141 posts tagged For Medical Libraryfolk

There are a number of medical libraryfolk using Twitter, so I thought it might be fun if we were able to conveniently send each other short messages during MLA 2008. All I had to do was set up the MLA2008 account and register it with GroupTweet. Here’s how you can join in: 1.

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

Hakia says they’re tapping the expertise of librarians. As CEO Dr. Riza C Berkan writes on the Hakia blog: Every Web search starts with two queries. One is X. The other one is “who knows X the best?” Because finding X is not enough if the author of that page does not know X himself/herself.

Via Dale Prince: This Science Friday segment about PubMed Central from last Friday includes free streaming audio and appearance by Harold Varmus.

I think I may take the week off from blogging. Until Tuesday afternoon, I need to get some writing projects done and make preparations to be away from work for the rest of the week. I’m flying to San Diego Tuesday afternoon for the American Medical Association’s 28th Annual Medical Communications Conference.

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.

The idea behind Pubget is that it speeds up the process of grabbing the full-text PDFs from PubMed search results. The video below illustrates the idea: Above: Embedded video. If you are reading this in an aggregator, you may need to visit the site to view the video.

Added to the list of medical wikis: WikiEcho Self-description: “Wikiecho is a project to create a free, up-to-date and reliable online resource covering the rapidly advancing field of echocardiography.” Intended Audience/Users: “This website is intended to be used by medical students, residents,

If you’re looking for an excellent introduction to Nature’s social bookmarking service for scientists, check out Melissa Rethlefsen’s review in the April 2008 JMLA. [HTML] [PDF]

J Am Coll Radiol. 2008 Apr;5(4):593-7. Quality of CT colonography-related web sites for consumers. Sheran J, Dachman AH. Department of Radiology, University of Chicago Hospitals, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA.