photo of me

Was taken at Antiques Road Show when it was in Wichiya. You can't tell from this photo, but I am holding up a handmade, hand-woven American flag from the early 1800's was their estimate. This flag belongs to a friend of mine, another librarian, who found it in a book he bought for $5!!! Anyway, the flag's value was estimated at between $3000 to$6000 and will be auctioned off, nationally, this June.

delicious

I never could view the Otter's video, on 2 different computers, but I did look at the other delicious one--'inside/out'. I went to UKSM delicious site and found it quite useful for a project I was working on, dealing with statistics. I must admit, it was quite handy to find bookmarks for my subject in one place. However, do I think this would prove useful in a hospital library? I am uncertain. We are a clinical setting and we do much of the research for our clinicians. Additionally, after a survey, the option asked for most was "fewer clicks". So, we try to be careful about adding too much to an already crowded page. Our clients have very little time to spend at our site, and wouldn't probably be interested in social bookmarking at this point in time. Still, I need to keep this option in mind and think aboput how it might be useful.

Wednesday, (not morning 3 am)

Well, I'm somewhat mystified about what to post. I am in my fifties (sigh) and am not all that anxious to post my thoughts in a blog, however, here it goes. One of the questions that keeps spinning around in my head about medical librarianship and web tools is: since I can send emails to our patrons, and most of our questions are about clinical/patient care issues, should I make accessing the information as easy as possible for them (live links in their emails which take them directly to the article, search etc.) OR encourage them to go to the Libraries' web page to find said info and offer to talk hem through he process. Now, we are not an academic institution, although we do have residents and nursing students doing clinicals here. Also, the Libraries' main goal is to provide information to help improve patient care. So, I think we should be connecting our clientele to the info in the manner that is easiest for them. However, there is some worry that if we don't direct EVERYONE to our web page, they won't realize that the Libraries' are providing the particular services/databases etc. I understand that this is a concern but since the emailed info has a librarian's signature attached, I'm not sure how worried we should be about this issue. What does anyone else think?