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Okay, it has a terrible name (dervied from Netflix but having nothing to do with movies), but TextBookFlix might actually work out well for some students.

I just wish I could get past the awful, awful name. It’s a book rental service that allows you order online. The “order online” and “rental” are the […]

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 […]

As Steven says, more bad press.

Embedded video above. Depending on your aggregator, you may need to visit the site itself to view
Another great topic of discussion for LIS students- especially those who seek careers in public libraries.

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This WSJ article, “The Wizards of Buzz”, examines the influence of Digg, StumbleUpon, del.icio.us, Reddit, Newsvine, and Netscape.
To find the key influencers, The Wall Street Journal analyzed more than 25,000 submissions across six major sites. With the help of Dapper, a company that designs software to track information published on the Web, this analysis sifted […]

I got really exciting news today via an S.U. Listserv. The MSLIS program at Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies has launched a blog!

…and look down the sidebar to find the link to the program’s new Wiki!

Naturally, the news came from Dr. Scott Nicholson. You might associate Dr. Nicholson’s name with Bibliomining, or […]

In a recent post at Tame the Web, Michael Stephens writes that a group in his LIS701 class came up with a revision of Ranganathan’s Five Laws of Library Science.
For review, here are Ranganathan’s original laws:

1. Books are for use.
2. Every reader his book.
3. Every book its reader.
4. Save the time of the reader.
5. The […]

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 […]

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 […]

Steven L. MacCall, Ph.D. teaches courses in medical librarianship at the University of Alabama’s School of Library and Information Studies…and I am jealous of his students.
He has uploaded a bunch of his course presentations to Slideshare, including this one, introducing Consumer Health Collection Development for his LS 534, Health Sciences Librarianship:

It isn’t the same as […]

Syracuse University is not only offering a course on Health Literacy, but they’ve announced it to S.U.’s LIS students:
HSHP is offering a new course in Spring 2007, HTS 311/600, HEALTH LITERACY, taught by Luvenia W. Cowart, Ed.D., RN, Robert Wood Johnson Executive Nurse Fellow and Associate Professor of Practice in the College.
The undergraduate course is […]

So, a number of Dean Giustini’s LIBR534 students have blogs, but there’s one that I just have to mention:
PubMed Junkie

I’m just tickled by the name is all.

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Several months ago, a physician affiliated with our hospital asked me to come to his office for a tutorial on Microsoft Excel.
David: …and the place where a row and a column intersect is called a “cell.”
Physician: I’m not going to remember “cell.” I’m going to call it a “box.”
David: I really think you need […]

Via Library Stuff (again!):
The University of Buffalo Department of Library and Information Studies has launched the Library Student Journal, “A peer-reviewed student publication.”
Neat! What a great idea!

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Via Dean Giustini’s Google Scholar Blog, a very decent evaluation of consumer health information portal Healia by one of Dean’s MLIS students at UBC, Nancy Anderson (with Dean collaborating).

It is a good evaluation of the portal, and absolutely worth reading by any librarian in any kind of library that ever serves consumer healthcare information […]

It looks like students taking Health Sciences Librarianship (LS534) at the University of Alabama are being required to post article summaries in WordPress blogs. Here are a few I’ve run into:

Greg Schmidt’s article summaries in Medical Librarianship
ARTICLE SUMMARIES FOR LS 534: MEDICAL LIBRARIANSHIP
Sums, Crits, and other Acronyms

Found a few more by searching BlogLines.
I’m curious […]

Joy, the MLIS student who was looking for medical libraries that use RSS for clinician current awareness, has posted some of her notes on the uses of RSS in special libraries at her class group’s blog.
There are some good resources Joy’s group has noted on their blog that are worth checking out, too.

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If your medical library uses RSS, please let me know!
Yesterday, I got a lovely email from Joy, an MLIS student (who also holds a B.S. in nursing!). Among other things, she asks:

…Are you aware of non-academic, smaller hospital libraries utilizing RSS for their health care professional staff?
Aside from my own meager efforts, I’m not […]

Dean Giustini announces the anticipated Health Sciences Librarianship Wiki that his LIBR 534 students will start.
Here's hoping it is a bit like The Library Success Wiki.
This is great news and potentially a really useful resource to a lot of people in the profession.
I hope very much, though, that Dean allows it to be […]

Meredith Farkas says everything I thought (and a number of things I *should* have thought) when I took my first MLIS class last year and was disappointed at some of the technology-wary behaviors in some of my classmates.
Meredith rocks. 
Librarians can have groupies, right?  What would you call a librarian groupie?

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