Welcome Back!

Welcome back for the fall semester! I hope you've all had an excellent first week of class and are looking forward to the second. Here at the library we've got great things planned for next week - the most newsworthy of which is the return of the food trucks!

Starting next week we're going to start inviting a different food truck to come serve lunch in the Library Commons parking lot. The first week is already all set and planned, so prepare to save your parking space and not have to wander elsewhere for lunch next Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. :)

The schedule so far:
Tuesday 8/30 - Southern Dawgs at 11:00am (This is the same food truck that was serving lunch this Thursday. If you loved your hot dog, do come back and try another.)
Wednesday 8/31 - Taco de Paco at 11:30am
Thursday 9/1 - Curbside at 11:00am

For up-to-the-minute schedule information and updates, follow us on twitter: Follow @LibraryLunch

That's all the news for now! I hope you have an excellent start to your semester. :)

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.

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.

Good news for visual learners!

If you really need to see information to understand it the National Library of Medicine is sending out help just for you.  This may be exactly the help you need to get through those summer courses.

MedlinePlus now includes a collection of animated anatomy videos as part of the A.D.A.M. Medical Encyclopedia. These 78 new videos show the anatomy of body parts and organ systems and how diseases and conditions affect them. To see a complete list of the videos, please visit the new English and Spanish anatomy videos pages. You can also find links to the videos in encyclopedia articles and MedlinePlus health topic pages.

Forwarded from NLM.

NEW National Library of Medicine page on Crude Oil Spills and Human Health

Forwarded from NLM:

A new page of links to information on "Crude Oil Spills and Human Health" is now available at http://disasterinfo.nlm.nih.gov/dimrc/oilspills.html.

The page has links to information on how the United States responds to oil spills, state agencies in the Gulf region that respond to spills, occupational hazards for professionals and volunteers assisting with clean-up, seafood safety and more. The links under "Featured Sites" focus on the latest updates about the recent spill and subsequent controlled burning of crude oil in the Gulf of Mexico. The spill followed the explosion and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon Mobile Offshore Drilling Unit oil platform 50 miles southeast of the Mississippi Delta on April 20, 2010.

Please send your comments and suggestions about additional health information content to tehip@teh.nlm.nih.gov. This information is compiled by the Disaster Information Management Research Center, Specialized Information Services, US National Library of Medicine.

With thanks to the LSU Library and Information Science Listserv.

Pronunciation guides!

MedlinePlus adds audio pronunciations to dictionary!
Have you ever read a medical word and wondered how to pronounce it? Do your customers ask you for help pronouncing medical words? MedlinePlus can help!

The MedlinePlus medical dictionary now includes audio pronunciations. Learn how to say words like ptosis, Sjogren's and fibrillation. Search the medical dictionary on MedlinePlus. Then click on the red speaker icon next to your word to hear the pronunciation.

If you have any questions or comments about this new feature, please send them to the MedlinePlus team via the contact form on MedlinePlus.

New & Improved MedlinePlus E-mail Update Service

The National Library of Medicine is pleased to announce that MedlinePlus now offers a new e-mail subscription service to make it easier for you to stay up to date on the health topics that matter most to you. With this new service, you can subscribe to any or all of the over 800 health topics on MedlinePlus, over 770 topics on MedlinePlus en espanol, and a variety of other health-related e-mail lists in English and Spanish.

To subscribe to health topics that are of interest to you, visit the MedlinePlus subscription options pages for MedlinePlus and MedlinePlus en espanol. Whenever MedlinePlus adds new information on a topic page to which you are subscribed, you will receive an e-mail alert to notify you of the new materials. You can also sign up by visiting a MedlinePlus topic page and entering your e-mail address in the box beneath the summary.

With this new service, you now have the ability to customize your e-mails based upon your particular interests. If you are already subscribed to one or more of the MedlinePlus announcement lists, you will receive an e-mail with more information on how you will be transferred over into the new service.

If you have any questions or comments about this new service, please contact MedlinePlus. Please visit MedlinePlus for more information on e-mail updates.

Just Announced: NLM “Bookshelf” Web Site Adds National Academies Reports

More than 70 reports by the National Academies are available online at the National Library of Medicine’s Bookshelf. The Academies collection will continue to grow, both as new reports are published and as NLM processes older reports dating back to 1995.
The reports include workshop summaries, as well as formal reports, that were funded by NIH and produced by the four organizations that comprise the National Academies: the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council.

The reports are produced under a contract between NIH and the National Academies that allows National Institutes of Health to issue task orders to fund Academy activities to support the NIH mission. The contract enables NIH and the Academies to address pressing policy concerns, emerging health issues, and scientific opportunities, and to post resulting reports on the Bookshelf.

In order to provide the reports quickly, NLM initially makes the reports available in PDF format. As soon as possible, NLM makes available a final online HTML version of each report, with active links for references, glossary words, and other resources.
Source: NLM press release 2/2/2010

LSU's Middleton Library Celebrates 50 Years

A celebration marking 50 years of Library service was held October 23, at the Troy H. Middleton Library at Louisiana State University. When dedicated October 29, 1959 the Library opened with air-conditioning and open stacks where patrons could help themselves to the book collection. The library was officially named the General Troy H. Middleton Library being named after a World War I veteran, World War II war hero, three-star general, and President of LSU.

Library Director, Jennifer Cargill

Library Director Jennifer Cargill hosted a reception marking the occasion and special exhibits were featured including a list of the 50 best books of the last 50 years, a Banned Books exhibit, and an exhibit featuring photos of when the Library was initially built.

Seventh Annual Louisiana Book Festival

Legions of book lovers came together Saturday to discuss and promote literature at the seventh annual Louisiana Book Festival.Engaged festival-goers and 190 authors participated in panel discussions and conversations in the chambers and committee rooms of the Louisiana Capitol Building, a part of the festival that makes it unique, said Rebecca Hamilton, assistant secretary for the office of the state library.

Tim Gautreaux, the Morgan City native received the 2009 Louisiana Writer Award.

About 500 volunteers, many of whom are associated with the University’s School of Library and Information Science, put on the festival and keep events working.Students in the LIS program organize a group to volunteer at the festival every year, said Beth Paskoff, dean of the School of Library and Information Science.“Students work in many different areas of the festival,” Paskoff said. “It gives them an opportunity to see what kinds of things they may be doing in the future and meet people who may be their colleagues someday.”Suzanne Stauffer, assistant LIS professor, said the festival’s central location at the Capitol, state museum and state library adds another meaningful layer to the event.“I don’t know of any other capital where you can have this type of cultural festival literally in the middle of state government,” Stauffer said.

JSTOR Updates!

Moving Wall Reductions
By publisher request, JSTOR is decreasing the moving wall of the following journals from 5 years to 3 years.

Journal of Mammalogy (Biological Sciences; Life Sciences)

http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=jmammalogy

Release Content:Vol. 85, No. 1 (February, 2004) - Vol. 86, No. 6 (December, 2005)

Moving Wall: 3 years

Publisher: Allen Press on behalf of American Society of Mammalogists

ISSN: 0022-2372

Mammalian Species (Biological Sciences; Life Sciences)

http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=mammalianspecies

Release Content:No. 739 (July 13, 2004) - No. 787 (December 20, 2005)

Moving Wall: 3 years

Publisher: American Society of Mammalogists

ISSN: 0076-3519

Multidisciplinary and Discipline-Specific Collections at JSTOR
The following journals have been added to the JSTOR archive. More detailed information about all JSTOR titles and collections, along with delimited lists, can be accessed from JSTOR’s Available Collections page.

Journal of the Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science [1978- ] (Biological Sciences; Life Sciences)http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=jariznevaacadsci

Previous Title: Journal of the Arizona Academy of Science [1959-1977] (0004-1378)http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=jarizacadsci

Release Content:Vol. 1, No. 1 (June, 1959) - Vol. 39, No. 2 (2007)

Moving Wall: 1 year

Publisher: Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science

ISSN: 0193-8509

Note: The content for 2004-2006 will be released as soon as the issue becomes available to JSTOR.

Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America (Biological Sciences; Life Sciences)http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=bullecosociamer

Release Content:Vol. 1, No. 1 (January, 1917) - Vol. 83, No. 2 (April, 2002)

Moving Wall: N/A

Publisher: Ecological Society of America

ISSN: 0012-9623

Note: The remaining content for 2002 will be released as soon as the issues become available to JSTOR. Beginning with Vol. 84, No. 1 (2003), this journal has been published online.

Previously Missing Issues
The following previously missing issues have been added to the JSTOR archive.

Folia Geobotanica (Biological Sciences; Life Sciences)

http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=foligeob

Release Content:Vol. 35, Nos. 1-4 (March - December, 2000);Vol. 36, No. 2 (2001) - Vol. 38, No. 4 (December, 2003)

Moving Wall: 5 years

Publisher: Opulus Press AB

ISSN: 1211-9520

In Vitro (Biological Sciences; Life Sciences)

http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=invitro

Release Content:Vol. 2 (1966);Vol. 12, Nos. 1-12 (January-December, 1976);Vol. 16, No. 2 (February, 1980);Vol. 18, Nos. 1-12 (January-December, 1982)

Moving Wall: N/A

Publisher: Society for In Vitro Biology

ISSN: 0073-5655

Note: In Vitro is a previous title to In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology. Animal.

In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology. Animal (Biological Sciences; Life Sciences)http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=invitrcelldeveanim

Release Content:Vol. 32, Nos. 1-10 (January - December, 1996)

Moving Wall: 3 years

Publisher: Society for In Vitro Biology

ISSN: 1071-2690

In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology. Plant (Biological Sciences; Life Sciences)http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=invitrcelldeveplan

Release Content:Vol. 38, Nos. 1, 3-4 (2002)

Moving Wall: 3 years

Publisher: Society for In Vitro Biology

ISSN: 1054-5476

Journal of Avian Biology (Biological Sciences; Life Sciences)

http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=javianbiology

Release Content:Vol. 32, Nos. 1, 4 (2001)

Moving Wall: 7 years

Publisher: Blackwell Publishing on behalf of The Nordic Society

ISSN: 0908-8857

Journal of the Ohio Herpetological Society (Biological Sciences; Life Sciences)http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=johioherpsoci

Release Content:Vol. 2, No. 3 (April 20, 1960) - Vol. 3, No. 1 (February 10, 1961)

Moving Wall: N/A

Publisher: Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles

ISSN: 0473-9868

Note: Journal of the Ohio Herpetological Society is a previous title to Journal of Herpetology.

Mountain Research and Development (Biological Sciences; Life Sciences)http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=mounresedeve

Release Content:Vol. 2, No. 4 (November, 1982);Vol. 19, Nos. 3-4 (August-November, 1999);Vol. 22, No. 4 (November, 2002)

Moving Wall: 3 years

Publisher: International Mountain Society

ISSN: 0276-4741

Northeastern Naturalist (Biological Sciences; Life Sciences)

http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=nortnatu2

Release Content:Vol. 11, No. 2, Ecosystem Modeling in Cobscook Bay, Maine: A Boreal, Macrotidal Estuary (2004)

Moving Wall: 3 years

Publisher: Humboldt Field Research Institute

ISSN: 1092-6194

Plant Physiology (Biological Sciences; Life Sciences)

http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=planphys

Release Content:Vol. 140, No. 3 (March, 2006) - Vol. 142, No. 4 (December, 2006)

Moving Wall: 2 years

Publisher: American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB)

ISSN: 0032-0889

Water Environment Research (Biological Sciences; Life Sciences)http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=wateenvirese

Release Content:Vol. 66, Nos. 2-3 (March/April - May/June, 1994)

Moving Wall: 7 years

Publisher: Water Environment Federation

ISSN: 1061-4303

The Wilson Bulletin (Biological Sciences; Life Sciences)

http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=wilsbull

Release Content:Vol. 20, No. 4 (December, 1908)

Moving Wall: N/A

Publisher: Wilson Ornithological Society

ISSN: 0043-5643

Note: The Wilson Bulletin is a previous title to The Wilson Journal of Ornithology.

NLM MyDelivery

The U.S. National Library of Medicine's (NLM) prototype MyDelivery system makes it possible for health professionals, clinics, patients, researchers, librarians, administrators and many others to exchange electronic health and biomedical information of virtually any size in a manner that is free, fast, easy, reliable, safe and secure.

MyDelivery provides a HIPAA-compliant service, used just like email, for two individuals to exchange information privately and securely over the Internet. It is better than email because users communicate only with others they know and trust, and there are no restrictions on attachment size or quantity. File attachments may be gigabytes in size, and the only size limitation is the available disk space on the recipient's computer. In addition, attachments may consist of thousands of files, and entire directory structures. Because of the potential for time-consuming large file communication, MyDelivery has been designed to be reliable even though users may communicate through potentially unreliable wireless networks. Its algorithms are robust, and provide reliable delivery over wireless networks that may be intermittent.


Potential uses for MyDelivery include:

• Secure communication of health information


• Remote medical diagnosis and second medical opinions via the Internet


• Telecommuting - Securely send files between office and home computers


• Document Delivery - Send electronic library materials and scanned journal article images of any size directly to the patron's desktop.


• Business data exchange

MyDelivery is being developed through a continuing research and development program in communications engineering at the NLM's Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, Communications Engineering Branch. The system is currently in Beta Test, and anybody in the United States is permitted to use it for free. We ask that users report any problems they experience, so that we can continue to improve the service. Users are also encouraged to recommend new features for the system. The free client software is downloadable from this web site, and currently runs on all Windows operating systems from Windows 2000 through Vista.

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