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How do I access my library account online?
You can access your library account using the link below. Current LSU employees and students should login using their myLSU ID and password. Retirees should login using their LSU ID # (89 number) as their user ID and their library PIN. Public patrons should login using their account number. To find your public patron account number, please email us at libcirc@lsu.edu (mailto:libcirc@lsu.edu) . Click "I don't know my PIN" in order to have one sent to you if you don't remember it. LSU Libraries | Library Catalog Account Answered by: Access Services Staff
Do I need a library card to check out items?
LSU Library can only accept one form of ID as a patron's library card depending on their user status:
- Current LSU faculty, staff, and students must use their TigerCard
- Public patrons should use their state-issued ID (such as their drivers license) To check out books and other items, please present your TigerCard or state ID at the checkout desk in room 241 or use the self-checkout machine in room 141. There are no fees applied at the time of checkout. Related: Where do I go to check out library books?
Related: Can members of the public, visiting scholars, independent researchers, and other non-LSU affiliates borrow materials from LSU Library? Answered by: Access Services Staff
How can I use the display screen in my study room?
Study rooms are outfitted with a large display screen, which have HDMI and USB-C connectors that allow patrons to connect their personal devices. Screens in student meeting rooms are also connected to a PC. The checkout desk in room 241 circulates study room kits that include a remote for the display screens and a keyboard and mouse for the PCs. Please report any missing or damaged equipment to the checkout desk. Related: Does the library loan AV equipment, PC's, laptops, etc.? Answered by: Access Services Staff
Who has access to online library databases?
Due to licensing restrictions, off-campus access to databases is generally reserved only for current LSU faculty, staff, and students. On-campus access should be available to anyone connected to the LSU Wireless network. Because public patrons do not have access to LSU Wi-Fi, LSU Library houses a few public access computers in room 241. Non-affiliates and public patrons who are able to visit in person will have full access to databases using these computers. We also have a list of open access databases that should be accessible to everyone from anywhere (see below). The online library catalog is also open to everyone. LSU Libraries | A–Z Databases: Open Access
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Related: Can patrons not affiliated with LSU access the campus Wi-Fi network?
Related: Are there computers I can use in the library? Answered by: Access Services Staff
How can I renew my books?
There are three different ways you can renew your LSU Library books:
- In-person: Bring your items to the checkout desk in room 241 of LSU Library. Be sure to bring your TigerCard or public patron ID.
- Online: Log into your online library account (link below) and select the "Checkouts" tab.
- Self-checkout: Renew your items using the self-checkout station in room 141 of LSU Library. Be sure to bring your TigerCard or public patron ID. Please contact the Circulation department with additional questions or concerns: libcirc@lsu.edu (mailto:libcirc@lsu.edu) . LSU Libraries | Library Catalog Account Answered by: Access Services Staff
Why does my library account say that I am blocked, that I am barred, or that my status is expired?
Users can encounter several different types of status messages. Patrons with questions about their account status can visit the checkout desk in room 241 of LSU Library and ask to speak to a staff member. Alternatively, patrons can reach out to us via e-mail at libcirc@lsu.edu (mailto:libcirc@lsu.edu) . When contacting us via e-mail, LSU students, staff, and faculty should message us from their LSU e-mail address; public patrons should message us from the e-mail address we have on file. For privacy reasons, we cannot discuss the details of patron accounts over the telephone. Expired: Students must be currently enrolled in classes in order to be granted library privileges. Once they graduate, or if they fail to register on time in accord with the deadlines posted on LSUs academic calendar, their privileges expire. If they try to log in to their library account after that date, they will see an alert message informing them that their account has expired. Graduate students who have received a masters degree but are continuing on to get their PhD may also have their privileges expire earlier than expected. The library receives weekly updates on student status from the Registrars Office. Once the semester has begun, if students register during the week, their accounts will not be updated and their privileges extended in the system until the following Monday morning. Blocked: Users with overdue recalled books will have their accounts blocked by the system. Their accounts will remain blocked until the book is returned. The system will not permit staff members to override blocks or to renew books that have been recalled. The only way to remove a block from an account is to return the materials. Barred: Users can be barred from using library materials for a number of reasons, the most common being that they have been billed for lost items. They can also be barred if they resign from the university, if their classes are purged, or for flagrant violations of library policy. If they try to log into their account after they have been barred, they will receive an alert message that tells them that they have been barred. Answered by: Access Services Staff
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Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts with Full Text
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts,(LISTA) indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s. Non-LSU Affiliates may click here for access a limited version of LISTA for free.
Library Literature & Information Science Full Text (H. W. Wilson)
Reflecting the latest trends in a rapidly evolving field, this database indexes English and foreign-language periodicals, selected state journals, conference proceedings, pamphlets, books, and library school theses, plus over 300 books per year. This invaluable resource delivers full text articles cover to cover from over a hundred select publications. PDF page images of the full text articles bring researchers charts, graphs, photos, and other valuable graphical information. Providing enhanced access to your periodical collection, this database also steers users to valuable information on the Web with hotlinks to sites mentioned in articles.
Literary Reference Plus
Literary Reference Plus is a full-text database that combines information from major respected reference works, books, and literary journals as well as original content from EBSCO Publishing. Literary Reference Plus includes thousands of plot summaries, synopses, and work overviews; articles of literary criticism; author biographies; full text of over 430 literary journals; book reviews; classic and contemporary poems and short stories; full text of over 7,000 classic novels; author interviews; and images of key literary figures.
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Catch Me If You Can: A Multi-Agent Synthetic Fraud Detection Framework for Complex Networks
Detecting fraudulent behavior across diverse domains presents a significant challenge due to the adaptive and elusive activities of fraud agents. Furthermore, imbalanced data distributions and limited labeled examples increase the difficulty of detecting fraud agents. To address these challenges, we propose Catch Me If You Can—a Multi-Agent Framework to generate synthetic datasets and simulate various types of fraudulent behavior, including but not limited to anti-money laundering (AML), credit card fraud, bot attacks, and malicious traffic. Our framework comprises two core agent types: (1) Detectors, trained to identify suspicious patterns in scenarios, and (2) Transaction Agents, including both legitimate participants and adversarial fraud agents employing strategies to evade detection. In this framework, detectors iteratively refine their detection strategies while fraud agents evolve adaptive tactics to disguise illicit activities, creating an adversarial coevolutionary environment. This dynamic fosters the generation of high-dimensional and realistic datasets for training and testing. By integrating synthetic pre-training with transfer learning, the framework leverages a variety of real-world datasets—including IEEE-CIS Fraud Detection, Credit Card Fraud Detection, and Elliptic++—demonstrating its broad applicability across multiple fraud domains. Our approach significantly improves detection performance, bridging the gap between simulation and real-world applications. It enables robust training across heterogeneous fraud behaviors, contributing to the development of resilient, generalizable solutions for financial security and fraud prevention.
A 5-Level Asymmetrical Multilevel Inverter Using Catch Fish Optimization Algorithm Based On Islanded Mode Single-Phase Community Microgrid
The concept of inverters aims to improve efficiency and power quality in high-power applications. Traditional two-level inverters produce a square waveform, requiring extensive filtering to achieve a sine wave. In contrast, multilevel inverters use a staircase approach for better waveform quality. To minimize errors and harmonic distortion in a 5-level MLI, this paper proposes Catch Fish Optimization Algorithm (CFOA) optimized controller. The primary objective is to enhance maximum power extraction from a photovoltaic (PV) array, integrating a battery energy storage system for efficiency. Battery paired with PV stores excess energy and supply when required. A quantum neural network-based MPPT, optimized using Red Panda Optimization (RPO) technique, tracks maximum power. A 3DOF-FOTD-FOTID controller efficiently manages the 5-level MLI. The system achieves low total harmonic distortion (THD) of 1.26% for voltage and 1.12% for current, improving efficiency and reducing distortion. This demonstrates significant improvements in the MPPT performance, making the proposed system highly effective.
Catch The Wave : Experience the Thrill of Spirit-Empowered Living!
Experience the Thrill of Holy Spirit Empowered Ministry. Engineer/teacher/author Steven Cole will guide you with an engineer's precision through a powerful teaching on the ministry and gifts of the Holy Spirit. Practical and easy to understand,'Catch the Wave'will introduce you to the Holy Spirit in a way that makes Him real and personal. You will learn:• Who the Holy Spirit is• Why the Holy Spirit is given to the Church• When the Holy Spirit indwells a believer• What the gifts of the Holy Spirit are• How the Holy Spirit operates through believersAre you ready to experience the awesome power of the Holy Spirit in your life? If so, dive in and catch the wave!About the author:Steven W. Cole holds a degree in electronics and retired from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 2004 after 25 years as a Senior Instrumentation Systems Engineer. He was saved in 1966 and filled with the Holy Spirit shortly thereafter. For twenty-five years, he has taught adult believers in local churches, and in recent years, he has developed a Holy Spirit seminar that has been well received. Steve and his wife, Linda, moved to Dewey, Arizona, in 2006. Sadly, his wife passed away in 2021 due to Alzheimer's.
“They Had to Catch Me Like an Animal” : Exploring Experiences of Involuntary Care for People with Psychosocial Conditions in South Africa
Protecting the rights of people with psychosocial conditions is an important and controversial global aim, particularly in light of multiple calls for reduced coercion catalyzed by General Comment 1 of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which stipulates the replacement of substituted care with supported care. Responding to this and other global calls for reduced coercion is complex globally but can entail particular challenges in developing countries, where resource shortages and environmental barriers are sometimes a significant factor in how people with mental conditions experience involuntary care and encounter limitations to their autonomy. To better understand these complexities, our study explored experiences of involuntary care among people with psychosocial conditions in South Africa. Participants described varying degrees of coercion within involuntary care and found that different approaches from professionals when they were in crisis significantly impacted their illness experience, including their ability to make decisions and feel dignified. Participants’ reports include variable feelings and embodied experiences of coercion in different forms and degrees, ambivalence about compliance and resistance while being treated against their will, and gray areas between conventional separations of autonomy and paternalism. On the whole, our analysis troubles binaries about the use or disuse of involuntary care and illustrates the complexity of participants’ experiences and views of coercive intervention, which could hold multiple possibilities for both care and autonomy.
Executive functions and associated brain volumetry in children with persistent stunting and catch-up growth
Early childhood stunting can result in sub-optimal executive functions (EF), affecting academic achievements and economic potential in later life. This study hypothesized that children always stunted (AS) at ages 2, 5 and 9 years had lower EF than those who were never stunted (NS). A birth-cohort in Vellore, India was followed up with periodic anthropometric and development/cognitive measures over 2, 5 and 9 years of age. Based on stunting status at these time points, children were classified as NS, stunted at 2 years and caught up by 5 years (S2N5), stunted at 2 and 5 years but caught up later (S5N9), and AS. At 9th year, children underwent neuroimaging using 3T MRI scanner and EF assessment using FAS phonemic fluency test, colour cancellation test and colour trials tests (CTT). From the original birth-cohort of 251, 205 children were reviewed at 9 years. FAS phonemic fluency test showed NS group had significantly higher test scores compared to AS (11.52 vs. 7.4, p = 0.02). In CTT, a significant difference in near misses score was observed between NS and AS groups (0.12 vs. 0.38, p = 0.03). Upon evaluating unimodal brain association areas, volumes of right occipital fusiform gyrus (9991 mm3 vs. 9313 mm3; p = 0.04; η2 = 0.11), and left lateral occipital cortex (13458 mm3 vs. 12559 mm3; p = 0.03; η2 = 0.07) were significantly higher among NS compared to AS group. Considering higher order association areas, only left pars triangularis was found to be significantly reduced among AS children compared to NS group (4284 mm3 vs. 3291 mm3; p = 0.01; η2 = 0.07). Similarly, there were also significance visible in the basal ganglia regions and the cerebellum. Current study demonstrated EF dysfunction in verbal fluency and inhibitory control in a dose response fashion in groups AS-to-NS with corresponding EF-related brain volumetric changes, highlighting the need for focused nutritional and nurturing approaches in early childhood for gain in human capital.
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