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Hurray! Got a great new email from Ovid support:
Our OvidSP interface, which is a new build of our gateway interface from the bottom up, DOES include RSS feed. I am sorry to have led you astray…
In addition, if you wished to create alerts with RSS output, you can create them by following the […]

Okay, my aggregator was getting cluttered, so I needed clean out all of those “Keep New” items by saving them elsewhere, deleting them, or posting them. These are a few things I’ve been meaning to post about and not finding time for:

Via BHIC -
“Teaching Patients With Low Literacy Skills, 2nd Ed.” 1996, JB Lippincott […]

Via Library Stuff (again!):
The University of Buffalo Department of Library and Information Studies has launched the Library Student Journal, “A peer-reviewed student publication.”
Neat! What a great idea!

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Hope Leman made me aware this morning of an article from the current issue of Advances in Anatomic Pathology, Google as a Pathology Portal. The article walks the reader through using Google Image Search, and even adds:
For those wanting access to specific types of information and images on a daily basis, Google allows users […]

Via Library Stuff, a must-read article from C|net news.com:
“The idea of the 1950s librarian, that’s outdated,” said Sarah Houghton-Jan, information Web services manager at the San Mateo County Library in Northern California. “You find people who are expert at searching the Web and using online tools; high-level information experts instead of someone who just stamps […]

HealthScout.com:
A group of U.S. scientists says it has successfully tested a prototype “Connectivity Map” — a high-tech computer program that uses unique genetic patterns as “search words” to link up specific illnesses with the drugs that might treat them.
The achievement has already yielded intriguing insights into cancer and Alzheimer’s disease, says a team reporting in […]

10 minutes of dated, awkward, industrial film weirdness promoting the profession. Very entertaining.

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Big and impressive changes with the Google Reader were announced at the Google Reader Blog along with this video:

I like the review at Read/Write Web, too- but I’m not switching away from BlogLines yet. I’m not crazy about Bloglines, but haven’t yet found a web-based aggregator I like better.

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The new MHSLA (Michigan Health Sciences Libraries Association) Newsletter contains an article (page 6), Using RSS Feeds by Jaime Friel Blanck (Health Sciences Librarian, Michigan State University Libraries) which mentions this blog and several of my favorite Medlib blogs, as well as the wiki list of MedLib blogs that started here.
Thanks to Alexia Estabrook at […]

UPDATE: Just got email back from our Ovid rep who says “I know for a fact we are including RSS feeds into the new Ovid interface. I am checking about your specific question below.”
Here’s hoping.

Someone at Ovid had told me some months ago that Ovid planned to add feeds for TOC […]

Another great question from a medical librarian:
…[H]ow do you manage multiple feeds? For example, some doc loves his feeds from his PubMed search but he wants to change it a little to make it better. How do you keep track and make sense of them all? Because my hope is to have many […]

From Monty Python’s Flying Circus, series 1, episode 10:

“You see, I don’t believe that libraries should be drab places where people sit in silence, and that’s been the main reason for our policy of employing wild animals as librarians.”

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Sometimes information managers (including librarians- not neccessarily the feed owners) want to offer users the option of subscribing to a feed via email instead of an aggregator, and this option may be especially attractive when the library facilitates the use of feeds for Current Awareness or SDI purposes.
Why would a library want to turn feed […]

In the previous post on this topic, I mentioned that all clinicians at our hospital can access all of our library’s digital resources from any internet-connected computer with IE6 or better.
This is because our CIO and VP of I.S. wanted our EMR’s “fat” client to be available from any location. To accomplish this, […]

I love MEDLIB-L.
This article (from BMJ Careers) was mentioned today. As the poster points out, you can substitute the American database names for the British ones, and the article applies to American medical librarians as well.
A number of different types of support are on offer. A librarian is not only an information expert, […]

In the post about getting ‘em to use the tools, I should have mentioned Creating Passionate Users.
This is a great blog written by authors of O’Reilly’s Head First books. I bought and loved Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML and reccommend it without hesitation or reservation to anyone seeking to learn […]

The Librarian in Black and LISnews noted this last year, but I thought it worth posting again because there’s now a weird AMV to go with it to “show you how sexy a lkibrarian [sic] can be.”
Safe for work (I think), short, and odd.
Link for the mp3.
In-browser player:

Appears to have been written and recorded by […]

Via Dean Giustini’s Google Scholar Blog, a very decent evaluation of consumer health information portal Healia by one of Dean’s MLIS students at UBC, Nancy Anderson (with Dean collaborating).

It is a good evaluation of the portal, and absolutely worth reading by any librarian in any kind of library that ever serves consumer healthcare information […]

Via Michael Casey’s LibraryCrunch, my attention was drawn to this post at Thoughts from a Library Administrator (titled “Why is Library 2.0 so hard?”) in which Michael Golrick writes:
I, as the administrator, and the one whose job is on the line, am willing to take a risk here. Why are others so risk averse? It […]

Via The Louisville, KY Courrier Journal, a great explaination of RSS for non-geeks at Back in Skinny Jeans:
So, to make RSS much easier to understand, in Oprah speak, RSS stands for: I’m “Ready for Some Stories”. It is a way online for you to get a quick list of the latest story headlines from all […]