Doctors and researchers try to understand what medications a person has taken by asking patients directly or by looking at medical records. But this information is often incomplete. People may forget ...

Earlier this month, the Open Source Development Labs (OSDL), a global consortium dedicated to accelerating the adoption of Linux, announced the launch of its online patent commons reference library, ...

For the past half-year, the Library of Congress and 100 or so other libraries around the world have been helping one another provide round-the-clock answers to reference questions like “What’s the ...

If you have 15 metres of empty bookshelves and £12,000, you could set up a personal reference library comprising the 20 volume Oxford English Dictionary, the 60 volume Oxford Dictionary of National ...

SKOPJE, Macedonia, Nov. 11 (UPI) -- This is the second part of a roundtable on the future of online reference, with three pivotal industry players. Part I ran Monday. -- Patrick Spain is Chairman and ...

This is a time of transition in academic libraries. Core functions -- like reference services, collection development, and preservation -- are being rethought and redefined as libraries move from ...

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