RESOURCE FOR MEDICAL STUDENTS

Put together by medical student Emily Cooper, “Med-Source provides you with the resources you need to save time, excel, and get some sleep during med school.” There are many posts with downloadable resources, links to medical reference sites, medical calculators, practice questions for medical exams, and frequent updates. Interestingly, the posts are arranged by subject, not date. If you have medical students as customers, this would be a good site to tell them about.

URL: http://med-source.blogspot.com/

BELOIT COLLEGE'S MINDSET LIST® FOR THE CLASS OF 2011

My alma mater, Beloit College, Beloit, Wisconsin has released its Mindset List for the Class of 2011. Most of the students entering College this fall, members of the Class of 2011, were born in 1989. For them, Alvin Ailey, Andrei Sakharov, Huey Newton, Emperor Hirohito, Ted Bundy, Abbie Hoffman, and Don the Beachcomber have always been dead. The list is published to help professors understand the gap between their experiences and those of their students. At the mindset list website you can see lists from 2002 to the present. Fascinating reading (of course, I am a bit prejudiced).

URL: http://www.beloit.edu/~pubaff/mindset/2011.php

Below are a few of the 70 items on the list.
4. They never “rolled down” a car window.
7. They have grown up with bottled water.
10. Pete Rose has never played baseball.
11. Rap music has always been mainstream.
17. They were born the year Harvard Law Review Editor Barack Obama announced he might run for office some day.
23. Wal-Mart has always been a larger retailer than Sears and has always employed more workers than GM.
34. They were introduced to Jack Nicholson as “The Joker.”
39. Fox has always been a major network.
45. They learned about JFK from Oliver Stone and Malcolm X from Spike Lee.
47. High definition television has always been available.
55. MTV has never featured music videos.
66. The World Wide Web has been an online tool since they were born.
68. Burma has always been Myanmar.
70. Food packaging has always included nutritional labeling.

THREE "LIGHT" SITES

I found three humorous or just interesting sites today.

MeL Internet Humor and Culture in Libraries has links to a comic strip, funny articles on weeding, and value, books and movies about libraries, and humor from IFLA.

URL: http://web.mel.org/viewtopic.jsp?id=1164&pathid=1780

The Marginal is an e-zine from the McGill Library and Information Studies Student Association, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. There are some serious articles, some humor, and some in between.

URL: http://www.gslis.mcgill.ca/marginal/index.htm

Love the Liberry is on of several blogs from reference desk staff. Its subtitle says it all: "Stranger than fiction...we couldn't possibly make these things up."

URL: http://lovetheliberry.blogspot.com/