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NYT: “Hormone treatment after menopause, already known to increase the risk of breast cancer, also makes it more likely that the cancer will be advanced and deadly, a study finds. Women who took hormones and developed breast cancer were more likely to have cancerous lymph nodes, a sign of more advanced disease, and were more …
News release: “As part of the celebrations on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of its establishment, the Israel Antiquities Authority is launching a unique project The Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library to document the entire collection of the Dead Sea Scrolls. A major lead gift from the Leon Levy Foundation, …
Mobile Health 2010, by Susannah Fox, October 19, 2010: “The online health-information environment is going mobile, particularly among younger adults. The Pew Internet Projects latest survey of American adults, conducted in association with the California HealthCare Foundation, finds that 85% use a cell phone. Of those: 17% of cell owners have used their phone to …
The Way Forward: Economic conditions are still in flux and the employment outlook defies easy forecasting. Consequently, moving up Maslow’s hierarchy toward greater job satisfaction may not include changing employers. To learn more about how information professionals can deepen contentment in-place, Montrese Hamilton contacted well-known career coach Marshall Brown for insight. The Way Forward – …
SmartMoney: “A new study by researchers at the University of California at Berkeley and Princeton University suggests that if all of our salaries were made known tomorrow, half of us would be made miserable and the other half would be made no happier…The University of California finding suggests employers have more to lose than to …
News release: “The Credit Suisse Research Institute published its first Global Wealth Report on October 8, 2010. Examining the wealth pyramid from rich to poor, and across countries and regions, it offers a host of new insights and perspectives. The report analyzes the worlds entire 200 trillion US dollars of wealth, through the lens of …
Americans and their gadgets, by Aaron Smith, Senior Research Specialist, October 14, 2010 “In recent years the digital world has expanded far beyond the desktop1, and consumers can now choose from an array of devices capable of satisfying their need for anytime, anywhere access to news, information, friends and entertainment. This report examines the latest …
LLRX.com: Using the Kindle in Library Settings – A Survey – Special Librarian Montrese Hamilton shares effective ways an electronic document reader may be used to provide customers on-demand access to new content. Beyond instant access to material, e-readers can: reduce the need for Interlibrary loans, help grow the collection without adding shelf space, and …
LLRX.com: Blank on Blank – the nonprofit media partnering initiative preserves and shares interviews: Laura Soto-Barra introduces us to Blank on Blank, a nonprofit media partnering with journalists, publications and publishers to turn excerpts of unheard reporting into a living, audio archive of the American interview.
“The Blackbaud Index of Charitable Giving reports that overall revenue increased by 1.4% for the three months ending August 2010, as compared to the same period in 2009. This was a move back into positive territory from Julys -4.5% trend. This trend is based on $2.2 billion in 12 months revenue from 1,364 organizations…The Blackbaud …
“Right now, almost a billion people on the planet dont have access to clean, safe drinking water. Thats one in eight of us. charity: water is a non-profit organization bringing clean, safe drinking water to people in developing nations. We use 100% of public donations to directly fund sustainable water solutions in areas of greatest …
“The 2010 Milken Institute Best-Performing Cities Index ranks U.S. metropolitan areas by how well they are creating and sustaining jobs and economic growth. The components include job, wage and salary, and technology growth. In most years, these give a good indication of the underlying structural performance of regional economics. The full report can be downloaded …
