Professional Reading Shelf
Community and Junior College Libraries–Awards
Source: ACRL
Unique student orientation idea wins ACRL Community and Junior College Libraries Section Program Award
Kudos on the creativity. Great idea! From the announcement, “The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) is pleased to announce that Eva Lautermann, library director, Sherry Durren, information literacy librarian, and Lois Shelton, library technical assistant, of the Georgia Perimeter College Jim Cherry Learning Resources Center, have been chosen to receive the 2006 CJCLS/EBSCO Community College Learning Resources Program Achievement Award for their work on the CSI: Information Literacy orientation. Using the television series, CSI, as their inspiration, the librarians wrote a script and clues for the orientation program in order to help familiarize students with using the library.”
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Health Information–United Kingdom
Source: Kable’s Government News
Patient data venture begins
“A new NHS information service has been made available which draws on a database containing details of every contact a patient has had with health care providers.” Many services from the Dr. Foster service are fee based but they do offer a public site filled with several consumer-oriented services.
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Military Libraries–United States
Source: FCW
Homeland security library gets more searchable
“The Naval Postgraduate School is enhancing search capabilities within its digital library of homeland security information by using software from Teragram, company officials said today.”
See Also: More About Teragram Technology in this SEW Blog Post
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Business Research–United States–EDGAR
Source: GCN
SEC holds pre-proposal conference for EDGAR contract
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Information Industry–ebrary
eBooks
Source: IWR
ebrary bulks out its e-books range and makes subs more flexible
“E-book provider Ebrary has extended its pricing models and added 8,000 new titles to its service.”
See Also: Did You Know that ebrary Also Offers a Service for Consumers Named Shop ebrary?
It costs very little and offers access to over 20,000 full text titles. Read the full text online (no limit). Just pay a very small amount to copy or print a page.

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