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This is the time of year when things get pretty busy for the Information & Education Services librarians at UCHC. After library orientation sessions for new residents and fellows in July and finishing up the MPH Health Informatics course, the reference librarians begin to gear up for instructional sessions for incoming medical and dental students and [...]...
A new WordPress blog was created in June 2008 by Dr. Ray Mosteller, associate professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at USC's Keck School of Medicine which I happened upon by browsing WordPress Blog of the Day. Dr. Mosteller has created a very rare thing: a blog written by medical faculty, focusing on teaching and learning [...]...
Forensic investigations of centuries-old skeletons in London, dissection of a rare deep-sea giant squid in Australia, one news-making employee in California and a medical student video make up this Friday Post #12 for Jul 18 2008. ________________________________________________ " Over the last 30 years, [staff from] the Museum of London has excavated, examined and archived 17,000 human skeletons....
Most of us don't give a thought to how the internet actually functions. Walking over to a computer, utilizing a web browser such as Firefox or Opera to locate the information that you need - without knowing anything at all about how HTML code works - is quite a lot like getting into your [...]...
Trying to describe the site from Penquin Books, We Tell Stories, is difficult. Digital Fiction? Illustrated by Google Maps? The method could be one of multiple means of delivery for books read for pleasure, perhaps. Six stories, six authors, six weeks. Infographical, innovative, entertaining, recommended by this librarian. Truemors is part truth, part news alerting [...]...