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I subscribe to a bunch of mailing lists because they frequently contain useful information, but being subscribed to these lists using the email account provided by our hospital would be problematic. The volume of postings on some lists would clutter up the acount, making it more difficult to manage and making it more likely […]

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Added a feed from Google Blog Search (which uses a fairly narrow search) to the Superfeed.
Added filters to the Superfeed to screen out a handful of false positives.
Embedded Grazr widget (see end of post)

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Wouter has made the Superfeed available in Dutch.
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To make sure I don’t miss any online chatter about Computers in Libraries 2008 […]

You’ve probably heard about ReadBurner by now.

The idea behind ReadBurner is that it aggregates counts of items that are frequently shared in Google Reader.
First a point of clarification: ReadBurner doesn’t get its data directly from Google Reader in aggregate via an API- it gets the data from the RSS feeds of public linkblogs fed by […]

A few days ago I made a Google Custom Search Engine for searching the Web sites of medical libraries.
Connie Schardt pointed out that it could be useful for finding handouts, tutorials and other teaching materials. Here are some ideas on how this might be done.

Say you’re looking for PowerPoint presentations about Evidence based medicine. […]

Berci asked:
David, do you know how can we subscribe to searches on Youtube? I mean, I’d like to follow the RSS feed of the search term genetics on Youtube, for example.
Jan answered:
You can create RSS feeds for tags. FI: rss for genetics will be http://www.youtube.com/rss/tag/genetic.rss.
For search related rss-feeds on YouTube you could try referd.info.
The […]

It looks like the article I wrote for the Journal of Hospital Librarianship is going to appear in print in Volume 7, Issue 3.
My hope was that this article would be a painless, step-by-step guide to help the medical librarian set up and start using an aggregator right away.
Many health sciences library staffers who might […]

It occurred to me recently that I haven’t written a how-to post in a good while.
The primary reason for this is that I don’t have a good idea what sorts of how-to posts would be most welcome or useful to readers. If you have a technology question or a how-to you’d like to see, […]

[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 […]

Update: Wow!ter is absolutely right- his variation is better.
Query: +(CIL2007 “CIL 2007″ “computers in libraries”)
Feed for this query
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Its great that so many bibliobloggers are posting about Computers in Libraries 2007, but it can be a lot to keep up with. An easy way to keep up with all the posts is to use LibWorm […]

As a part of the 5 Weeks to a Social Library course, Melissa L. Rethlefsen prepared this great screencast to demonstrate some of the nifty things one can do with RSS for a Library’s Web site.

Melissa is the Education Technology Librarian at the Learning Resource Center of the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine in my […]

We’ll start with the radio buttons, then move on to search operators that LibWorm understands.
RADIO BUTTONS
There are three radio buttons beneath LibWorm’s search field, any words, all words, and exact phrase.
any words
By default, any words is selected when you first load the main page of LibWorm in your web browser. Having this radio button […]

I had to smile a little when I noticed this post at Hedgehog Librarian about RSS information overload.
First, because I noticed it via multiple feeds in my aggregator. I have a few feeds set up to let me know when others post links to my blog, and other feeds that look for mentions of […]

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.

These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.

This post is dedicated to David Schad, Opera evangelist.
A reader with the great pseudonym of Per Sivle left a comment earlier today detailing how to add PubMed to the search bar of Opera:
Just to voice the Opera way of adding search engines:
Right-click in the search field in PubMed and select “Create […]

Oooh…they make it so easy!
Some users may not know that both IE and Firefox have search bars built into them that are very adaptable. Almost any kind of web search can be added to these, but today we’ll look at adding an essential search tool for medical libraries: PubMed. Once this […]

Yep, you can set up one-click feed subscription from IE7 to BlogLines, too, but you have to install an add-on first. Also, it takes two clicks and doesn’t work for me as advertised by BlogLines.

Go here: Download page for IE7 BlogLines Add-on
Click the Download link:

Click Run:

Click Run again:

Click Next:

Click I Agree (after, of […]

Walt Crawford noted in a comment at davidrothman.net:
When I upgraded to FF2, it struck me as trivial to configure it so that a click on the new location-bar orange goodie brings up the Bloglines subscription page.
I felt the same way, but Walt and I are both fairly computer-savvy. Many users (and libraryfolk) don’t have […]

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 […]

I’ve found that a number of hospital employees have current awareness needs that aren’t clinical. Sure, you can set up alerts from ProQuest or EBSCO from non-clinical periodicals, but if what your users want is to know when your organization appears in the news, I’ve found the following pretty effective and completely free.
There are […]

I received an email recently from a Medical Librarian asking if RSS feeds could be generated from EBSCO databases.
Short Answer: Yes!
Longer answer: Yes…but EBSCO’s interface doesn’t make it easy or intuitive. Here’s a walkthrough.
First, click on “Sign In to My EBSCOHost”

Enter username and password, then click the “Login” button. (If you haven’t created […]