For those of you participating in the 23 Things MSK Challenge, we hope you were able to successfully complete the tasks for this month. If you had any trouble, the solutions are posted below.

Thing 13

Here are the instructions for the LinkedIn task:

1. Go to LinkedIn and register by entering your name, email address, and password and clicking Join now.
2. Once in LinkedIn, click on the icon to the left of the search box (looks like 3 gray lines) at the top and select Groups.
3. Search for ‘Memorial Sloan Kettering’, and you should see the Group Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Employees & Alumni in the search results.
4. Click on the Join button to the right of the group and take a look at the discussions that are taking place.

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Here are the instructions for the MyNCBI task:

1. Register for or Sign in to your MyNCBI account.
2. Enter a search in the search box, such as: “breast cancer” AND depression, and click the Search button.
3. Under the search box at the top of the page, click on Save search.
4. Name the search and click the Save button.
5. Under the question “Would you like e-mail updates of new search results?” click Yes, please.
6. Choose the frequency, format, and number of items you would like in your search alert and click Save.
7. You should now receive regular email alerts on your topic of interest.

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Here are the instructions for the JoVE task:

1. Enter JoVE and do a search for ‘sloan kettering’.
2. You should retrieve about 8 exact matches from MSK.
3. Click on a video to view it.
4. You can also search for a topic of interest, such as prostatectomy.

For any questions you might have, don’t hesitate to email Reference at asklibrarian@mskcc.org, or call us at 212-639-7439.