Power Searching with Google - free online course

Google is hosting a new MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) - Power Searching with Google is a free online course featuring powerful techniques to solve real, everyday problems using Google.

Registration is open now. You have to create a gmail account in order to register

Course Details

Power Searching with Google is a free online, community-based course showcasing search techniques and how to use them to solve real, everyday problems. It features:

• Six 50-minute classes.
• Interactive activities to practice new skills.
• Opportunities to connect with others using Google Groups, Google+, and Hangouts on Air.

Upon passing the post-course assessment, a printable Certificate of Completion will be emailed to you.
Ready to get started?

·Registration is open from June 26, 2012 to July 16, 2012. We recommend that you register before the first class is released on July 10, 2012!

· New classes will become available Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday starting on July 10, 2012 and ending on July 19, 2012.
· Course-related activities will end on July 23, 2012.

New impact factor: The Lancet Journal

The Impact Factor has increased to 38.28, retaining our position as one of the leading general medicine journals in
the world (2011 Journal Citation Reports, Thomson Reuters, 2012). This result is evidence of the integrity researchers place on The Lancet's content.

Below is a list of the 10 most highly cited and ground-breaking articles which contributed to our new impact factor. To view the articles in full please click the button to the right of this message.
Click here to access them in full text: they are freely available in full.


Below is a list of the 10 most highly cited and ground-breaking articles which contributed to our new impact factor. To view the articles in full click here. They are freely available in full.

The top 10**

1. Global, regional, and national causes of child mortality in 2008: a
systematic analysis
(2010) The Lancet, 375 (9730), pp. 1969-1987.
Cited 324 times

2. Trastuzumab in combination with chemotherapy versus chemotherapy alone
for treatment of HER2-positive advanced gastric or gastro-oesophageal
junction cancer (ToGA): A phase 3, open-label, randomised controlled trial
(2010) The Lancet, 376 (9742), pp. 687- 97.
Cited 318 times

3. Incidence of 2009 pandemic influenza A H1N1 infection in England: a
cross-sectional serological study
(2010) The Lancet, 375 (9720), pp. 1100-1108.
Cited 290 times

4. Maternal mortality for 181 countries, 1980-2008: a systematic analysis
of progress towards Millennium Development Goal 5
(2010) The Lancet, 375 (9726), pp. 1609-1623.
Cited 281 times

5. Association of estimated glomerular filtration rate and albuminuria
with all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in general population cohorts:
a collaborative meta-analysis
(2010) The Lancet, 375 (9731), pp. 2073-2081.
Cited 263 times 6. Efficacy and safety of more intensive lowering of LDL
cholesterol: A meta-analysis of data from 170 000 participants in 26
randomised trials
(2010) The Lancet, 376 (9753), pp. 1670-1681.
Cited 262 times

7. Carotid artery stenting compared with endarterectomy in patients with
symptomatic carotid stenosis (International Carotid Stenting Study): an
interim analysis of a randomised controlled trial
(2010) The Lancet, 375 (9719), pp. 985-997.
Cited 255 times

8. C-reactive protein concentration and risk of coronary heart disease,
stroke, and mortality: an individual participant meta-analysis
(2010) The Lancet, 375 (9709), pp. 132-140.
Cited 233 times

9. Oral poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase inhibitor olaparib in patients with
BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations and advanced breast cancer: A proof-of-concept
trial
(2010) The Lancet, 376 (9737), pp. 235-244.
Cited 225 times

10. Once-only flexible sigmoidoscopy screening in prevention of colorectal
cancer: a multicentre randomised controlled trial
(2010) The Lancet, 375 (9726), pp. 1624-1633.
Cited 211 times

Workshop on Library Cataloguing, Classification and Records Management at MUHAS (24th -29th September 2012) - Open for Registration

The Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS) through its MUHAS Library will organize a five days workshop on Library Cataloging, Classification and Records Management

WORKSHOP DATES AND VENUE: From  Monday 24^th to Saturday 29^th  september 2012 ( 5 days) at Muhimbili University Library

WORKSHOP FEES: Tsh 350,000/= per participant to cover stationery, meals ( tea and lunch ), lecture notes and certificate.

COURSE OBJECTIVES:To equip the participants with the relevant skills and knowledge in library cataloguing and classification and records management

FACILITATOR:The course will be facilitated by experienced librarian from Muhimbili University Library,  UDSM  Library and Tanzania Library Service

COURSE CONTENTS

Specifically the course will cover:

 Part 1: Cataloguing and classification

·         Descriptive cataloguing of library materials using AACR2 rules

·         Subjects analysis and formulation of subject headings.

·         Application of Library of Congress and Dewey Decimal Classification schemes.

·         CIP Cataloguing and LC online cataloguing

         Part 2: Records Management.

·         Definition of records management and its importance

·         Preservation and conservation of paper records

·         Classification schemes

·         Tracking of records inside and outside the registry

·         Organisation and storage of records

·         Developing records policies

·         Safety and security of records

 TARGET GROUP

Librarians, Library Officers, Library Assistants and practitioners with particular responsibility for records management including : Human Resources personnel, Records personnel, Registry officers, Information officers, Health records personnel, Financial records personnel, Archivists, Documentalists, Administrators, Secretaries, Procurement Records Assistants and all those involved in information Managements in NGO'S private and public sectors.

PAYMENT

Payment is due before start of workshop. Payment can be made by depositing money in our account by cash. Name of account is Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences and Account Number is 2091100002 NMB Bank Muhimbili branch.

Confirm your participation and payment by 18^th September, 2012.

The participants will have to make  transport and accomodation arrangements at their own cost.

CONTACTS

For further information about the workshop  please contact the following:

                   Mr Christom  Aron Mwambungu       

                        Mob: 0713 312413/0754 721036

      Email: cmwambungu@muhas.ac.tz or cmwambungu2010@yahoo.com

Mr Silas Maganga

Mob: 0715 597979

Email: smaganga@muhas.ac.tz

 Mr William . Mviombo

                       Mob: 0713 236649

Email: mviombo@yahoo.com

                 Edda Tandi Lwoga (PhD)

                      tlwoga@muhas.ac.tz

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Register now for e/merge 2012: Online conference on educational technology in Africa, 9th-20th July 2012

Registration for the e/merge 2012 online conference is

open.

 

e/merge 2012 – Open to Change (9th -20th July 2012) is the fourth online conference on educational technology in Africa. The conference is primarily designed to share good practice and knowledge about educational technology innovation within the further and higher education sectors in the Africa, as well as to strengthen communities of researchers and practitioners across the continent.
Participate from anywhere with a reasonable Internet connection and engage with the presentations and discussions, live meetings, workshops, participant driven conversations and social media interactions that are most interesting to you.
Registration is free for all participants based in Africa and costs R750 (approximately $90) for participants in other continents who are not presenters. If you're based outside Africa and can't afford the registration fee then you are welcome to contact us on info@emerge2012.net and tell us about the value that you will bring to e/merge 2012.  Registration information for emerge 2012.
Keynote presenters are:-
Nnenna Nwakanma, Information and Communication Consultant - From Kilimanjaro to the Rift Valley: A sneak view of openness in education through an African's eyes.
Professor Victor Mbarika, Executive Director, International Center for IT and Development, Southern University, USA - A Good Farmer Should Not Complain of His/Her Tools: Using A Hybrid E-Learning Approach at The ICT University to Reach Thousands in Developing Nations.
Associate Professor Yacine Atif, College of Information Technology, United Arab Emirates University - Instructional design patterns in a conversational learning model.

Professor David Theo Goldberg, Director of the University of California Humanities Research Institute - Networking Knowledge: Globalizing Connected Learning.
Associate Professor Laura Czerniewicz, Director of Open UCT, University of Cape Town - Open Scholarship and what it means for African Universities.
Presentations and papers at e/merge will cover a wide range of topics.

e/merge 2012 is organised by the Centre for Educational Technology at the University of Cape Town with funding from the Ford Foundation.

Workshop Evaluation form (25-27 June 2012)

A workshop on evidence based practice at MUHAS (25-27 June 2012)

The Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS) through its MUHAS-Library organized a Three Days workshop on Evidence based practice through the DELPHE project. 

The workshop was attended by 35 particints, which included academic staff from MUHAS, medical doctorsand nurses fromMuhimbili Nationa Hospital (MNH), Librarians from MUHAS and Tanzania Library Services Board (TLSB),  and Tutors from the School of Library, Archives and Documentation Services (SLADS). 

The workshop was facilitated by Blessing Chataira from Information, Training and Outreach Center for Africa (ITOCA), and Lucy Reid from Partnership in Health (Phi), UK.

The Digital Repositories Workshop (12-15 June 2012)

The Digital Repositories Workshop was organized by Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS) in Collaboration with Information, Training and Outreach Center for Africa (ITOCA), Royal Tropical Institute of Nertherlands (KIT), Institute of Development Studies(IDS), and Cornell University Library from 12-15, June 2012.

About 36 participants attended the workshop. It involved professionals involved in information management, institutional management, librarians, lecturers, and project administrators from different acadmeic and research institutions in Tanzania.