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I have (no joke) 20 posts that are half-written, and have ideas for another dozen or so that I want to get to- but they’ll need to wait until next week.
Reason 1:
I must try to finish a writing project (about which I’ll write more soon).
Reason 2:
I must make sure I’m well-prepared for my visit to […]

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Okay, not the most engaging way to introduce the Cochrane Collaboration- but still neat.
For another introduction, see this video.

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The Cochrane tutorial video I posted a few days ago from YouTube was good in its content, but the quality of the image left something to be desired.
James Carson, the reference/acquisitions librarian at Lake-Sumter Community College who put the tutorial together was kind to contact me and point me towards the much higher quality version.

If […]

In the middle of an attempt to explain RSS to a Facebook user (who is already uniwittingly making use of RSS feeds), this exchange cracked me up:
the_dude: I haven’t heard of those Facebook apps. Tumblr? Reddit? Digg?
engtech: Those aren’t Facebook apps. They’re different websites. You don’t have to login to Facebook to read them. They’re […]

Patricia Anderson (whose slides I always find worth a look) put up a new presentation yesterday:

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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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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.

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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 […]

Medical Librarian Julie Smith points to this video about the Cochrane Collaboration.

Cool!
These Cochrane Podcasts are new to me, too. You can subscribe to them with this link: http://cochrane.org/podcasts/brasil/rss/plenary_all_sessions.rss

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Lee and Sachi LeFever are awesome.

Other CommonCraft videos I thought were especially good:

Social Bookmarking in Plain English
RSS in Plain English

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This will probably interest libraryfolk more than medicalfolk- but if you like art and design, you might forgive me this off-topic post.
My wife, Dr. Elizabeth J. Fowler, is a professor of art and design history at Syracuse University and is currently teaching a course on 20th and 21st-Century Design. She decided she wanted to […]

This looks like another article that I want to read but don’t have access to.
Ophthalmology. 2007 Oct;114(10):1801-3.
Web 2.0, library 2.0, physician learning 2.0.Liesegang TJ.
PMID: 17908589
(This blog would be a lot better if publishers would just give me free subscriptions- or at least send me copies of articles like this one. I know- it’d be […]

The screencast below (made with Screencast-O-Matic) shows how to make a screencast…with Screencast-O-Matic.
Viewing the embedded screencast below (and recording new ones) requires Java.

Why should libraryfolk care about screencasting? Let Paul Pival help answer that question.

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London-based medical librarian Reinhard Wentz (previously mentioned here) and medical student Vipul Sharma have produced a a great handout to help introduce users to Wikipedia as a potential resource. The handout includes links for additional readings on background and issues such as bias, currency, reliability, and plagiarism.
I thought it was excellent and was very […]

Although he is best-known as an outspoken atheist, Richard Dawkins is a respected biologist.
Really, if you read his work or hear him speak, you get the sense that he isn’t actually hostile towards religious people, he’s hostile towards attacks on reason. So it isn’t really surprising that in his Channel 4 special, The Enemies […]

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 […]

I was going to review Twease today, but I realized that David already did a great job with it, and that one of its creators, Fabien Campagne, left additional notes in the comments section that make for a complete review of what it does and how it works.
What neither of them touched on, though, was […]

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 […]

Jon Brassey has ten tips to help you get the most out of his TRIP Database.
There’s an even more comprehensive list of tips here.

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