7th Annual Health and Wellness Event 11/6

Today,?áWednesday November 6th,?áis officially the 7th Annual Health and Wellness Event!?á

From: 10:00 am – 2:00 pm

Location: 3rd floor of the Medical Education Building (across from the cafeteria)

It’s AcWriMo 2013!

Inspired by the hugely successful NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), PhD2Published, a blog dedicated to helping academics publish, has announced that November is also AcWriMo (Academic Writing Month).

AcWriMo is a month long academic write-a-thon for academics at all stages of their careers. ?áPhD2Published will support writers with dedicated posts about academic writing and thousands of Tweets to encourage you to keep going throughout the month.

According to their website:

“There are 6 basic rules:

1. Decide on your goal. You might count words, hours put in or projects achieved ÔÇô itÔÇÖs up to you. But try and push yourself a bit. (And if you need help counting our?áPhDometer app?áÔÇô the proceeds from which help fund this month-long writing extravaganza ÔÇô was designed for just that!)

2. Declare it! Basically, just sign up on the?áAcWriMo 2013 Writing Accountability Spreadsheet?áand fill in the sections on what youÔÇÖd like to achieve by the end of the month. Being accountable is key to this working for you. You need to feel a bit of pressure to get the work done. So sign up and add your goals as soon as you can.

3. Draft a strategy. DonÔÇÖt start AcWriMo without doing a bit of planning and preparation. Get some reading done, carve out time slots in your schedule to dedicate to writing, even buy your favorite coffee. Sort out whatever youÔÇÖll need to write, and get it done now, there wonÔÇÖt be time when November comes around.

4. Discuss your progress. OK so being on Twitter and Facebook with us all day isn’t acceptable ÔÇô you’ve got work to do ÔÇô but checking-in at certain times is really important! We want to know how youÔÇÖre getting on? What is working for you and what isn’t? Do you need help? Do you want to share a writing triumph? (YouÔÇÖll find most discussion about AcWriMo on Twitter using the?á#AcWriMo?áhashtag, but if?áFacebook?áis more your thing, go there. Or use your own blog to keep in touch. You can even write little updates you want to share in the?áspreadsheet.)

5. DonÔÇÖt slack off. As participant Bettina said of the first AcWriMo, you must ÔÇÿwrite like thereÔÇÖs no December!ÔÇÖ If you push yourself, youÔÇÖll quickly discover the tips and techniques that work best for YOU and thatÔÇÖll save you even more time in the long-run.

6. Declare your results. ItÔÇÖs great to use the spreadsheet everyday (or as often as you can) to chart how youÔÇÖre getting on, but even if you canÔÇÖt do that, you MUST announce your results at the end of the month. Our writing community benefits not only from sharing in your achievements, but knowing what didn’t work and being reminded that, at the end of the day, weÔÇÖre all human!”

So everyone should go forth and WRITE… That’s what I’ll be doing this month!

Scanning on 3rd Floor Copier at Ische

The Isch?® Library’s new 3rd floor copier has a feature that allows you to scan to a flash drive or an sd memory card; the instructions for using this service are posted on the machine and it is free.

Library Scares up a Ghoulish Display for Halloween

In observance of the upcoming holiday, the Library has scared up a Halloween-

inspired book display. The breadth of these materials shows how historically and culturally societies have drawn links between magic, folklore, and the medical field.

Books from our collection include:

Murder, Magic, and Medicine

Psychoanalysis and the Occult

Medical Man and the Witch during the Renaissance

CoronerÔÇÖs Journal: Stalking Death in Louisiana

Bats of America

From Witchcraft to World Health

Etruscan Magic & Occult Remedies

The Other World: Spiritualism and Psychical Research in England

The History of Magic

The Discoverie of Witchcraft

andTrick or Treatment: How and When Psychotherapy Fails.

Journal articles highlighted in the display were found via PubMed and can be accessed by LSUHSC students, faculty, and staff:

“Health, Hygiene and Haunted Houses”

“Not Just a Vampire Repellant: The Adverse Effects of Garlic Supplements in Surgery”

“Becoming a Vampire Without Being Bitten: The Narrative Collection-Assimilation Hypothesis”

“Scaring the Monster Away: What Children Know about Managing Fears of Real and Imaginary Monsters”

“Lycanthropy as a Culture-Bound Syndrome: A Case Report and Review of the Literature”

The Library will be open during its normal hours this week, so come by and take a look at the spooky things we’ve found!

Testing, Testing: PubMed Commons Community Forum

PubMed Commons, a new forum community created for online collaboration for ÔÇ£constructive criticism and discussion of scientific issues,ÔÇØ has introduced a pilot version.

During its closed pilot phase, PubMed Commons will be allowing accounts using approved email addresses from PubMed authors to participate. ?áNIH or Wellcome Trust grant recipients can also join and invite others to join. You can test whether you have access here http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedcommons/join/. Users will also need a My NCBI account.

Find answers to frequently asked questions on this page: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedcommons/faq/.

More Street Closures this Friday (Oct. 18th)

From Facilities Services:

Friday morning, October 18, from 7:00 am through 2:00 pm, 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 paving in the intersection.

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!