The National Training Center and Clearinghouse offers free classes on the use of a wide variety of databases and other resources from the National Library of Medicine (including PubMed). The classes are conducted at numerous sites throughout the country with dates listed as far ahead as December. And, if you'll allow me to mention again, the classes are completly free.
| Categorized in: Form: Workshop , Library: Government , Process: Reference , Topic: Gov DocsReading the NYTimes little article about Google in Libraries, makes we wonder: How are people organizing their bookmarks? Google is great yes, but there is much more to be said for a well organized collection of useful links, especially when it comes to internet-ready reference.
So: How are we organizing our bookmarks?
Since the summer of 2003 I have been strictly using Mozilla as a browser, and am continually wowed by some of the powerful plugins it has. I use the NewsMonster plugins for RSS feeds. Recently, I am finding that Mozilla needs better bookmark organizing functions (All web browsers need better bookmarking functions!)
Does anyone have a experience with Power Marks???
Any other software useful for this task....Just wondering...
An article in today's NY Times champions the role of librarian in an age of instant access to information on the internet.
When Google doesn't work, most people don't have a plan B," said Joe Janes, an associate professor in the Information School at the University of Washington in Seattle, who is teaching a course on Google this quarter. "Librarians have lots of plan B's. We know when to go to a book, when to call someone, even when to go to Google."
On interesting side effect to the prominence of Google, says the article, is that librarians spend less time answering quick-reference questions, and are are then able to spend more time to spend with petrons on the difficult questions.
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