An article in Saturday’s Guardian reports that “Spanish health authorities launched a virtual portal through the Second Life website yesterday designed to help young people too embarrassed to speak to a doctor about sexually transmitted disease or a drug problem.” According to the article, “Real doctors will log on and offer advice to their anonymous patients. What both will see is an image of a consulting room with a doctor and a typical patient.”

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It’s such a great pair of lists, I can’t resist recommending to you Rotten Tomatoes’ Best and Worst Movie Moms – YouTube video clips included. I might quibble about at least one of the “best” (it’s kinda sad that one of the five best is a cartoon character in 2004’s The Incredibles, f’rinstance), but they’ve completely nailed the Worst list.

 

More as it happens,

Cheryl

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Alexander Street Press is giving open access to The American Civil War Online through June 30, 2008, and I strongly suggest librarians serving history researchers take a look at it. It’s presently comprised of The American Civil War: Letters and Diaries, The American Civil War Research Database (watch for my June 15, 2008 LJ e-Review of it), and ...Read More

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Those of you interested in the Encyclopedia of Life will probably be equally interested in the IUCN (the International Union for Conservation of Nature) web site: IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, "the most comprehensive, apolitical global approach for evaluating the conservation status of plant and animal species." The Red List's Programme goals are to "identify and document tho...Read More

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Having spent one entire dismal-graded semester of undergraduate school obsessed with pinball, when online and electronic games came into vogue I was a ready and willing victim. I was high (wo)man on Galaxian for 9 months at the local arcade, they had to tear my hands away from the machine at 5 AM (no lie) the first time I played Maniac Mansion, and I was set for entering a game-detox 12-step program before graduate school set me straight – I transfe...Read More

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In my 5/15/07 LJ review, I gave the Vault Online Career Library a “solid 9.8,” calling it “a well-organized powerhouse of a file” and “Enthusiastically recommend[ing it] for libraries and institutions with the resources to afford it.”

 

My contact at Vault tells me that they are adding a search function to the OCL this summer (as suggested by the review), and that they have a short, new video tutorial they are making available to libraries. So here it is, for your viewing pleasure:

 

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All right, all right, I caved and at a friend's urging I signed up for a Facebook account. I figure, this is something I should know about first hand. Maybe. I entered very minimal information (I’m a Baby Boomer and have no desire for a “Cheryl” Cam or for posting my innermost thoughts on the web… except here I am blogging about a life event – ohmygodhaveigonedigitalnative??!!!!!!!?????).  

 

Ahem.

 

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In the interests of moving forward into the 2.0 environment, I'd like to add some pertinent video to my blog entries for items about online databases and other products. So e-publishers -- please do send me samples of your streaming video content that I can put up on the blog. Please send to my G-Mail account: CherylLaGuardia@gmail.com.

BTW, how many of you out there have a Flip Video Ultra Camera? I'm thinking of buying one... it reminds me of the Polaroid Swinger camera ...Read More

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Having this blog lets me rationalize all sorts of web browsing in off moments, but I really hit the jackpot the other day when I virtually stumbled across Ad*Access, a Duke University digital collection -- “an image database of over 7,000 U.S. and Canadian advertisements covering five product categories - Beauty and Hygiene, Radio, Television, Transportation, and World War II propaganda - dated between 1911 and 1955.” It is a treasure trove for North American 20^th century historical researchers. It’s fully searchable, and even has a timeline so you can browse advertisements across periods of...Read More

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 Have some year-end money to spend? You would do well to take a look at some “specials” Alexander Street Press is running. They’re offering deals on a number of their upcoming files from now through June 30^th -- you can get pre-publication discounts for the purchase of perpetual rights or for annual subscriptions to The American Civil War Research Database, Black Drama: Second Edition, Dance in Video, ...Read More

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To illustrate just how good last Friday’s ACRL New England conference was (what is this, the third post coming from it?), I’d like to refer to the session, “Collaborative Development of Visual Literacy Tools,” presented by Ian McDermott, Barbara Rockenbach, and Danuta Nitecki, all from Yale University.

 

Among other things, they described how Yale librarians in the newly established Collaborative Learning Center at Bass Library are “collaborating with experts across the campus to create a toolset to support student and faculty development of visual literacy skills. These colleagues work in such departments as libraries, Center for Language Study, the Yale Universi...Read More

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On Friday I went to the ACRL New England Spring Conference, Media and Popular Culture: Effects on Academic Libraries, and heard from a series of interesting speakers. One of them, Bryan Alexander, is Director of Research at NITLE (“a not-for-profit initiative dedicated to advancing learning through the effective use of digital technology”), where he “researches and develops programs on the advanced uses of information technology in liberal arts contexts.” He maintains the blog, Liberal Education Today, and is a marvelous speake...Read More

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