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Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
Happy trails to you…
I have time for one last post before I get kicked out of here. I apologize for the long delay since my last post, but this last month was very crazy in getting ready for the MLA annual meeting. There was the presidential address to write, illustrate, and rehearse; the board meeting to run; the […]
4 Comments » - Posted in Medical librarianship, Web 2.0, Blogging by Mark
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
Implementing the new NIH policy
April 7 is fast approaching, the deadline when all newly accepted publications based on NIH funding must be submitted to PubMed Central. It’s new, it’s confusing, and a lot of librarians are scrambling around trying to educate their researchers. The April 2 issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter has a nice list of very […]
No Comments » - Posted in Medical librarianship by Mark
Thursday, March 27th, 2008
How Web 2.0 works
We have hundreds of MLA members taking the Web 2.0 101 CE course. Comments are very positive, and people are enjoying learning about these useful new tools. If you would like to know more about how Web 2.0 actually works, this video explains the machinery in the background that makes it all come together.
2 Comments » - Posted in Web 2.0 by Mark
Thursday, March 6th, 2008
Viva Librarians! – Las Vegas
For some reason I had never been to Las Vegas before, so I jumped at the invitation to attend this joint meeting of the Northern California/Nevada Medical Library Group and the Medical Library Group of Southern California & Arizona. I arrived a few days early at the Flamingo, the meeting hotel, in order to […]
2 Comments » - Posted in Travels by Mark
Thursday, February 28th, 2008
Screencasting tools
Mashable specializes in social networking news. A recent post covers 12 screencasting tools that one can use to create video tutorials. Most of us are probably familiar with Camtasia, which is relatively expensive, and currently works only on Windows. It’s also overkill for a lot of things we want to do. Take a look at […]
1 Comment » - Posted in Web 2.0 by Mark
Thursday, January 31st, 2008
Their product is explanation
As easy as most web 2.0 applications are to use, sometimes it’s the concept of a tool that’s hard to describe to somebody. “Why exactly would I use social bookmarking? Why aren’t my regular bookmarks good enough?” Fortunately, the geniuses at Common Craft work hard to explain these concepts in plain English. They are a […]
No Comments » - Posted in Web 2.0 by Mark
Thursday, January 10th, 2008
Send me your success (and failure) stories
In an earlier post I presented some findings from the survey done by the Task Force on Social Networking Software. They found that many librarians are having access to various social networking web sites and applications blocked by their IT departments. I asked for some success stories on getting these sites unblocked, but I didn’t […]
8 Comments » - Posted in Web 2.0 by Mark
Tuesday, January 8th, 2008
Oxford
Very nice place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place.
George Bernard Shaw
I serve on several publishers’ library advisory boards, and I attended the fall meeting of a major publisher in Oxford, England this November. Other than spending several hours at Heathrow Airport, this was my first visit to […]
2 Comments » - Posted in Travels by Mark
Friday, December 28th, 2007
Rating medical librarianship as a career
Thanks to Stephanie Holmgren for posting on medlib-l a few days ago the link to the US News & World Report article on Best Careers for 2008. The author, Marty Nemko, is a veteran career coach, and is also the author of “Cool Careers for Dummies.” The article highlights 31 careers that offer outstanding opportunities […]
2 Comments » - Posted in Medical librarianship, Priorities by Mark
Thursday, December 27th, 2007
Southern Charm
This meeting was another twofer: my first time at the Southern Chapter and my first time in Charleston, SC. I was delighted by both. Stepping off the plane was my first delight: a warm, pleasant climate (in November!) with palm trees. I’m a transplanted Midwesterner living in New York City, so palm trees have always […]
