Recently, the Health Library wiki team discussed the implications of creating a wiki for the health sciences. Is it useful? Who will use it...

A fascinating but rather dated article caught my attention as I was taking my daily dip into the blogosphere. It brings up an interesting de...

To be good at something, one should always look to the best. And recently, one medical librarian's blog that has caught my attention is ...

Prior to coming across Tim O’Reilly’s “ What is Web 2.0 ," I was still lost in the maze that is now referred to the new web 2.0. Bloggi...

Prior to SLAIS , I never had an inkling of the importance of social software , let alone its application in LIS. Is it a radical new develo...

Quick! Put that muffin down! Here are the instructions. You have exactly 30 min's. You have no time to explain to the user your search s...

The upcoming "Mission in the Mountains: Believe and Achieve" is the Western MLA Chapters 2006 Annual Meeting, which will be hoste...

I recently encountered one of the toughest questions to date. This one nearly blew my mind out when I first skimmed it over. Where to start...

And we're off! Change for this blog has forever been at the back of my mind throughout the latter stages of the summer; I've been pl...

Something looks different with Google Scholar . I had a quizzical frown when I made a search on Google Scholar. Along with the usual result ...

It's training week as a Graduate Academic Assistant at the Humanities and Social Sciences Division at UBC's Koerner Library . My i...

The recent announcement of the dissolution of the School of Informatics at the University of Buffalo is another example of the marginaliz...

If there's but one business book you ever read in your life, Good To Great should be on the shortlist. Jim Collins , a former Stanford...

Things are coming together. And a session for UBC Pharmacy residents titled, Search skills for UBC pharmacy residents:Appraised tools, PubMe...

What makes a “good” post-secondary institutional library? Is it the collections? The atmosphere? Or the photocopiers? Unfortunately, student...