Posted on September 5, 2008 by Sandy Swanson
The Emerging Technologies Librarian’s recent post, Assumptions about Library’s Role in Disasters, raises some interesting points about disaster planning, and library roles in general, as it compares public vs. library administrators’ assumptions about what materials public and academic libraries hold/retain, and in what format that material should be available.
The contrast between the patrons’ assumption that [...]
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Posted on May 24, 2008 by Sandy Swanson
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 [...]
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Posted on December 2, 2007 by Sandy Swanson
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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