MHSLA 2009 Conference The CornflowerMDMLG spring meeting will be held on Wednesday, March 19, 2008 at the Farmington Community Library – Main Library (on 12 Mile Rd) in the Auditorium.
Evette Atkin from the Michigan Library Consortium will present a program on Second Life , a 3-D virtual world. As part of the presentation, Evette has coordinated a meeting “in [...]
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Well, a few months into managing the MHSLA blog, I still feel that I’m learning the ropes. I’ve recently read a series of guidelines for blog authors, and they certainly offer food for thought:
MLA’s Task Force for Social Networking Guidelines for Bloggers offers suggestions concerning cultural aspects, civil discourse, handling comments, content, legal aspects, [...]
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ReadWriteWeb offers an article Comparing Six Ways to Identify Top Blogs in Any Niche.The 6 methods, and their top finds for the “medical libraries” niche:
Technorati (search “medical libraries”)
DavidRothman.net
Health, Sciences & Libraries (from University of Michigan)
Newswise Medical News
Musings of a Medical Librarian Maven (Alexia’s blog)
Another 60-some under “Medical Library” or “Health Sciences Library”, including the MDMLG [...]
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The Krafty Librarian posts an article on microblogging ["a form of blogging that allows users to write brief text updates (usually less than 200 characters) and publish them, either to be viewed by anyone or by a restricted group which can be chosen by the user"]. While she hadn’t seen any useful application of [...]
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More humorous cat pics
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Metz C: Web 3.0. PC Magazine (PCMag.com), posted 17 Mar. 2007. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2102852,00.asp
About a year ago, PC Magazine posted an article describing potential future development of the web. Some possibilities:
The Semantic Web – improves search capabilities (or page design) so that search engines find meaning rather than keywords: Paris Hilton? or the Hilton in Paris?
3D Web [...]
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A study in this month’s Obstetrics & Gynecology examines the use of Cochrane systematic reviews by authors of Clinical Experts Series articles and concludes that, in the United States, Cochrane reviews are underutilized.
Grimes DA, Hou MY, Lopez LM, Nanda K: Do clinical experts rely on the Cochrane Library? Obstet Gynecol 2008 Feb; 111 (2 pt [...]
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Try out a quick medical vocabulary test at University of South Carolina -
Thanks to davidrothman.net
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From book reviews to new tech to urban legends, LISNews offers this list of RSS feeds for “news you can use”:
Boing Boing (Feed)
The Bookslut Blog (Feed)
The Consumerist (Feed)
Lifehacker (Feed)
Open Access News (Feed)
Post Secret (Feed)
Read Write Web (Feed)
Seth Godin (Feed)
Slashdot (Feed)
Snopes – What’s New (Feed)
Check out the LISNews post for descriptions and runners-up: 10 Non-Librarian Blogs to [...]
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