Librarianship in the Age of the Ebook

An interesting presentation. 40 min.
The New Librarianship in the Age of the Ebook from R. David Lankes on Vimeo.
An interesting presentation. 40 min.
The New Librarianship in the Age of the Ebook from R. David Lankes on Vimeo.
A few of my colleagues at the Taubman Health Sciences Library won an Innovation Award at this year's Midwest MLA conference for the embeddable medical jargon translator below:
Read more about it in the Cornflower.
Grab the code here.
On September 27, 2010, the National Library of Medicine® (NLM) launched a new free digital repository, Digital Collections, which is complementary to the PubMed Central® digital archive of electronic journal articles. The repository currently provides rich search, browse and retrieval of monographs and films from the NLM History of Medicine Division. Additional content and other format types will be added over time. Users can perform full text and keyword searching within each collection or across the entire repository.
Nice collection. Nice transcripts. Too bad the videos aren't embeddable.
DDT; United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Aeronautics.; 1944.
[01:01] Because in some areas more men were being incapacitated from action by insect-born diseases than by battle casualties,
[01:09] a search for a more powerful insecticide than had previously been known was imperative.
[01:14] The answer to the quest for a poison to eradicate the insects
[01:18] which threatened the morale, health, and military efficiency of our troops was found in DDT.
Here is the list of recommendations from the report on how to effectively demonstrate your library's value:
Executive Summary of the Executive Summary: Documentation & Assessment.
According to this Google study (pdf), in 5 ways:
None of these surprise me, but query length isn't something I've given much thought to.