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Information Today July 15, 2010 |
MedlinePlus Relaunched The completely redesigned site has a freshened look and feel, a new logo, and a new color scheme. |
D-Lib January 2000 Aaron Redalen & Naomi Miller |
Evaluating Website Modifications at the National Library of Medicine through Search Log Analysis |
Information Today September 16, 2002 |
News Digest Gale Releases Biography Resource Center 2.0... NLM Launches MEDLINEplus in Spanish... FAST Now Searches Macromedia Flash Content |
Information Today November 15, 2010 |
National Library of Medicine Announces MedlinePlus Connect This is a free service that allows electronic health record systems to link users to MedlinePlus. |
Information Today November 12, 2012 |
NLM Launches Web Content Collecting Initiative The National Library of Medicine is selecting web content as part of its mission to collect, preserve, and make accessible the scholarly biomedical literature, as well as other resources. |
Information Today January 29, 2007 Paula J. Hane |
Vivisimo to Power Web Searching for NLM Sites Vivisimo has strived to show what can be done differently to bring content alive using its document-clustering technology. It's latest win is a contract with the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) to enhance searching on their website. |
Information Today June 16, 2015 |
NIH Plans for the Future of the National Library of Medicine The National Institutes of Health's director, Francis S. Collins, approved the proposed strategic plan for the National Library of Medicine. |
Searcher January 2001 Eva Perkins |
Pharmaceutical Decisions and the Net: More Healthcare Resources on the Internet Useful sites for researching and purchasing pharmaceuticals online with a look at the business history and usefulness of Drugstore.com and PlanetRx. |
Information Today December 8, 2011 Barbara Quint |
NLMplus: Both Showcase and Useful Tool NLMplus is a semantic search and discovery application developed in response to the challenge contest by NLM. |
Information Today March 11, 2002 |
News Digest MEDLINE to Include TheScientificWorldJOURNAL... ebrary Partners with U.N. Organizations, The World Bank Group... GSA Awards Contract for FirstGov's New Search Engine... Hoover's Adds Advanced People Search |
Information Today December 1, 2008 |
Free Resource--Global Library of Women's Medicine The Global Library of Women's Medicine has launched online and is freely available in beta. More than 650 world experts have provided a definitive resource on the latest therapeutic options in women's medicine. |
ONLINE Jul/Aug 2012 Sarah L. Elichko |
Triage, Treat, Release: Finding Medical Information Using MedlinePlus and PubMed Emergency rooms have instituted a protocol called Triage, Treat, Release to care for patients presenting with minor injuries. It's also an apt metaphor for librarians helping patrons to find information, whether the reference desk is physical or virtual. |
Information Today February 11, 2002 Rebecca Lenzini |
Washington's Governor Proposes Closing State Library to Save Money The governor's office in the state of Washington has proposed closing the Washington State Library by this October. This move is part of an effort to reduce overall state spending by more than $500 million to solve a $1.2 billion shortfall in Washington's biennial budget... |
Information Today September 14, 2009 |
IMLS Grant Will Help Libraries Help the Unemployed Job seekers have packed libraries around the country during recent months, searching online job sites, building resumes, making use of a wide range of other employment services and resources. More help is on the way. |
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2002 James Ghaphery |
My Library at Virginia Commonwealth University: Third Year Evaluation My Library is a personalization tool that allows the library user to consolidate frequently used library resources and services. Since 1998, My Library has been available as a web page to users of the Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries. |
D-Lib May/Jun 2010 Xihui Zhen |
Overview of Digital Library Development in China The greatest challenges for Chinese national digital library projects are digital resource construction and a design of services provision. |
Information Today April 17, 2008 |
ALA Releases `The State of America's Libraries' Report Libraries of all kinds continue to be "engines of learning, literacy, and economic development in communities nationwide." |
Information Today December 10, 2015 |
NLM Rolls Out Health Literacy Instrument Resource Researchers can use it to select a health literacy research instrument and learn background information, as well as compare various instruments. |
ONLINE November 2000 Mick O'Leary |
Grading the Library Portals The ideal library portal will have the most thorough coverage possible in several areas of the library profession for all types of libraries... |
Searcher Nov/Dec 2003 Bill Becker |
Library Grant Money on the Web: A Resource Primer What if a library -- a public, academic, school, government, special, private/corporate, or research library -- seeks corporate, foundation, individual, or government grants? How can a professional searcher help? |
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2000 William Y. Arms |
Automated Digital Libraries: How Effectively Can Computers Be Used for the Skilled Tasks of Professional Librarianship? Must access to scientific and professional information always be expensive, or is it possible that digital libraries might change this sad situation? |
Information Today June 27, 2011 Barbie E. Keiser |
EPA Releases Its National Library Network Strategic Plan FY2012-2014 This is a 3-year strategic plan which addresses four key areas -- EPA library network governance, services, collections (electronic and physical), and communications outreach and training. |
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2011 Gerolimos & Konsta |
Services for Academic Libraries in the New Era The aim of this paper is twofold. The primary focus is to research and document the integration of services based on the web into the framework of academic libraries. |
D-Lib November 2000 Lynne Brindley |
Taking the British Library Forward in the Twenty-first Century It is at this very time of success that the British Library needs to turn to, and accelerate its engagement with, the critical and transformational issues associated with the digital world and the new demands being made by our wide range of users and stakeholders... |
Information Today November 8, 2010 Barbie E. Keiser |
Some Progress But Not Enough: GAO Issues Update on the EPA Library Network When reading the GAO report released on Nov. 1, it's important to distinguish between indictments of the Agency and the work it was supposed to do from the progress that the library network has made. |
Searcher August 2004 Bjorner & Ardito |
Online Before The Internet: Early Pioneers Tell Their Stories, Part 7: BRS---An Interview with Jan Egeland One of the founders Talks about the birth of the Bibliographic Retrieval Services (BRS), a commercial system that grew out of the Biomedical Communication Network, an early consortium of New York medical libraries. |
Searcher April 2012 Steve Coffman |
Feature: The Decline and Fall of the Library Empire The past 30 years of library history is littered with projects and plans and sometimes just dreams of ways the library might play a more pivotal role in the digital revolution that continues to transform the information landscape around us. |
D-Lib August 2005 Clifford Lynch |
Where Do We Go From Here? The Next Decade for Digital Libraries The next decade for digital libraries may be characterized by the transition from technologies and prototypes to the ubiquitous, immersive, and pervasive deployment of digital library technologies and services in the broader information and information technology landscape. |
Searcher April 2005 Bjorner & Ardito |
Online Before the Internet: Early Pioneers Tell Their Stories, Part 9 - Interview with Melvin S. Day An interview with Melvin S. Day about his career as an information specialist. |
Information Today May 5, 2015 Richard Huffine |
Federal Investment in Repository Solution Sets New Bar for How Libraries Share The project will give libraries, museums, and archives of all types and sizes an out-of-the-box open source solution for managing their digital content and exposing what they have to the world. |
Information Today September 2001 Marshall Breeding |
The ALA Annual Conference 2001 This showcase featured the latest in library automation trends and announcements... |
Information Today March 1, 2007 Paula J. Hane |
A Checkup of Online Health Sites Consumers in need of reliable health information have some good sites available to them - if they know where to look. |
Wired April 2001 |
Patient, Heal Thyself Well-informed patients, not doctors, are driving the synthesis of traditional and self-empowerment medicine... |
D-Lib September 2000 |
To the Editor Letters received in response to the story, Automated Digital Libraries: How Effectively Can Computers Be Used for the Skilled Tasks of Professional Librarianship? |
Searcher December 2004 Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Only Libraries, Only Librarians If Congress were to wave its magic wand and mandate open access across the federal research effort, it could accelerate the open access movement overnight. But are we ready? |
Information Today April 14, 2011 |
ALA Releases 'The State of America's Libraries, 2011' The Great Recession may have come to an end, but hard-pressed Americans continue to turn to their local libraries for help in finding a job or launching their own business. This is one trend listed in the report. |
Information Today July 23, 2015 |
Innovative Publishes Report on Libraries and the Web Innovative released a survey report of 4,000-plus academic library users in the U.K. |
Information Today October 2004 Barbara Quint |
Up Front with Barbara Quint: Future of the NIH Open Access Policy Basically, the NIH, funder of at least a quarter of the world's best medical research, will mandate that all grantees and contractors submit electronic copies of finished manuscripts for full-text release through PubMed Central, the National Library of Medicine's popular medical research site. |
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2009 |
In Brief Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Access to Learning Award... High precision and recall: Focuss.Info as community-driven search engine... Shared Shelf: partnership plans to launch networked image management platform... etc. |
D-Lib September 2006 Choi & Rasmussen |
What Is Needed to Educate Future Digital Librarians: A Study of Current Practice and Staffing Patterns in Academic and Research Libraries Digital libraries are the future of academic and research institutions, and digital professionals will be required to have more breadth and depth of knowledge and skills across the dimensions of traditional library knowledge, technology, and human relations. |
Information Today December 13, 2004 |
Weekly News Digest Copernic Desktop Search Supports Firefox Browser... NLM Introduces New Environmental Site... Net Snippets Introduces Free Edition... |
ONLINE Sep/Oct 2002 George R. Plosker |
Conducting User Surveys: An Ongoing Information Imperative Remaining relevant to users is critical to library survival. What better way both to ascertain what users desire and to inform them of capabilities they are unaware of or don't use? Practical tips and suggestions on how to go about doing such a survey |
D-Lib Sep/Oct 2014 |
In Brief and In the News Higher education, library groups release Net Neutrality Principles... ALA applauds Congress for passing the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act... Finalists announced for the Digital Preservation Awards 2014... |
D-Lib Nov/Dec 2011 Michalis Gerolimos |
Academic Libraries on Facebook: An Analysis of Users' Comments This paper examines users' comments on the Facebook pages of 20 American academic libraries and subdivides them into 22 categories. |
T.H.E. Journal December 2005 Chris Balsano |
School Libraries Go Interactive An Illinois high school library uses online forms to stay in contact with the needs and requests of students and teachers. |
PC Magazine February 26, 2009 Neil Randall |
Windows 7 Libraries Before your new operating system can be useful, you need to understand how it organizes your data. |
D-Lib June 2004 Norbert Lossau |
Search Engine Technology and Digital Libraries: Libraries Need to Discover the Academic Internet If libraries do not want to become marginalized in a key area of their traditional services, they need to acknowledge the challenges that come with the globalization of scholarly information, the existence and further growth of the academic internet . |
ONLINE Nov./Dec. 2006 Marydee Ojala |
The HomePage - Perspectives, Perceptions, and Periscopes Librarians share the same perspective when naming their type of library. Perceptions of libraries, however, differ, depending on perspective. |
Information Today August 18, 2008 |
WebJunction Launches New Social Learning Site OCLC announced that WebJunction, the online learning community for librarians and library staff, has launched a new social and learning experience |
Information Today March 28, 2013 |
EveryoneOn Launches to Promote Digital Literacy March 21, 2013 marked the launch of Everyone On -- a national campaign to promote the importance of digital literacy skills and increase access to computer and internet training. |