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This NLM promotional video from 1996 “…[d]escribes current NLM services using vignettes from actual case histories of the Library’s online and other service offerings.”

Also available for download here.

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Medical librarian Anne Ludvik takes a proactive approach to helping busy staff nurses solve patient care problems and get up-to-date health information at the San Francisco Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center.
“It’s difficult for nurses to get to the physical library, so we work to bring digital resources to them,” Ludvik says.
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Not new, but seemingly new to YouTube:
Please join us in congratulating in Loretta Merlo, Head of Circulation, on her award-winning video display screen promotion celebrating the contributions and importance of health sciences information professionals. The promotion highlighted Mark Funk, Head of Resource Management-Collections, who is currently the President of the Medical Library Association (MLA) and […]

Just heard this story from SoundPrint on my local NPR station. If you work in a library, you should go listen to it now.

Who needs libraries?
Produced by: Richard Paul
As more and more information is available on-line, as Amazon rolls out new software that allows anyone to find any passage in any book, an important […]

…Curious Expeditions has attempted to gather together the world’s most beautiful libraries for you…We hope you enjoy them as much as we do.
Read the whole thing and see the photos here.
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Thanks to Mike for pointing this out!

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This nine-minute video introduction to the University of Bristol Medical Library starts out a bit humorous, then becomes a fairly standard orientation film with oddly anachronistic music.

Is anyone else a little uncomfortable with the use of the word “idiot” in referring to patrons? I mean…if the whole video continued the joke (following Alan Moron […]

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On 7/21/2007, a Harris Poll was released which stated that in the last two years, the percentage of people who “have used the Internet to search for health-related information” has gone from 53% to 71%. This was based on a telephone poll of 1,010 adults between 7/10/07 and 7/16/07. The Harris report refers […]

Women’s Health News, written by medical librarian Rachel Walden, MLIS, is now accredited by the Health On the Net Foundation.
Women’s Health News has received accreditation from the Health on the Net Foundation, which certifies that the site complies with a set of standards for trustworthy health information on the web. You’ll see the “HONCode” logo […]

Above: Embedded video. If you’re reading this in an aggregator, you may need to visit the site to view.
Lots more here, but no indication yet of when the film might be completed and released.

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Reading, The Healthy Option
Wednesday 18th April 2007 , Birmingham
A one day conference for anyone interested in the links between reading activites and health. Presentations will include Get into Reading, RAYs (Reading and You), Books on Prescription, reading groups and other bibliotherapy projects and activities.
Check out some of the really interesting presentation materials.

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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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…with help from Frank McCourt and David Remnick:

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Regular readers know that I usually try to avoid posting on topics already covered by other MedLib bloggers and Michelle (at The Krafty Librarian) already posted about this, but it’s worth repeating.

Making medical fact-finding easy
Don’t trust the Internet? These local experts will help
11:07 AM CDT on Tuesday, April 17, 2007
By BRIDGET BARRY THIAS / Special […]

Robin Siegel of Howell, the librarian at CentraState Medical Center in Freehold Township (Freehold, NJ) is profiled by the Asbury Park Press.
Not a ground-shaking item, but it sure is nice to see a reasonably good description of what a Hospital Librarian does.
Excerpt:
“I’m here to answer questions,” Siegel said, “for anybody in the hospital,” meaning for […]

I enjoyed this fun, well-produced promotional video which I believe is about these libraries.

However, the title: “Police Library Girls,” seems disrespectful to me. How about “Police Librarians”? If the department’s professionals were all men, would it have been titled “Police Library Boys”? Somehow I doubt it.
What an interesting sort of special library, […]

A recent thread on the Web4Lib listserv explored various Web tools for locating libraries geographically. Here’s a review of those plus a few more.
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National Center for Education Statistics: Library Statistics Program*

GeoLib*
Public Library Geographic Database (PLGDB) Mapping

Libraries411.com*

MapMuse: Public Libraries*

WebJunction: Online Directory of Public Library Statistics*
“Here’s a directory of public library […]

From Room to Read:

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About Room to Read (Canada)
About Room to Read (US)
Room to Read partners with local communities throughout the developing world to establish schools, libraries, and other educational infrastructure. We seek to intervene early in the lives of […]

Sophia is going to answer questions sent to her by email about information resources and research. She introduces the idea in a video here.
(Embedding of the video, to my disappointment, is disallowed)
Sophia has also set up a blog for the project.
It is an interesting idea. It would be especially neat if Sophia were […]

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…made for the USF (University of South Florida in Tampa) Library…hope you enjoy our library-themed rap based on SNL’s “Lazy Sunday.”
EDIT: Since YouTube pulled them, I found the embeddable videos on Google Video instead. (Proof that Google Video and YouTube are not well synchronized yet).

YouTube is packed with parodies of and tributes […]