LinkedIn – Useful Social Networking Site for Professionals

LinkedIn - is a social networking site geared towards working professionals. The service provides users with the ability to keep a list of contacts and professionals that they know in their industry. Users create profiles and publish their work history and education history for others to browse. Users can search for specific people, by company, university attendance dates, position [...]

Chief Medical Officer Donates Collection of Books

Dr. Larry Spratling, Chief Medical Officer at Banner Baywood Medical Center, recently donated a collection of books to the library. A few of the new items include:
Anatomy & pathology : the world’s best anatomical charts.
The ICU book
Mandell, Douglas, and Bennett’s principles and practice of infectious diseases
Chest medicine : essentials of pulmonary and critical care medicine
Oxford [...]

New Additions to the Collection (March 18th)

March 18, 2008 Additions

Title
Call Number

Casarett and Doull’s toxicology : the basic science of poisons / 
QV 600 C335 2008 

The Washington manual of surgery / 
WO 500 W317 2008 

Henry’s clinical diagnosis and management by laboratory methods. 
QY 25 H521 2007 

Modern nutrition in health and disease / 
WB 400 M689 2006 

Werner & Ingbar’s the thyroid : a fundamental and clinical text [...]

BBMC Library Newsletter Volume 2 Issue 1

What’s New At The Library?

Online Public Access Catalog
It was long overdue. The antiquated card catalog system is over! You can now view the library’s physical holdings online. If you would like to know what materials the library owns you can browse the Online Catalog.
Table of Contents Delivery Service
This service provides you with the Table [...]

Wiki vs. Blog

A wiki is a content management mechanism for collaborative efforts.  The content is managed by a community of users.  A blog is an interactive medium for disseminating information, links to websites, and other media.  It provides opportunity for discussions on topics selected by the blog administrator.  Blogs tend to have more of a personal viewpoint.  It [...]

RSS Feeds and Medical Library Application

RSS or “really simple syndication” is a web-tool that allows users to stay current on news, websites, blogs, and a variety of electronic content.  RSS can be used for practical application for medical libraries.  For example, hospital staff can subscribe to specific journal Table of Content feeds.  Let’s say a physician wants to get the table of [...]

New Medical Library Blog for MLA CE Credit

Welcome to Banner Baywood’s Library Weblog!  This blog was created for the intent of MLA CE credit.  However, it is hoped that in can be developed into a useful library patron tool.  More to come soon!