A New Library Submission Utility is coming to LinkOut in April 2008
The LinkOut Team at NCBI is releasing a new LinkOut Library Submission Utility during the first week of April 2008. (more…)
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LatitudesNewsletter for the NN/LM Pacific Southwest Region
Archive for the ‘Technology’ CategoryA New Library Submission Utility is coming to LinkOut in April 2008The LinkOut Team at NCBI is releasing a new LinkOut Library Submission Utility during the first week of April 2008. (more…) MLA’s Web 2.0 WebcastThe Medical Library Association’s educational webcast, “Web 2.0 Principles and Best Practices: Discovering the Participatory Web,” was a great success! (more…) Are you ready for Social Networking?Everyone’s talking about it! Perhaps you’ve explored MySpace, Facebook, or LinkedIn. Your library may be using these sites to communicate with your library’s clientele — or thinking about doing so. Maybe you’ve attended workshops on Web 2.0. You may have read the reports of MLA’s Social Networking Software Task Force. Do you want to learn more? (more…) Scholarly Publishing and Open Access Webcast - A Success!The Medical Library Association’s educational webcast, “Scholarly Publishing & Open Access: Straight Talk,” was a success! (more…) Meet Sharon Dennis — the new Technology Coordinator for the NN/LM Pacific Southwest Region!Sharon Dennis has joined the staff of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM) Pacific Southwest Region as the new Technology Coordinator. (more…) Skype Audio and Video for Collaboration and Distance Education: Save Money and Time!If you would like to communicate with colleagues and patrons remotely without racking up long distance telephone bills or traveling to another city, take a look at Skype (http://www.skype.com). Skype is a free Voice over IP (VoIP) program that also has a videoconferencing feature. The program is freely downloadable; installation is straightforward (see http://www.skype.com/help/guides/howtoskype/ for a simple “Getting Started” guide). (more…) Internet Connectivity AwardsFunding is available for the Internet Connectivity award. As mentioned on our Funding page: Internet Connectivity - to support the improvement of network members’ connections to the Internet. Included is funding to purchase and install computer equipment for a single work station and facilitate connection to the Internet. Internet connectivity support and training for inner city, rural, tribal and other community-based healthcare organizations will also be supported with this funding. (more…) Now that you have your PDA, put some RSS feeds on itQuite by accident, I bought a news reader for my portable device. I wanted to purchase database software for my PDA and ended up getting a good deal on a suite of four programs, one of which was a news reader. So I decided to try it out with RSS feeds of interest to medical librarians. (more…) Nevada Go Local Project LaunchedIn September, 2006, Nevada became the 18th MedlinePlus Go Local site with the debut of NevadaHealthNet.org, providing residents of the Silver State with a reliable, fast and user-friendly internet database to locate health information, as well as health services, providers, and other resources in their communities. There are about 2200 listings included in Nevada HealthNet, and the project team will continue to accept suggestions for additions or other changes to the database. Suggestions may be made with an online form available through the “Contact Us” link. Nevada joins Arizona as the second state in the NN/LM Pacific Southwest Region to successfully launch a Go Local site. (more…) |
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