

Challenging cases in pediatric cardiology

Pediatric coding basics: an introduction to medical coding

Co-parenting through separation and divorce: putting your children first

Pediatric plastic and reconstructive surgery for primary care

Newborn and infant nutrition: a clinical decision support chart

Medications in pediatrics: a compendium of AAP clinical practice guidelines and policies

The database from American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) contains over 200 ebooks and includes a wide range of pediatric topics, from dermatology to parenting.  There are coding manuals and ebooks on practice management, as well as patient guidelines for new parents.  There are even a few titles in Spanish.

You can browse the database or search by topic or title.  The titles can also be accessed through the Library catalog.  And we also have access to the AAP database of neonatal resuscitation ebooks.

New EBooks Added

The Library has added a collection of new ebooks. These culturally and socially relevant titles are provided through the LOUIS Library Network and the ProjectMuse Evidence Based Selection program.
The titles are:

The hidden curriculum in health professional education

Disease diplomacy: international norms and global health security

Diseases of poverty: epidemiology, infectious diseases, and modern plagues

Improving access to HIV care: lessons from five U.S. sites

Curriculum development for medical education: a six-step approach

America’s healthcare transformation: strategies and innovations

Psychological and psychoeducational assessment of children and adolescents who are deaf and hard of hearing

Weathering Katrina: culture and recovery among Vietnamese Americans

Delivered by midwives: African American midwifery in the twentieth-century South

Promoting positive transition outcomes: effective planning for deaf and hard of hearing young adults

If you click on a title it will take you to our catalog listing and give you more information as well as a link to the ebook.

We hope you will find something that interests you.

ClinicalKey Renewed!

The Library is happy to announce the renewal of ClinicalKey with generous funding from the School of Medicine! We are pleased to be able to continue to offer this extensive package of current and vital health sciences resources for another year. This database provides electronic access to over 1,000 books, nearly 700 journals, and a clinical search engine covering more than 30 specialties.

Every month, ClinicalKey adds new ebooks or editions to the collection.  The most recent additions include:

Clinical Chemistry (Marshall) 9th ed.

Clinical Naturopathy (Sarris) 3rd ed.

Cummings Otolaryngology: Head and Neck Surgery (Flint) 7th ed.

Drug-Induced Ocular Side Effects (Fraunfelder) 8th ed.

Endodontics: Principles and Practice (Torabinejad) 6th ed.

Ferri’s Clinical Advisor 2021 (Ferri) 1st ed.

Handbook of Local Anesthesia (Malamed.) 7th ed.

Kumar and Clark’s Clinical Medicine (Feather 10th ed.

Moore’s Vascular and Endovascular Surgery (Moore) 9th ed.

Muscle Biopsy (Dubowitz) 5th ed.

Nunn and Lumb’s Applied Respiratory Physiology (Lumb) 9th ed.

Pain Care Essentials and Innovations (Pangarkar) 1st ed.

Robbins & Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease (Kumar) 10th ed.

Spine Secrets (Devlin) 3rd ed.

Textbook of Natural Medicine (Pizzorno) 5th ed.

Valvular Heart Disease: A Companion to Braunwald’s Heart Disease (Otto) 5th ed.

Weir & Abrahams’ Imaging Atlas of Human Anatomy (Spratt) 6th ed.

You can access ClinicalKey through the Library’s website, list of databases, and library catalog, INNOPAC.

August Faculty Publications

A new selection of articles have been added to the Faculty Publications display in the Ische Library. These eight articles, as well as all of the articles in our Faculty Publications database, are authored by at least one member of our research community here at LSUHSC-New Orleans. Each month the Library is proud to present copies of eight of these publications in a rotating display of 16. With the currently changes, we’ve decided to post the publications digitally. Check out the display below:

Publications cited in the Faculty Publications database are harvested weekly from a variety of sources, such as PubMed, SCOPUS, and CINAHL, to name a few. In addition to articles they include books, book chapters, papers, editorials, letters to the editor, and meeting abstracts, all authored by at least one member of the LSUHSC-NO community. The database is maintained by Reference Librarian Kathy Kerdolff and is available to the general public here or via the Library’s webpage. For a PDF of a bibliography of this month’s additions,click here. If you have an article you would like us to highlight or if you have any questions regarding the display or the database, you can contact Kathy Kerdolff.

July Faculty Publications

A new selection of articles have been added to the Faculty Publications display in the Ische Library. These eight articles, as well as all of the articles in our Faculty Publications database, are authored by at least one member of our research community here at LSUHSC-New Orleans. Each month the Library is proud to present copies of eight of these publications in a rotating display of 16. With the currently changes, we’ve decided to post the publications digitally. Check out the display below:

Publications cited in the Faculty Publications database are harvested weekly from a variety of sources, such as PubMed, SCOPUS, and CINAHL, to name a few. In addition to articles they include books, book chapters, papers, editorials, letters to the editor, and meeting abstracts, all authored by at least one member of the LSUHSC-NO community. The database is maintained by Reference Librarian Kathy Kerdolff and is available to the general public here or via the Library’s webpage. For a PDF of a bibliography of this month’s additions,click here. If you have an article you would like us to highlight or if you have any questions regarding the display or the database, you can contact Kathy Kerdolff.

July 4th Weekend Hours

The Isché Library will close at 6pm on Thursday, July 2nd and will be closed Friday, July 3rd through Sunday, July 5th.

The Dental Library continues to be open Monday-Thursday from 8am to 2pm.

Both Libraries will reopen at 8am on Monday, July 6th.

Ische Library Expanding Hours

Beginning Monday, June 15th, the Isché Library will be open from 8am to 8pm Monday-Thursday, 8am to 6pm on Friday, 9:30am to 6pm on Saturday, and 11:30am to 8pm on Sunday. These hours will be maintained throughout phase 2 of the campus reopening.

Please note that all both the downtown and Dental campuses are still limited to badge holders, except for clinics.

June Faculty Publications

A new selection of articles have been added to the Faculty Publications display in the Ische Library. These eight articles, as well as all of the articles in our Faculty Publications database, are authored by at least one member of our research community here at LSUHSC-New Orleans. Each month the Library is proud to present copies of eight of these publications in a rotating display of 16. With the currently changes, we’ve decided to post the publications digitally. Check out the display below:

Publications cited in the Faculty Publications database are harvested weekly from a variety of sources, such as PubMed, SCOPUS, and CINAHL, to name a few. In addition to articles they include books, book chapters, papers, editorials, letters to the editor, and meeting abstracts, all authored by at least one member of the LSUHSC-NO community. The database is maintained by Reference Librarian Kathy Kerdolff and is available to the general public here or via the Library’s webpage. For a PDF of a bibliography of this month’s additions,click here. If you have an article you would like us to highlight or if you have any questions regarding the display or the database, you can contact Kathy Kerdolff.

Ische Library Closed 6/7-8/2020

*Updated: The campus is closed on Monday, June 8th

Due to TS Cristobal, the Ische Library will be closed on Sunday, June 7, 2020. Both Libraries will reopen on Monday, June 8th at 8am.

ClinicalKey EBooks Updates for May 2020

New eBooks have been added by ClinicalKey to our collection. Some of these are new editions and some are new to the list.

Baxter’s The Foot and Ankle in Sport (Porter, David A.) 3rd ed; New edition

Harriet Lane Handbook, The (The Johns Hopkins Hospital) 22nd ed; New edition

Image-Guided Interventions (Mauro, Matthew A.) 3rd ed; New edition

Park’s Pediatric Cardiology for Practitioners (Park, Myung K.) 7th ed; New edition

Proton Therapy (Frank, Steven J.) 1st ed; New to CK

For the new editions, previous editions are usually still available for the next few months. The following are ebooks that have been removed, with ClinicalKey’s recommended alternatives.

Early Diagnosis and Treatment of Cancer: Breast Cancer, 1st ed. Title discontinued. Recommended alternative – The Breast: Comprehensive Management of Benign and Malignant Diseases

 Early Diagnosis and Treatment of Cancer: Colorectal Cancer, 1st ed. Title discontinued. Recommended alternative – Colorectal Surgery: A Companion to Specialist Surgical Practice

Essential Applications of Musculoskeletal Ultrasound in Rheumatology, 1st ed. Title discontinued. Recommended alternative – Fundamentals of Musculoskeletal Ultrasound

High-Yield Orthopaedics, 1st ed. Title discontinued. Recommended alternative – Orthopedic Secrets

Obstetrics and Gynecology: A Competency-Based Companion, 1st ed. Title discontinued. Recommended alternative – Essential Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Primer of Arthroscopy, 1st ed. Title discontinued. Recommended alternative – Campbell’s Core Orthopaedic Procedures

Teaching Files: Pediatrics, The, 1st ed. Title discontinued. Recommended alternative – Caffey’s Pediatric Diagnostic Imaging