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CNN shows the love to librarians with consumer health literacy skills

I want to print out the opening line of this article on using the Web to find accurate medical information and stick it on the wall behind my desk:

When Mary Ryan’s 4-year-old nephew, Nick, landed in the hospital with a serious infection, her brother called her in a panic. Ryan isn’t a doctor. She’s not a nurse. She’s a librarian.

Yeah she is. Right on.

Besides a nice shout out to savvy librarians, the article does provide good tips for med-surfing, such as

Use PubMed to find review articles that give a broad overview of current research
Invest half an hour in the PubMed tutorial
Click on information about annual meetings related to medical specialties
Find smart bloggers with your disease

February 21, 2008 Posted by Liz | Health sciences librarianship, In the news | | No Comments Yet

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Having tossed out suggestions from co-sub-sub's about what to name this blog such as "Shelf Reading 'Till My Eyes Bleed" and "The Gnomes Stole My Truck," I turned to Melville, who supplied us with one of the humblest specimens of a librarian ever to roam the stacks: the Sub-Sub-Librarian who: "appears to have gone through the long Vaticans and street-stalls of the earth, picking up whatever random allusions to whales he could anyways find in any book whatsoever, sacred or profane (Moby Dick, "Extracts," p. 2)." Yes, that's what I hope to be--an apprentice to the timeless art of digging and collecting and hoping that I am helpful to someone somewhere in time. Without the Sub-Sub, there would be no "Extracts" and "Cetology" might have been a whole lot harder too. All these invisible hours of work add up, right? Of course, Melville goes on to make it clear that he feels the Sub-Sub has a pretty sad lot in life: "Give it up, Sub-Subs! For by how much the more pains ye take to please the world, by so much the more shall ye for ever go thankless!" Yeah, some days that sounds about right too. From the little I already know about librarianship, it seems like most days it's tough to draw the lines between passion, professionalism, and manual labor. So as I learn, I accept my role as Sub-Sub-Librarian and embrace the work at hand. This blog will be my digging into the life I hope to enter. Cheers!
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