Library Photocopiers – PayPaw Only

The photocopiers in the Isch?® and Dental Libraries can no longer accept cash. They will only work with PayPaw from now on.?á This change was authorized by the managing department, Auxiliary Enterprises.

Street Closures This Weekend

Here are this weekend’s street closures as reported by Associate Vice Chancellor John Ball:

“From Friday morning, October 11, at 7:00 am through Monday evening, October 14, South Roman Street will be closed at Gravier Street.?á Access to and from the Roman St. Garage will only be available from Tulane Avenue.?á No one will be able to enter the intersection of South Roman Street and Gravier Street during this closure.?á The street is being closed by the Sewerage & Water Board to facilitate sewer repairs and paving in the intersection.

Thank you for your patience.”

New Issue of the Library Bulletin

The latest issue of the LibraryÔÇÖs Newsletter has been released. Archives of the newsletter are also available from 1998 to the present.

Upcoming “Introduction to RefWorks” Class

Are you searching for a better way to manage your resources and have no idea where to start? We have the solution for you!

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October’s LSUHSC-NO Research Highlights

There is a new offering of eight recent articles by LSUHSC-NO researchers to be spotlighted by the Library in October. These are currently on display in the Reference area (near the Library elevator), on the third floor of the Resource Center Building. These items are also part of the LibraryÔÇÖs Faculty Publications Database.

The Faculty Publications Database includes publications authored by at least one member of the LSUHSC-New Orleans faculty, 1998 ÔÇô present. Access to this database is available to the public.

The database is linked from the Library web page here. This page includes a handy link to a PDF of the monthly bibliography of display articles. To add your faculty publications, or for questions about this database, contact Kathy Kerdolff.

LSUHSC-NO authors are shown in bold print:

1. Garbee DD, Paige J, Barrier K, Kozmenko V, Kozmenko L, Zamjahn J, Bonanno L, Cefalu J. “Interprofessional teamwork among students in simulated codes: a quasi-experimental study.” Nursing Education Perspectives. 2013; 34(5):339-344.
2. Harch P. “Hyperbaric oxygen therapy for post-concussion syndrome: contradictory conclusions from a study mischaracterized as sham-controlled.” Journal of Neurotrauma. 2013; epub ahead of print.
3. Johnston DA, Yano J, Fidel PL, Eberle KE, Palmer GE. “Engineering candida albicans to secrete a host immunomodulatory factor.” FEMS Microbiology Letters. 2013; 346(2):131-139.
4. Buccola NG, with the Cross-Disorder Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium. ÔÇ£Genetic relationship between five psychiatric disorders estimated from genome-wide SNPs.” Nature Genetics. 2013; 45(9):984-994.
5. McGoey RR, Cheek B, Jain N, Newman WP. “Acute onset of extreme shortness of breath.” Journal of the Louisiana State Medical Society. 2013; 165(3):175-177.
6. Ruiz M, Armstrong M, Ogboukiri T, Anwar D. “Patterns of pain medication use during last months of life in HIV-infected populations: the experience of an academic outpatient clinic.” American Journal Hospice & Palliative Medicine. 2013; epub ahead of print.
7. Walvekar S, Johnson JL, Jetly R, Kauffman E, deBoisblanc BP. “Clinical Case of the Month: A 52-Year-Old Man With Ecchymotic Leg Ulcers.” Journal of The Louisiana State Medical Society. 2013; 165(3): 232-234.
8. Wilk A, Waligorski P, Lassak A, Vashistha H, Lirette D, Tate D, Zea AH, Koochekpour S, Rodriguez P, Meggs LG, Estrada JJ, Ochoa A, Reiss K. “Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons – induced ROS accumulation enhances mutagenic potential of T-antigen from human polyomavirus JC.” Journal of Cellular Physiology. 2013; 228(11): 2127-2138.

Civil War Medicine Exhibit Moves to the Dental Library

The “Binding Wounds, Pushing Boundaries: African Americans in Civil War Medicine” exhibit from the National Library of Medicine has moved to the Dental Library and will be available for viewing ?áuntil October 18.

The Library resources tie-ins are also displayed at the Dental Library. These items include exhibit brochures, circulating books, and excerpts from the Reserve and Reference collections.

Helpful links and educational resources provided by the National Library of Medicine in conjunction with the exhibit include?álesson plans?áfor upper elementary and high school classes, a?áhigher education module?áwith instructor resources,?áonline activities, and a?ábibliography?áof additional readings.

Be sure to stop in and get a taste of history!

Dental Library hours are Sunday: 11:30 am – 8:00 pm,?áMonday through Thursday: 8:00 am – 8:00 pm, and?áFriday: 8:00 am – 5:00 pm. The Library is closed on Saturdays.

Electronic Journals List Renamed

To more accurately reflect the myriad sources available, the Electronic Journals List is now the E-Journals & E-Books A to Z List. When it was introduced as a Library resource in 2008, the majority of titles included were journals, but as more and more types of resources other than journals have made their way onto the list, a new moniker became necessary.

The E-Journals & E-Books A to Z List provides links to many of the journals and books available electronically through Library subscriptions, titles that come via full-text databases like Academic Search Complete, and numerous free journals and books from sites such as Project Gutenberg.

Even though there are tens of thousands of resources available on the list, we are unable to include everything on it so the Library’s Catalog is still a good place to start your search when you need a book or journal.

Momentary Webpage Glitch

We experienced a 15 minute glitch with our main Library webpage. If you are getting error messages when clicking on links from that page. Please refresh your browser (or clear your cache) until you see a date at the bottom of the page of October 3, 2013. That page should work properly.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

Hearing through your teeth?

Recently, a new type of hearing aid was approved for use in Europe. ?áThis new device attaches to a patient’s teeth and conducts sound through the teeth and facial bones.

While this device doesn’t look terribly comfortable for the patient, researchers believe it could open doors to new types of hearing aids. ?áIf you would like more information about the development of this new device, check out these articles.

This new product is a prime example of what interprofessional collaboration in the health sciences can do!

Access Emergency Medicine

Access Emergency is unavailable due to technical difficulties on publisherÔÇÖs site.
We apologize for your inconvenience.

*Access was restored on Friday, October 4th at 11 am *

Library Commons A/V Rooms Available

Want to practice a presentation or share notes with classmates? The Library’s third floor Commons area has flat screen televisions available for use with a laptop.

Stop by the library’s circulation desk and check out the cables and instructions needed to get connected, rooms are available on a first-come?Ø basis.

Library Talk on 1930s New Orleans Medicine

Former journalist Martha Holoubek Fitzgerald, author of The Courtship of Two Doctors: A 1930s Love Story of Letters, Hope & Healing, will discuss ÔÇ£Charity the Beautiful and Hen Medics: An InsiderÔÇÖs Look at 1930s New Orleans MedicineÔÇØ at an upcoming event.

LSU Health Sciences Center Library has the book and other related materials in its archives.

When: Saturday September 28 @ 10am

Where: 219 Loyola Ave, New Orleans Public Library

Brought to you by the LSU Medical Alumni Association and the New Orleans Public Library

For more info visit: https://www.lsuhsc.edu/events/docs/FitzgeraldTalk.pdf

Resources tie-in with Traveling Exhibit

The LSU Health Sciences Center Library is currently hosting the traveling National Library of Medicine exhibition ÔÇ£Binding Wounds, Pushing Boundaries: African-Americans in Civil War Medicine.ÔÇØ The exhibit will be at the John P. Isch?® Library from September 16-October 4 and at the Dental Library from October 7-18.

In conjunction with the exhibit, the Isch?® Library has assembled a collection of resources in our collection that are directly related to the subject of African-American nurses and physicians’ work during the 1860s in the War Between the States, as well as several that address minorities in the health sciences, and general works on Civil War medicine. These are currently on display in the Reference area (near the?áLibrary elevator), on the third?áfloor of the Resource Center Building. These materials include:

Stacks (Circulating) Collection Items:

1. Bleeding Blue & Gray: Civil War surgery & the evolution of American medicine. E 621 R93b 2005
2. A Century of Black Surgeons: the U.S.A. experience (2 vols). WZ 112 Or2c 1987
3. Civil War Medicine. E 621 B79c
4. Civil War Nursing. WY 11AA1 C49 1984
5. Doctors in Blue: the medical history of the Union Army in the Civil War. E 621 Ad2d
6. Doctors in Gray: the Confederate medical service. E 621 C917
7. Early Black American Leaders in Nursing: architects for integration & equality. WZ 112 D29e 1999
8. Minority Nurses in the New Century. WY 16 B29 2009
9. Negroes & Medicine. WZ 80 R27n

Reserves Collection Items Excerpts:

1. A History of American Nursing: trends & eras. WY 11 J88h 2013
2. Nursing: the finest art. WY 11 D71nu 2010
3. Pages from Nursing History: a collection of original articles from the pages of Nursing Outlook, the American Journal of Nursing, & Nursing Research. WY 11 P14 1984

Reference Collection Item Excerpt:

• Historical Encyclopedia of Nursing. WY 13 Sn5h 1999

Several individuals highlighted in the traveling exhibit are profiled in the supporting display:

1. Dr. Anderson Ruffin Abbott: surgeon, Union officer, politician, author (1837-1913)
2. Dr. Alexander T. Augusta: surgeon, Union officer, activist, professor (1825-1890)
3. Dr. John Van Surly DeGrasse: military surgeon, activist (1825-1868)
4. Dr. William P. Powell, Jr: military surgeon (1834-1915)
5. Jill L. Newmark: exhibit curator from the National Library of Medicine
6. Ann Bradford Stokes: military nurse, former slave (1830-1903)
7. Susie King Taylor: military nurse, teacher, author, former slave (1848-1912)
8. Harriet Tubman: military nurse, Union spy, activist, former slave (c1820-1913)

The website for the exhibit is located here, which has detailed information and links provided by the National Library of Medicine.

Scirus shutting down

Scirus, Elsevier’s free search engine, will be shutting down in January 2014. In a message to users, they stated no more content will be added starting immediately.

We will keep the links active for the WebBridge Link Resolver until Scirus is completely discontinued.

Library Hosts Fascinating Exhibit on Civil War Medicine

The LSU Health Sciences Center Library is proud to announce that we will be hosting the traveling National Library of Medicine exhibition “Binding Wounds, Pushing Boundaries: African Americans in Civil War Medicine.” The display will be set up in the Library Commons until October 4, after which it will move to the Dental Library until October 18.

While African Americans were generally untrained and untested in the medical field at that time, as many hands as could be found were necessary to accommodate the influx of ailing and wounded on the battlefield and in hospitals. African Americans were “hired” or compelled into the medical field as hospital attendants, nurses, surgeons, and staff members in manufacturing laboratories. Many admirable leaders emerged as a result: Charles Burleigh Purvis, Susie King Taylor, Anderson R. Abbott, Alexander T. Augusta, and Harriet Tubman.

Helpful links and educational resources provided by the National Library of Medicine in conjunction with the exhibit include lesson plans for upper elementary and high school classes, a higher education module with instructor resources, online activities, and a bibliography of additional readings.

Library resources that will complement further study of African American roles in the Civil War for both the Union and the Confederacy are listed below. Reference Librarians (available Monday to Thursday from 8am to 8pm, and Friday 8am to 4pm) will be happy to assist with research as well.

Our supplementary materials cover a number of texts: The Paths We Tread: Blacks in Nursing Worldwide, Louisiana in the Confederacy, Doctors in Gray: The Confederate Medical Service, Doctors in Blue: The Medical History of the Union Army in the Civil War, and The Plain Peoples of the Confederacy. Library patrons may also browse our list of E-Resources, a compilation of links to databases and other online resources like African American Firsts in Science and Technology and African American Soldiers in the Civil War and Colors of Courage: Gettysburg’s Forgotten History: Immigrants, Women & African Americans in the Civil War.

The exhibit will be at the John P. Isch?® Library from September 16-October 4 and at the Dental Library from October 7-18, so be sure to stop in!