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In vivo detection of thalamic gliosis: a pathoradiologic demonstration in familial fatal insomnia.

S Haïk — 2008-07-14T19:34:31-00:00

Archives of neurology, Vol. 65, No. 4. (April 2008), pp. 545-549.

BACKGROUND: Increasing evidence supports the usefulness of brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for the diagnosis of human prion diseases. From the neuroradiological point of view, fatal familial insomnia is probably the most challenging to diagnose because brain lesions are mostly confined to the thalamus. OBJECTIVE: To determine whether multisequence MRI of the brain can show thalamic alterations and establish pathoradiologic correlations in a patient with familial fatal insomnia. DESIGN: Radioclinical prospective study. We describe a patient with fatal familial insomnia and normal MRI images. Because the MRI study was performed only 4 days before the patient's death, we were able to compare radiological data with the lesions observed at the neuropathologic level. PATIENT: A 55-year-old man with familial fatal insomnia. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE: Magnetic resonance spectroscopy combined with the measurement of apparent diffusion coefficient of water in different brain areas. RESULTS: The neuroradiological study showed, in the thalamus but not in the other brain regions studied, an increase of apparent diffusion coefficient of water and a metabolic pattern indicating gliosis. These alterations closely correlated with neuropathologic data showing an almost pure gliosis that was restricted to the thalami. CONCLUSION: Considering fatal familial insomnia as a model of thalamic-restricted gliosis, this case demonstrates that multisequences of magnetic resonance can detect prion-induced gliosis in vivo, as confirmed by a neuropathologic examination performed only a few days after radiological examination.

Andrew Romanoff Profile

Bente Birkeland — 2008-07-09T15:16:35-00:00

(19 February 2008)

Term limits will force key leadership changes in both the Colorado House and Senate after the current session ends in May. Today, we begin the first of a two part series with a profile of Democratic Speaker of the House Andrew Romanoff. Friends and colleagues describe him as dedicated, intelligent and fair. KUNC's State Capital Reporter Bente Birkeland has more from Denver.

Resume: Andrew Romanoff

2008-07-08T19:40:57-00:00

KCFR: Colorado Matters

Ryan Warner — 2008-07-08T19:38:24-00:00

State Representative Andrew Romanoff (D-Denver) looks back on eight years in office, four of them as the first Democratic Speaker of the House in three decades. Now term-limited, he talks with Ryan Warner.

Colorado Democrat Andrew Romanoff Talks Bipartisan Politics

Linda Wertheimer — 2008-07-08T19:36:17-00:00

NPR Weekend Edition (30 December 2006)

Andrew Romanoff, speaker of the Colorado House, discusses what it takes to reach across party lines and engage elected officials in the other party. Is there a lesson for Rep. Nancy Pelosi?

Romanoff receives national award Dem honored for House speaker role

Lynn Bartels — 2008-07-08T19:29:57-00:00

Rocky Mountain News (24 May 2006)

Romanoff: A serious goody-two-shoes House Speaker Andrew Romanoff's "Golden Boy" reputation is befitting.

Jennifer Brown — 2008-07-08T19:22:57-00:00

The Denver Post (6 April 2008)

Send: The Essential Guide to Email for Office and Home

David Shipley — 2008-06-25T18:42:36-00:00

(10 April 2007)

**An April 2007 Significant 7 Editors' Pick**: Funny, engaging, and oh-so- practical, _Send_ is the ultimate etiquette handbook for email, making David Shipley and Will Schwalbe the "Miss Manners" resource for the digital age. Full of practical insights, _Send_ is an invaluable resource for anyone who uses email, and is guaranteed to help you "think before you click." We are not the only fans of this important book. We asked psychologist, science journalist, and bestselling author Daniel Goleman_ to read _Send_ and give us his take. Check out his exclusive guest review below. _--Daphne Durham_ * * * **Guest Reviewer: Daniel Goleman** ![][1]**Daniel Goleman is an internationally known psychologist who lectures frequently to professional groups, business audiences, and on college campuses, and is the author of many bestselling books, including _Emotional Intelligence_ and most recently, _Social Intelligence_.** Poor Michael Brown. During the darkest days of the Hurricane Katrina debacle, Brown, then director of FEMA, the agency that so badly bungled the rescue efforts, sent this email: "Are you proud of me? Can I quit now? Can I go home?" Emails can come back to haunt us--any of us. Few among us have mastered this medium, and only slowly are we realizing its dangers. From the earliest days of email people "flamed", sending off irritating or otherwise annoying messages. One explanation for the failure to inhibit our more unruly impulses online is a mismatch between the screen we stare at as we email, and the cues the social circuits of the brain use to navigate us through an interaction effectively: on email there is no tone of voice, no facial expression. When we talk to someone on the phone or face-to-face these circuits would ordinarily squelch impulses that will seem "off." Lacking these crucial cues, flaming occurs. It's not just flaming--I've sent my fair share of emails that were, in retrospect, embarrassing, too familiar or formal, or otherwise wrong in tone. Email invites these lapses in social intelligence in part because the social brain flies blind. In the absence of the other person's real-time emotional signals we need to take a moment to shift from focusing on our own feelings and thoughts, and intentionally focus on the other person, even in absentia, and consider, How might this message come across? The peril of being off-key is amplified by the temptation to hit SEND prematurely: before we've thought it over and had a chance to ease up on that too-stiff tone, drop that bit of sarcasm, and remember to ask about the kids. In the old days of letter writing--a dying art--we had plenty of time to rewrite before sealing the envelope, and so flaming letters were far more rare than red-hot emails. And so the brave new world of email could benefit from a civilizing force, a voice that articulates the ground rules online. Enter _Send: The Essential Guide to Email for Office and Home_, a new book by David Shipley (an old friend of mine) and Will Schwalbe. _Send_ not only articulates the way to win--or keep--friends online, but offers practical tips on both email etiquette and on the writing style most suitable. In this witty and wise book Shipley and Schwalbe give essential guidance on vital matters like the politics of using Cc (nobody likes to be left out); when to just reply and when to "Reply All"; the danger of the URGENT subject (too many and you cry wolf); fine-tuning your greetings to fit the relationship (if you use the wrong one, you can lose them at hello); how best to apologize online (put the word 'sorry' in the subject or else the email may never be read). But _Send_ is far more than Miss Manners for the Web; it's brimming with fascinating insights. For example, now that email has become the way we talk, showing up in person has added impact as the ultimate compliment, signifying that the person, meeting or project has special importance for you. Years ago a slim volume by Strunk and White, _The Elements of Style_, laid out the ground rules for good writing; the book became a bible for authors, widely known just as "Strunk and White." _Send_ should make Shipley and Schwalbe the "Strunk and White" for the Web. _--Daniel Goleman_ (www.danielgoleman.info) * * * [1]: http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0553803522.01-A1L7PF5CNT23PC.SWATCHZZ.jpg

Transport policy is food policy.

P Edwards — 2008-05-23T15:00:13-00:00

Lancet, Vol. 371, No. 9625. (17 May 2008)

A multi-level model of information seeking in the clinical domain

Peter Hung — 2008-03-25T12:24:56-00:00

Journal of Biomedical Informatics, Vol. 41, No. 2. (April 2008), pp. 357-370.

Objective: Clinicians often have difficulty translating information needs into effective search strategies to find appropriate answers. Information retrieval systems employing an intelligent search agent that generates adaptive search strategies based on human search expertise could be helpful in meeting clinician information needs. A prerequisite for creating such systems is an information seeking model that facilitates the representation of human search expertise. The purpose of developing such a model is to provide guidance to information seeking system development and to shape an empirical research program. Design: The information seeking process was modeled as a complex problem-solving activity. After considering how similarly complex activities had been modeled in other domains, we determined that modeling context-initiated information seeking across multiple problem spaces allows the abstraction of search knowledge into functionally consistent layers. The knowledge layers were identified in the information science literature and validated through our observations of searches performed by health science librarians. Results: A hierarchical multi-level model of context-initiated information seeking is proposed. Each level represents (1) a problem space that is traversed during the online search process, and (2) a distinct layer of knowledge that is required to execute a successful search. Grand strategy determines what information resources will be searched, for what purpose, and in what order. The strategy level represents an overall approach for searching a single resource. Tactics are individual moves made to further a strategy. Operations are mappings of abstract intentions to information resource-specific concrete input. Assessment is the basis of interaction within the strategic hierarchy, influencing the direction of the search. Conclusion: The described multi-level model provides a framework for future research and the foundation for development of an automated information retrieval system that uses an intelligent search agent to bridge clinician information needs and human search expertise.

Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure

Larry Smith — 2008-05-07T16:24:37-00:00

(01 February 2008)

 Deceptively simple and surprisingly addictive, Not Quite What I Was Planning is a thousand glimpses of humanity—six words at a time. One Life. Six Words. What's Yours? When Hemingway famously wrote, "For Sale: baby shoes, never worn," he proved that an entire story can be told using a half dozen words. When the online storytelling magazine SMITH asked readers to submit six-word memoirs, they proved a whole, real life can be told this way too. The results are fascinating, hilarious, shocking, and moving. From small sagas of bittersweet romance ("Found true love, married someone else") to proud achievements and stinging regrets ("After Harvard, had baby with crackhead"), these terse true tales relate the diversity of human experience in tasty bite-sized pieces. From authors Jonathan Lethem and Richard Ford to comedians Stephen Colbert and Amy Sedaris, to ordinary folks around the world, everyone has a six-word story to tell.

Impact factor: good reasons for concern.

M Szklo — 2008-05-07T16:05:43-00:00

Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.), Vol. 19, No. 3. (May 2008)

This commentary emphasizes the importance of Hernán's contention that the impact factor's strong dependence on nonquality factors makes it utterly flawed as a way to evaluate quality of journals or papers.

How Come Scientists Uncritically Adopt and Embody Thomson's Bibliographic Impact Factor?

Miquel Porta — 2008-05-07T15:58:53-00:00

Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.), Vol. 19, No. 3. (May 2008), pp. 370-371.

The bibliographic impact factor (BIF) of Thomson Scientific is sometimes not a valid scientometric indicator for a number of reasons. One major reason is the strong influence of the number of "source items" or "articles" for each journal that the company chooses each year as BIF's denominator. The irresistible fascination with (and picturesque uses of) a construct as scientifically weak as BIF are simple reminders that scientists are embedded in and embody culture.

The impact factor follies.

R Rothenberg — 2008-05-07T15:57:31-00:00

Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.), Vol. 19, No. 3. (May 2008)

Rise and fall of the thomson impact factor.

AJ Wilcox — 2008-05-07T15:52:17-00:00

Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.), Vol. 19, No. 3. (May 2008), pp. 373-374.

Ontologies for Bioinformatics

N Schuurman — 2008-05-06T15:55:13-00:00

Bioinformatics and Biology Insights, Vol. 2 (2008), pp. 187-200.

http://la-press.com/cr_data/files/f_BBI-2-Schuurman-et-al_606.pdf

Effects of a dietary portfolio of cholesterol-lowering foods vs lovastatin on serum lipids and C-reactive protein.

DJ Jenkins — 2008-04-21T19:16:15-00:00

JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. 290, No. 4. (23 July 2003), pp. 502-510.

CONTEXT: To enhance the effectiveness of diet in lowering cholesterol, recommendations of the Adult Treatment Panel III of the National Cholesterol Education Program emphasize diets low in saturated fat together with plant sterols and viscous fibers, and the American Heart Association supports the use of soy protein and nuts. OBJECTIVE: To determine whether a diet containing all of these recommended food components leads to cholesterol reduction comparable with that of 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A reductase inhibitors (statins). DESIGN: Randomized controlled trial conducted between October and December 2002. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS: Forty-six healthy, hyperlipidemic adults (25 men and 21 postmenopausal women) with a mean (SE) age of 59 (1) years and body mass index of 27.6 (0.5), recruited from a Canadian hospital-affiliated nutrition research center and the community. INTERVENTIONS: Participants were randomly assigned to undergo 1 of 3 interventions on an outpatient basis for 1 month: a diet very low in saturated fat, based on milled whole-wheat cereals and low-fat dairy foods (n = 16; control); the same diet plus lovastatin, 20 mg/d (n = 14); or a diet high in plant sterols (1.0 g/1000 kcal), soy protein (21.4 g/1000 kcal), viscous fibers (9.8 g/1000 kcal), and almonds (14 g/1000 kcal) (n = 16; dietary portfolio). MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Lipid and C-reactive protein levels, obtained from fasting blood samples; blood pressure; and body weight; measured at weeks 0, 2, and 4 and compared among the 3 treatment groups. RESULTS: The control, statin, and dietary portfolio groups had mean (SE) decreases in low-density lipoprotein cholesterol of 8.0% (2.1%) (P =.002), 30.9% (3.6%) (P<.001), and 28.6% (3.2%) (P<.001), respectively. Respective reductions in C-reactive protein were 10.0% (8.6%) (P =.27), 33.3% (8.3%) (P =.002), and 28.2% (10.8%) (P =.02). The significant reductions in the statin and dietary portfolio groups were all significantly different from changes in the control group. There were no significant differences in efficacy between the statin and dietary portfolio treatments. CONCLUSION: In this study, diversifying cholesterol-lowering components in the same dietary portfolio increased the effectiveness of diet as a treatment of hypercholesterolemia.

Knowledge and attitudes towards genetic testing: a two year follow-up study in patients with asthma, diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular disease

Hiske Calsbeek — 2008-01-30T22:39:12-00:00

Journal of Genetic Counseling, pp. 493-504.

Understanding and using the medical subject headings (MeSH) vocabulary to perform literature searches.

HJ Lowe — 2006-12-13T19:30:33-00:00

JAMA, Vol. 271, No. 14. (13 April 1994), pp. 1103-1108.

The United States National Library of Medicine's (NLM) MEDLINE database is the largest and most widely used medical bibliographic database. MEDLINE is manually indexed with NLM's Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) vocabulary. Using MeSH, a searcher can potentially create powerful and unambiguous MEDLINE queries. This article reviews the structure and use of MeSH, directed toward the nonexpert, and outlines how MeSH may help resolve a number of common difficulties encountered when searching MEDLINE. The increasing importance of the MEDLINE database as an information resource and the trend toward individuals performing their own bibliographic searches makes it crucial that health care professionals become familiar with MeSH.

Stumbling, bumbling, teleporting and flying ? librarian avatars in Second Life

Grassian — 2007-02-27T04:14:36-00:00

Reference Services Review, Vol. 35, No. 1. (2007), pp. 84-89.

Second Life: an overview of the potential of 3-D virtual worlds in medical and health education

Boulos — 2007-11-18T14:23:13-00:00

Health Information and Libraries Journal, Vol. 24, No. 4. (December 2007), pp. 233-245.

BioInfer: A corpus for information extraction in the biomedical domain

Sampo Pyysalo — 2007-02-09T15:04:32-00:00

BMC Bioinformatics, Vol. 8, No. 1. (2007)

BACKGROUND:Lately, there has been a great interest in the application of information extraction methods to the biomedical domain, in particular, to the extraction of relationships of genes, proteins, and RNA from scientific publications. The development and evaluation of such methods requires annotated domain corpora.RESULTS:We present BioInfer (Bio Information Extraction Resource), a new public resource providing an annotated corpus of biomedical English. We describe an annotation scheme capturing named entities and their relationships along with a dependency analysis of sentence syntax. We further present ontologies defining the types of entities and relationships annotated in the corpus. Currently, the corpus contains 1100 sentences from abstracts of biomedical research articles annotated for relationships, named entities, as well as syntactic dependencies. Supporting software is provided with the corpus. The corpus is unique in the domain in combining these annotation types for a single set of sentences, and in the level of detail of the relationship annotation. CONCLUSIONS:We introduce a corpus targeted at protein, gene, and RNA relationships which serves as a resource for the development of information extraction systems and their components such as parsers and domain analyzers. The corpus will be maintained and further developed with a current version being available at http://www.it.utu.fi/BioInfer.

Putting Google Scholar to the test: a preliminary study

Mary Robinson — 2007-11-14T17:26:37-00:00

Emeral Insight, Vol. 41, No. 1. (2007), pp. 71-80.

Google Scholar: Friend or Foe

Stephanie Taylor — 2007-11-12T23:37:41-00:00

Interlending & Document Supply, Vol. 35, No. 1. (2007), pp. 4-6.

Pointing users toward citation searching: Using Google scholar and Web of Science

Robert Schroeder — 2007-11-08T22:48:59-00:00

Portal libraries and the academy, Vol. 7 (2007)

Making a difference? Measuring the impact of an information literacy programme for pre-registration nursing students in the UK

Ann Craig — 2007-11-08T00:40:55-00:00

HEALTH INFORMATION AND LIBRARIES JOURNAL, Vol. 24, No. 2. (June 2007), pp. 118-127.

Objectives: To investigate whether an information literacy programme for preregistration nursing students at a UK higher education institution is effective in developing their skills and confidence: examines students’ skill levels, factors affecting their confidence, and relationships between skills, confidence and demographic characteristics. Methods: Quantitative and qualitative techniques were used: pre- and post-tests to measure changes in students’ skills and self-assessed confidence levels after two key sessions in their first semester (n = 29); semi-structured interviews to explore factors affecting confidence (n = 5). Results: Findings demonstrated positive impacts on skills and confidence. Key areas of skill development included: identifying journal articles, selecting search terms and evaluating website quality. Factors affecting confidence included: successful ‘mastery’ experiences in searching for information and the programme itself, especially small-group sessions, handouts and staff support. Evidence on links between skills, confidence and demographic factors was inconclusive. Conclusions: The study demonstrated the programme’s effectiveness and identified areas for development, including the need to help students understand the relative merits of search engines and other sources. Evidence has contributed to a change in departmental policy, making attendance at sessions mandatory. Further studies have been recommended.

AHIP Help session at MCMLA 2007

Lynne — 2007-10-30T14:26:53-00:00

PDF of AHIP presentation at the 2007 Joint Meeting of the Midwest and Midcontinental Chapters of the Medical Library Association.

Literature mining for the biologist: from information retrieval to biological discovery

Lars Jensen — 2006-01-18T16:36:02-00:00

Nature Reviews Genetics, Vol. 7, No. 2., pp. 119-129.

What's there and what's not?: focused crawling for missing documents in digital libraries

Ziming Zhuang — 2007-01-27T18:18:39-00:00

(2005), pp. 301-310.

Google Scholar: A source for clinicians?

J Henderson — 2007-09-18T15:49:17-00:00

CMAJ, Vol. 172, No. 12. (7 June 2005), pp. 1549-1550.

Killer pop machines.

DJ Spitz — 2005-12-15T18:52:41-00:00

J Forensic Sci, Vol. 35, No. 2. (March 1990), pp. 490-492.

Abuse and misuse of soda vending machines has resulted in a considerable number of injuries and deaths. The machines fall forward when rocked or tilted and crush those in front. These accidents are all preventable by a simple and cheap device. There should be a law compelling safety requirements for these machines. This is a report of a recent case in which a young man was crushed to death.

MCMLA 2007 Annual Meeting

2007-09-13T17:04:24-00:00

Program schedule for the joint meeting of Midwest and Midcontinental Chapter of the Medical Library Association

33 Reasons Librarians are Still Extremely Important - DegreeTutor.com

Will Sherman — 2007-09-13T16:17:27-00:00

Degree Tutor (30 January 2007)

Many predict that the digital age will wipe public bookshelves clean, and permanently end the centuries-old era of libraries. Technology’s baffling prowess and progress even has one librarian predicting the institution’s demise. He could be right. But if he is, then the loss will be irreplaceable. As libraries’ relevance comes into question, they face an existential crisis at a time they are perhaps needed the most. Despite their perceived obsoleteness in the digital age both libraries – and librarians – are irreplaceable for many reasons. 33, in fact.

Googling your treatment for analgesia in labour.

J Holding — 2006-12-16T13:10:06-00:00

BMJ, Vol. 332, No. 7544. (1 April 2006)

An exploratory study of Google Scholar

Philipp Mayr — 2007-07-26T18:08:37-00:00

(24 Jul 2007)

The paper discusses and analyzes the scientific search service Google Scholar (GS). The focus is on an exploratory study which investigates the coverage of scientific serials in GS. The study shows deficiencies in the coverage and up-to-dateness of the GS index. Furthermore, the study points up which Web servers are the most important data providers for this search service and which information sources are highly represented. We can show that there is a relatively large gap in Google Scholars coverage of German literature as well as weaknesses in the accessibility of Open Access content. Keywords: Search engines, Digital libraries, Worldwide Web, Serials, Electronic journals

Hospital nurses' use of knowledge-based information resources.

NH Tannery — 2007-06-25T22:18:15-00:00

Nurs Outlook, Vol. 55, No. 1. (b 2007), pp. 15-19.

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the information-seeking practices of nurses before and after access to a library's electronic collection of information resources. This is a pre/post intervention study of nurses at a rural community hospital. The hospital contracted with an academic health sciences library for access to a collection of online knowledge-based resources. Self-report surveys were used to obtain information about nurses' computer use and how they locate and access information to answer questions related to their patient care activities. In 2001, self-report surveys were sent to the hospital's 573 nurses during implementation of access to online resources with a post-implementation survey sent 1 year later. At the initiation of access to the library's electronic resources, nurses turned to colleagues and print textbooks or journals to satisfy their information needs. After 1 year of access, 20% of the nurses had begun to use the library's electronic resources. The study outcome suggests ready access to knowledge-based electronic information resources can lead to changes in behavior among some nurses.

Beyond preaching to the choir: Information literacy, faculty outreach, and disciplinary journals

Christy Stevens — 2007-06-25T22:14:21-00:00

Journal of Academic Librarianship, Vol. 33, No. 2. (March 2007), pp. 254-267.

Where do molecular biology graduate students find information?

C Brown — 2007-06-14T15:48:28-00:00

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY LIBRARIES, Vol. 25, No. 3. (2005), pp. 89-104.

Molecular biology graduate students read the traditional, highly regarded scientific journals, yet do not fully utilize bibliographic databases to find information. Instead, molecular biology graduate students rely on the extensive reservoir of information in bioinformatics databases as well as that within the National Library of Medicine's PubMed. Graduate students learn about bioinformatics databases in their laboratories, not the campus library, thereby bypassing the library and adopting the laboratory as their information community. The data presented suggest that science and technology librarians must expand their knowledge base to include these resources as well as provide instruction that is both palatable and transparent to the next generation of leaders in the field of molecular biology.

The value of using verbs in Medline searches

Valerie Bertaud — 2007-06-14T15:40:35-00:00

Medical Informatics & The Internet in Medicine, Vol. 32, No. 2. (June 2007), pp. 117-122.

New findings are continuously identified thanks to novel diagnostic procedures, among others in medical imaging. It would be useful to retrieve these new findings from literature. The aim of this work is to investigate if using verbs in MEDLINE queries can improve the retrieval of findings. Verbs used in the field of findings were selected: 'to show' (an examination shows a finding) and 'to confirm' (a finding confirms a diagnosis). For each of these verbs, semantically close verbs were researched on the WordNet website. Then, the extent to which adding these verbs to a query about various radiological pathologies can improve findings retrieval in Medline citations was studied. This method has been tested on two sets of MEDLINE citations regarding the diagnostic imaging of musculo-skeletal disorders. Using appropriate verbs in Medline queries enhances the precision from 53% to 61% and from 53% to 74%, respectively, in our first and second test set. A recall of 74% and 83% was reached in our two experiments. Using relevant verbs can be a rather simple way to improve the retrieval of findings related to diseases and diagnostic procedures from Medline citations.

Information-seeking behavior of academic meteorologists and the role of information specialists

J Hallmark — 2007-06-14T14:41:25-00:00

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY LIBRARIES, Vol. 21, No. 1-2. (2001), pp. 53-64.

In lengthy interviews of 43 meteorologists at two universities and a research center, the author investigated their methods of seeking information needed for their research, teaching, and current awareness. The primary goals of the Study were to determine problems and challenges encountered by these scientists and to develop a profile of their information needs. Of particular interest were the effects of the Internet on their information-seeking behavior, particularly their access and retrieval of electronic journal articles and data. Suggestions for academic science librarians were developed through another series of interviews with Successful information professionals. More than ever before, scientific information specialists Must make clear their new roles in facilitating the scientific endeavor, especially the constant effort and vigilance required in developing and maintaining library Web sites, so convenient and indispensable to their clientele. (C) 2001 by The Haworth Press, Inc. All rights reserved.

Inside the cyber library

Colleen Smith — 2007-05-14T17:47:09-00:00

The Denver Post (11 May 2007)

CCML Directory

Elizabeth Tweed — 2007-05-14T14:31:12-00:00

(January 2008)

The promises and pitfalls of evidence-based medicine.

S Timmermans — 2005-11-22T21:57:58-00:00

Health Aff (Millwood), Vol. 24, No. 1. (b 2005), pp. 18-28.

Evidence-based medicine (EBM) aims to address the persistent problem of clinical practice variation with the help of various tools, including standardized practice guidelines. While advocates welcome the stronger scientific foundation of such guidelines, critics fear that they will lead to "cookbook medicine." Studies show, however, that few guidelines lead to consistent changes in provider behavior. The hopes, fears, and mixed record of EBM are rooted in the traditional professional perspective of the clinician as sole decisionmaker. Multifaceted implementation strategies that take the collaborative nature of medical work into consideration promise more effective changes in clinical practice.

Emperor's New Web

Metz Cade — 2007-05-08T22:03:56-00:00

PC Magazine (24 April 2007)

Advanced Google Tips

Marcy Dunning — 2007-05-08T21:49:24-00:00

The Colorado Lawyer, Vol. 36 (May 2007), 83.

Guidelines for negotiating scientific collaboration.

NR Smalheiser — 2006-01-02T02:41:59-00:00

PLoS Biol, Vol. 3, No. 6. (June 2005)

Learning Information Literacy in the Library: A Short Course in Electronic Search Skills for Secondary Students

EB Howe — 2007-04-13T14:51:10-00:00

IASL Newsletter (October 2001)

Eleanor B. Howe is Librarian at Pine-Richland High School in Gibsonia, Pennsylvania, USA Email: ehowe@bellatlantic.net

Use of Google as a diagnostic aid: summary of other responses.

B Twisselmann — 2007-04-03T17:31:27-00:00

BMJ, Vol. 333, No. 7581. (16 December 2006), pp. 1270-1271.

Use of Google as a diagnostic aid: bias your search.

M Taubert — 2007-01-25T22:50:06-00:00

BMJ, Vol. 333, No. 7581. (16 December 2006)

Are google or yahoo a good portal for getting quality healthcare web information?

P Chang — 2007-01-25T22:49:14-00:00

AMIA Annu Symp Proc (2006)

We examined the ranks of 50 award-won health web sites in Taiwan against the search results of two popular portals with 6 common diseases. The results showed that the portal search results do not rank the quality web sites reasonably.