Sharpening Up Our Search Skills
The Journal of the Medical Library Association features a series of case studies. These cases provide "narrative and insight from expert commentators drawn from librarianship, informatics, medicine, research and other areas." The JMLA Case Studies Blog serves as an online forum for further discussion of the scenarios (within the journal) and the facets of the search strategies addressing these cases.
The blog lists the cases presented in the journal (free full text) and then posts the search challenges and strategies for each post. Readers are encouraged to read the case and then suggest (through blog comments) a search strategy addressing the Search Challenge post. Search Challenge 6 looks at pediatric literature. What are the causes of pediatric ischemic stroke?
I have this blog in my feed reader and I always find something interesting when I see the Search Challenge results. I can always benefit from seeing how somebody else approaches a search and their strategies.
posted by The Krafty Librarian @ 1:20 PM
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In the Pacific Northwest we are sharpening our search skills with a series of webcasts called "Awakening the Searcher Within". We use Adobe Connect to let participants join in the session. Dolores Judkins and Andrew Hamilton from OHSU are our leaders and they post questions the week before the broadcast and then we join them as they explain how they did the search and others can then give their solutions. Each of the sessions so far has been recorded so if someone missed one they can tune in at their convenience to watch. A web page with the particulars about the series is at http://nnlm.gov/pnr/training/search-sminar.html The NN/LM PNR is sponsoring this series as one of its RML Rendezvous.
Thanks for the feedback and link!
I too have subscribed to this in my feed reader. It's neat to examine and realize, gee I didn't think to do it that way. It is interesting to see the variety of ways of how to conduct an effective search.
nice post
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