Insurance finding tool and oil spill video conference for health care professionals

A couple of small pieces of news from the internet today.

The US Department of Health and Human Services now provides a web tool for finding health insurance.  Check out this nifty new widget they created:

If you'd like the code for this widget and others, you can find it here.

Also newsworthy, there will be a statewide video conference for nurses, physicians, partners and stakeholders titled "Gulf Oil Spill 2010: Public Health Aspects" on Monday, August 30th starting at 1:30pm.  More information is available from this .pdf.  The speaker will be LuAnn White, the director of the Tulane Center for Applied Environmental Health (CAEPH), Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine.

With thanks to the Poynter Legislative Research Library for forwarding the links.

Films @ the Library

The College Library Films @ the Library! Presents the film, Four Rooms.

This Films @ the Library showing will take place this Thursday, August 26 at 7:15. The main College Library is located at 5329 Didesse Drive.

Twice a month, the Library will showcase films that are edgy, artsy, educational, indy, animation, anime, or just good stories. Popcorn and soft drinks will be available.

See you at the movie!

Green Libraries across the Atlantic

The British Library

The British Library received the 2010 London Green 500 Platinum award for reducing carbon emissions significantly.  The Platinum award is given right after the Gold award, which the library received in 2009.

This award was given as a result of the library's program of energy efficient lighting upgrades.  Highlights of this project include:

• Kings Library Tower LED lighting project, reducing CO2 emissions by 50%
• St Pancras public areas LED feature lighting project including the installation of 459 metres of LED linear lighting resulting in a reduction of power consumption from 50 W to 4.8 W per metre
• External St Pancras LED lighting projects including the installation of LEDs across external areas of the Library such as the Piazza and Poet’s Circle
• ‘Half Hourly; electricity and gas meter project’ to measure amount and times of usage at the Library’s site in Boston Spa, Yorkshire

As the national library of the United Kingdom, the British Library is home to a collection of over 150 million items collected over 250 years of history.
From the blog of Peter Scott.

Films @ The Library

The College Library Films @ the Library! Presents the Ang Lee film Eat Drink Man Woman.

This Films @ the Library showing will take place this Thursday, August 12 at 7:15. The main College Library is located at 5329 Didesse Drive.

Twice a month, the Library will showcase films that are edgy, artsy, educational, indy, animation, anime, or just good stories. Popcorn and soft drinks will be available.

See you at the movie!

Updates to LOUIS Funding Webpage

As has been recently mentioned here on the Library Blog, our electronic resources are in grave peril.  The Board of Regents has cut LOUIS funding by $2.7 million.  After discussing the negative effects of the cuts $500,000 was granted to carry the consortium for 2 months.  The LALINC Executive Committee met on July 19 to make decisions on how to proceed.

As it turns out, LALINC members voted almost unanimously to pay the difference in funding so that most services can be continued.  However, some of the electronic resources will not be kept.  The list follows.

WebFeat / 360 Search - expires Sept. 30, 2010 SPORTDiscus (EBSCOhost(r)) - expires August 31, 2010 OED Online - Oxford English Dictionary (Oxford University Press) - expires August 31, 2010 CQ Global Researcher - expires December 31, 2010 WorldBook Online -- expires August 31, 2010 International Political Science Abstracts (IPSA) (EBSCOhost(r)) - expires August 31, 2010

 In other news, the LOUIS web page has been updated to become more user friendly.  The help of students has been very influential in these discussions, so please make note of the contact information provided on that page and repeated here to let your elected officials know that you use and need to use LOUIS electronic resources.

LOUIS on Facebook, Save LOUIS Facebook page, LA House of Representatives, LA Senate, Board of Regents, and Governor Bobby Jindal.