Greetings! My name is Dr. Kristin Abner, and I work at ICF International, a consulting firm offering professional services and technology-based solutions to government and commercial clients. I work in the Education, Community & Social Programs Division of ICF’s Social & Analytic Solutions Group. I’d like to share a relevant resource to evaluators, as well …
Hello, we are Judy Nordberg and Nancy Harger, librarians at the Lamar Soutter Library, University of Massachusetts Medical School. So now you have some new ideas of where and how to find good information/data. But how can you manage all of it? Some of you may harken back to the “old days” of writing college …
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Hello! My name is Lisa Palmer. I’m a librarian in the Lamar Soutter Library at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. As my colleague Molly Higgins pointed out in her Top Ten Databases blog post earlier this week, PubMed is a key database to search for biomedical literature. The goal of this post is to …
Hello, my name is Len Levin and I am a librarian at the Lamar Soutter Library, University of Massachusetts Medical School. Using the databases and search tips outlined in the previous two posts for this week can go a long way to finding good information when conducting research and evaluation projects. But what happens when …
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Hi, my name is Martha Meacham, a librarian at the Lamar Soutter Library, University of Massachusetts Medical School. Searching for information is a treasure hunt. The words you use to construct your search can be the map. Librarians make excellent escorts for your explorations, but if you are venturing on your own, it pays to …
Hi, I’m Molly Higgins, a librarian at the Lamar Soutter Library, University of Massachusetts Medical School. Today we’re going to talk about planning your search because planning ahead saves a lot of work in the long run. One part of planning is choosing your database(s). Maybe you’re used to using Google for everything. Maybe you …
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We are Judy Savageau and Laura Sefton from the University of Massachusetts Medical School’s Center for Health Policy and Research (CHPR) and we’re here to introduce to you a week full of information about library resources and what role these might play in various components of your evaluation work from soup to nuts! We believe …
Hello! I am Laura Beals and I am an internal evaluator at Jewish Family and Children’s Service (JF&CS). JF&CS is a large nonprofit social service agency located just outside of Boston, MA. As our programs span a range of areas—parents and children, people with disabilities and mental illness, community services, and seniors—I often need to …
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