Best Bytes: Diigo – Research, Bookmark, Share, Collaborate
Posted on | January 3, 2011 | 1 Comment
Submitted by Emily Brennan, USC
Diigo is a social bookmarking website which allows users to bookmark and organize webpages, screenshots, pictures and documents. Users can then highlight and annotate any part of that page. These pages (with highlights and annotations) can be kept private, shared with a Diigo group, or forwarded as a link. You can tag each page for easy organization and retrieval, and may create lists of tagged pages.
Diigo is not only a valuable tool to collect and organize your own bookmarks, but it is extremely useful for groups as well. Like Facebook and Twitter, Diigo Networks allows you to “follow” people to see their bookmarks. Diigo Groups provides a collaborative space for group members to share bookmarks, highlights, sticky notes, and forum. Search existing groups or create your own.
Install the bookmarklet or customizable toolbar to facilitate saving, organizing, highlighting, and searching your bookmarks.
MLGSCA now has a Facebook page!
Posted on | December 22, 2010 | No Comments
Check out the brand new MLGSCA Facebook page! Please leave a comment here or a wall post there to let us know what you would like to see on the page and the kinds of status updates you’d like to receive.
Help an ILI Student!
Posted on | December 22, 2010 | No Comments
In Spring 2011, Joan Kaplowitz, Ph.D., MLIS, UCLA Librarian Emerita, will be teaching SLIS 5960 “Information Needs and User Education” at Cal. State Northridge for the distance education program sponsored by the University of North Texas. The course, which is based on the Information Literacy Instruction course that she has offered at UCLA for over 20 years, will run from late January to mid-May. Dr. Kaplowitz will be using a blended format – 30% in face-to-face sessions and 70% using an online instructional environment.
Several course requirements involve students making contacting with librarians involved in information literacy instruction (ILI). Students may interview an ILI librarian (in person, by phone, or via email) or observe an in-person ILI session. Results of these assignments will be shared on the course site.
If you are willing to participate in either or both of these assignments, please fill out this survey by FRIDAY, JANUARY 15, 2011.
Posted 12/22/10
Nursing Grey Literature
Posted on | December 10, 2010 | No Comments
Submitted by Kathleen Carlson
Someone recently asked the following question on the MLA Nursing and Allied Health Research Section (NAHRS) about the best way to find grey (unpublished) literature in nursing. Several people gave valuable information so I thought I would summarize for MLGSCA members who may be interested in this subject matter. Also a NAHRS member will be adding it to the NAHRS wiki.
New York Academy of Medicine grey literature – An independent organization since 1847, NYAM addresses the health challenges facing the world’s urban populations through interdisciplinary approaches to policy leadership, education, community engagement and innovative research. Drawing on the expertise of diverse partners worldwide and more than 2,000 elected Fellows from across the professions, our current priorities are to create environments in cities that support healthy aging; to strengthen systems that prevent disease and promote the public’s health; and to implement interventions that eliminate health disparities.
Blackhall, K. (2007). Finding studies for inclusion in systematic reviews of interventions for injury prevention: the importance of grey and unpublished literature. Injury Prevention, 13(5), 359.
Blackhall says there are six ways to search for grey literature: Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials; Hand searching; Databases of unpublished and ongoing studies; the Internet; Reference lists; and Subject experts.
CABL (Central Arizona Biomedical Libraries) elects new President and Secretary
Posted on | December 6, 2010 | No Comments
Submitted by Kathleen Carlson
Nita Mailander, Director of Library Services at Grand Canyon University is the new CABL (Central Arizona Biomedical Libraries) President-elect and program chair for 2011.
April Aguinaga, librarian at Maricopa Integrated Health System Health Sciences Library, was re-elected as CABL secretary.
Both of them join Bryan Nugent, 2011 CABL President; Linda Feck, CABL Treasurer, and Cynthia Porter as outgoing CABL President.
Learn more and read the CABL blog here.
Posted 12/6/10
Best Bytes: Maximize Your Effective Uses of Blogs
Posted on | December 6, 2010 | 1 Comment
Submitted by Jacque Doyle
If you are reading this, you have found your way into MLGSCA’s new website, MLGSCA Link, which is “way” more than a website. The Link has been created so that you will be able to not only read and learn about the organization, but also contribute to it in real time! We hope that you take advantage of the opportunity to make comments, i.e., complain, question or praise the blog writers who are working to improve communication across our chapter! To comment, just look just beneath the post title for the link that says “No Comments” or “# Comment” and click there to add your own thoughts! And when you find articles or blog posts you think your MLG colleagues would enjoy, share them with our blog coordinator, Kathleen Carlson.
Now that you are following at least this blog, perhaps it is time to expand your horizons.
I am almost embarrassed to admit that I follow A LOT of blogs! However, I have discovered several ways to be purposeful and efficient as I do that.I follow blogs for a number of reasons: Read more
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Posted on | November 16, 2010 | No Comments
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Job Opening -Development Researcher
Posted on | November 16, 2010 | No Comments
Submitted by Michelle Bureau, Supervisor, Medical Libraries, Carondelet Health Network, St. Joseph’s Hospital, Tucson, AZ
POSITION SUMMARY:
The Development Researcher identifies and compiling information on individual, corporate, and foundation donors, and researches prospects for major gifts, endowed gifts, special project funding, and annual/sustaining support. Analyzes biographical and financial data to determine prospects’ available resources and interests. The Development Researcher provides written reports about specific donors and prospects, containing an analysis of information gathered from public sources. This position assists with writing and/or editing grant applications, letters, background materials, stewardship reports and other collateral. Strategizes with development staff regarding prospect identification, and collaborates to develop donor prospect reports appropriate to departmental needs.
Job description for Development Researcher Carondelet Foundation.
Please visit the Carondelet website job postings to apply online.
Posted 11/16/10
Sustain…Your Self, Your Profession, Your Planet
Posted on | November 15, 2010 | No Comments
Submitted by Joy Graham, Publicity Committee Co-Chair, NCNMLG/MLGSCA Joint Meeting
NCNMLG/MLGSCA Joint Meeting
February 23-26, 2011, San Francisco, California
Registration NOW Open!
3 Reasons to Register
#1 Continuing Education Courses
Want to know how to design and deliver better online instruction,
manage your own personal information more effectively,
be more confident in dealing with copyright issues, justify your
existence via output measures, or play a bigger role in your organization’s
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have a CE course for you. Why not come early (Wednesday)
and stay late (Saturday) and take two?
Vote now: MLA Election in progress
Posted on | November 8, 2010 | No Comments
The MLA 2011/2012 election is now underway, and the deadline for voting
is December 7th. Email messages with a link to the ballot have been
sent to all MLA members with email addresses, and paper ballots have
been sent to those without email. The participation rates for the
2009/10 and 2010/11 MLA elections were 42.37% and 39.75%, respectively.
We hope to see the level of participation in MLA elections rise. These
elections are important because they determine who will lead MLA, set
its priorities, and allocate its resources during these difficult
times. Please take the time to cast your ballot by December 7th. Thank you.
Members of the 2010 MLA Nominating Committee:
Margaret Bandy
Janis Brown
Gary Byrd
Rebecca Davis
Jacque Doyle
Lynn Fortney
Katherine Stemmer Frumento
Dolores Judkins
Anne Linton
Mary Ryan, Chair
Posted 11/8/10
Hot Off the Press
Posted on | November 8, 2010 | No Comments
This is the inaugural column of professional writing from MLGSCA members. Please submit yours and any colleagues books, book chapters, papers, journal articles, presentations and posters to Kathleen.Carlson@asu.edu.
Janet Crum, Director of Library Services, City of Hope, Duarte, California (was at Oregon Health Sciences University) presented a paper at the 2010 Library Assessment Conference in Baltimore, Maryland. The paper is entitled Availability Study to Assess Access to Electronic Articles.
Leslee Shell, (et.al.) Librarian for Online and Extended Education, Arizona State University Libraries, published a paper in the December 2010 issue of the Journal of Library Administration, A Comprehensive plan for library support of online and extended education, 50(7), 951-971.
Kathy Zeblisky, Medical Librarian, Phoenix Children’s Hospital, is a contributor for the Pediatrics section for the MLA Master Guide to Authoritative Information Resources in the Health Sciences. The manuscript has finally been submitted to Neal-Schuman and it should be available for purchase in May 2011.
Posted 11/8/10
Congratulations Jan Grabowski!
Posted on | November 1, 2010 | No Comments
Submitted by Laura Stubblefield, Chair, MLGSCA Awards Committee
Jan Grabowski (right in red, seen here with Julie Smith who nominated her for the award) is this year’s recipient of the “MLGSCA Outstanding Health Sciences Library Paraprofessional of the Year Award”. As Lead Library Technician, she is a vital library link at Burlew Medical Library, St. Joseph Hospital, Orange, CA. She has work over 33 years in our field and delivers a high level of excellence in a timely manner with friendly support which produces many commendations from her patrons, peers, and from other libraries. Even after the library started FreeShare, Jan continued to provide a Docline throughput average of zero days.