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Posts by archive: March 2009

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Just When You Least Expect It…

Posted by on March 31st, 2009 0 comments

Over the past few weeks, our region – specifically Montana and Alaska – have experienced a series of emergency incidents. I was traveling in Eastern Montana the week of March 2-6 when my companions and I heard of the terrible natural gas explosion in downtown Bozeman. In rural states like Montana it seems that everybody… Read More »

Posted in: Emergency Preparedness, News From NNLM PNR

Mar

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DimDim for Sharing Screens Remotely

Posted by on March 31st, 2009 0 comments

Forty nursing students, some on-campus, some off. Forty required reference consultations. Two part-time librarians. Forty-two different schedules. One creative solution! Keep reading to learn how DimDim helps to facilitate communication between students and librarians at the University of Washington Health Sciences Library.

Posted in: Technology

Mar

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Why Web 2.0 Projects Fail

Posted by on March 17th, 2009 0 comments

For every successful blog, wiki, or social networking attempt, there are many abandoned projects. During the ACRL Virtual Conference last weekend, Meredith Farkas shared some great points about why Web 2.0 projects in libraries fail and what can be learned from those failures.

Posted in: Funding, Technology

Mar

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Oregon Health Go Local – It’s Live!

Posted by on March 11th, 2009 0 comments

NN/LM Pacific Northwest Region is pleased to announce that Oregon Health Go Local is now live! This is the second live Go Local project in our region, following Montana which was released in January. Oregon Health Go Local is a project of Oregon Health and Science University Library (OHSU) with a host of community collaborators,… Read More »

Posted in: News From NNLM PNR, Training & Education

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New Copyright Tools

Posted by on March 11th, 2009 0 comments

by Michael Brewer – Team Leader for Undergraduate Services, University of Arizona Library, Tucson, AZ brewerm@u.library.arizona.edu With the support and expertise of the ALA OITP Copyright Advisory Subcommittee, Michael Brewer, University of Arizona Library, has developed two new tools that are now available online. The first “108 Spinner” is specifically targeted to assist librarians with… Read More »

Posted in: Resource Sharing & Document Delivery

Developed resources reported in this program are supported by the National Library of Medicine (NLM), National Institutes of Health (NIH) under cooperative agreement number UG4LM012343 with the University of Washington.

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