New@Norris Library

The library will close for needed maintenance at 5:00 p.m. Friday, December 19 and remain closed Saturday, December 20 and Sunday December 21.  The library will re-open Monday, December 22 at 7:00 a.m.

“Knol” is Google’s term for a unit of knowledge.  Knols are user-written articles on a range of topics hosted on Google’s knol site. Articles are attributed to authors who must first sign in with their real names, unlike Wikipedia whose articles are anonymous.  Content is searchable by topic and not edited by Google. The knol project was […]

Accident, Homicide or Suicide? An abbreviated version of the National Library of Medicine’s online exhibit, Visible Proofs: Forensic Views of the Body is now on display in the Norris Medical Library atrium.  “Visible Proofs” follows historical efforts to untangle the visible truth about the cause of death and the development of forensic medicine from the […]

The United States spends substantially more per person on health care than any other country, and yet US health outcomes are the same as or worse than those in other countries. 
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In 2005, the last year for which comparative statistics are available, the United States spent $6401 per person, whereas […]

The Norris Library has installed two new iMacs in the reference area on the plaza level.  These iMacs have a 20-inch monitor, 2 GB memory, a 8x superdrive (for burning CDs and DVDs), and run at 2.4 GHz.  A camera, microphone and speakers are also built into the monitor. The iMacs are installed with Leopard […]

The following recently published books were authored by USC Health Sciences faculty*:
Adolescent Health Care: A Practical Guide 
edited by Lawrence S. Neinstein* (Professor, Pediatrics and Medicine, Executive Director, University Park Health Center, Associate Dean of Student Affairs).
5th ed., Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2008
Mosby’s Pediatric Nursing Reference
edited by Cecily Lynn Betz* (Visiting Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics) […]