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“Getting Better…Together”: 2009 Library All Sites Retreat
2009 All Sites Planning Committee
The annual Mayo Library System all sites retreat, “Getting Better…Together” was held in the Plummer Library in Rochester, Minnesota from September 21-23, 2009. (more…)
Add comment October 13, 2009
National Medical Librarians Month
The Medical Library Association has designated October as the month each year to celebrate the contributions of medical librarians (more…)
Add comment October 13, 2009
Working in the History of Medicine Library
I’ve always enjoyed reading. Browsing through bookstores and antique shops looking at books both old and new fascinates me. Handling old books and thinking about the many other hands that have touched the same book, leafed through the same pages, and enjoyed the same printed words, piques my imagination. (more…)
Add comment October 13, 2009
Mayo Clinic Medical Models: Education, Science and Art in Wax
The Mayo Clinic Historical Unit (MHU) is responsible for an extensive collection of historical artifacts and archival materials detailing more than one hundred years of Mayo Clinic history and its global impact on medical science. The MHU collection includes approximately 2,800 – 3,000 medical wax models, historically known as Medical Moulage. (more…)
4 comments June 25, 2009
¡Rumbo– Chile!
In late 2008 I was invited by Clínica Alemana of Santiago, Chile to visit their facility and meet with their staff to discuss library services at Mayo Clinic. Clínica Alemana is a modern multi-specialty private group practice with a 350-bed hospital and more than 600 physicians and 3200 allied health staff. It is affiliated with the College of Medicine at the Universidad del Desarrollo. Mayo Clinic and Clínica Alemana have had a Memorandum of Understanding since the mid-1990s. (more…)
1 comment June 25, 2009
Mayo Clinic Librarians featured at MLA 2009
Several Mayo Clinic librarians gave invited talks and presented posters at the 2009 Annual Meeting of the Medical Library Association. Interviews with two of the poster presenters and clips from J. Michael Homan’s Janet Doe Lecture are featured in separate posts in this Liblog issue. (more…)
Add comment June 25, 2009
New Features for Mayo Clinic Proceedings
Have you seen the new features of the online version of Mayo Clinic Proceedings? One of the editorial board members here in Jacksonville clued me into them. How many of you like the ability to download figures and tables into a PowerPoint presentation? You can do that now with the Mayo Clinic Proceedings! (more…)
Add comment March 4, 2009
