Friday, December 29, 2006
U.S. News & World Report - Top 25 Careers
This web site was recommended by Nancy Bulgarelli.
"U.S. News & World Report has identified 25 professions that will be in growing demand as baby boomers age, the internet becomes ubiquitous, and Americans seek richer, simpler lives."
Of course, librarian is included! Check out the entire report at
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/biztech/best_careers_2007/Labels: Librarianship
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Posted by Valerie Reid @
11:33 AM
Wednesday, December 06, 2006
NLM Technical Bulleting posts information on 2007 MeSH changes
From the NLM Technical Bulletin:
Thee following notes explain how PubMed® or searching with PubMed may be affected by changes to MEDLINE® or MeSH® vocabulary for the 2007 system, some of which has been described in the articles listed under Additional Information in the box to the right. Searchers are advised to consider any stored strategies, e.g., My NCBI saved searches, URL links to PubMed, and RSS feeds, which may need to be revised.
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here for the complete article and additional information.
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Posted by Alexia Estabrook @
9:05 AM
Friday, December 01, 2006
I have had many people comment to me that while RSS seems like a solid concept they just don't see how they are going to fit in reading RSS when they already have so much email (and other current awareness stuff) to read. One of the main reasons I enjoy RSS is that it is COMPLETELY anonymous and EXTREMELY easy to unsubscribe to without making SPAM worse. In fact, SPAM is non-existent when you read updates via RSS.
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Posted by Alexia Estabrook @
11:40 AM
