Highlights from Practically Designed

April 29, 2011-Today’s program was all about design and guest speaker John LeMasney, Manager of Educational Technology Training and Outreach at Princeton University, explained and discussed a diversity of topics from emotion, intention, inspiration,  and much more related to design.

PRESENTATION SLIDES:

The session began with a  conversation covering how people may critique your work and the common tools used for desktop publishing such as Microsoft, etc.  Participants then shared their own backgrounds and knowledge of different design projects.  During this conversation, attendees where asked to consider:

• What is your brand and what three words describe it?
• What do people go to you to ask? What are they coming to you for and what do you want them to come to for?

In the context of libraries, we considered the question: why do people come to your library; to your space–what attracts them?

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:

Open Source Design Resources:

• Scribus (www.scribus.net/canvas/Scribus)
• Gimp (www.gimp.org)
• Inkscape (www.inkscape.org)
• Google Picasa (www.picasa.google.com)

Other Sites of Interest:

• MorgueFile (www.morguefile.com)
• Portable Apps (http://portableapps.com)
• Vi.Sualize.Us (http://vi.sualize.us)
• FFFFound (http://ffffound.com)

Texts:

• Universal Principles of Design by William Lidwell, Kritina Holden and Jill Butler
• Logo Design Love: A Guide to Creating Iconic Brand Identities by David Airey

For more information, please visit John LeMasney’s website at: http://johnwlemasney.wordpress.com/2011/04/30/lilrc-graphic-design-best-practices.

Highlights from PubMed Clinics of North America

April 15, 2011–PubMed has recently undergone some major changes and what a better way to learn about them then to have a hands-on training session!  Thanks to NN/LM MAR, the LILRC Committee on Services to Health Sciences Libraries was able to run, PubMed Clinics of North America, with guest trainer Helen Tannenbaum, Communication and Outreach Coordinator.

Helen Tannenbaum teaches a PubMed Clinics of North America class at Farmingdale State College, Greenley Library, to 17 academic, public and hospital librarians from Long Island.

The day’s activities included exercises on how to locate articles, the process and procedure for subject indexing, and participants even participated in a scavenger hunt.

Additional PubMed-Related Resources:

Sample Search: Using advanced search feature to combine two previous search results.

NN/LM PubMed Brochures

• Full Text and PubMed: http://nnlm.gov/training/resources/fulltexttri.pdf
• LoansomeDoc: http://nnlm.gov/training/resources/ldtrifold.pdf
• PubMed Basics: http://nnlm.gov/training/resources/pmtri.pdf
• PubMed My NCBI: http://nnlm.gov/training/resources/myncbitri.pdf
• Searching PubMed with MeSH: http://nnlm.gov/training/resources/meshtri.pdf

NLM PubMed Online Training: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/disted/pubmed.html

NN/LM Non-English Guides to PubMed: http://nnlm.gov/training/resources/intlpubmedlinks.html

MedlinePlus® for Health Professionals: http://nnlm.gov/training/resources/mp4hptri.pdf

Also be sure tour the new, customizable My NCBI home page and functions:

Special thanks to Farmingdale State College, Greenley Library for hosting this event and to all that attended.

Search Tips and Tricks from EBSCO Training Session

April 6, 2011–Pamela Erickson, Implementation Specialist for EBSCO Publishing conducted a free hands-on training session for us at Farmingdale State College, Greenley Library.  Participants received a first-hand, in-dept look at EBSCO’s Alt HealthWatch database exploring the interface, basic and advanced search techniques and much more.

Fun Fact: Do you know what EBSCO stands for?
Answer: Elton B. Stephens COmpany

The EBSCO Support site, which was recently redesigned, now offers a variety of resources including tutorials, handouts, online training sessions and much more.  Visit http://support.ebscohost.com for more details.