LSUHSC Librarians can design a class or orientation to meet the specific needs of your faculty, staff or students. To customize a research course for your students or to request a repeat of our previous monthly classes, please complete this Microsoft Form. Classes are limited to current LSUHSC-NO faculty, staff, residents, and students.
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Library classes and orientations are scheduled at various times throughout the year
or by request. Classes can be customized as needed,
and contact your School Liaison to schedule. Classes are limited to current LSUHSC-NO faculty, staff, or students.
This Month's Scheduled Classes:
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- VisualDx
- Wednesday, April 8, 2026, 12pm via Zoom (registration required)
- In partnership with representatives from VisualDx.
- The session will feature tools for all audiences:
- Clinicians will learn how to develop a customized differential diagnosis, including uploading a picture on the mobile app to get started.
- Medical learners and instructors will benefit from their Clinical Education Center and LearnDerm tools.
- VisualDx’s extensive medical image library includes high-quality, peer-reviewed images representing a wide range of skin tones to support more equitable diagnosis across diverse patient populations.
- We encourage you to check out VisualDx, download the mobile app, and create your personal account prior to the session.
- IT Office Hours Accessibility presentation
- Thursday, April 16, 2026, 12 pm via Zoom
- More information and a link to join will be available on the IT Office Hours page
- VisualDx
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- Covidence for Systematic Reviews: Essentials for Students and Researchers
- Wednesday, April 29, 2026, 12pm Isché Library RCB Room 405 in person, or via Zoom (registration required)
- Feeling overwhelmed by systematic reviews? This fast-paced session will introduce Covidence, a powerful tool for managing screening, data extraction, and decision‑tracking in systematic and other evidence reviews. Register now to demystify the process, see how Covidence fits into the review workflow, and learn practical tips you can use immediately so you can start your review project with confidence.
- Covidence for Systematic Reviews: Essentials for Students and Researchers
- Accessibility: Accessibility Policies and Resources for Digital Works, June 11, 2025; session recording
- Adobe Express: Introduction to Adobe Express, June 20, 2024
- Cabells: Cabells Information Session, March 19, 2025
- CINAHL/Database Searching: Introduction to CINAHL
- Data Management: Writing a Data Management Plan: How and Why, July 11, 2024
- Data Preservation: Data Preservation: The 3-2-1 Rule and More, November 19, 2025; session recordingand slides
- Database Searching (EBSCO): New EBSCO User Interface: Come See What's Changed!, June 18, 2025; session recordingand slides
- Database Searching (General): Database Searching Strategies, April 18, 2024
- Digital Scholar: Introduction to LSU Health Digital Scholar, January 29, 2025
- DynaMed: Introduction to DynaMed - A Clinical Decision Tool, July 23, 2025; session recording and slides
- EndNote: Beyond the Basics-EndNote 25, March 11, 2026; session recording and slides
- EndNote: Introduction to EndNote 21, March 6, 2025
- EndNote: Introduction to EndNote 25, August 27, 2025; session recording
- Funding Opportunities: Introduction to SPIN Database to Search for Funding Opportunities, September 10, 2025; session recording
- Health Literacy: Measurements of Health Literacy, February 25, 2026; session recording and slides
- Journal Article Retrieval: Getting Journal Articles is Easy with the Library's Link Resolver, May 28, 2025; session recordingand slides
- Journal Article Retrieval: Making Things Easy with LibKey Nomad, June 26, 2024
- Journal Article Retrieval: (Re)Discover the Magic of LibKey Nomad, March 18, 2026; session recording and slides
- Library Resources: How to Get to Library Resources On and Off Campus, August 21, 2024
- Library Resources: JoVE: A Quick Review, March 25, 2026
- Library Resources: (Re)Introduction to Library Resources and Services, January 8, 2025
- Library Resources: Textbooks at LSUHSC-NO Libraries: A Guide for Instructors, April 23, 2025; session recording
- Library Resources: Textbooks at LSUHSC-NO Libraries: A Guide for Students, September 24, 2025; session recording
- Library Resources: What's New with Journal Subscriptions and Open Access Fee Waivers (2025), February 19, 2025; session recording
- Library Resources: What's New with Journal Subscriptions and Open Access Fee Waivers (2026), January 29, 2026; session recording and slides
- NIH Public Access Policy/Scholarly Publishing: NIH Public Access Policy and the "Nelson Memo" - What you need to do now for NIH Award compliance, July 2, 2025; session recording
- Open Access: Up and Coming Open Access Tools, May 21, 2025; session recording
- Peer Review: How to Perform a Peer Review, May 29, 2024
- Posters: Poster Design Basics, April 24, 2024
- Posters: Research Poster Basics, February 26, 2025
- Posters: Research Poster Printing, October 2, 2024
- Predatory Publishing: Beware Predatory Publishing, November 6, 2024; session recording
- PubMed/Database Searching: Introduction to PubMed and PubMed Searching, March 12, 2025
- PubMed/Database Searching: PubMed Searching: Tips and Tricks, September 25, 2024; session recording
- RefWorks: Introduction to RefWorks, April 16, 2025; session recordingand slides
- RefWorks: Introduction to RefWorks, February 11, 2026; session recording and slides
- RefWorks: Using RefWorks to Make Citation Management Less Scary, October 16, 2024
- Scholarly Publishing: Gold, Green, & Everything In Between: Your Scholarly Publishing Roadmap, October 15, 2025
- Scholarly Publishing: How LSUHSC-NO Libraries Can Support Publishing, November 13, 2024; session recording
- Scholarly Publishing: Publication Metrics for Your CV, April 8, 2025; session recording
- Scholarly Publishing: Retractions, Reputations, and Responsibility: Safeguarding Integrity in Academic Health Research, October 8, 2025; session recording and slides
- Scholarly Publishing: Who Accesses Our Knowledge?, October 22, 2025
- StatPearls: Introduction to StatPearls for Faculty Admins, August 13, 2025; session recording and slides
- StatPearls: Introduction to StatPearls for Students, October 1, 2025; session recording and slides
- Systematic Reviews: Systematic and Scoping Reviews: What They Are, Why They Matter, and How to Do Them Right, November 12, 2025; session recording and slides
- Teaching: Interactive In-Person Class Ideas, March 26, 2025; session recording
- DynaMed and Clinical Decision Tools: Getting Fast, Reliable Answers at the Point of Care, January 15, 2026, Session recording
- LSU Health Digital Scholar: What Can Digital Scholar Do For You?, February 20, 2025, Session recording
- Discover the Magic of LibKey Nomad, November 21, 2024, Session recording
- EndNote, July 18, 2024, Session recording
- LSU Health Digital Scholar, November 16, 2023, Session recording
- New NIH Data Sharing Policy, February 16, 2023, Session recording
- Using Library Resources in Online Courses, March 18, 2021, Session recording
- Tips and Tricks for Using Library Resources, January 16, 2020, Session recording
Updated April 2026