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1. David Lee King has a great post from ALA Midwinter 2007 on Raising the Next-Gen Resource Sharing Librarian with insights from Mary Hollerich (National Library of Medicine), Audrey Huff (Northwestern University School of Law), Michael Porter (WebJunction), and Michael Stephens (Dominican University). All good stuff that I want to keep in mind […]

I’ve mentioned previously that I really enjoyed my trial of DynaMed and wished I could get it into our library’s budget. It looks like the UK’s NHS likes it, too.
From today’s press release:
IPSWICH, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–As the result of a procurement undertaken by the National Health Service (NHS) of England, DynaMed™ is now offered as […]

From the creator, Jason Poole:
Final project for my cataloging class at Final project for my cataloging class at UB, as a part of the requirements for a Master’s in Library Science. It consists of the results of an informal survey I did regarding the classification systems used by librarians in Monroe County as well as […]

Since we first announced LibWorm’s new tag clouds in December, Frankie and I have been talking about how they could be made more useful in helping to describe the zeitgeist of the biblioblogosphere.
One of the problems with the tag clouds was that they only represented tags from ALL items indexed by LibWorm. […]

Stop-motion silliness.

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Update: The final version has been posted, and you’re invited to add your three reasons why you love your library.
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This is great:

From http://www.njlibraries.org (Sponsored by the NJ State Library), the video appears to have been posted to YouTube by Nancy Dowd.

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I thought BioWizard was pretty cool the last time I wrote about it, but hadn’t been to see it in a couple months when I got an email from BioWizard’s Dr. Raju Raval:
“We have been fully redeveloping the site, and yes the new site has a completely different functionality, with usefulness and simplicity as our […]

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By Lars Iselid, Librarian at the Medical Library, Umeå University Library, Sweden. Lars is pretty excited about SlideShare. Can’t say I blame him- I was pretty […]

I learned a couple of things from this presentation on Web video sharing from Daniele Montemale, an Italian marketing student in Copenhagen:

Daniele’s blog appears to be http://www.viralavatar.com/, where he has also posted an interesting presentation about Second Life.

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B.U. Health Sciences Librarian Stewart Brower has some new information about his PubDrug project (previously mentioned here) including this presentation by Bill Loeffler and Amy Jo Michnik, 4th-year Pharm.D. students at U.B..

Stew posted other encouraging news on PubDrug today, too.
I really admire that as he pursues this enormously ambitious project, Stew seems to set […]

A librarian with whom I have been acquainted for more than 10 years sent these haikus to me, and I enjoy the way they describe the attitude and behavior of a very bad librarian.

A public service!
We’ll keep it hidden from them!
Library koan.
If you can sneak in
I guess we’ll give you info.
Is that how this works?
Thank […]

If you’re a medical librarian in training (or if you teach medical librarians in training), you can’t miss this.
Walden RR, Jerome RN, Miller RS. Utilizing case reports to build awareness of rare complications in critical care. J Med Libr Assoc 2007 Jan;95(1):3-8.
“As the second installment in the JMLA’s new case study column, this issue’s case […]

Via Tame the Web, a funny video about librarians and IT professionals in the model of the recent Apple Mac television advertisements:

I think the tensions between IT and libraries are much more pronounced in a hospital setting than in, for instance, a public library- don’t you? Systems security is a much more serious business […]

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LISNews has made a list of “10 Blogs To Read in 2007″ with LibWorm coming in at #4!
4. LibWorm
If you were familiar with LISFeeds, then consider Libworm to be LISFeeds 2.0. It doesn’t (yet) have all the features I wrote for LISFeeds, but I think you’ll find it a great way to follow all […]

Well, a number of other bibliobloggers are pointing out MedStory, and I was going to avoid doing the same until I tried it.
I can’t take seriously any health information vortal that includes Wikipedia and returns a Wikipedia page as the top result for my search on pseudomembranous colitis AHEAD of MedlinePlus.

It is far from a […]

I really dislike Ms. Dewey because it features mediocre search results and a slow, obnoxious interface.
That being said, this is pretty darned funny:

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Since I posted about the idea of a medical library offering iPods pre-loaded with library training materials for use while in the library, I’ve gotten three leads on such things.
Divine Instruction
Ratcatcher left a note to let me know that a comment at Michael Stephens’ Tame the Web from February of 2005 described the same idea […]

Librarians’ Rx, “a blog featuring items of interest to librarians working in Canadian health sciences libraries,” is the latest blog to display the MedLib Blog badge.

Librarians’ Rx is maintained by Trish Chatterley, Academic Intern at the John W. Scott Health Sciences Library, University of Alberta.
Previously, I’ve noted the following blogs that display the MedLib Blog […]

Reading from medical journals isn’t often this much fun.

CMAJ. 2006 Dec 5;175(12):1557-9.
Erle C.H. Lim, Amy M.L. Quek and Raymond C.S. Seet
Duty of care to the undiagnosed patient: Ethical imperative, or just a load of Hogwarts?
Abstract:
With the restoration of You-Know-Who to full corporeal form, the practice of the dark arts may lead to multitudes being charmed, […]

JTF (Just the Facts) MANUAL FOR THE INTERNS ONLINE
This manual was originally written in June, 1991, by D. Schram, MD, Internal Medicine, for third-year medical students as they begin their medicine rotations at the University of Michigan and Ann Arbor VA Hospitals. It was modified for use by the interns in 1993 by L. Duren, […]