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- Holiday Hours for Independence Day Weekend
Open Friday, July 3 from 7:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Closed Saturday, July 4
Open Sunday, July 5 from 1:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. (normal hours)
- Library Resources in the Electronic Health Record
Invision/Net Access users can now access knowledge-based information at the point of care to assist
in making clinical decisions. Links to the library resources shown here were recently incorporated
into the electronic health record. Access to healthelinks was provided for patient education.
- KTBS LifeLink
KTBS 3 television station’s web site has made a connection to the library’s healthelinks
consumer health database on its
LifeLink
page. To find healthelinks, scroll down the right side
to the HEALTH LINKS box.
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 The
library’s consumer health web site, healthelinks, now has a section just
for kids. As part of a grant-sponsored
outreach program, library staff members have selected sites with health information and health-related
games targeted to children and created a section for them within healthelinks. In conjunction with
this project, the first in a series of story hours for children will be held at the Wallette Branch of the
Shreve Memorial Library on June 24th at 10:00 a.m. featuring the fun rhymes of Tish Rabe’s
Oh, the Things You Can Do That Are Good for You!
- Health Literacy Out Loud Podcasts Available
The Library has a new addition to its podcast list: Health Literacy Out Loud (HLOL).
One of the May 2009 podcasts, HLOL #16,
features LSUHSC-S professor Terry Davis, Ph.D.,
in an interview with Helen Osborne on patients taking "baby steps" (action planning).
- Turning the Pages
Thanks to digitization, you can now view beautiful, historic books at the National Library of Medicine
through its Turning the Pages project. These books from the 1400s to 1600s have been added to the LSUHSC-S
Library’s online catalog and to its e-books collection
under History of Medicine. The newest addition is
Hieronymus Brunschwig’s
Liber de Arte Distillandi,
printed in Strasbourg in 1512, a practical manual on
chemical, alchemical, and distillation devices and techniques used to manufacture drug therapies. It
includes instructions on how to distill aqua vitae, potable gold, artificial and natural balsams and
how to use distillates to treat illnesses in surgical cases. The technology allows you to actually
"turn the page" with a click of the mouse.
- AAMC’s MedEdPORTAL 2.0 – Teaching Tools for Faculty
MedEdPORTAL 2.0
is a free, online peer-reviewed publication service provided by AAMC to promote
educational collaboration by facilitating open exchange of peer-reviewed teaching resources such
as tutorials, virtual patients, simulation cases, lab guides, videos, podcasts and assessment tools.
Registration for a MedEdPORTAL user account is free, easy and quick to complete.
Examples of what is available:
 A Simulation-Based Curriculum For 4th Year Medical Students During An
Internal Medicine Acting Internship
Cultural Sensitivity in OB/GYN: the Ultimate Patient-Centered Care
- Medical Library Hosts Tobacco Ad Exhibit from Stanford
 The
LSUHSC-S Medical Library is hosting a traveling exhibit of tobacco advertisements from the 1920s to the
1950s. Robert K. Jackler, MD, the Sewall Professor and Chair of the Department of Otolaryngology at Stanford
University, and his wife Laurie, an artist, teamed with Robert N. Proctor, PhD., a Professor in the Department
of History at Stanford, to create this exhibit to demonstrate the deception used by the tobacco industry’s
marketing campaign.
 This
traveling exhibit consists of several hundred reproductions of the original ads. Some ads feature medical
professionals recommending particular cigarette brands as "less irritating," others include celebrities and
athletes to glamorize smoking, and some incorporate children and cartoon characters to encourage smoking at
an early age. Also on display are a few original posters and interesting artifacts, such as medicinal cigarettes
for asthmatics. Steve Bolten, a local antique collector, has loaned the Medical Library vintage cigarette lighters
and metal signs advertising various cigarette brands to supplement the traveling exhibit.
 This
exhibit debuted at Stanford University in January 2007. Since then, it has been on display at such places
as the University of California at San Francisco, Harvard Medical School, and the New York Public Library. An online
exhibit featuring these ads is available here.
For more information, please contact Marianne Comegys at 675-5449, Dee Jones at 675-5458, or Deidra Woodson at 675-5679.
- New Acquisitions
Review a listing of the new books that the library has acquired.
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