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Archive for March, 2005Healthy ITWednesday, March 30th, 2005Join AMIA and FNLM for a conference specifically designed to present proven information technology solutions for growing health care challenges at the state and regional level. For more information visit: Recommendations for RAC MembershipWednesday, March 23rd, 2005If you are currently a member of our RAC please forward your comments to Naomi Adelman at nadelman@nyam.org regarding suggested new members for the RAC. These suggestions may include either the names of people that you would like to recommend or a type of institution that you would like to recommend. New Feature Added to PubMed for HandheldsWednesday, March 23rd, 2005PubMed for Handhelds has added a new feature that allows users to search Medline using free text, natural language queries. This feature also includes a built-in spell checker. Here’s a tip, the plain text website that is PubMed for Handhelds is useful not only for PDA users but for anyone with a slow internet connection that wants a fast and easy way to search PubMed. Find Files Fast on Your Hard Drive: A Product ReviewWednesday, March 23rd, 2005This article looks at 8 applications that can be used to search the contents of your hard drive: http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-3684_7-5536376-1.html?tag=cnetfd.sd Welcome to the NN/LM Network!Tuesday, March 22nd, 2005We welcome the library of the US Environmental Protection Agency, Region 2 (NYUWZN) as a full member of the Network and DOCLINE participant. We welcome the library of Information Link (PAUCPV) as a full member of the Network and DOCLINE participant and congratulate it on joining EFTS. We congratulate Magee Rehabilitation Hospital (PAUMAC) on joining EFTS. PubMed UpdateFriday, March 18th, 2005The Action bar on the PubMed results screen is expected to change next week. You will no longer see the Display and Send to buttons. Options from the pull-down menus will take effect as soon as they are selected on the menus. An article describing this change has just been published in the NLM Technical Bulletin: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma05/ma05_action_bar.html Changing the Face of Medicine Traveling ExhibitionTuesday, March 15th, 2005 Five libraries in the NN/LM Middle Atlantic Region have been selected by the American Library Association to host the National Library of Medicine exhibit, “Changing the Face of Medicine: Celebrating America’s Women Physicians” in 2005. NLM mounted the initial exhibition honoring the lives and accomplishments of these women in the hope of inspiring a new We congratulate the following libraries in this region: New Brunswick Free Public Library City College Library SUNY Upstate Medical University Drexel University University of Pittsburgh The exhibition provides a marvelous panorama of the many ways that women have influenced and enhanced the practice of medicine and the individuals Naomi R. Adelman, Ph.D., M.L.S. Welcome to the NN/LM MAR BlogFriday, March 11th, 2005The NN/LM MAR blog was started on March 1, 2005 and it serves as another method to communicate with our network members. The blog contains short news items of interest on a variety of topics including: Consumer Health, Education & Outreach, Public Health and Technology. The contact person for suggestions about maintenance, appearance, content, etc. is Denise O’Shea, our Technology Coordinator. She can be reached at 212-822-7358 or doshea@nyam.org RAC Reading ListFriday, March 11th, 2005At a recent RAC meeting attendees were asked to share the title of the book that they are currently reading: Bach, David: Start Late, Finish Rich: A No-Fail Plan for Achieving Financial Freedom at Any Age Bossidy, Larry, et al.: Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done Braun, Lilian Jackson: The Cat Who Talked Turkey Caldwell, Taylor: Dear and Glorious Physician Callanan, Maggie & Patricia Kelley: Final Gifts Cleverly, Barbara: The Last Kashmiri Rose Evans, Liz: Sick As A Parrot Kamler, Kenneth: Surviving the Extremes Mankoff, Robert: The Complete Cartoons of the New Yorker O’Dell, Tawni: Back Roads Phillips, Bill: Body for Life: 12 Weeks to Mental and Physical Strength Rickards, Maurice et al.: Encyclopedia of Ephemera Robinson, Marilynne: Gilead: A Novel Robinson, Marilynne: Housekeeping: A Novel Runyon, Brent: The Burn Journals Scheuer, Michael: Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror Schlosser, Eric: Fast Food Nation Sierra, Judy & Marc Brown: Wild about Books Stewart, James B.: DisneyWar Tanenbaum, Robert K.: Hoax : A Novel Truss, Lynne: Eats, Shoots & Leaves Warren, Rick: The Purpose-Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For? Wilson, Valerie: Dying In the Dark: A Tamara Hayle Mystery Wolfe, Tom: I Am Charlotte Simmons Add PubMed to Your Web SiteMonday, March 7th, 2005Instructions for incorporating PubMed logo graphics and HTML links can be found here: |
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