- Marie Kennedy is the Serials & Electronic Resources Librarian at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, CA. This blog is about organization, librarianship, and sometimes monkeys and/or bananas.
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World Health Day
Today is World Health Day. An issues paper posted at the WHO site notes the following as key issues you may wish to consider regarding the theme of this year’s World Health Day, international health security: emerging diseases economic stability … Continue reading
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the divine download
Wired has a new article about a doctor practicing what is probably best be described as “complementary therapies.” “The Divine came to me and said, Zhi Gang, transmit my soul software — a spiritual program — to humanity for healing,” … Continue reading
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placebo journal goes bloggy!
we have a casual reading section in our library in which we house some popular periodicals, including the placebo journal, a medical satire publication. i was happy to learn that they now also publish a blog (http://placebojournal.blogspot.com/index.html). doesn’t that make … Continue reading
if you use pubmed, check out this new article organizational program
i just downloaded the preview version of “papers” on my mac at home. wow, what a cool program. it opens like itunes, organizes like itunes, but instead of organizing music it organizes articles you retrieve from pubmed. you can read … Continue reading
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don’t look at the pictures, just look at the text
when i first started working at this medical library i was heartily disturbed when i would pass by books with graphic images on the covers. if the book is about a particular technique – let’s use open heart surgery for … Continue reading
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PubDrug update
A while back I mentioned that a wiki had been constructed in order to create a community-written collection of drug monographs. It’s up and running, and participants are actively creating content. So far, 7 monographs have been completed. If you … Continue reading