LSU-HSC Library: An Overview

Brandon Beckham
Amelia Brister
Hang Hoang
Reed Mathews

 LSU-HSC opened in
1967.
 First library in VA
Center Basement.
 Construction lasted
from 1971-1975.
 New library had 4
floors, 156,000 book
capacity.
 Today, has three floors,
39,000 square feet

 Library receives overwhelming support.
 Hospital departments contribute financially.
 Active alumni association helps with funding.
 Local and state lawmakers also supportive.

 Currently, library is 39,000 sq. ft. on three
floors.
 Main entrance is on second floor.
 Top floor holds bound periodicals, study space.
 Bottom floor hosts collections management,
cataloging.

The Louisiana State University Health Science Center Shreveport
(LSUHSC-S) Medical Library serves the students, faculty, staff and
patients of its parent organization.

 The three schools of the LSU Health Science Center are
1. The School of Medicine
2. The School of Graduate Studies
3. The School of Allied Health
 LSU Health Sciences Center is accredited by the American College
of Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to conduct training
programs and continuing medical education for doctors and
healthcare professionals
 The University Hospital, The E.A. Conway Medical Center in
Monroe, Louisiana and the Huey P. Long Medical Center in
Pineville, Louisiana affiliate with the LSUHSC-S, as well.

The mission statement of the LSUHSC-S Medical Library clearly
defines the library as a service-oriented organization. Services
include:

 Online public access catalog (OPAC), Copiers, scanners,
computers, study facilities and meeting rooms
 Circulation of books and laptop computers
 Inter-Library Loan
 LaLinc program
 Librarians are available to proctor tests.
 Ask a Librarian service
 Writing Consultant Service

 The library’s website is an organ for
information on the library and a platform for
its services.
 Remote access to some but not all of the
important medical and scientific databases and
ejournals is available to students, faculty and
staff through VPN or proxy accounts.
 “librarians can automate database searching of
[a user’s] topic and deliver the results to [his]
email on a regular recurring basis, e.g. daily,
weekly or monthly.”

 The librarians train students, faculty and staff
in the use of the library. The new trend toward
Evidence Based Medicine has increased the
importance of medical scholarship, medical
librarianship and library training for all health
care professionals.
 The librarians work with the various
departments of LSUHSC-S as liaisons.

 The librarians of the LSUHSC-S Medical
Library conduct scholarly research and publish
on their own behalf.
Banks, D. E., Runhua, S., Timm, D. F., Christopher, K., Duggar, D.,
Comegys, M., & McLarty, J. (2007). Decreased hospital length of
stay associated with presentation of cases at morning report with
librarian support. Journal Of The Medical Library Association,
95(4), 381-387.
 The medical librarians of the LSUHSC-S reach
out to Shreveport and the surrounding region.

 Dixie Jones is now serving as Interim Director of the
LSUHSC-S Medical Library.
 Mararia Adams is Assistant Director.
 There are 13 more professional positions and 6
supporting staff positions.
 The Director of the Library as the Chair of the
Department of Medical Library Science answers
directly to the Chancellor of the LSU Health Science
Center, Dr. Robert A. Barish.
 The Director also has an ex officio position on the
Library Advisory Committee. The Library Advisory
Committee is formed by representatives of several of
the academic departments of the Health Science
Center.

 Circulating Books,
 Reference Books,
 Reserve Collection.
 a small Fiction Collection
 History of Medicine Collection
 Medical Artifacts Collection
 LSUHSC-S Archives

 Monographs: 28, 294
 E-books: 1173
 Total number of print volumes in the
collection, including monographs and all older
journals: approximately 175,000
 Print periodical titles currently received: 8
 Electronic periodical titles currently subscribed:
4348
 The library subscribes to 152 databases

 Health sciences libraries are information
centers designed to provide health and
scientific information to doctors, health
professionals, students, medical researchers,
patients, and consumers.

 Typically affiliated with Hospitals and
Graduate Schools of Health (medical,
dental, pharmacy, nursing, etc).

Health Science Libraries
 The mission of a health science library is,
foremost, to support the goals of the parent
organization.

 To maintain accreditation, hospitals and schools
are required to have specialized libraries to meet
the knowledge-based information (KBI) needs of
the medical facility.

Health Care Collection
 Books/Journals
 PubMed,


UpToDate,
CINAHL
 Audio Visuals

(nursing),
EbscoHost,  Online Resources
 Journals@Ovid.
 MICROMEDEX
 BioMedCentral
 DOCLINE

Standards for Hospital Libraries 2007

 Standard 1: The library serves as the primary department responsible for
developing systems and services to meet the knowledge-based information (KBI)
needs of the organization. The library shall have its own budget, and the director,
as a department head, shall report to the senior management of the organization.
 Standard 2: KBI systems and services are directed by a qualified librarian.
Academy of Health Information Professionals membership is preferred.

• Standard 3: Library staffing formula [Total institution FTE*/700 = minimum
library FTE; FTE* = full-time equivalent]
• Standard 4: The librarian, as the key KBI professional in the organization, is an
active member of the information management teams.

• Standard 5: Evidence demonstrates effective connections between KBI and patient
care, patient education, performance improvement and patient safety functions,
educational functions for hospital and medical staff, and other appropriate
functions.
• Standard 6: The librarian provides evidence of an ongoing assessment of the KBI
needs of the organization and the development and implementation of a plan to
provide appropriate resources and services to meet those identified needs.

 Standard 7: The librarian actively promotes KBI services and resources to
all user groups and provides documented evidence thereof
 Standard 8: All KBI functions are performed in compliance with
applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations.
 Standard 9: KBI resources are available to clinical staff twenty-four hours
a day, seven days a week.

• Standard 10: The physical library will be large enough to accommodate the
library staff, the in-house collection, and appropriate amount and selection
of personal computers and other information technology (IT) hardware, and
seating for an appropriate number of users. A separate office will be
provided for at least the professional library staff.
• Standard 11: IT resources are available to support the library’s mission of
providing KBI resources and services.

• School of Medicine
• University Hospital
• School of Graduate Studies
• School of Allied Health Professions

Director is chair of the Department of Medical Library
Science. (Standard 1)
 Library outreach to patients and community with
www.healthelinks.org (Standard 5)
Library resources are available 24/7 on website
Physical library open ever day until 11pm (Standard 9)

 Space Debate
 Embedded Librarians
 Translational Science
 Digitalization

 Space Study
 Student Study Rooms
 Information
Commons

In medical settings the
"embedded librarian'' is often
known as an "informationist,"
described by the Medical
Library Association as "finding  Department Liaisons
information for evidence-based
practice by attending rounds ...  Physical library will continue to
teaching health care teams to exist
search the literature,
suggesting questions that need
researching and delivering
results of research in the form
of data, articles, etc., ...(Siess
2010).

 Researcher’s conclusions impact patient care
which trickles in to the community
 How will LSUHSC-S Librarians approach this
new issue?

 Created benefits
 More user access
 More shelf space
 More electronic
resources

 Administration
approach
 Projects

 Initial interview and tour conducted on March
26, 2012.
 Montie Dobbins guided the tour.
 Follow up interviews conducted via e-mail.
 Additional details in written paper.

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