New Year, New Goals, and an Energized Team to Get Them Done!

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Happy New Year to our User Community as well as our Library Blog readers!  We are delighted that you continue to make us a part of your research process and decision-making.

At the end of last year, Library staff held a very lively goal setting meeting to determine how best we could support the Center and our users in 2014.  Where could we deliver the best results? Where could we position ourselves in a way that matters and impacts information-driven projects?

All goals this year are truly focused on supporting our user community and ultimately enhancing their work environment – wherever that may be!  With many of our users accessing content on mobile devices, we will be launching BrowZine, a mobile app that will certainly benefit them by not only allowing access to the MSK Library’s ejournal collection but the ability to customize within the app a book shelf to those journal titles they access most frequently.  They will also be able to store articles to read at a later date.  This will save time and provide another access point to institutional journal subscriptions. Additional announcements are coming soon – for now we invite MSK staff  to reach out to the reference team to learn more about BrowZine! Continue reading →

Blog Buzz

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Changes coming to HealthCare.gov, the op-eds that outraged many cancer patients on social media, and Copyright Week…all catching my attention this past week!

The Electronic Frontier Foundation is sponsoring a six day Copyright Week, highlighting principles they believe “should guide copyright policy and practice” as Kevin Smith of the Scholarly Communications @ Duke blog explains.

If you haven’t heard about the flap on twitter and other social media over two recent op-ed pieces by a husband and wife in the Guardian and NY Times (the first was retracted and the other is here) criticizing metastatic breast cancer patient and blogger, Lisa Bonchek Adams, I want to give readers here a sense of what happened without trying to round up all the responses. The op-ed pieces have been criticized for breaches of journalistic ethics, factual inaccuracies, and a failure to understand what Adams was trying to communicate. Many of the criticisms are expressed clearly in Social Media is a conversation, not a press release, The NY Time’s Public Editor Margaret Sullivan responded with Readers lash out about Bill Keller’s column on a woman with cancer.

Following the decision on FCC rules this week here are a few views… from Tim Wu on The New Yorker’s Elements, Who killed net neutrality?. Over on WonkBlog John Blevins tells everyone to Relax…

From iHealthBeat, a round-up of reports that Accenture will take over Healthcare.gov.