MHSLA 2009 Conference The CornflowerWiley has announced that the content and access rights of Blackwell Synergy journals will move to Wiley Interscience on July 1, 2008. The Synergy site will be discontinued, and links to Synergy URLs will be redirected.
Read the press release and FAQ sheet: Blackwell Synergy Journals Moving to Wiley InterScience
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Websiteoptimization.com reports that broadband users are experiencing slightly shorter response times despite the fact that the average web page has tripled in size since 2003. However, response times for the 43% of households that use dial-up continues to climb.
Another note I found of interest, since my institution blocks streaming video, is that the use [...]
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I’ve just tagged another article about virtual medical education in Second Life.
The relevance of Second Life to medical libraries was a controversial topic at MLA ‘08. One view is that Second Life is overhyped and our customers are not there; we should not waste our resources on it. The other side points out [...]
Filed under: Consumer Health, Future of Libraries, Health Sciences Libraries, Internet Resources, Web 2.0 tools, presentations | Tagged: medical libraries, MLA2008, Second Life, University of Michigan | Leave a Comment »
Press release from EBSCO:
In response to customer feedback, and through collaboration with
McMaster University, the EBSCOhost versions of CINAHL, CINAHL
Plus, CINAHL with Full Text, and CINAHL Plus with Full Text now
offer the ability to employ Clinical Queries as part of any search.
Clinical Queries, designed for clinician use, allow users to limit
searches with specific search strategies, to [...]
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MHSLA Research Committee poster (powerpoint)
I’d like to share the MHSLA Research Committee poster with you, but I’m having problems uploading and displaying the file. This is my third try, let’s see if something legible turns up this time. If not, well, watch this space. I’ll try again.
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Greetings from MLA ‘08!
The Research Committee presented its poster today: Health Sciences Libraries in Michgian: Connecting to Emerging Web 2.0 Technologies. The poster was well received. Some poster viewers were interested in our findings, as they were looking at the same issues. Eric Schnell, who will be part of Monday’s Panel Discussion on “Top Technology [...]
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2008 Midwest Chapter MLA / MHSLA Joint Conference
The Midwest MLA / MHSLA 2008 Conference Program Committee invites proposals for contributed papers relating to the conference theme of Vital Signs: Keeping You and Your Library Vibrant and Healthy. Topics may be informational or research-oriented and should fall into one of [...]
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The Spring 2008 issue of MHSLA News is now available at http://www.mhsla.org/home/news/News87.pdf . In addition to association news and 2008 Conference announcements, the issue includes Heidi Schroeder’s review of a 3-day workshop, EBM for Librarians: Appraising the Evidence for Validity, presented at University of Illinois at Chicago. A description of the upcoming CE workshop, Evaluating your Impact, is also [...]
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