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October 2007
Monthly Archive
October 26, 2007
October 25, 2007
New Dietary Supplements Labels Database by NLM
Posted by JudyK under consumer health, search strategies | Tags: dietary supplements |Comments Off
Alan Carr, Outreach Coordinator, NN/LM Pacific Southwest Region, UCLA L. Darling Biomedical Library, released the following information in a 10/24/07 email to the PSR-News listserv:
The National Library of Medicine has released a new resource focused on dietary supplements. The Dietary Supplements Labels Database, http://dietarysupplements.nlm.nih.gov, includes information from the labels of over 2,000 brands of dietary supplements in the marketplace, including vitamins, minerals, herbs or other botanicals, amino acids, and other specialty supplements.The database is designed to help both the general public and health care providers find information about ingredients in brand-name products, including name, form, active and inactive ingredients, amount of active ingredient/unit, manufacturer/distributor information, suggested dose, label claims, warnings, percentage of daily value, and further label information. Links to other NLM resources, such as MedlinePlus® and PubMed®, are provided for additional health information. In addition, links to related Fact Sheets from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS), National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM), and the National Cancer Institute (NCI) are also available.
October 25, 2007
Searching for Drugs in PubMed
Posted by JudyK under search strategies, tutorials | Tags: search strategies, tutorials |Comments Off
The following link leads to a tutorial from Dalhousie University’s School of Pharmacy: http://itp.pharmacy.dal.ca/Scenarios/Pumed_searching_for_.php
October 25, 2007
Slide Show of New Books in CRMC Medical Library
Posted by JudyK under personal | Tags: books, pictures |Comments Off
Making your own slide show is free, easy & fun. Go to: http://www.slide.com/, sign up, and Make A Slide Show. You can take digital pictures of new books in your library, load them on your computer, and then download them into a slide show to feature them on your blog. I got that idea from a recent post on Brain Blog. Although I didn’t add music to this slide show, it is an option.
October 17, 2007
PDF of Power Point Presentation to Heartland on Blogs
Posted by JudyK under presentationsComments Off
10-16-07_blogs-for-librarians.pdf
This demonstrates that you can upload a PDF document of a Power Point presentation to your blog and have it appear in Power Point format. Just save the Power Point in PDF format and upload the PDF into a post.
October 14, 2007
Creative Commons (http://creativecommons.org/) is a flexible content licensing model. They are a free service and enable people to make their creative works (print, audio, visual) available for certain uses. Authors can define the extent to which their work can be used, between the spectrum extremes of full copyright and the public domain.
October 11, 2007
Here’s my first attempt at using the free program at: http://www.slide.com/. I’m going to take pictures of the library’s new books and post them in a future blog. To play the music for this slide show, click on the loudspeaker symbol near bottom left of pictures.
October 10, 2007
MLA’s updated policy concerning health information research can be found at: www.mlanet.org/research/policy/policy-01_toc.html. MLA encourages its members to take part in the advancement of our profession.
October 9, 2007
Magnet Recognition Program Collaboration Proposal
Posted by JudyK under nursing | Tags: collaboration, MLA |Comments Off
The American Nurses Credentialling Center (ANCC) Magnet Recognition Program collaborated with the Medical Library Association (MLA) in creating a white paper detailing their shared core objectives. Ways in which medical librarians can support nurses are broken down into the areas of time, expertise, standards, and collaborative efforts that include examples. The full text article can be found at: http://www.mlanet.org/resources/vital/mlawhitepaper.html.
October 8, 2007
Check out these weekly audio and visual programs put out by AHRQ (Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality). They feature news and information on healthcare topics with latest research findings. Go to http://healthcare411.ahrq.gov/default.aspx and click on “View All Programs” to see the long list.
