Annual Medline Reload
I am a little late on this, I appologize. As of November 18, 2009, the National Library of Medicine stopped distributing their updates so that they can transistion to the 2010 version of MeSH.  For those of you using Ovid, the November Week 3 2009 is most latest update.  So if you want to most recent citations you either need to run them in the new PubMed or in Ovid’s MEDLINE In-Process & Other Non-Indexed Citations database.  Ovid’s In-Process etc. database will continue to be updated through the full reload process.  However, don’t forget these citations are not MeSHed and your searching will be slightly different. NLM expects to complete the rel

Social Networking Changes Blogging
Those of you on Facebook or Twitter can attest that many of us are now sharing links to news and blogs and commenting on them to our own “friends” on Facebook and Twitter.   conducted a study and found something interesting, most of the blog post awareness and commenting is now happening “off site,” (not on the blog itself).  People are increasingly being driven to blog posts by social networking, according to their study Facebook, Twitter and Digg were the top 3 traffic drivers to blogs.  Since 2007 PostRank has been looking at the top 1000 most engaging

Finding Our Little Black Dress in the Online World
Monday was spent attending the New England Journal of Medicine’s Library Advisory Board meeting.  This is only my first full year on the board and my second meeting but I have to say I have learned a lot about things that impact the publishing world and the medical library world.  As different as our two groups are, there are also quite a lot of similarities.   Of course we talked about the economy and its impact on libraries and publishing in general.  We also talked about what we saw in the future for libraries (everything from online expansion, smaller physical spaces, different librarian roles and service

Posts Resume Wednesday November 18th
Last weekend was a beautiful 60-70 degrees and I spent it moving out of our temporary apartment and into our new home.  Technically we are all moved in but I am living out of boxes because we now have everything that once was in storage. I just got my Internet up on Monday.  My online presence has taken a nose dive as a result. My family and I leave tomorrow for Dallas to attend my brother’s wedding. While my husband flies back to Cleveland with two small boys, I fly to Boston for the New England Journal of Medicine’s Library Advisory Board meeting.  November has been a hectic month.  I hope to resume posting when I get back next week because I am sure

New PubMed Webinar Recordings
This week Holly Ann Burt at the GMR conducted several webinars on the new PubMed and its changes.  I found the information to be extremely helpful so I ask her if it was ok to publish the links to the webinars on the blog so that others not in the GMR or who were unable to attend the webinars could benefit from them. Thankfully she agreed.  The webinars are all very similar and Holly covers approximately the same information in each one. So why did I include links to different recordings when she covers the same information?  The reason I did this is that each o