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Well, I agree with T. Scott Plutchak that “Library 2.0″ is a mushy term. He writes:
My problem with the term is the same as ever — it is simply incoherent. People who use the term refer continually to the “Library 2.0 concept” but I’ll be damned if I can figure out what that […]

Over at the European Medical Librarians blog, Oliver Obst has posted a link to a recent issue of the Journal of EAHIL (European Association for Health Information and Libraries) in which he has published his new column, titled “Web 2.0″ (see page 50 of this PDF).
Oliver starts with an overview of MedLib blogs,including charts of […]

Long list (PDF) of Healthcare Information Resources from Marcus P. Zillman that I need to comb though.
[Via beSpacific]

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Over at the JMLA Case Studies in Health Sciences Librarianship blog, Rachel lists a bunch of NLM resources for Getting Help With PubMed, for everyone from beginners to experts.
Bookmarked for later reference.

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Update, 12/2/2006: Further information on the CSE and the Second Life Library Search HUD at InfoIsland.
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Guus van den Brekel (a.k.a. Namro Orman) made my day today.
He’s going to try to make the CSE that I made available from the Second Life Librares in the Library Search HUD (HeadsUp Display).
Neat!
Guus, don’t worry about the delayed guest […]

Why can’t some really talented hip-hop artists do library promotion? How about Jurassic 5? I’d love to see a Chali 2na READ poster.
Look at the lower left corner of the screen. This fictional hip-hop group (from the television show Sliders) is called MC Poindexter and the Study Crew.
(Embedded Video below)

Lyrics:
Yo homes, what […]

“The purpose of this video is to make coughing into one’s sleeve fashionable- and even patriotic!”
(Embedded flash video is below- click here if you’d prefer .wmv or .mov.)

This is educational and I think it’s funny! I’m sick right now- sneezy, coughing (into my sleeve!), and dopey from cold medicine, so it is possible […]

I really like this presentation from the University of Bath’s Brian Kelly. Excellent introduction that should be raided for ideas about how to explain “Web 2.0″ to others.
Embedded SlideShare version is below. Be sure not to miss slide 23, “Beware the IT Fundamentalists.” Great stuff.

More:

Bio and contact information for Brian Kelly are […]

I should first share my thanks and Frankie’s for the lovely response we’ve had to LibWorm so far. Just a few notes on recent developments:

I recently discovered that Kevin at Yezbick.com made a LibWorm search add-on for Firefox or IE7 that’ll let you search LibWorm from your browser’s search bar!
To install it, you can […]

Marjolein Hoekstra has submitted LibWorm to Digg.
It’d make our day if you’d digg it too.

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Neat student animation with music by Miles Davis and John Coletrane.

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I’ve mentioned MDCalc before.
Now it features SI units and can be downloaded and run on a Pocket PC (a Palm version is in the works).
Details here.

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I am very bad at keeping secret anything that I’m excited about, so I am especially pleased that in the last three months, I’ve been able to keep the secret of LibWorm.com, created by MedWorm’s Frankie Dolan and by me.

With LibWorm, you can search over 1100 feeds, including more than 800 biblioblogs, many LIS journal […]

To those of you in the US: Happy Thanksgiving!
To those of you anywhere else: Happy…Thursday!
(Didja’ notice that the Wikipedia entry on Thanksgiving doesn’t even mention Sukkot? Gotta’ do something about that.)
I’ll likely be posting very little (if at all) for the next few days while visiting with family halfway across the continent, but will […]

Yeah, I think I really, really like SlideShare.net.
Anyway, this is a great introduction to Open Source LMS options and has me thinking about how I could start playing with Koha.

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Wow! Found a great presentation for libraryfolk on handy web-based tools via slideshare.net:

The identity of the author isn’t clear, which bothers me because I’d like to give credit whewre it is obviously due.
It appears this was created to be presented at the New Hampshire State Library (NHSL) on 11/14/2006- so it was probably made […]

Update: Well, I’m not thrilled with the winning title, but it won by a significant margin:

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Well, I have to say that I’m a little disappointed.
Recap:
Alex Aiken, a Westminster council official and “former policy director for the Tories,” expressed to a conference of the Public Library Authorities his belief that “[t]he concept of the librarian has […]

Just ran across these at Slideshare.net and though I’d test it out by embedding them here. SlideShare is sort of like a YouTube for presentations (built in PowerPoint, Impress, or Keynote).

More about Slideshare here.

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Article from today’s NY Times Health section is here.

Previous posts about the Cartoon Medicine Show:

Cartoon Medicine Show
Dr. Seuss and Other Masters Of Public Health

More information:

Washington Post
National Academies

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Got an interesting question from an acquaintance made via the Web4Lib listserv:
One of our members is looking to map the terms in MedlinePlus to corresponding terms in the ICD-9 vocabulary. Do you know of anyone who’s done this? Is there an existing mapping that can be licensed?
The end goal is to two-fold:
1. Allow a search […]