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Libraries
The university’s nine libraries, which hold over 7 million volumes and 16,000 periodicals, include the main Howard-Tilton Memorial Library with branch collections in architecture and natural history, and separately administered libraries of law, medicine, business, mathematics, and primate research. Special collections include the William Ranson Hogan Jazz Archive, the Maxwell Music Library, the Southeastern Architectural Archive, the Latin American Library, the Louisiana Collection of Historical Materials, The Amistad Research Center, and the university archives.

The Tulane Health Sciences Center library is named for the distinguished surgeon and alumnus of the school of medicine, Dr. Rudolph Matas, and was founded in 1944. Located on the second floor of the Burthe-Cottam and Hutchinson buildings, the library has combined collections totaling more than 140,000 volumes. Over 1,000 medical and scientific journals are under subscription in addition to its collections in the basic sciences, clinical medicine, and public health. An audiovisual and microcomputer facility supplements the usual library services. The library provides access to numerous on-line computer services and data bases.
The library staff includes experienced analysts to provide reference searches from a variety of bibliographic data bases.

TULANET, an integrated library system, affords users rapid access to collections throughout the university libraries.

The Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, the general library of the university, includes holdings of 1,250,000 volumes and contains a number of special areas including government documents, newspapers and microfilm, the Latin American Library, the Louisiana Collection, the Maxwell Music Library, Science, and Engineering Division. The library is also a depository of federal and state documents and unclassified technical reports of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Other libraries nearby include libraries of the Louisiana State University Medical Center, the University of New Orleans, the New Orleans public library system, the Law Library of Louisiana, and the Library of Agricultural Research, Southern Research Center, U. S. Department of Agriculture.

Special collections which deserve mention are the Elizabeth Bass Collection on Women in Medicine, the Weinstein Fiction Collection of novels written by or about physicians, the History of Medicine Slide Collection, and the Matas Portrait and Stamp Collection. Some departments within the school maintain small specialty libraries. The International Communication Enhancement Center maintains a collection of the latest published and unpublished materials essential to support international research and teaching.

Computing Facilities
School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine Tidewater Computing Facilities
Hours of Operation

Spring 2004
Monday, Wednesday, Thursday :: 8 a.m. until 8 p.m.
Tuesday and Friday :: 8 a.m. until 5 p.m.
Saturdays and Sundays: 10 a.m. until 5 p.m.

Summer 2004
Monday through Friday :: 8 a.m. until 5 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday :: 10 a.m. until 5 p.m.

All labs are closed on all Tulane holidays and during scheduled school breaks. The labs will be closed on the following dates:

Spring Break
Friday, April 9 - Sunday, April 11

Memorial Day Weedend
Saturday, May 29 through Monday, May 31

4th of July Weekend
Saturday, July 2 through Monday July 5

Yearly Scheduled Maintenance
Saturday, August 7 through Sunday, August 22

The Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine (SPHTM) maintains three separate computer laboratories designed both for teaching and student access. Each lab is equipped with state-of-the-art hardware. The labs fully support hands-on courses and computer-based exercises offered each semester.

The SPHTM presentation technology facilities includes two large lecture-presentation rooms with state-of-the-art high-resolution LCD projectors. Each facility provides for connections to the Internet, Audio and Video devices, and brilliant LDC computer VGA projection. Other equipment includes mobile computer display units and laptop computers for lecture and student presentations.

Together with other computing laboratories in the university, the SPHTM facility collaborates with the Tulane Infrastructure Services (TIS) which is centrally located in the Richardson building of the uptown campus. The center serves as the general-purpose computing facility for teaching, research studies, and administrative data processing throughout the university community. TIS offers a cluster of high performance RISC 6000 processing nodes and an extensive network for terminal connectivity across the university campuses, and a large library of programming languages and programs. The campus library facilities are also accessible via web browsers and terminal connections.

Each student of SPHTM is given access for home dialup (PPP) connectivity for e-mail and internet access and all other computing services hosted by Tulane University.

Recreation and Entertainment on Campus
The Reily Student Recreation Center on the uptown campus includes an indoor pool with diving board, social pool with sun deck; gymnasiums for basketball, volleyball, badminton, and gymnastics; squash and racquetball courts; a jogging track, weight rooms, locker room and sauna, and general activity facilities. Campus pools, tennis courts and other recreational facilities are managed through the department of campus recreation. Full-time students pay a student activity fee for the use of the Reily Student Recreation Center and other facilities.

Feature motion pictures, lectures and other performances are presented in McAlister Auditorium throughout the year. Tulane University Theater presents a yearly schedule of major dramatic productions, and there are numerous faculty and student art exhibits. Musical events include concerts by the university band, programs by the university singers, performances by the jazz ensemble, department of music productions and numerous faculty and student recitals. Interested students are invited to take part in the many art, drama and music activities on the Tulane campuses.

Health Services
The Downtown Student Health Center is available to all students who have paid the Student Health Fee. It is located in the Primary Care Center at 275 LaSalle Street on the first floor of the Hospital Parking Garage. The hours of operation are 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. Please make appointments by calling 585-6929. For acute illnesses that occur after hours, students may call 865-5255 to speak to the physician on call. For true emergencies, go to the Tulane Hospital Emergency Room or the nearest E.R. On Saturdays and Sundays from 8:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m., students may be seen for acute illnesses only at the Uptown Student Health Center. Call first - 865-5255.

The Student Health Clinic is a primary care clinic. The physicians are general internal medicine faculty who are well equipped to manage the illnesses and injuries common to a student population. Immunizations, occupational health, routine GYN and travel clinic services are available. When patients need more specialized care, they are referred to the appropriate specialist. Services for psychiatric, psychological and drug or alcohol problems are available.

Tulane University requires all full-time students to have health insurance. Tulane offers a plan for those students who do not already have private coverage. New students enrolling in the Fall are automatically charged as are those students who have never declined the insurance in a past semester. All other students, including new students enrolling for the Spring semester must request this insurance through the administrative office of the Student Health Center. Laboratory tests, radiological exams, and prescription drugs are covered as specified by the individual’s insurance carrier. For those students covered by the Tulane Student Medical Insurance Plan, refer to the insurance booklet for details.

For further information about the Student Health Center and the services offered, we can be reached at 585-6929.

Louisiana state law requires that all students enrolled in higher education institutions be immunized by two doses of measles vaccine, one dose of mumps vaccine, one dose of rubella vaccine and a booster tetanus vaccine within the last ten years. Students are required to provide immunization records to the Office of Admissions prior to enrollment.

Counseling Center
The Educational Resources and Counseling Center located on the uptown campus offers individual and group counseling to students presenting personal, educational and vocational concerns. The center’s testing office provides a library of career information and a wide range of career and psychological tests to help students make educational and vocational decisions. Contacts with students, including scheduling of appointments, test results and interviews are kept strictly confidential.

Students with disabilities who will be requesting special accommodations of the university during their academic programs will need to complete a form and submit specific documentation to Benjamin J. Cornwell, Coordinator of Disability Services.