News

Holiday Hours (8/25/2008)
The library will be closed Monday, September 1st, for Labor Day. Regular hours will resume on September 2nd.

LaRHIX Provides DynaMed (8/18/2008)
LSUHSC-S faculty, staff, and students now have access to DynaMed, a point-of-care database that provides clinically organized summaries of almost 3000 topics. This access was made possible through funding from t he Louisiana Rural Health Information Exchange (LaRHIX), a network formed by the Louisiana Rural Hospital Coalition and LSUHSC-S to support Louisiana 's health information technology initiatives in rural areas. LSUHSC-S hosts and technically supports many aspects of the LaRHIX network and also serves as the tertiary care site for LaRHIX's rural hospitals.

LaRHIX Executive Director Donald E. Hines, M.D., collaborated with the LSUHSC-S Medical Library to provide access to DynaMed for LSUHSC-S, E.A. Conway Medical Center in Monroe , and Huey P. Long Hospital in Pineville, as well as the forty-one LaRHIX member hospitals. Access will also be available for LSUHSC-S alumni soon.

E-books in the Library (8/12/2008)
Did you know that the library has over 500 electronic books? You can access a list of the library’s e-books by clicking on the E-books link in the “Resources” section of this page. The list is arranged by subject, but if you are looking for a specific title, click on the “List e-books by title” button for an alphabetical list.

Art in the Library (8/11/2008)
The Medical Library is pleased to showcase the photographic art of Ron E. Mills, a Shreveport artist with a perspective uniquely his own. His photographs of nature, animals, architecture, and people reveal the individual beauty and personality of each subject. Inspired by God’s creativity, Ron is eager to share his work with as many people as possible. Sharing this excitement is what keeps him searching for ordinary things to present in an un-ordinary way. Ron has been producing these unique photographs for the past three years and his work hangs in private collections and galleries throughout the South and the Northeast. Ron’s show, consisting of 35 distinctive images, will be on display through September 24th. More of his work can be seen on his website www.oddityvisuals.com.

New displays in the Medical Library (8/4/2008)
The Shreveport Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1873
Medical fiction
Doctors’ bags from the 1950s
Turn-of-the-century pharmaceutical compounds

What do these four items have in common? They are topics of new displays in the Medical Library. Spend a few minutes during your next library visit to learn some medical history. Can you spot the skull signed by the members of the first Medical School graduating class?

NIH Public Access Policy (8/1/2008)
Effective April 7, 2008, all published papers funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) must be deposited in PubMed Central, a free online archive of full-text biomedical journal articles, upon acceptance for publication. Confused or concerned? The Library can help! For more information about complying with the policy, go to the Library's NIH Public Access Policy page. If you have questions, please call the Library's Head of User Education, Donna Timm (ext. 5-5474). ursday, July 10th.