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Got email from EBSCO’s Kathleen McEvoy who says that the policies I criticized yesterday have been miscommunicated and misunderstood.
The user doesn’t have to click on an item and go to EBSCO to prevent a feed from expiring. What keeps the feed active is that EBSCO notes it is still being polled regularly by your […]

(Be sure to check out the List of Medical Wikis)
American Medical News (weekly newspaper of the American Medical Association) has an article this week on AskDrWiki and other medical Wikis titled “Physician wikis: Do-it-yourself textbooks” (Full text available to subscribers and AMA members only).

(A physician affiliated with our hospital donates his paper copy of […]

[EDIT] Please disregard the criticisms of EBSCO’s policies in the latter part of this post. They were not explained or understood well. See this post for clarification.[/EDIT]
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I was in the process of writing detailed instructions on how to use the new RSS features in EBSCOhost when I saw Paul Pival’s kick-butt screencast.

Paul has […]

Mary Chimato points to a new Wiki for those in Circulation and Access services.

The purpose of this site is to foster communication and community among Circulation and Access Services professionals. Far too often, the work performed by circulation staff is minimized by the Library community, especially the professional community. This site is a tool to […]

Have I mentioned recently how much MedWorm creator and LibWorm co-creator Frankie Dolan rocks? Let’s just make sure I cover that bit of housekeeping: Frankie Dolan Rocks.
Moving on…
Okay, say we want to search MedWorm for mentions of Ulcerative Colitis. When we get the search results, we now see a new option to […]

Dymphie (at Biomedbiblog) points out an interesting collaboratively-created Web site for collecting and sharing medical mnemonics.

Also neat: The site’s content is also available in PalmOS, PDF, AvantGo, and WAP formats.

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Seems to be from the Colgate Comedy Hour.

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This site is a visual educational resource dedicated to providing pictures that are representative of common and uncommon physical exam findings. Discussions of pathophysiology, diagnostics, and treatment are not included. View the “Links” to see selected related sites.
Feel free to download images for use in your own educational endeavors, though please provide appropriate credit for […]

Alan points out an article from the Health Information and Libraries Journal (UK) worth checking out (especially for those new to these technologies) that I somehow completely missed:
Maged N. Kamel Boulos, Steve Wheeler (2007)
The emerging Web 2.0 social software: an enabling suite of sociable technologies in health and health care education1
Health Information and Libraries Journal […]

I often stumble across good and useful things by accident.

Case in point: While using Google to look for a document I had misplaced, a typo caused me to stumble across an article from the March 2007 issue of the CILIP Health Libraries Group Newsletter titled “Internet Sites of Interest,” featuring short descriptions […]

I’ve mentioned before that I switched from Bloglines as my feed aggregator to Google Reader, but it occurred to me recently that I should’ve provided instructions on how others can do this quickly and easily. Try using the instructions below to import your feeds into Google Reader in just a couple of minutes and […]

The Wall Street Journal Health blog mentions that Google VP Adam Bosworth (whose interest in health information I’ve previously posted about here, here and here) spoke today at the World Health Care Congress in Washington D.C.
Bosworth…said patients should have online access to all of the electronic health information that exists about them, whether it’s contained […]

(If you’re reading this post in an aggregator, you’ll need to visit the blog to see this work.)
To see a demonstration of what Bubble Guru does, click here.
(Has audio- adjust the volume on your speakers to be appropriate to your environment)
Try it yourself: http://www.bubbleguru.com/

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Great, simple explanation of what RSS can do for the user.

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There are two types of Internet users, those that use RSS and those that don’t. This video is for the people who could save time using RSS, but don’t know where to start.
I love the reversal of the arrows and the “Netflix vs. […]

Medical librarians and some of their varied work roles were featured in the Jobs section in the April 15, 2007 [Minneapolis, MN] Star Tribune.

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On April 20, 2007, the number of citations in PubMed surpassed 17 million.

Wow.
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Okay, so far we have BioWizard, Dissect Medicine, MediNews and Onexamination- time for one more: JournalReview.org.

In conversations with friends, I have previously referred to sites like BioWizard and Dissect Medicine as a sort of “digital journal club,” so it is sort of neat to learn that’s how journalreview.org sees it, too:
In the academic world, “Journal […]

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Interesting outreach program by the Macon State College Library sends librarians with laptops to the cafeteria/student life center at lunchtime to answer reference questions or help students find information they need for their coursework.
It seems like a groovy idea to me. One question: Why only 90 minutes per week?

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Syracuse University’s MSLIS News blog posts about http://www.librarycareersny.org.
(From NYLINE listserv:)
Librarycareersny.org is a coordinated effort to collect and present information supplied by educators, librarians, and other educational sources for people interested in pursuing a library and information science career.
I’m very flattered that the page about medical librarians includes a link to this blog and a […]

…with help from Frank McCourt and David Remnick:

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