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The Evidence-based Librarian: August 2011
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Wednesday, August 17, 2011. Now it's prep for fall - what happened there? Hmm Nice to think about something besides the you-know-what. I thought my husband was going to put a sock in it, because it's all I talked about for years. I'll get back to the topic of this blog, but right now - it's nice to be doing something else. Links to this post. Location: Denton, TX, USA. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). How can we possibly know if we do not even have an understanding of who we are and how we think?
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The Evidence-based Librarian: March 2010
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Thursday, March 18, 2010. Faultlines: Vital signs for hospital libraries. If you have not read the Vital Pathways. Report, out in the October 2009 issue of JMLA, I recommend it. This symposium, published as a group of articles, is the outcome of an initiative begun by the former MLA president MJ Tooey, in responding to numerous reports of hospital library closings, budget cuts, and job losses. Following an unsuccessful attempt, just now, to find something - almost anything! Once again, we have faultlines...
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The Evidence-based Librarian: March 2013
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Saturday, March 16, 2013. Another update: The bibliometric study evaluation tool. Back in 2007, I realized the need for a critical evaluation tool based on those created initially by Tricia Greenhalgh*, and used in evidence-based medicine. Applying tools used for medical research to LIS is not always a good fit, and when I evaluated a bibliometric study for the journal Evidence Based Library and Information Practice. But I am pleased with the process, and driven to follow this trail in developing and tes...
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The Evidence-based Librarian: Article of interest
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Saturday, April 14, 2012. From Health Information and Libraries Journal. By Paolo Gardois, Nicoletta Colombi, Gaetano Grillo, Maria C. Villanacci. Academic, medical and research libraries frequently implement Web 2.0 services for users. Several reports notwithstanding, characteristics and effectiveness of services are unclear. Data prohibit a reliable estimate of the relative frequency of implemented Web 2.0 services. Case studies were the prevalent design. Most articles evaluated different o...How can w...
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The Evidence-based Librarian: Misleading titles for $10,000: "Surprising decline in consumers seeking health information"
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Wednesday, December 07, 2011. Misleading titles for $10,000: "Surprising decline in consumers seeking health information". In one of those all-too-frequently overhyped announcements, the Center for Studying Health System Change drew attention to their new tracking report. Change in health information seeking by those over 65: Seniors' use of online health information increased from 17% to 24% during the same period. Bolding is my own:. In 2010, 50 percent of American adults sought information about a per...
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The Evidence-based Librarian: April 2010
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Thursday, April 29, 2010. No-GoLocal - we give away the keys. Seeing the story here. Connected dots between the recent announcement that NLM is cutting the cord on support to GoLocal efforts. A quote:. Although location-based social networks such as Foursquare. Have received significant attention as part of this trend, they are far from the only services. Hyperlocal search. Are two other services that have seen recent growth. Last week, Milo.com. This makes my head hurt. Just as we (speaking generica...
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The Evidence-based Librarian: November 2011
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Friday, November 11, 2011. Librarians and informaticians on the health care team. Free full text available on the journal site, along with 29 other intriguing essays in response to the editor's 2011 Question of the Year: "What improvements in medical education will lead to better health for individuals and populations? Teaching Physicians to Make Informed Decisions in the Face of Uncertainty: Librarians and Informaticians on the Health Care Team. 86(11):1345, November 2011. As medicine becomes more compl...
