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Archive for June, 2009

NCBI ROFL

Martha Hardy (friend, medical librarian, incredibly cool person) hipped me to NCBI ROFL, a wonderful blog that highlights the best chuckles from PubMed citations.

Edit: D’oh! Nikki posted about this yesterday and Berci before that!

I have become a truly lame blogger.

June 27th, 2009 | Category: Blogging, For Medical Libraryfolk, Fun | Comments (3)

CHLA-ABSC 2009

Thanks so much to Laurie Blanchard and everybody at CHLA for inviting me to speak! I enjoyed Winnipeg and it was a treat to finally meet people like Francesca Frati (who is awesome) and Mark Rabnett.

The slides for my talk (which look awful in Slideshare) are embedded below.

To clarify for Krista Clement:

I think anything that removes obstacles between users and the information they want is good. If more fully automating some functions of the library makes those functions less visible, I think that’s great. I don’t think that doing a better job for users will result in decreased funding, but I do think that better automation will cut costs.

June 9th, 2009 | Category: For Medical Libraryfolk, Medical Librarianship Blogs, Presentations, Shameless Self-Promotion, Technology | Comments (2)

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The Placebo Effect Explained in a video February 21, 2010
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Bij het stoppen van Biomedbiblog January 11, 2010
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