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Alliance Virtual Library honors Volunteers with Golden Leaf Awards

Image by testdriverone via Flickr I received one too for the work (as Namro Orman) done in almost three year new for HealthInfoIsland together with Carol Perryman (aka Carolina Keats)! We achieved a lot. Worked on at least 4 Grant funded projects: AIDS Information and Outreach in the Virtual World of Second Life VIRTUAL ABILITY ISLAND GRAND OPENING! Share the Health: Training People with Disabilities and Chronic Medical Conditions on how to Locate Quality Health Information Alliance Library System Receives Grant to Provide Consumer Health Information Services in Virtual World Final Project Report for HealthInfo Island Project in Second Life Now Available! We also published a chapter in a book called Virtual Worlds, Real Libraries. The Golden Leaf Award Night was spectacular, with cocktail party, limo-trip, red carpets, tv and speeches. Here is some motivation as wel l: " Almost three years ago, in April 2006, the Alliance Virtual Library(AVL), at that time the Second Life Libra...

ScienceRoll Medical Search : new federated search tool

ScienceRoll Medical Search is a new federated search tool created by Bertelan (Berci) Meskó together with PolyMeta . Scienceroll Medical Search is a personalized medical metasearch engine . You can choose the databases you want to search in and exclude any of them to make your search as individualized as possible. ...The aim is to create a useful, editable metasearch engine for the entire medical community. And it does what is said: there are 4 major search categories (Basic Health Information, Drugs, Organizations and Research Information) with all together 23 "databases" which can be selected by choice. it delivers fast results (within 10 second) presented in manageable merged first set with an " Also Consider" advice a clustered overview of Topics, Date and Format in a relevance ranked order I hope Berci is working on two major things that I and many others (clinicians and other medical staff) would love ..: a drill-down option for the results (incl. sele...