National Red Cross Month

March is National Red Cross month. The Red Cross can help prepare and maintain a safe working environment for your customers and employees by offering OSHA approved web-based training courses.

Course Topics include

• First Aid CPR
• Aquatics and Water Safety
• Automated External Defibrillation
• Disaster Courses

How do I schedule web-based training for my business?

Contact the local area Red Cross:

American Red Cross
Louisiana Capital Area Chapter
10201 Celtic Drive
Baton Rouge, LA 70809
E-mail: info@batonrouge.redcross.org
Phone: 225-291-4533
Fax: 225-292-4692

AllData Conversion Calculator

AllData Online is a database that contains a wealth of information about automobile diagnostics and repair. But even if you don’t have any automotive questions, you may still want to use the AllData Conversion Calculator.  It will convert (into or from metric and English terms):

• Area
• Length and distance
• Volume
• Temperature
• Force
• Pressure
• Torque
• Vacuum
• Weight

To use the conversion calculator:

1. Log into AllData Online (only available from inside of the library).
2. Click Select Vehicle.
3. Click Conversion Calculator (upper right corner of the screen)
4. Choose your measurement from the drop-down menu (next to the word convert).
5. Enter the amount in the proper box.
6. Click calculate.

Try this exercise:
Change 12.5 Sq. meters into different area units.

1. Click on area in the drop-down menu next to the word convert.
2. Enter 12.5 in the box next to Square Meters.
3. Click calculate.

EBSCO’s Auto Repair Reference Center

EBSCO's Auto Repair Reference Center gives you online access to repair information, service bulletins, and wiring diagrams for thousands of vehicles. Whether you are rebuilding an entire engine or just changing your oil, Auto Repair Reference Center provides clear instructions to help you do the job — and has great illustrations too!

To access Auto Repair Reference Center:

1. From the East Baton Rouge Parish Library homepage (http://www.ebr.lib.la.us/), log into our Online Databases. If you are logging in from outside of the library, you will need to enter your library card number.
2. Under Statewide Databases, choose EBSCO.
3. Choose Auto Repair Reference Center.
4. Then choose the year, make and then model of the vehicle you are interested in. For example (1996, Chevrolet, Corsica, V6).
5. The menu on the left expands as you choose sections. So if you are looking for a diagram of the fuel tank assembly, you choose Fuel System, Fuel Tank, Tank Assembly, Removal and Installation. You will find instructions and diagrams on how to remove and install the fuel tank.

You will also find an interactive Auto IQ demonstration. Video clips and audio help you understand different automobile topics, such as What does the vehicle speed sensor do and where might one be located?

Care and Repair Tips covers 33 topics on automotive care and maintenance, such as how to perform a tune-up or what to consider when towing a trailer.

The Troubleshooting section provides suggestions on what to check for when diagnosing car problems. For example, what to do when:

• Your engine has a rotten egg odor when driving
• Your steering wheel becomes stiff
• Your brakes make a grinding noise

Best of all, Auto Repair Reference Center is updated regularly, so you can be sure that the information you find will be current.

National Library of Medicine Drug Information Portal

The National Library of Medicine has released the NLM Drug Information Portal. Here’s how they describe it:

This resource provides the public, healthcare professionals, and researchers with a gateway to current and accurate drug information from the National Library of Medicine and to other key government agencies…

More than 12,000 drugs can be searched using this facility. The portal covers drugs from the time they are entered into clinical trials (Clinicaltrials.gov) through their entry in the market place (Drugs@FDA). The PubMed/Medline link provides medical literature describing research, and TOXLINE provides toxicology literature. Resources such as MedlinePlus provide easy to read summaries of the uses and efficacy of a drug.

You may search by a drug’s trade name or generic name. For example, the trade name “Advil” and the generic name “ibuprofen” will retrieve the same drug record. A spell checker gives suggestions if the name is not found. You can find embedded portions of names by using an asterisk at the beginning and/or end of a search term. Once a drug is found, a summary of the drug’s type and usage is given, as well as links leading to further information at one of the portal’s resources. Outside links open in a new window. Within a given  drug record, you may click on the drug category and retrieve drugs with the same or similar uses.