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This looks like an interesting project. If you’re a New(ish) health sciences librarian, consider taking this survey? Results will be presented at MLA 2008 in May.
Practicality vs. Theory: Are we Preparing Health Sciences Librarians?
Click here to take the ‘Practicality vs. Theory’ Survey!
As new librarians in the Health Sciences field, Ivonne Martinez and […]

Photos from rehearsal for the Webcast:

Dale Prince really likes his iPhone. So do I, actually.

What may not be immediately obvious to those who have not met him is that Bart actually has a halo that is visible in person.

Michelle agrees with me that Dale rocks.

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I’ve mentioned previously that Mayo Libraries are doing a Learning 2.0 program. One of the participants, Mark Wentz, recently wrote The Ballad of Mayo Libraries 2.0 and has kindly allowed me to post it here. Love it!

(To the melody of Paul Henning’s “The Ballad of Jed Clampett.”)
Come learn about Libraries 2.0
Chock full of […]

So I get to give a talk next week at the Mayo Clinic in (Rochester, MN) as a part of Mayo Libraries 2.0.
I’ve been working on my notes and I think I’ve got everything covered that I need to, but I’m wondering if perhaps you have any thoughts to share?
F’rinstance:

What do you think are the […]

I saw some interesting comments on MEDLIB-L not too long ago:
“I do not think MLA, HLS, its officers, certainly not academic medical center librarians, understand that hospital libraries have ten years of life left,” writes the anonymous commenter. The commenter appears to hear the Joint Commission and others saying, “Let technology provide us with […]

Rachel (at Women’s Health News) wrote yesterday about her week-long course in biomedical informatics in a post wonderfully titiled “Dispatches from Nerd Camp.” She writes:
…our PubMed instructor declared, “I’m over the whole MeSH thing,” in the context of explaining that she thinks it’s completely unnecessary to know about and too hard to use.
[snip]
The […]

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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Now available for order from Haworth Press:
Medical Librarian 2.0: Use of Web 2.0 Technologies in Reference Services
Edited by M. Sandra Wood, MLS, MBA, AHIP, FMLA
Interesting, I think, that the experts sought out to write about Web technologies are disproportionately bloggers and/or people you’ve read about online.
Alexia Estabrook and I co-authored the chapter on RSS. […]

A few weeks ago, I mentioned that I was visiting NYC and asked for suggestions of libraries to visit. Kaura Gale, an awfully nice medical librarian at the Seymour J. Phillips Health Sciences Library of Beth Israel Medical Center, said Memorial Sloan-Kettering libraries were really worth seeing and that their director was very friendly.
I […]

I’m not the first to blog about these and I certainly won’t be the last, but I wanted to say a few brief “me too’s”:
I’m going to order Social Software in Libraries…

…and not just because Meredith mentions LibWorm in Chapter Three, either! I’m going to order it because Meredith’s writings on […]

Amanda Etches-Johnson recently posted about the presentation that she gave on “Heath Library 2.0″ at the OLA Superconference at the invitation of the OHLA, and included a link to a PDF of her presentation slides.
She made great choices about what tools and technologies to highlight and how.
Amanda also says very nice things about me that […]

If you’re a medical librarian in training (or if you teach medical librarians in training), you can’t miss this.
Walden RR, Jerome RN, Miller RS. Utilizing case reports to build awareness of rare complications in critical care. J Med Libr Assoc 2007 Jan;95(1):3-8.
“As the second installment in the JMLA’s new case study column, this issue’s case […]

The Hedgehog Librarian (who subscribes to more listservs than I do) has an interesting post on managing one’s online identity, and rightly points out that what one does online does (and should) matter to one’s reputation and career.
Particularly in the small profession of library science, where we do all know each other, people […]

Just noticed these this evening:
Karen Schneider: Library 2.0 Cookbook

Dave Pattern: Introduction to Web 2.0 & Library 2.0

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I should first share my thanks and Frankie’s for the lovely response we’ve had to LibWorm so far. Just a few notes on recent developments:

I recently discovered that Kevin at Yezbick.com made a LibWorm search add-on for Firefox or IE7 that’ll let you search LibWorm from your browser’s search bar!
To install it, you can […]

I am very bad at keeping secret anything that I’m excited about, so I am especially pleased that in the last three months, I’ve been able to keep the secret of LibWorm.com, created by MedWorm’s Frankie Dolan and by me.

With LibWorm, you can search over 1100 feeds, including more than 800 biblioblogs, many LIS journal […]