News, Scholarly Communications, Journals: Keep up to date with ticTOCS

Scientists, clinicians and students who need to read continually in their specialty fields to stay current frequently express frustration over the amount of time and efforts needed to keep up each month. Our collection management librarian at UCHC recently told me about this great site:  ticTOCs where one can… “ find 12,415 scholarly journal Table [...]

News, Public Health, Global Health: A Potential Pandemic of Influenza

Public health concerns dominate the news headlines this week, as evidence continues to unfold of a global outbreak of a novel strain of swine influenza A/H1N1. Thanks to an active international group of Medical Bloggers and Librarians connected through social networking sites such as FriendFeed or Twitter, as I arrive at work on Monday morning, [...]

The Friday Post #31: A Collection of Errors, Pimping, Anatomical Knitting and One Classic Music Video

Here’s the Friday Post #31 for Apr 24 2009. First:  A funny collection of One Hundred 404 Error Screens from the blog of Francesco Mugnai. I especially liked the guy with the long ponytail in the red cowboy bikini and the thigh-high leather boots (you know, the one holding the .357 magnum).  In fact I [...]

News, Media, Web 2.0 Culture: On Information Overload

National Library Week?  (Oh… totally missed it because I spent all last week trying to get Twitter figured out and am making some progress with that). Today (Apr 22 2009), Google informed me, is Earth Day. In an approximate way, a recent campaign by the non-profit group Adbusters.org is similar. On their “About” page, Adbusters.org, [...]

Reference for Academic-Health Science Libraries, Collection Management, Open Access: Peripheral Finds

. Having been hunkered down in my cubicle for the past month updating the library’s Reference Collection, I am now ready to step back into the light and offer up Part #3 of Reference Ruminations (if you missed the first two postings, here’s part 1 and part 2). Digging around looking for new or updated [...]

News, Scholarly Communications, Scientific Literature: The DBIO 100

Librarians like to network (and socialize) and one of their major professional associations to consider joining is Special Libraries Association.  SLA is a non-profit organization representing the interests of librarians and knowledge managers working for commercial corporations, law firms, governmental agencies, non-profit organizations, biomedical, technical or academic institutions, museums, law firms, etc. SLA sponsors a [...]

The (Good) Friday Post #30: News, Holidays: Welcome Spring!

Welcome, Sunshine and Daffodils ! Photo Credit: Courtesy of Zazzle.com – All rights reserved – Copyright 2009

News, Teaching and Learning in Medicine and Dentistry: An Upgrade for MedEdPortal

.MedEdPORTAL is an open-access archive of 1,300 educational or clinical training materials voluntarily submitted by medical or dental faculty from around the world, sponsored and produced by the Association of American Medical Colleges and American Dental Education Association.  Here is the AAMC description of the site: ” MedEdPORTAL is a free online publication service…  designed [...]

The Friday Post #29: Librarian Shoes, GigaPan and Bad Bad Food

This is the Friday Post #29 for Apr 3 2009. Heard of GigaPan? Here’s an excerpt from the About page: ” GigaPan is a collaborative project of Google, Carnegie Mellon University and NASA Ames Intelligent Systems Division’s Robotics Group. It is a robotic platform that attaches to a digital camera and some computer software. The [...]