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Looks like I *will* be blogging in the month of May, but only from Chicago.
To my surprise, I was approved as an “official conference blogger” for MLA 2008.

All MLA 2008 conference bloggers:
Stewart Brower - Professional Notes
A’Lyn Ettien - The Creature from the Health Informatics Class
Marie Kennedy - Organization Monkey
Maureen ‘Molly’ Knapp - LSUHC New […]

I have distinct childhood memories of asking my mother what one word or another meant. She would point out that there was a dictionary close at hand designed exactly for that purpose and invite me to make use of it.
I remember asking my father to teach me to program in BASIC. He cheerfully […]

Info.RxCases is a “companion to a new health information service that is being offered to patients and their families at the Herzl Family Practise Centre in Montreal, Quebec.”

Blogger Francesca Frati (previously mentioned here) writes:
The Patient health Information Service at Herzl (H-PHIS) opened its doors in early July of this year (2007) and is in the […]

Michelle already elaborated a bit on Microblogging in a follow-up from the MLA Webcast last week, but this great video from CommonCraft provides a good, short explanation of the most popular microblogging platform, Twitter:

I have a Twitter account, I sometimes update my Facebook status, and I have a Pownce account that I don’t use. […]

(Just a quick note from a rehearsal break in Chicago)
I love this announcement from the JMLA Case Studies in Health Sciences Librarianship blog:
“…we’re going to start posting a “search challenge” question each Monday. We encourage you to post your ideas and questions in the comments or to us by email (using our profile links above). […]

In response to this post about Marcus Banks’ assertion that Professional Librarian Journals Should Evolve into Blogs, Rachel Walden (a medical librarian, a blogger and an editor at the JMLA) left the following comments:
…I tend to agree with T. Scott on these matters1, for several reasons. I don’t see any reason why librarianship journals as […]

I had planned just to blog about the calculator posted by the MidContinental Region of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, but before I got to it, The Krafty Librarian did much more by pointing to a whole bunch of calculators. Go check out Michelle’s post and see if one (or more) of […]

Blame Rachel. She started it by offering a critique of CNN’s Tips for savvy medical Web surfing:
In this section about searching for articles in the major medical literature database, PubMed, Guthrie advises reading just the beginning and end of the study, stating that “The conclusion will tell you whether the treatment they studied was […]

The Journal of the European Association for Health Information and Libraries has a new issue out.
On page 41 of the PDF, check out an article by Ioana Robu (”Semantic Web applications in biology and medicine”) that updates “An introduction to the Semantic Web for health sciences librarians” (J Med Libr Assoc. 2006;94(2):198-205.) with information […]

From the Yale University School of Medicine’s Cushing/Whitney Medical Library comes a nice screencast tutorial on generating search-based RSS feeds from OvidSP.
You can download the tutorial (mp4) or watch the streaming version.

Be sure to check out the rest of the tutorials from this blog of video tutorials and consider subscribing to its RSS feed.

These icons […]

Dean Giustini likes Marcus’ idea about replacing LIS journals with blogs (see yesterday’s post), but also has concerns:
…my only reservation is when research methods are used such as randomization and the articles would need to go through peer-review.
T. Scott (former editor of the JMLA and one of my favorite contrarians) explains some of his reservations […]

http://nlm.ourtoolbar.com/

This appears to be a Conduit toolbar…but I see no proof that the NLM is actually behind it.
If you install it and use it, leave a comment to let me know what you think of it?
[Via Guus van den Brekel]

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

Le beau (bo) blog d’un bobo bibliothécaire en médecine - là où l’on soigne les bobos, dans tous les sens du terme.
If I’m making proper use of translation tools and not being an idiot (bit dicey to make bets on that…), the title of this blog (Bobobiblioblog) appears to be a play on words, saying […]

Marcus Banks has closed and posted the results of his survey (previously mentioned here) for “librarians who read blogs that are written by health sciences librarians and targeted to other professionals.”
Check out the results here.
I loved seeing the results of Question 5:
5. How do you follow blogs?: 256 responses (1o people skipped this question)
A. Bookmark/check […]

The Krafty Librarian has assembled a number of useful resources on OvidSP that should be helpful to those still working on transition plans.
You can also check out what other medical libraries are doing by searching the Medical Library CSE for ovidsp.
You could even seek out specific instructional materials by searching for Ovidsp (handout OR […]

“Patient Education Matters!” is a bi-weekly e-newsletter for the staff and volunteers of Inova Health System. The “Patient Education Matters!” blog is an abridged version of this publication available to the general public.

Why is David always on about this badgey stuff? Badges? We don’t need no stinkin’ badges!
Previously, I’ve noted the following blogs […]

Well, I was pretty hard on Dean Giustini’s BMJ Editorial.
I have believed in the value of the dialectical process since long before I knew there was a term for it and have always believed that honest criticism serves the criticized, the critic, and those witnessing the process.
So I LOVE that Dean decided to […]

From Marcus Banks:
I’m working on a paper for a meeting in Las Vegas next month, called, “Delving into the Health Sciences Biblioblogosphere: How Has it Changed our Professional Practice?” The abstract is below.
For the paper I’ll include results of a survey of librarians who read blogs that are written by health sciences librarians and […]

THIS is absolutely the last thing I’ll post in 2007. I’m not kidding around here.
I just now discovered that Rachel nominated this blog in the Best Medical Technologies/Informatics Weblog category of the 2007 Medical Weblog Awards.

I don’t stand a snowball’s chance, but that was awfully nice of her.
If you have a […]

Last post of 2007. Really.
A survey was undertaken in 2007 in the US by the MLA Social Networking Software Task Force investigating use of collaborative/social networking tools and services. Results from the original survey of MLA members are reported at the Task Force on Social Networking Software blog.
Libraries Using Evidence - eblip.net.au […]