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Librarians as Consumer Health Guides

Judy posted this on March 14, 2008 at 9:22 am · Filed under Cataloguing

Photo by Mzelle Biscotte, courtesy of Creative CommonsThe odds that you’ve ever performed an emergency search on cat scratch fever are probably very slim. But that’s exactly how a research librarian from Texas helped to save a young boy’s life. Elizabeth Cohen, “Empowered Patient” columnist from CNN Medical News, cites this example in her excellent review of consumer health information retrieval, Tips for Savvy Medical Web Surfing. Read the rest of this entry »

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Librarians Searching Beyond Google

Judy posted this on February 18, 2008 at 9:50 pm · Filed under Knowledge Management, Cataloguing

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Public health librarians couldn’t survive without Google. In a few seconds, we can paste in a title and immediately find the article, or match up an NGO with its projects, or find the address of almost any organization. By making fact retrieval so easy, Google has freed librarians to focus on their real jobs, retrieving and organizing information and helping to create knowledge.

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