MHSLA 2009 Conference The CornflowerIt’s been one of those kinds of weeks (or months) — at any given time, one or more of the 10 workstations I’m responsible for is misbehaving in some fashion. They’re all “locked down,” so even if I knew how to solve the problem, I would still have to call corporate headquarters across the [...]
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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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MHSLA member Mike S. posted this on the MHSLA listserv:
This from the BBC News.
Interesting piece on Web 2.0 Technologies. Reference is to the media,
but the implications to libraries and society as a whole will be apparent.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/7208520.stm
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David Rothman compares several free online consumer-oriented drug-interaction checkers to see how they handle a particular contraindicated combination. Read the article: Online Drug Interaction Checkers.
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Meredith Farkas summarizes a new Pew Internet & American Life report in her blog Information Wants To Be Free.
In brief, the report finds that survey respondents who had experienced one of 10 types of problems that had a potential connection to the government or government-provided information (including a serious illness or health [...]
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David Rothman has taken the list of medical library websites published by M.D. Hardin (http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/hslibs.html) and built a Custom Search Engine to search them: http://davidrothman.net/medical-library-search-engine/.
Custom Google Search is available free, and even ad-free for nonprofits. I tried this out; take a look at my “EBP Site Search.” After refining it a bit [...]
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A couple of stories posted at the Pew Internet & American Life Project describe recent reports on “e-patient” use of the Internet to obtain information about their own health conditions – or that of a relative, neighbor or friend who is not so conversant with using the Internet.
Doctor-directed Health Resources describes a recent Pew report, [...]
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