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UPDATE: Please see comments below from my brother, Andrew. He’s right that I’ve been unfair to Scott Drawe. The story by CBS2, however, is still crap.
Check out this recent news story from a CBS affiliate in Chicago:
http://cbs2chicago.com/video/?id=25152@wbbm.dayport.com
The basic story is that there’s a sub-genre of literature called “Street Lit”, “Urban Lit”, or […]

It looks like students taking Health Sciences Librarianship (LS534) at the University of Alabama are being required to post article summaries in WordPress blogs. Here are a few I’ve run into:

Greg Schmidt’s article summaries in Medical Librarianship
ARTICLE SUMMARIES FOR LS 534: MEDICAL LIBRARIANSHIP
Sums, Crits, and other Acronyms

Found a few more by searching BlogLines.
I’m curious […]

I received an email recently from a Medical Librarian asking if RSS feeds could be generated from EBSCO databases.
Short Answer: Yes!
Longer answer: Yes…but EBSCO’s interface doesn’t make it easy or intuitive. Here’s a walkthrough.
First, click on “Sign In to My EBSCOHost”

Enter username and password, then click the “Login” button. (If you haven’t created […]

Lily meets all kinds of fun people who work at the Allen County Public Library!

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I love my mother-in-law. I love the way Barb approaches problems, taking the bull by the horns. I like how she seeks out information before making decisions.
Barb had expressed interest in more regular updates of medical news of conditions than I had been able to provide- Barb’s son has epilepsy, her husband has […]

http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/picrender.fcgi?artid=1525313&blobtype=pdf
CINAHL Plus adds a variety of new features to the original CINAHL database. While the functionality of some of the new search mechanisms leaves something to be desired, the usefulness of the available content cannot be denied.
I have to agree with most of the review. Mostly great content, but I really don’t care for […]

An article in today’s La Vista Sun encourages Nebraska residents to visit the La Vista Public Library, where they can fill out a CHIRS (Consumer Health Information Resource Service) form, free for all Nebraska residents.

The service delivers specialized and reliable medical information about your health condition privately to your home. The information is researched and […]

In this post, Bob Sutton (Professor of Management Science and Engineering in the Stanford Engineering School) talks about evidenced based medicine, evidence based management, and the need for lbrarians.
Some highlights:
…I’ve realized that the rise of the web, blogs, Wikipedia, and all that easily available information might reduce the need for trips to the library for […]

Posted on the GoogleBlog:
Today, we’re launching the Library Catalog Search feature in Google Book Search, designed to help casual readers and bookworms everywhere find gems in the libraries around the world. Queries on Google Book Search will automatically include results from library catalogs when appropriate. Each result includes a “Find […]

Via Biomedbiblog, an interesting item about a new service from Elsevier’s SCOPUS.
Scopus has announced that it is the first and only database of its kind to provide a fully customizable feature to its customers that enables users to search within selected repositories or subject specific digital archives within the Scopus interface.
This new feature in […]

http://evidence-based-nursing.blogspot.com/
This blog serves as a guide to the topic of Evidence-Based Nursing and Midwifery. It will point to good resources, learning and teaching materials etc for nurses and librarians associated with Evidence-Based Nursing and Midwifery
Welcome to the still-too-small group of MedLib bloggers, Stephen!
Please do add your blog to this list!

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I just noticed that jointcommission.org has an RSS feed for “New releases.” You may wish to add this to your aggregator, or suggest it to some of your patrons:
http://www.jointcommission.org/jointcommission/RSS.aspx
To quickly and easily sign up for an emailed alert when new items are added to this feed via RSSFWD, click this link.
However, it looks to […]

Woohoo!
Dean says it is coming soon (in early September), and is looking for feedback on his draft “table of contents.”
F’rinstance, I think section VI (Databases in biomedicine), should include notes on the PubMed interface in addition to the EBSCO and OVID interaces listed.
Also, maybe a section on portal development (would that be a part of section […]

Usually I try not to repeat items already covered by another MedLib blogger, and Michelle Kraft posted about it before I did, but this is different for me because Dissect Medicine is the second attempt I’ve seen at applying the model of Digg.com to Medical Literature (the first I saw and posted about was BioWizard).
Like […]

Updated 8/24/2006: I incorrectly referred to Linda Schwartz as “Lisa Schwartz”. My apologies, Linda- I’ve corrected the post.
Responding to my post the other day about the RSS/feed handling built into Internet Explorer 7 (IE7), Linda Schwartz left a good comment, wondering if there would be a way to save feeds in IE7 and still […]

In order to be as Web 2.0 as possible, I’m testing out a new logo:

Make your own parody Web 2.0 logo here.
Why is this funny?

Check out this list of Web 2.0 sites ending in ‘r’.
Check out this giant display of Web 2.0 logos
For additonal parody, check out this exercise of turning existing logos in […]

Sweet!
Got a comment from Stephen Francoeur, pointing me at the Wikis section of his Virtual Reference SIG Wiki!
Thanks for helping me catch up, Stephen- this is great!

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Great post to MEDLIB-L today from David Dillard, pointing out this article by David Berkowitz, author of the “Search Insider” column for MediaPost
Berkowitz writes:
The better mousetrap people need is a health search engine.
If you look at any searcher who enters more than ten unique searches, at least one will likely be health-related. People are trying […]

So I already knew about the Library Success Wiki, and LISWIKI, but I didn’t know about the Library Instruction Wiki until today.
Welcome to the Oregon Library Instruction Wiki, a collaboratively developed resource for librarians involved with or interested in instruction. All librarians and others interested in library instruction are welcome and encouraged to contribute.
Neat!
Are […]

Mary Carmen Chimato is habitually generous with her time and knowledge- and I have repeatedly and gratefully been on the receiving end of that habit. She rocks.
Today, I called Mary for advice on something, and we ended up talking about the Health Librarianship Wiki that Dean Giustini has planned at UBC and about Rachel’s […]