The CPDWG are pleased to announce our upcoming course “Information Skills: Is Google enough?” on Thursday, 3rd July 2008. Please see below for course and trainer details. Please note that registration for this course is now CLOSED

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See 'The Hollywood Librarian In Ireland and England, Part I'

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Web 2.0 – Tools to make it easier

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Course Code: CPD0803    Web 2.0 – Tools to make it easier

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Sharpening Up Our Search Skills - The Journal of the Medical Library Association features a series of case studies. These cases provide "narrative and insight from expert commentators drawn from librarianship, informatics, medicine, research and other areas." The JMLA Case Studies Blog serves as an online forum for further discussion of the scenarios (within the journal) and the facets of the search strategies addressing these cases.

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Hospitals With Libraries vs. Hospitals Without Libraries - About a year ago I asked the question, "What becomes of a hospital after it closes library?" I posed this question in response to the EPA library closures and other hospital and medical libraries closing. We all have horror stories about a hospital library that was closed or hospital that chose to replace the departing librarian with an overworked secretary who had never heard of PubMed. I was curious as to what happens to a hospital that loses their librarian or library. How does it affect patient care? How does it affect doctor and employee information services?

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Elsevier Upgrades ScienceDirect - From [Info Today]

Elsevier has announced that it will be launching some improvements to its ScienceDirect service (www.sciencedirect.com), which provides access to the publisher’s STM full-text journals and ebooks. The changes will include navigational improvements in screen layout, four options for filtering existing search results, and access to article comments, ratings, and social bookmarking options supplied by Elsevier’s free 2collab service (www.2collab.com). Some of the changes went into effect this week; the rest should appear shortly.

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