September’s Diversity and Inclusivity Book Club Pick: Diversity Visibility

“I am living in a time where disabled people are more visible than ever before. And yet while representation is exciting and important, it is not enough. I want and expect more. We all should expect more. We all deserve more.” – Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century

This month the Diversity and Inclusivity Book Club, hosted by the School of Public Health’s Diversity and Inclusivity Committee, discussed Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century edited by Alice Wong as its September read.

Disability Visibility  is a collection of essays by disabled people, written in part for the 30th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Disability Visibility provides readers a chance to hear a wide-range of first-hand stories about living with disabilities in the modern era.

Although the discussion may have ended, your access to Diversity Visibility hasn’t. The library provides access to an eBook version through EBSCO, with a limit to one user at a time.

For more about the Diversity and Inclusivity Book Club, including information on next month’s Book Club pick and meeting time, visit the Committee’s page on the School of Public Health Website or email sphdiversity@lsuhsc.edu.

Campus Closure 9/15/2020 – Hurricane Sally

LSUHSC New Orleans campuses (both downtown and Dental) will be closed tomorrow, Tuesday September 15th, in advance of Hurricane Sally.

Additionally the Isché Library will close at 6pm this evening.

We hope to reopen on Wednesday, September 16th at 8am at both Libraries.

Dental Library closed Sept. 9th

Due to a water outage at the School of Dentistry campus, the Dental Library is closed for the remainder of the day, September 9, 2020.

The Isché Medical Library on the Downtown campus is open its usual hours for today until 8pm. If you wish to come to the Downtown campus, please remember you will need your LSUHSC-NO i.d. to enter any buildings.

Library staff are available to assist you.

Access to Isché Library 9/5/2020

Due to construction work on campus, the Isché Library will be accessible from the 1st floor entrance to the Resource Center Building only. An LSUHSC ID badge is necessary to enter.

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.

Links to textbooks for nursing programs

We are aware that some students are having trouble accessing textbooks from links provided in their syllabus. The links go to an old system for off campus access and they will not work.

Any link that starts with http://0- is affected. Also, if the links do not begin https://ezproxy you will have trouble accessing the book off campus.

Some links also require a certain format for them to work. If you are given a link to a ClinicalKey book that does not have “dura/browse” anywhere in it, then it will also not work correctly regardless of whether you are on campus or off campus.

These are the correct links for some of the textbooks we know you are trying to access:

If you have trouble accessing any textbooks, please contact us.

If you are an instructor, we are more than happy to look over any links you have in a syllabus or are posting in Moodle. Again, please don’t hesitate to contact us so we can ensure students can get to their required materials.

E-mail log in for resources now working

UPDATE: The problem with using e-mail to log in to Library resources appears to have been fixed. However, if you run into any trouble, you can always use one of the alternate log in methods described below.

We are currently experiencing issues with the system that allows you to log in to Library resources using your e-mail. This problem also affects web mail.

All connections through Citrix appear to be working fine at the moment.

If you have a Library barcode and PIN, you can use that to log in by clicking on the green bar when you get to this screen:

Screenshot of log in screen

You can also log in here using your LSUHSC-NO user i.d. (everything before the @lsuhsc.edu in your e-mail address) and your current password.

If you need any help with this or any other Library resources, please contact us.

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.

PubMed e-mail workaround

If you follow the Library’s link to PubMed and then want to e-mail citations, you will see an error message that will not allow you to proceed:

Screenshot of PubMed e-mail error

This is caused by the reCAPTCHA that is now required to send e-mails from PubMed not working nicely with our EZproxy system. Unfortunately, there are no plans for PubMed to make changes that will allow this functionality to work correctly when using a link to PubMed that goes through EZproxy.

If you want to e-mail articles from PubMed, you can go directly to https://pubmed.gov, perform your search, and then e-mail the articles with no problem. Unfortunately, you will lose some of the features our link to PubMed offers, such as turning on our WebBridge LR Link Resolver to check for the availability of articles in all citations in PubMed.

However, if you use the e-mail function frequently and are therefore going to PubMed directly, there are a couple of options that will help you regain some of these features lost by not using our link.

First, if you use Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Brave, or Vivaldi browsers, you can install the LibKey Nomad extension that makes getting to the full text of articles super easy in PubMed. Check out our LibKey Nomad LibGuide for more information.

Second, you can sign up for a My NCBI account. Once you have done this, there is a setting you can change that will turn on our WebBridge LR Link Resolver icons in PubMed. More information about this setting and a video walkthrough is available on our WebBridge LR Link Resolver LibGuide.

If you need help with this or any other Library resources, please contact us.

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.

LibKey Nomad available for Firefox

LibKey Nomad logo

We have some great news for all Firefox users: the LibKey Nomad extension that makes using PubMed simple and getting articles a breeze is now available for Firefox!

LibKey Nomad brings the Library’s online subscriptions to you by enhancing PubMed, Scopus, and Web of Science, along with many other sources. It’s easy to link to the full text of journal articles with this extension by your side.

Firefox now joins Chrome, Edge, Vivaldi, and Brave in the family of LibKey Nomad-compatible browsers. We have a LibGuide that walks you through installing and configuring the extension along with showing off some of its features.

You can download the Firefox Add-On here. We also have a video that walks you through installing and configuring this helpful tool.

If you have any questions about this or any other Library resources, contact us. We’re always ready to help!

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.