Library News

Ische Library Closed – Saturday 9/15/18

The Ische Library will be closed on Saturday, September 15, 2018 for AC maintenance. There will be no air conditioning in the building from 6am to 8pm. The Library Commons maybe closed (or really hot) during this outage.

Sundays at 10 – Downtown!

The Isché Library is extending its Sunday hours beginning September 9th. The downtown library will now be open from 10 am to 12 midnight for the rest of the semester. The extension is in response to students’ requests but it is a pilot. If the hours are not used, we may switch back to our noon opening.

Libraries Closing 9/4 @ 5pm

The Libraries will be closed at 5pm today due to Tropical Storm Gordon.

For additional information regarding the campus wide closure, please visit  LSUHSC’s  emergency webpage.

September Faculty Publications

A new selection of articles has 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.

1.  Brand B, Somers D, Wittenberg B, Gautreaux J, Deputy S. Diplopia with dural fibrotic thickening. Semin Pediatr Neurol. 2018;2683-87.
2. Gidday JM. Adaptive plasticity in the retina: Protection against acute injury and neurodegenerative disease by conditioning stimuli. Conditioning Medicine. 2018;1(2):85-97.
3. Givens V, Brent K, Dunham M, Kanotra SP. Cricopharyngeal achalasia associated with laryngomalacia as a cause of failure to thrive. J Laryngol Otol. 2018;1-4.
4. Mehta PK, Easter SR, Potter J, Castleberry N, Schulkin J, Robinson JN. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender health: Obstetrician-gynecologists’ training, attitudes, knowledge, and practice. J Womens Health (Larchmt). 2018;.
5. Richard EB, Hamer D, Musso MW, Short T, O’Neal HR,Jr. Variability in management of patients with SJS/TEN: A survey of burn unit directors. J Burn Care Res. 2018;39(4):585-592.
6. Sims JN, Yedjou CG, Abugri D, Payton M, Turner T, Miele L, Tchounwou PB. Racial disparities and preventive measures to renal cell carcinoma. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2018;15(6):10.3390/ijerph15061089.
7. Wang P. Two distinct approaches for CRISPR-Cas9-mediated gene editing in cryptococcus neoformans and related species. mSphere. 2018;3(3):1-9.
8. Zygourakis CC, DiGiorgio AM, Crutcher CL,2nd, Safaee M, Nicholls FH, Ore CD, Ahmed AK, Deviren V, Ames CP. The safety and efficacy of CT-guided, fluoroscopy-free vertebroplasty in adult spinal deformity surgery. World Neurosurg. 2018;116e944-e950.

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.

Please come to the Library and view these recent publications by our research community.

Labor Day Hours

Both Libraries will be closed Sunday, September 2nd and Monday, September 3rd for the Labor Day holiday. The Isché Library will be open on Saturday, September 1st regular hours from 9:30-6.

Both Libraries will reopen Monday, September 4th; the Dental Library opens at 8am and the Isché Library opens at 7:30am.

Breakfast in the Isché Library- Wednesday, August 22!

From 7:30 to 9:30 AM on Wednesday, August 22, the Isché Library would like to invite new and returning students to breakfast!

Stop by the Library Commons for pastries and coffee and a chance to chat with the librarians and library staff.

Happy fall semester!

ProQuest Maintenance This Weekend

Attention Weekend Research Warriors! ProQuest will be taking down their site for product maintenance this weekend. This will affect our access of their database Saturday night beginning at 9pm until Sunday morning at about 5am. Of course these times may vary slightly as with any database maintenance. Hopefully the upgrades will run smoothly and we will be up and running for our Sunday warriors.

The notice from ProQuest:
To maintain the currency and security of ProQuest products, we are performing maintenance on many ProQuest products beginning on August 18, 2018 U.S. Eastern Time.

The following ProQuest products will be temporarily offline:

Research databases

ProQuest platform (search.proquest.com)

Dissertation publishing

ProQuest/UMI ETD Administrator

Reference management/Research support tools

RefWorks

We would like to add our apologies, as well, and hope that your research efforts will not be adversely impacted.

Benumof and Hagberg’s Airway Management new edition available!

Looking for Benumof and Hagberg’s Airway Management? The authors have changed the name on the new edition! Aren’t they collegial taking turns on whose name goes first?  The 2018, 4th edition is now Hagberg and Benumof’s Airway Management, and we have it online through our ClinicalKey subscription. We also have the previous edition (3rd, 2012) online via ScienceDirect and in good ol’ fashioned print.

Ische Library Opens at 7:30am on weekdays

As a pilot project, the Isché Library will open at 7:30am Monday-Friday. We will offer limited services during this extra 30 minutes.

Ische Early Closure 8/3/18

The water in the Resource Center Building will be turned off from 6pm until 11pm on Friday, August 3rd. Because of the lack of plumbing. The Isché Library will close at 6pm.

Library Catalog Being Upgraded 7/31/18

The Library Catalog/INNOPAC is being upgraded tomorrow morning from 9am until 11am.

*Edit* 10am 7/31/18 – and we’re back up an hour early!

ClinicalKey is here!

We are pleased to announce that the library recently subscribed to ClinicalKey, one of Elsevier’s ebook and online journal platforms.  ClinicalKey includes over 1,000 books including some of the most popular and well-known textbooks in health sciences.  Regardless of  your department or program, there is probably a book for you in here!  Below is just a tiny snapshot of titles to pique your interest:

ClinicalKey’s journal collection includes over 650 titles including the famed Clinics (aka Clinics of North America). AND ClinicalKey is also a decision support and point-of-care tool that includes Patient Education, Guidelines, Procedures, and Clinical Overviews. Register for free to create your personalized profile where you can access Continuing Medical Education, save your searches, and create presentations.

Please check it out and familiarize yourself with this amazing resource.  If you need any assistance please contact your Librarian Liaison for further assistance.

Water issues downtown

There is an unexpected water outage on the downtown campus began at 3:45pm because of a Sewerage and Water Board issue. Since the water has not been restored by 5pm, we have closed the library for the evening. We hope it will be restored overnight.

*Edit* Water pressure was restored by 10pm on July 25, 2018.

*Edit* Water pressure issues recurred later afternoon on July 26, 2018.

*Edit* Water pressure issues are still a problem as of 8am July 27, 2018. For now the Library is open, as water pressure is coming and going.

Unlimited Users on All Access Products!

The Libraries are happy to announce that all Access products: AccessMedicine, AccessEmergencyMedicine, AccessNeurology and AccessSurgery. Previously we had a limited number of seats to some of these products which prevented more than a few users at once. The access databases provide books (including core textbooks), journals, testing, multimedia, case studies, patient education and study tools. They are also integrated with AccessMedicine – Case Files Collection, with cases in both basic sciences and clinical rotations.

Independence Day Hours

The Libraries will be closed on the 4th of July.

Additionally the Isché Library will close at 6pm on Tuesday, July 3rd. Otherwise summer hours remain in effect.