During the week of Mardi Gras, the Dental Library will have abbreviated hours:
Sunday 2/10 ?á ?á ?áClosed
Monday 2/11 ?á ?á 8 am – 5 pm
Tuesday 2/12 ?á ?á Closed (Enjoy the parades!)
Wednesday – Friday 2/13-2/15 ?á ?á ?á8 am-5 pm.
Our regular hours will resume on Sunday 2/17
Happy Mardi Gras!
The Isch?® Library will be open regular hours (8 am to 6 pm) on Friday, February 8th. The Library will be open on Saturday and Sunday (February 9th and 10th) for abbreviated hours. Saturday the hours will be 9:30 am to 3 pm and on Sunday the hours will be 12 noon to 5:30 pm. On Lundi Gras, February 11th the?á?áIsch?® Library?áwill be open 8 am to 5 pm and will be closed on Mardi Gras, February 12th. Regular hours will resume on Wednesday, February 13th.
The latest issue of the LibraryÔÇÖs Newsletter has been released. Archives of the newsletter are also available from 1998 to the present.
The Library?áwas?áhearing reports that Windows 8 computers were having difficulty connecting to the LSUHSC-Secure WiFi network. Word today is that the wireless controllers on campus have been updated and the problem should be solved! Contact your local supporter if you continue to have issues.
In America, methods of care for our mentally ill have become intertwined with the politics of universal healthcare, hospital administration, and prevention of violent crime, all of which suffer under an increasingly budget-cut government. This issue is not a new one, however. The Newspaper Clippings Digital Collection of the Isch?® Library shows an emerging pattern: a pattern of need. Hospitals and treatment centers need enough beds for psychiatric patients; hospitals need staff to treat those patients; police officers, clergy, and even the general public need training to assess and assist the mentally ill.
Linkages of mental illness and criminal tendencies also surface. In recent news, LSU psychiatrist Dr. Jose Calderon-Abbo joined the vice presidentÔÇÖs task force on gun violence; he has also partnered up with Tulane public health criminology expert Dr. Peter Scarf to present a paper of similar topic to the House Subcommittee on Crime, terrorism, and Homeland Security at a hearing on The Youth Promise act.
Not only do mental illness and crime sometimes occur simultaneously, but those charged with apprehending the mentally ill are often the same people who apprehend criminals.?á One of our newspaper clippings from 1961, entitled ÔÇ£How Police Can Help Mentally Ill,ÔÇØ addresses the need for officers of the law to be properly trained on how to interact with, assess urgency of treatment for, and detain suspects who appear to be suffering from illness, loss of competency, or loss of sanity.
The clergy are often called upon to assist the mentally ill; one article, ÔÇ£Help of Clergy Asked by Many: Role of Churchmen for Mentally Ill Cited,ÔÇØ explains how the clergy ought to be well versed in tactics to understand and aid their congregations. Examples of tactics used to interact with those in need in the include: a manual from 1954 ÔÇ£How to Recognize and Handle Abnormal PeopleÔÇØ by Robert A. Matthews and Loyd W. Rowland, former director of the Louisiana Association for mental health and former Head of the department of psychiatry and neurology, ?áin addition to a 1960 New Orleans officer training film, ÔÇ£Booked for Safekeeping,ÔÇØ produced by George C. Stoney.
In 1961, the name of the game was “expedite”: complex legislature 
required the approval of a hospital director, an order of commitment signed by the coroner, a psychiatrist, and a responsible party, and approval from a civil judge. Convoluted commitment laws and lack of funding for psychiatric facilities and staff were concerns at this time, but these concerns continue today as the Greater New Orleans area loses beds at Charity Hospital and MandevilleÔÇÖs Southeast Louisiana Hospital.
In the words of Dr. Robert A. Matthews, former head of the department of neuropsychiatry at LSUHSC from 1950-1957, ÔÇ£While we are passing the hat around for money to fight polio, heart disease, cancer, tuberculosis and other maladies, we ought also to be financing some exploration in to the cause and cure of emotional storms and mental defectiveness. We are fast becoming a nation of neurotic people.ÔÇØ
Glimpse of the Past is an ongoing project to promote the Louisiana Digital Library effort. This Month in History will present for your reading pleasure a closer look into a newspaper clipping of note from our Digital Collections and articles relating to the LSU Medical School.
Both the Isch?® and Dental Libraries will be closed on Monday, January 21st in observance of the Martin Luther King, Jr holiday.?á Both Libraries will be open regular hours on Sunday, January 20th (Dental 11:30-8 andIsch?® 1:30-10) and will reopen at 8 am on Tuesday, January 22nd.
The LSU School of Dentistry is currently screening for patients willing to participate in clinical board exams for graduating seniors.?á The dental screenings are free and IF CHOSEN to be a patient for the board exams there will be $50 in compensation. They are looking for people with good overall oral hygiene who may need a small cavity filled or just a general cleaning. In short, if you have a common type of dental needs, nothing fancy or overly involved, feel free to attend one of the screening sessions
For more information, please consult the flyer.
Dr. Cooper, a one-time anatomy Professor at the LSU Medical School, was also well-renowned for his poetry.?á Recognized for his ÔÇ£consistently good work in poetryÔÇØ by a forum of the National Writers Club in 1951 and awarded the position of Louisiana Poet Laureate from 1973-1976, Dr. Cooper is a?ácommon subject of our Newspaper Clippings Digital Collection. Though the Isch?® Library does not own any of his poetry collections, they are available through InterLibrary Loan.
Excerpted below?á is a poem from one of?áhis collections dedicated to a previous ÔÇ£Glimpse of the PastÔÇØ honoree, Dr. Frank N. Low. I would like to?áshare this poem with our new and returning students, who will surely feel the ÔÇ£grindÔÇØ immediately upon returning to classes:
For the new year, we have updated our Library BROCHURE?áwith current information about loan periods, borrowing privileges, Library and Reference hours, Reserve and electronic materials, Interlibrary loan, Library layout, and our available technology.
The brochure includes hyperlinks that will direct you to different areas of our website and will also connect to your Outlook, making it easier for you to contact us.
The LSUHSC Libraries support Dynamed, a point of care database that provides the best available evidence to support clinical decision-making.?á DynaMed is?áa comparable product to UpToDate and much more affordable.
While the?áLSUHSC New Orleans Libraries were never involved in the UpToDate subscription and had no access, we are hearing that it is no longer available from various hospital websites. We suggest you try DynaMed as the alternative.
Would you trust a medicine that’s been under water for a couple of millennia??áAn early edition article (and a link straight to the PDF) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences analyzes tablets found in a sealed container that was part of the material recovered from the a wreck in the Mediterranean sea off the coast of Tuscany in Italy. The abstract for the article states, “The composition and the form of the Pozzino tablets seem to indicate that they were used for ophthalmic purposes.”
The article is certainly generating a lot of press, from Wired to the Smithsonian to the BBC?áto the Washington Post.
Link to the pdf of the article is available to LSUHSC faculty, staff & students. It can be accessed off-campus with a valid LSUHSC library barcode & PIN. You can find more information at our remote access webpage.
Our colleagues at the Matas Library of the Health Sciences, Tulane Univerity uploaded 6 minutes of footage from 1937, filmed by Richard G. Holcombe when he was an intern, of the fifth Charity Hospital’s demolition. It was constructed in 1833 and was in use for over 100 years until the construction of “Big Charity.”
The footage was conserved in 2004 and does not include audio.
On display at the Library during January are eight new faculty publications by LSUHSC-NO researchers. These can be physically viewed in the Reference area (near the?áLibrary elevator), on the third?áfloor 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?áOrleans faculty, 1998 ÔÇô present. Access to this database is available to the public. The database is linked from the Library web page?áhere. This page includes a handy link to a?áPDF?áof the monthly bibliography of display articles. To add your faculty publications, or for questions about this database, contact?áKathy Kerdolff.
LSUHSC-NO authors are shown in bold print:
1.?áGarbee DD, Paige JT, Bonanno LS, Rusnak VV, Barrier KM, Kozmenko LS, Yu Q, Cefalu JE, Nelson TK.?á”Effectiveness of teamwork and communication education using an interprofessional high- fidelity human patient simulation critical care code.” Journal of Nursing Education & Practice. 2013; 3(3): 1-12.
2.?áEllis Jr. GS, Pritchard CH, Baham L, Babiuch A.?á”Medial rectus surgery for convergence excess esotropia with an accommodative component: A comparison of augmented recession, slanted recession, and recession with posterior fixation.” American Orthoptic Journal. 2012; 62(1):50-60.
3.?áHe H, Mahnke AH, Doyle S, Fan N, Wang C-, Hall BJ, Tang Y-, Inglis FM, Chen C, Erickson JD.?á”Neurodevelopmental role for VGLUT2 in pyramidal neuron plasticity, dendritic refinement, and in spatial learning.” Journal of Neuroscience. 2012; 32(45):15886-15901.
4.?áIyengar AS, Loupe JM, Miller PJ, Hollenbach AD.?á”Identification of CK2 as the kinase that phosphorylates Pax3 at Ser209 in early myogenic differentiation.” Biochemical & Biophysical Research Communications. 2012; 428(1):24-30.
5.?áKelly BL, Singh G, Aiyar A.?á”Molecular and cellular characterization of an AT-hook protein from leishmania.” PLoS One. 2011; 6(6):e21412 (1-14).
6.?áPacifici M, Peruzzi F.?á”Isolation and culture of rat embryonic neural cells: A quick protocol.” Journal of Visualized Experiments. 2012; (63):e3965 (1-5).
7.?áRosenkrantz AB, Deng FM, Kim S, Lim RP, Hindman N, Mussi TC, Spieler B, Oaks J, Babb JS, Melamed J, Taneja SS. “Prostate cancer: Multiparametric MRI for index lesion localization–a multiple-reader study.”?áAJR – American Journal of Roentgenology. 2012; 199(4):830-837.
8.?áSingh S, Yosypiv IV, Iorember FM.?á”Disseminated mycobacterium avium complex infection in a pediatric renal transplant recipient.”?áClinical Pediatrics. 2012; 51(9):892-895.
Last week, MedlinePlus, the National Library of Medicine and National Institute of Health’s consumer health database, published the top 10 most?ávisited health topic searches?áof 2012:
Looking at these searches, it would seem that the public are?ásearching for information on?áthe most common health?áthreats in the?áUnited States.?á?áAccording to the Mayo Clinic, the top seven threats to women’s health are?áheart disease, cancer, stroke, chronic lower respiratory diseases, Alzheimer’s disease, accidents, and type 2 diabetes. The top seven threats to men’s health are similar:?áheart disease, cancer, accidents, chronic lower respiratory diseases, stroke, type 2 diabetes, and suicide.
Of course the most visited sites could also mean that people who were diagnosed with high blood pressure and diabetes started exercising?ábut they had trouble breathing, had heart palpitations,?ágot sunburned, and hurt their backs!
When William C. Von Glahn retired from the Pathology Department in 1957, he donated his collection of historical portraits of famous scientists and doctors to the LSU School of Medicine. The Library received the collection in 1985 and has just recently begun a major project to conserve the images.
The first step in conservation is to unframe the images so that old acidic materials will not damage the portraits going forward. Much to our surprise we discovered 1930s era newspapers used to “stuff” the frames, including a 1935 issue of the New York Journal with a large headline announcing that Huey Long had died and part of a Daily Mirror from 1939 touting the 4th World Series win for the New York Yankees.
 New York Journal 1935 |
 Daily Mirror 1939 |
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